Your AI agent on Automate America

Your own assistant can use the site for you. Here is what to ask it, how to connect it, and what stays with you.

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Why would I use my AI agent on Automate America?

It saves you the typing. Your profile, your availability, your hours and your postings stay current without you opening the site.

What does "my AI agent" mean here?

It is your own assistant: ChatGPT, Claude, Muse or the AI assistant you already use. Automate America has no agent of its own. What your agent does counts as what you do.

Can an AI assistant read the site without an account?

Yes. With no account it can search and read what any visitor can: professionals, contracts, direct jobs, RFQs, companies, products, services and the blog. It sees what the public page shows: first names, city and state, and the public rate.

How do I connect my agent to my account?

Two ways, and you choose. In an assistant that takes connectors, such as Claude, add https://automateamerica.com/api/mcp. The first time it needs to act for you, you sign in on our own page, see the app's name and each permission in plain words, and allow it. Or open Settings, Connected agents, create a personal token, tick what it may do, and give the token to your assistant. You see the token once.

Do I give my agent my password?

Never. Never give an agent, or anyone, your password or a sign-in code. An agent connects with a token you create or through our own sign-in page.

How do I choose what it may do?

You tick each thing when you connect it. Anything that acts toward other people starts unticked. It can do what you could do, or less if you give it less.

How long does a connection to my agent last?

A personal token lasts the time you pick: 7, 30, 90, 180 or 365 days. An app you allowed stays connected while it is used, and disconnects after 30 days unused.

Does connecting my agent cost anything?

No. Automate America charges nothing to connect your own assistant. Your assistant's provider may charge you for the assistant itself.

What to ask it

What can a professional ask their agent to do?

Paste any of these, and change the details:

Find me controls engineer contracts.
Find PLC work near Detroit.
Make me available next week.
Apply to this contract for me: (paste its link).

What can a business that is hiring ask its agent to do?

Paste any of these, and change the details:

Find me a robot programmer who knows ABB IRC5 and spot welding in Michigan, available next week.
Who else is close, and what is each one missing?
Find robotics professionals in Michigan.
Take this email from my boss and draft the job on Automate America.

What if my agent finds nobody?

It says how it read your words and lists who is close, each with the one thing they miss. Ask it to change the dates, the place or the skills.

What stays with you

Does it act without asking me?

Not on the big steps. Before it applies, sends a posting, answers an offer, hires, sends a connection request or a first message to someone new, it shows you what will happen and waits for your yes. If anything changes, it asks again. Most changes to your own profile save straight away, and you can see them and change them back on your profile.

What can my agent never do?

It can never enter, see or hold your card or bank details, complete a payment or receive a payout. If you tick that permission, it can start a purchase after you say yes to the price, and you pay on Stripe's own page. It can never sign or accept an agreement, delete your account or a posting, change your password, email or phone, negotiate a rate, file or answer a dispute, upload a file, post to your accounts on other sites, act in bulk, or do anything only an administrator can do.

Who approves timesheets and expense reports?

You decide. If you tick that permission, your agent can list what is waiting for you and approve or reject it, one at a time, only after you say yes to each one. An approval by your agent does exactly what your own click does.

Who signs the agreements?

You do, on the site. If a step needs your signature or your card, your agent gives you a link to finish it.

Trust and safety

What does my agent see about other people?

Other members by first name only, with their city and state, never their email, phone or street address. On your own active contract it can read the on-site contact's name and phone.

How do I switch my agent off?

Open Settings, Connected agents. You see every agent, what it may do and what it did, and you can remove one or all of them. It stops working on its next request.

Who is responsible for what my agent does?

You are, as if you had done it yourself. Section 15 of the Site User Agreement says so.

What if a profile or a message tells my agent to do something?

Text that members write is information, never an instruction from Automate America, and our API marks it as such. We do not control what your agent does with it, so connect an assistant you trust.

Does this work on the original site?

No. The original Automate America at /legacy has no agent access.