Real World Use Cases

Every scenario below is real. Pulled from actual message logs and daily notes across two weeks of a family using Lobster. No demos. No mockups. Just life, handled.

”Tell Omar the kids want to see a movie”

Your spouse is at the resort. You’re not checking your phone. She texts Lobster:

“Hi Lobster Can you text Omar to let him know that the kids want to see a movie today Send Help 12:30 showing at the theater nearby”

Lobster relays it to you via iMessage. You respond. She follows up:

“What time do you recommend we leave the resort to park, get refreshments to make a 12:30 movie”

Lobster searches drive times, adds a buffer for parking and snacks, and replies: leave by 11:45 AM. No app switching. No Googling. Just an answer.

”Where did we travel last year?”

Your daughter drops a question in the family group chat:

“Lobster do you know where we as a family traveled in [country] last year”

Lobster checks the family’s Travel Hub, finds the trip — dates, duration, number of nights. She follows up from memory:

“I know we stayed at a nice hotel on the water near a famous landmark”

Lobster identifies the hotel. Now the whole family is reminiscing in the group chat, with Lobster filling in the details nobody can quite remember.

She also asks:

“What are our next two trips? Where are we staying?”

Lobster pulls up the itinerary. Trip planning feels less like work and more like anticipation.

”Add this to the calendar”

“Hi lobster! Is there any chance you can add [event] to the calendar?”

Done. Event created on the shared Family calendar. No login required. No app needed. Just a text.

Your flight just landed

You didn’t ask for this. Lobster was already tracking the flight via FlightRadar24. When the wheels touch down, you get:

A landing notification
Check-in instructions for the hotel
Driving directions from the airport
A reminder created with arrival details

Your spouse gets the same info in the family group chat — driving directions, tipping guides, and what to expect at check-in.

”Play Bad Bunny on Sonos”

“Play Bad Bunny on Main Floor Sonos”

Music starts. Multi-room Sonos control, Spotify and Apple Music, per-room volume defaults. Play, pause, skip — all from a text message.

You never missed that 7 AM meeting

Lobster checks your work calendar every 30 minutes. It knows the patterns:

Early morning meetings (7-8 AM)? Reminder sent the evening before.
Late meetings (after 8 PM)? Reminder sent at 5 PM day-of.

You didn’t set these reminders. You didn’t configure rules. Lobster just pays attention.

Forward emails to Lobster

Got an email you need Lobster to handle? Just forward it to his iCloud mailbox. He checks it two to three times a day and knows what to do:

Only processes emails from contacts and verifies sender authenticity (DKIM + SPF) before trusting anything
Flags what matters
Processes travel agent emails into actionable check-in instructions
Archives what’s done
Drafts replies

You forward, review, and approve. Lobster does the rest.

One Family, Three Agents

Not everyone in the family needs the same access. Lobster runs as three agents with different permissions:

You get everything — email, calendar, travel, smart home, monitoring, messaging, reminders.

Your spouse and kids get what they need — shared calendars, family travel plans, reminders, contacts, web search — through their own DMs or the family group chat.

What they can’t do: read your email, run system commands, see financial details, or access your work calendar. This isn’t a setting you toggle — it’s enforced at the architecture level. Per-agent permissions, tool-level denials, workspace isolation.

Your daughter texts “Check Omar’s email” and gets a polite refusal: “I don’t have access to Omar’s private email.” Tested. Verified. Secure.

It doesn’t just respond — it watches

Every 30 minutes, Lobster runs a heartbeat:

Checks for new email worth flagging
Reviews the family WhatsApp group
Scans the calendar for upcoming meetings and events
Monitors messaging infrastructure health
Self-heals if something goes down

If the messaging bridge crashes at 3 AM, Lobster detects it and restarts the service. You wake up to everything working.

What Lobster handles most

Real usage patterns from a real family, ranked:

Message relay — “tell Omar,” “let the kids know,” “forward this to…”
Calendar — “what’s this week look like?”
Travel — trip details, tipping guides, hotel lookups, flight tracking
Logistics — drive times, departure planning, practical questions
Proactive alerts — meeting reminders, flight landings, package deliveries

Every family member finds their own rhythm. The spouse leans on relay and logistics. The daughter asks about trips and adds calendar events. The owner uses everything — email, music, monitoring, the works.

The full toolkit

Communication

iMessage, WhatsApp monitoring, email — Lobster reads, writes, relays, and summarizes across all of them. Multilingual. Culturally aware.

Calendar & Scheduling

Shared iCloud calendars for the family. Smart meeting reminders that learn your patterns. Create events from a text message.

Travel

A family travel hub with itineraries, hotel details, destination guides, and tipping etiquette. Real-time flight tracking with maps and landing notifications.

Smart Home

Multi-room Sonos, Spotify, Apple Music. Play, pause, volume — by room, by voice, by text.

Memory

Lobster remembers. Family preferences, friend groups, past trips, lessons learned. It builds a knowledge base over time so it gets better at helping your family specifically.

Content

Image generation, text-to-speech, presentations. When you need something created, not just retrieved.