AI Agent Use Cases

Explore what you can do with AI agents running on your own Mac. These guides cover setting up project agents, scheduling recurring work, reviewing results, supervising agents from your phone and working with your team in a 3D office. Start with the workflow that fits what you want to accomplish.

ShiftHands is a Mac app for running and supervising a team of AI agents. The agents run on your own Apple-silicon Mac; you can monitor their work, chat with them and respond to flagged command approvals from the Mac app or a desktop or phone browser.

Choose a use case

  • AI agent for Mac

    Turn your Apple-silicon Mac into a workspace for project agents, parallel work and scheduled tasks.

  • AI agents for startups

    Build a team of Mac-hosted agents for startup research, product work, content and recurring operations.

  • AI agent dashboard

    Monitor live agent status, project chats, automations and flagged decisions in one workspace.

  • Schedule AI agent tasks

    Set up recurring agent work, review completed runs and handle tasks that need attention.

  • AI agents for SEO

    Compare nine AI SEO agents and tools for research, content, technical checks and reporting, with features and limitations explained.

  • AI agent for social media

    Research topics, draft posts for different platforms and schedule content preparation with an agent on your Mac.

  • Manage AI agents from your phone

    Check running agents, reply to messages and answer flagged command approvals remotely.

  • Mac mini AI agent

    Set up an Apple-silicon Mac mini as a dedicated host for agents and recurring work.

  • AI agent office

    Explore the 3D office where ShiftHands agents have desks, live status and project areas.

Run your first agent on your Mac

Download ShiftHands for an Apple-silicon Mac and start on the Free plan.

Download for Mac