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Here are some examples of the types of things you can ask Cartright; the replies are what Cartright should reply with (lightly abbreviated where a reply depends on live data). If what you get differs in substance (not necessarily wording) from these, please let us know.

1.See what it can do

help

Here’s what I can do:

  • See what I’m tracking — say “show my items”
  • Search for a product — say “search coffee”
  • Price-check anything, any store — say “best price on AA batteries”
  • Get a real recommendation — say “best-reviewed air purifier under $150” (I read testing sites, Reddit, and store ratings)
  • Track something for price drops — say “track dish soap”, or paste a walmart.com link
  • Set a preference — just tell me, like “always get the Bounty”
  • Get a reminder: say “remind me at 9pm to order the tissues”
  • Check or change where alerts go — say “what’s my preferred channel” or “send my alerts to discord”

And I’ll message you on my own when something you reorder is due or drops to a good price.

3.Set a reminder

remind me Sunday to reorder detergent

Set. I’ll remind you sunday at 9am: reorder detergent.

And when the moment arrives, it messages you:

You asked me to remind you sunday at 9am: reorder detergent.

Say the time however you naturally would: “at 9pm”, “in 2 hours”, “tomorrow morning”, “on july 24”. A bare day (“Sunday”, “tomorrow”) means 9am your local time, never midnight. The reminder comes back in your own words, verbatim; Cartright never turns it into a product lookup or a cart on its own.

If it can’t read the time, or the time already passed, it asks “When should I remind you?” instead of guessing. “Show my reminders” lists what’s pending, and “cancel the detergent reminder” cancels by name. Two honest limits: no repeating reminders yet (it’ll say so and ask for a one-time version), and nothing further than a year out.

5.Track by name

track dish soap

A few items match “dish soap” and I don’t want to guess wrong:

  • [Dawn Ultra, 19.4 oz]
  • [Great Value Ultra, 24 oz]
  • [Palmolive Original, 32.5 oz]

If that’s not right, please paste the link of the one you want and I’ll watch that exact item.

Nothing is tracked yet at this point. This is deliberate: a name is a category, and it never guesses which exact catalog item you meant. The watch starts when you reply with the link or item id of the one you want.

6.Set your own rule

alert me when it drops below $8

(with a link, or about a tracked item)

With a link, or about a tracked item: sets your rule on that item, replacing the default 10%-drop alert. Percent works too (“only ping me if it’s 20% off”). The confirmation names the item and the rule it stored. From then on, the alert for that item fires on your threshold, not the default.

7.Find the best price

best price on AA batteries

(open web, any store)

First, instantly:

On it — checking prices for “AA batteries” across the web. This can take a few minutes; I’ll message you when I have it.

Then, as its own message (typically ~30 seconds to a few minutes later):

Best prices I found for “AA batteries”:

  • [Amazon Basics AA 48-pack] — $12.99 (was $18.99) at Amazon - as of Jul 20
  • [Energizer Max AA 24-pack] — $14.97 at Walmart - as of Jul 20

I read these prices off the open web just now, so the store’s page has the final say.

Want me to watch one for price drops? Paste its link back to me.

Every price names the store it came from and the day it was checked; Cartright never shows a price without saying where and when it found it. A “was” price only appears when the item is genuinely marked down. If it can’t find prices it trusts, it says exactly that (“I couldn’t find prices I can stand behind for ...”) instead of inventing a number.

8.Get recommendations

best-reviewed air purifier under $150

Same two-message shape: “On it — digging up reviews...” then 1 to 3 picks, each with a one-line why and named sources (editorial testing sites, a Reddit thread, retailer ratings with their counts), a price when one was found, and:

Ratings and threads can be gamed or go stale, so just be wary of relying solely on those.

If the only evidence it found is star counts, the pick says so right on its line: “popularity read: ratings only, no expert testing or discussion behind it.” Cartright never recommends something it can’t back with a named source.

9.Build a cart

make me a cart with paper towels and dish soap

Here’s what I’d add to your Walmart cart:

  • [items with current prices]

Total: $XX.XX
Want the cart link? (yes/no)

Reply “yes” and you get a link that opens a Walmart cart with those items staged. You check out (or don’t) yourself; the link adds items at Walmart’s current price, never charges anything, and a “yes” sent hours later still works (with a heads-up that the quoted prices may have moved). A vague phrase (“my usual stuff”) that matches several of your items gets a which-one question, not a guess. Non-Walmart items aren’t dropped: they get listed with a product link, since Walmart is the only store with cart-add today.

10.Send feedback

feedback: the search gave me the wrong coffee

Got it, passed straight along. Thank you!

Stored word-for-word and forwarded straight to us. Anything starting with “feedback” routes here, even if the rest of the message contains words that would normally trigger something else.

11.The daily budget

What it sounds like when you hit it:

I’ve used up today’s research budget on your account, so I can’t run new lookups until tomorrow. Your tracked items and price alerts keep running as normal - let’s pick this up tomorrow.

Only the open-web features (price checks, recommendations) spend budget. Search, tracking, carts, and your proactive alerts don’t, and keep working.

Other things to note

  • Phrase it your way. There are no special commands or exact wordings to learn, so say things however you naturally would. If a natural phrasing confuses it, that’s exactly the feedback we want.
  • Never silence. Any “On it” is always followed by a second message: the answer, an honest miss, or a plain “that fell over, mind trying again.” If an “On it” is the last thing you ever hear, that’s a bug.
  • Follow-ups have memory (for 2 days). After a search or research answer, “any deals on the first one?” or “track the Energizer one” resolves against what it just showed you. After ~48 hours that context expires so a stale list can’t hijack a fresh “it”.
  • Asking the same research question twice within ~15 minutes may come back much faster the second time. That’s a cache, not a fresh check; the as-of stamp tells the truth about when it actually looked.
  • Bursts can drop messages. Sending many messages very fast can get some quietly dropped. If that ever feels broken or eats something important, let us know.
  • Proactive messages come on their own schedule. Watched Walmart items are re-checked hourly by default (open-web watches daily), so an alert can land well after the price actually moved. “check twice a day” adjusts the cadence. And the default rule is deliberately picky: a 10%+ drop against the was-price or Cartright’s own tracked baseline, not any downward twitch.
  • Discord and Telegram are the same account. Ask on either, the answer returns where you asked; proactive alerts go to your preferred channel from onboarding.

Spot something off, or get a reply that doesn’t match these? Lead with the word feedback in the chat, or email feedback@meetcartright.com.