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Evidence C: Vendor or secondhandVendor launch quote from a selected tester.

Total photographed time cards for payroll

An Iowa grocer who works about 65 hours a week had Muse add up photos of employee time cards, cutting at least 15 minutes from payroll.

Meta MuseLocal & serviceAssisted
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FinanceAdded Oct 15, 2026Source: about.fb.com

Explain it simply

A grocery store owner photographs his employees' paper time cards and has Meta's AI assistant add up the hours. He says it saves at least 15 minutes every payroll. Checking the totals by hand before paying anyone is still wise.

What was done

Tom Mulholland of Mulholland Grocery was another of the Muse for Small Business testers Meta quoted.

He photographed paper time cards and had Muse add up the hours.

How it went

Per Meta's launch post, it cut at least 15 minutes from each payroll run.

  • A Meta-selected tester quote, with no detail on accuracy checks.
  • Check totals before paying anyone; handwriting and missed punches trip up any reader.
  • US and Canada only.

Prompt

PromptWritten by our editors from the source
Here are photos of this week's time cards.

Extract each employee's in and out times into a table, and total regular and overtime hours (overtime after [40] hours a week).

Flag any card that's hard to read, missing a punch, or over [10] hours in a day.

Don't send anything to payroll. Give me the table to check.

Setup notes

  1. Photograph cards flat and in good light, one card per photo.
  2. Ask for a flagged-exceptions list, not just totals.
  3. Spot-check a few cards by hand every run.

Business fit

Who this helps, and how:

  • Local & serviceShops, restaurants and trades on paper time cards save time every pay period.
  • Shopify & ecommerceStores with warehouse or retail staff can reconcile hours the same way.
  • Solo foundersOwner-operators with a few hourly staff can drop a tedious weekly chore.

Related

Similar tools

Other tools for this job, and how they differ. Chosen by our editors, never paid for.

  • Claude

    Reads photos you upload in the Claude app; Anthropic warns it can misread low-quality or rotated images, so check totals.

    Source: Claude Docs (Anthropic)

  • Grok Bot

    Takes photos as attachments and can return a spreadsheet with formulas; QuickBooks Online can be connected too.

    Source: xAI Docs

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