I set a scheduled task in Doba Pilot on a Friday, closed my laptop, and did not touch it again until the following week. This is what was sitting there waiting for me.
Doba Pilot is Doba's AI dropshipping agent, and they have just put the whole product on a Skills page: 22 jobs you can hand over, from connecting a store to sourcing products to running the day to day. The one I wanted to test was scheduled tasks, because work that happens without me is the only kind that actually scales.
I also show you where it stops. It cannot connect itself to eBay, and that is worth knowing before you plan a week around it.
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Chapters 00:00 Set it and forget it, so I actually did 00:35 The Skills page, 22 jobs you can hand over 01:36 Why scheduled tasks were the one I wanted to test 02:04 The job I gave it a week ago 03:15 What it did while I was gone 03:54 Nine products, and the detail behind each 04:19 Supplier age, fulfillment rate, refund rate 05:05 Running it live, and the "failure" that wasn't 05:42 Where it stops, it can't connect eBay for you 06:57 What it's actually best at 07:24 The trial, and what I'd try next
I'm partnered with Doba and I make videos for them regularly. The tests, the results and the verdict in this video are my own, including the parts that aren't flattering.
"In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty." Proverbs 14:23 (ESV)
Every AI tool has the same three words, set it and forget it.
I guess that's, that's four words actually. But a week ago,
I gave an AI agent an actual job with actual rules.
Then I closed my computer and went and lived my life and just wanted to see what
it did. So this is a drop shipping AI agent called Doba pilot.
And I set it going last Friday and I didn't touch it again until this morning.
And the work was all done and waiting. And it did a pretty good job.
I want to show you the results of this.
There was one thing I needed to go take a second look at,
but let me show you what it did.
So I've done a few videos about Doba pilot,
this AI agent for drop shipping been making a lot of changes.
So the most recent one is they now have this skills page and it's the whole
product laid out as a list of jobs that you can hand over.
So right now they have 22 skills in four different groups,
connecting to a store, finding products, writing the listings,
running the day by day, pretty much anything you need for e-commerce in general,
but specifically for drop shipping. So, and a lot of them are live now.
A lot of them are coming soon. So like right now you can connect Shopify, Wix,
BigCommerce, eBay, Walmart, and TikTok shop.
There are launching Amazon soon and Timu soon.
So that should be pretty interesting. Definitely when Timu is released,
that would be an interesting video I'll be doing.
Then they have all these sourcing and research skills that you can use these
listing and marketing ones.
And then operation ones like AI support is an interesting one.
And again, more to come and they're launching more and more each and every day.
And the one I really want to test today is this scheduled task skill because I
love just things happening automatically. And so a scheduled task,
you schedule it, then you don't have to do anything. It's automatic.
What I really want to focus on today is this scheduled link here,
because what I love about AI is just when it does things automatically it takes
work off of my plate. And so scheduled tasks are a way to do that.
They just happen automatically.
I don't even have to have my computer on or anything. So I love that.
So I want to check that out. So a week ago I created this scheduled task,
find new pet supplies on DOBA that match my conditions under $30,
at least 25% profit margin and in stock, push the matching products to me.
So I just want it once a week. You can set, you know,
how often you want it to run, what day, what time. So every Monday at 9am,
I want it to do this. Find new products. You know, I have these, I got a Husky,
so I have these pet supply drop shipping stores now because I know how much
people are willing to spend on pets. So I think that's a good category.
And so I want every, I have the products, I did the research,
but I want every week to find if there's new products I should be listing.
You know,
this is a trends change and what people are buying change what suppliers have
available profit margins, those things all change.
So I don't want it to just be something static where I did the research once and
then it's just up there forever. But I want weekly for this to be refreshed,
you know, find new products and show me if anything matches my criteria.
So, and again, your tasks are just what you would say to a human.
So if I had an employee that I was like, Hey, here's what I want you to do.
I just say that same thing to AI.
That's how AI works best when you communicate that way. So,
and this will show all the times that it's ran. So I set it up on the 21st,
which was a Friday. And then Monday at 9am it did run here. And again,
I just love it. Did this while I was not even around,
I didn't even think about it until later I came. I was like, Oh yeah,
I had that scheduled task going.
And I love scheduled tasks too because you don't have to wait for them. You know,
a lot of times with AI,
it can take a few minutes to do the research and get everything done. And so,
you know, I type get, get a AI going on something and then working on other
things. I kind of,
sometimes I forget to go back and I have to wait and it's just annoying.
