The latest articles on DEV Community by Neelanjana Basu (@neelanjana_basu_df13ba484). https://dev.to/neelanjana_basu_df13ba484 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3789818%2F86cbe8a5-3a0f-45e4-822f-af1166ce6c43.jpg https://dev.to/neelanjana_basu_df13ba484 en Neelanjana Basu Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:30:40 +0000 https://dev.to/neelanjana_basu_df13ba484/i-built-an-ai-agent-to-find-my-toddlers-birthday-party-venue-36k5 https://dev.to/neelanjana_basu_df13ba484/i-built-an-ai-agent-to-find-my-toddlers-birthday-party-venue-36k5 <p><strong><em>Originally published on my Substack.</em></strong></p> <p>I had a problem that was too small to hire for, too annoying to keep doing manually, and still important enough that I couldn’t ignore it.</p> <p>My toddler is turning four, which meant I was back to sourcing birthday party venues. Building a shortlist, tracking down contact details, and drafting slightly personalised outreach for each venue. The kind of task that somehow takes hours when it should take minutes.</p> <p>So I built a small AI agent to do it for me.</p> <p>It takes my criteria, researches venues, logs everything in Notion, drafts outreach emails in Gmail, and flags edge cases where a human decision still matters.</p> <p>The surprising part wasn’t the AI. It was debugging the boring plumbing between tools and deciding where not to automate.</p> <p>I wrote up what I built, what broke, and the product decisions behind it here:<br> 👉 <a href="https://neelanjana.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://neelanjana.substack.com/</a></p> ai product agents writing