Claude to run a London flat hunt from digests
Mikebmx1 used Claude Cowork to search for a London rental twice a day across SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove and Zoopla. The agent excluded unsuitable student listings and larger shared houses, prioritized the preferred areas and wrote personalized outreach for suitable properties.
reddit.com
Original prompt
Shared by the source author. See source notes for context.
Email must be fully actionable without opening any other file.
Reach people exploring AI agents
See placements →Evidence at a glance
Sourced account- Source author
- u/mikebmx1
- Original account
- Read the source ↗
- Published
- Source link checked
- Reported result
- The author reports a deposit on a preferred-area one-bedroom flat after five days and approximately $40 of extra usage.
- Human involvement
- The author attended viewings and put down the deposit; the post does not document every message-send approval.
A linked account supports attribution. It does not mean we independently reproduced its result.
Report an issue with this case
Open correction emailOpens your email app with the case link included. Nothing is sent automatically.
How the agent did it
- Configure target areas, rental limits and the tenant profile.
- Run the four-site search twice daily with a deduplicated spreadsheet and phone digest.
- Use the personalized messages, attend viewings and handle the deposit yourself.
Mikebmx1 used Claude Cowork to search for a London rental twice a day across SpareRoom, OpenRent, Rightmove and Zoopla. The agent excluded unsuitable student listings and larger shared houses, prioritized the preferred areas and wrote personalized outreach for suitable properties.
The output was an email digest that could be acted on from a phone. In the author's replies, each advertisement received its own message, usable through Gmail or the site's messaging interface. He reports putting down a deposit on a one-bedroom flat within his high-priority areas after about five days. Viewings remained a human task.
The public technical artifact makes the digest workflow easier to copy. It separates rooms from studios and one-bedroom flats, records listings in a spreadsheet and skips URLs already present. High-priority cards include price, area, availability and a ready-to-send message; older uncontacted candidates can return in a backlog section.
The author reports a Pro subscription plus about $40 of extra usage for the repeated searches. The precise rent and deposit amount are not disclosed, so the claim that the flat cost what others wanted for a room cannot become a verified saving. The current published skill documents the reusable process, while the dated Reddit post supplies the actual search and deposit account.
Prompt
Original prompt
Source: www.reddit.com · u/mikebmx1
Frequently asked questions
Did it replace viewings?
No. The author explicitly says that part could not be skipped with Claude.
How did it avoid repeated listings?
The published skill tracks URLs in a spreadsheet and skips ones already recorded.
What did the phone email contain?
Prioritized listing details and personalized ready-to-send messages, plus a backlog of suitable uncontacted properties.
More details
About this account
Cowork searched rental sites and generated filtered listing digests and personalized outreach with browser and Gmail tools.
Firsthand Reddit account and linked public skill opened. Prompt is a verbatim excerpt of the author's published reusable skill; the current artifact may differ from the original run.
Credit: u/mikebmx1
Source published
Added to Agents In Use
Source checked
Tools and topics
Claude Cowork · Claude in Chrome · Gmail MCP · Spreadsheet tracker
Rental outreach · Phone digest · Listing deduplication
Editorial completeness: 100/100. Measures documented fields, not agent performance or verified outcomes.