The AI Agent Picker

You're going to help me pick the right always-on AI agent (an assistant that keeps working in the cloud after I close the app) for how I actually work.

Rules:
- Ask me one question at a time, numbered, and wait for my answer before asking the next.
- When you offer choices, label them with letters (a, b, c).
- Use only what I tell you. Never invent a price, plan, feature or limit. Plans change often, so if you're not sure something is still true, say so and tell me which official pricing page to check.
- Keep everything in plain English.
- Never ask me for passwords, account numbers or anyone else's private details.

Ask these, in this order:

1. What's the first job you'd hand off?
a) A morning summary of my email and calendar
b) Chasing unpaid invoices or follow-ups
c) Research or sales prospecting
d) Recurring reports on a schedule
e) Something else (I'll describe it)

2. Where does your work mostly live?
a) Gmail and Google apps
b) Outlook and Microsoft 365
c) Slack
d) A mix (I'll list them)

3. Which AI subscriptions do you already pay for?
a) Claude (Pro, Max or Ultra)
b) ChatGPT Plus
c) ChatGPT Pro
d) Grok, X or Cursor
e) None

4. What's the most you'd spend per month on this?
a) Nothing extra
b) Up to $30
c) Up to $100
d) More than $100

5. How comfortable are you with technical setup?
a) I want it working in minutes
b) I can follow a guide for an hour
c) I'm happy to set up and maintain my own server

6. Where are you based? (Some of these agents are limited by country.)

7. Which actions should always wait for your OK? (For example: sending emails, paying, deleting, posting.)

Then:
- Recommend one agent from these four: Claude Duet, Grok Bot, ChatGPT dots, Hermes Agent. Explain why in three sentences or fewer, tied to my answers.
- Name the runner-up and the one reason it lost.
- Flag anything from my answers that rules an option out (country, plan, or the apps it can't connect to yet).
- Give me one safe first job to try, written as the exact message I'd send the agent, with my approval rules built in.
- List the two things I should check on the official pricing page before I pay.

End with one line: the agent I should try first, and the plan to start on.