But with a scheduled task, it's just there.
It was ready for me when I was ready to go look at it.
So it found nine products. So when I click view details,
it didn't just give me nine products,
but it gives all the info that DOPA pilot usually gives on products.
A lot of good info on that. Again,
would have taken me a long time to go look at myself.
So first it shows the demand signal. So it's the category that I want.
It's the price range I want.
They have them in stock and there's a high profit margin.
Then it tells me about the supplier. So again, that's important.
How long have they been open? Cause again, I'm not, you know, three months.
That's a little risky. I don't know about that supplier yet.
And then I'm always looking at this fulfillment rate,
which anything over a 95% I think is pretty good.
A hundred percent being open for 3.6 years. That's pretty incredible.
So that's a supplier I would really be interested in.
And then you want to keep an eye on this refund rate.
1.22% is a little bit higher than what I would normally want to
see. Again,
these guys open for 1.5 years and 0% refund rate. That's,
that's better. And then 3.45%, that's,
that's a little bit concerning, although I like their fulfillment rate.
Oh, and I don't have to wait until Monday. I can run this now.
So it's only one credit to run this report.
So I will just get that going in progress and we'll see if anything's changed
from Monday until now. It's Friday now when I'm recording this. All right.
So I was a little concerned cause I ran this and then it said failure and I was
like, Oh no, I'm trying to demo this. It didn't work. But when you click on it,
the reason it says failure is because it said there was no new results.
So since I ran this just a couple of days ago, since then there's nothing new.
So it's not actually a failure. It's just saying, Hey,
there was no new products. So that's good to know.
So next thing I wanted to do was I wanted to check out eBay because I actually
sell quite a bit on eBay. I have an eBay shop. Um, so I thought, Hey,
this would be great. I'll connect my eBay account here.
So I got Doba pilot going on it,
but I found out this agent can't actually connect itself to eBay.
So this is just something to keep in mind when you're dealing with agents is
they can only do so much. They don't have access to your stuff.
So when you're asking them to do something with your stuff,
they can't just go and connect to eBay without you, you know,
taking the steps to make that happen.
So instead of actually connecting to eBay, it told me how to connect to eBay.
So I'm going to do that another day. In fact,
that might be a good video in and of itself because I do have a eBay store and I
just kind of want to show a lot of you that might be interesting to you.
Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see a tutorial on getting eBay
hooked up to Doba pilot and selling through eBay and just kind of walk through
my journey of doing that.
So I have a lot of new content I can make about Doba here.
Let me know in the comments what you're interested in.
I have a Walmart shop that would could be interesting.
Doing Wix would be interesting as well.
We've done some videos on some of these market scout things,
but those are very cool.
So even if you're not using Doba for your dropshipping but you just want to do
some research,
I think Doba pilot is probably the best e-commerce research agent right now and
they have these skills just right here, ready, ready to go.
If you need help with your product listings, this might even be helpful.
I sell a lot on Facebook marketplace can use this and I'll be really interesting
when this SEO skill is, is released to definitely we'll do a video on that.
What I would love you to do is go sign up for Doba pilot.
It's been so cool to see I was here when this was in beta and it was just
starting, you know, and it had, it had, you know,
it was rough kind of at the beginning as we're working through how it should
work and it's just really cool to see how it's progressed and just how much
better it is now and how many features it has. But go try Doba pilot.
Try one of these scheduled tasks.
They have some recommended scheduled tasks like a shipment watch monitor your
shipping exceptions.
Make sure that all your orders actually shipped correctly and then a canceled
order guard.
So make sure to cancel unshipped Doba orders when the user
cancels their order as well and try it out for yourself.
It's 99 cents for a seven day trial. So you can try it out basically free.
A dollar is basically free, right? Less than a dollar 99 cents.
So go try it out.
Start automating some of your drop shipping or e-commerce tasks.
Shout out to the Doba team for just working so hard and that they really take
into consideration feedback. When it was in beta, they asked for feedback.
And you know, when you give feedback to a company, you're kind of like, are you
know, this probably nobody's going to listen to this,
but they I've actually seen that they've taken feedback that I've given and the
product has addressed it and shaped around that. So shout out to Doba.
Appreciate you guys. Thank you everyone so much for watching.
God bless you all and have a great rest of your day.