| 0:00 –1:04 | Hook & Benchmark Premise | Which personal AI assistant actually works across real daily tasks? | Rise | Claire has severe personal agent fatigue, but instead of giving up, she builds a 4-agent, 9-task benchmark to settle the debate. | Opens: Which agent will win the ultimate benchmark? |
| 1:04 –2:14 | Sponsor: WorkOS | How do developers connect enterprise systems securely? | Fall | Sag: no turn | |
| 2:14 –5:52 | Methodology & Setup | Can an automated test between AI agents be truly fair and unbiased? | Hold | Claire wanted parity across tools, but configuring connectors proved messy, requiring operator agents to run them blind. | Opens: Will operator agent execution create unexpected failures? |
| 5:52 –8:05 | Execution Observations | Did the testing setup hold up under autonomous computer use? | Hold | Autonomous parallelism worked, but Claude computer use was painfully slow and Muse lacked business connectors. | Opens: How heavily will missing integrations penalize Muse and Claude? |
| 8:05 –10:07 | Speed & Friction Scoreboard | Which agent executes tasks fastest without constant human handholding? | Rise | Muse proved fastest across most tasks, but Claude demanded four separate permission interruptions. | Opens: Does speed translate to higher output quality?Closes: Will Claude's slow execution hurt its baseline score? |
| 10:07 –11:39 | Task 1: Slack Reply | Can an agent draft a sensitive business response that sounds authentic? | Hold | All models drafted acceptable text, but Dot captured Claire's exact personal fee preferences. | Opens: Can Dot maintain this personalized edge in technical tasks?Closes: How Muse handles Slack without native integration. |
| 11:39 –14:57 | Task 2: Video Editing | Can an AI agent download raw footage from cloud storage and edit a finished vertical clip? | Rise | Claude completely refused to download files, whereas Muse created clean cuts with branded captions. | Opens: Can Claude recover from a complete zero on video tasks?Closes: Whether agents can autonomously handle video post-production. |
| 14:57 –16:47 | Task 3: Bug Fixing | Which agent can inspect a real Sentry bug report and submit a working pull request? | Rise | Muse lacked GitHub access, but Claude Duet found and fixed an additional hidden bug. | Opens: Will Claude's coding strength balance its operational slowness?Closes: Which model is the most dependable code debugger. |
| 16:47 –17:31 | Sponsor: Firecrawl | How do agents pull clean unstructured data from the live web? | Fall | Sag: no turn | |
| 17:31 –19:26 | Task 4: Episode Thumbnails | Can agents use Figma templates to create appealing YouTube thumbnails? | Hold | Muse produced an unusable distorted design, but Grok generated novel layouts that outperformed the standard templates. | Opens: Can Grok sustain design leadership into productivity tasks?Closes: Which agent performs best inside Figma via MCP. |
| 19:26 –21:07 | Task 5: Inbox Triage | How cleanly do agents synthesize messy unread emails into actionable to-dos? | Hold | Dot generated an unreadable plain text dump, while Grok organized action items into an interactive native document. | Opens: Does Grok's formatting advantage give it the overall lead?Closes: How agents structure personal inbox triage. |
| 21:07 –23:30 | Task 6: Family Newspaper | Can AI format domestic calendar events and news into a charming printable broadsheet? | Hold | Claude produced a plain Markdown file, but Muse generated a complete two-page illustrated family paper. | Opens: Can Muse catch up to Grok on purely personal workflows?Closes: Which agent handles multi-page creative layout generation. |
| 23:30 –24:55 | Task 7: Physics Homework | Can an agent visually parse a school workbook problem and explain the physics concept instantly? | Hold | All four models identified the correct answer, but Muse answered almost instantaneously. | Opens: Will response latency determine the top spot between Grok and Muse?Closes: Whether agents can explain homework from raw photos. |
| 24:55 –26:45 | Task 8: Shoe Shopping | Can agents navigate ecommerce sites to locate specific shoes at the best price? | Hold | Claude was blocked by store anti-bot protections and found overpriced variants, but Grok navigated and compared prices accurately. | Opens: Is Grok's shopping win enough to secure first place overall?Closes: Which agent can perform autonomous live web shopping. |
| 26:45 –30:15 | Task 9: Product Launch Video | Can an agent autonomously script, voice, and composite a SaaS marketing video? | Rise | Dot built an unappealing slide deck, while Claude integrated ElevenLabs voiceover to produce a production-ready video. | Opens: Who wins the overall benchmark after factoring in Claude's video win?Closes: Whether agents can execute complex end-to-end multimedia creation. |
| 30:15 –32:38 | Final Standings & Winner | What are the final cumulative standings across all nine tasks? | Rise | Claude fell to last place due to speed and permission blocks, leaving Grok as the clear benchmark winner at 93%. | Opens: What practical lessons should viewers take from these scores?Closes: Which agent won the How I AI Personal Agent Benchmark. |
| 32:38 –34:40 | Key Takeaways | How should users divide tasks between competing agents in daily life? | Hold | Instead of picking a single winner, Claire advises routing work tasks to Grok and personal tasks to Muse. | Closes: How to handle agent selection across work versus personal life. |
| 34:40 –35:10 | Outro | None. | Fall | Sag: no turn | |