[rich_sasha]

I used Claude to successfully argue with a fraudulent supplier, by threatening to sue.

They had sent me a detailed quote for their service. Upon cancellation they sent me a "final" bill with some bogus final fees inflating the quote by about 50%. Their claim, correct, was that the fee was present in T&C, buried somewhere in para 70. But under UK law, there are various protections against it - not to mention, if you send someone a quote, you don't then say "surprise"!

I fed Claude all the materials, their T&C's, the emails etc. It gave me a legal basis for suing them in small claims court. One of the 4 was hallucinated, but easy to validé, and the remaining 3 were solid. It then wrote me the sharp refusal to pay with a threat to sue for fraudulent business practice.

I'm sure any real lawyer would look at this and laugh, but it did the trick. No way would I ever do all this on my own.

[techjamie]

I did something similar with OpenClaw (using claude) and my SO's old work. They were going to deduct money off her final check without written consent, after she quit, and were also late on paying her at all. I told OpenClaw the basic situation, and I told it to research applicable laws and cite it's sources.

Once I verified what it found was good, I had it write a demand letter specifying all the statutes that were being violated, and what remedies we would be entitled to if we had to chase it up.

She got a phone call within an hour of delivery saying her pay is being sent to payroll with every penny intact.

Also: I don't give openclaw access to any of my personal info, I literally just tell it to research stuff for me and take advantage of it's ability to store stuff in files.