ChatGPT agent collects 200 Forbes companies

A first-day ChatGPT agent tester supplies a Forbes list spanning five pages and asks for its two hundred companies in a spreadsheet. The agent ultimately completes that collection task, which the author distinguishes from an earlier unsuccessful attempt with Deep Research.

Completion needs supervision. The agent stops several times because of context limits or confusion, and the user re-prompts it to continue. The author then asks for company LinkedIn links in an additional column. At first they describe that extension as successful, but after checking the file they correct the claim: only about half the rows have a LinkedIn link.

That correction is the useful part of the account. It separates a completed paginated extraction from an incomplete enrichment stage, even though both sit in the same workbook. A saved spreadsheet and a confident response are not enough to establish that every requested column is filled. The source does not provide a downloadable audited file, explain deduplication or confirm every company's identity. The copyable workflow is to define the expected page and row coverage, resume interrupted collection and inspect each subsequent field separately before treating the combined file as finished. The suggested prompt asks for those checkpoints rather than reproducing an unavailable original instruction.

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Suggested prompt (written by Agents In Use, not the author's)

Source: Reddit · u/mrbritchicago on Reddit