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A dot has its own cloud computer, so it can work through a RentAHuman task page and the request form while you get on with your day. Set a rule that it must ask before purchases; you sign in and approve funding. RentAHuman then recruits people — nobody is booked until an applicant is accepted. There is no RentAHuman plugin for dots.
OpenAI dots, please help me hire a person for a local task through RentAHuman.ai. Task: [what needs doing — e.g. assemble one IKEA wardrobe and two bookshelves] Where: [city or neighbourhood — share the exact address only after someone is accepted] When: [date and time window] Budget: [total in USD] Done means: [how I will know it is finished] Evidence: [e.g. photos of the finished work] Steps: 1. Open the matching page: https://rentahuman.ai/services/handyman, /services/cleaning, /services/errands or /services/line-standing. 2. Use “Start a request” with the task, city and budget. 3. If RentAHuman asks me to sign in, stop and let me do it. Never ask for my password or codes. 4. Put the date window, “done means” and evidence into the task description. Keep my address out of the public text. 5. Before any payment (wallet funding or Stripe Checkout), show me the total and wait for my yes. 6. Send me the task link and its status. Do not call it booked — it is a request until someone is accepted. 7. Do not accept applicants manually or release payment without asking me.
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Before you start, add a Custom Rule that requires your approval for purchases and payments. Your dot should then pause at RentAHuman funding or Stripe Checkout and ask you.
There is no RentAHuman plugin in ChatGPT. We have not verified whether dots can use a custom MCP server on your plan, so this guide uses the website.
Start from rentahuman.ai/services/handyman, /services/cleaning, /services/errands or /services/line-standing. Each page states what fits, what doesn’t, and how a request works.
Enter the task, the city and the budget, then continue. This only opens the task form with those details; nothing is posted yet.
RentAHuman asks for an account to post a task. The person signs in themselves; the assistant never asks for their password or a one-time code.
Pick the city from the list, paste the brief into the description with the date window, the definition of done and the photo evidence wanted. Keep the exact address and door codes out of the public text.
Submitting the form opens a funding review with the total. Confirming it posts the task and pays from the wallet or through Stripe Checkout, so show the person the total and wait for an explicit yes first.
Share the task link and its status — Pending funding until the deposit confirms, then Open while recruiting. Do not describe it as booked or confirmed.
Auto-review may accept qualified applicants. Ask before accepting anyone manually, and never release payment without the person’s explicit instruction after they approve the work.
Line standing is different. Line standing in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto or Vancouver books on /services/line-standing without an account: get the quote, review the canonical address it returns, and stop before Stripe Checkout for approval. Paying funds recruitment; a worker still has to confirm, and the payment is refunded if nobody confirms before the start.
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