The class-action email you deleted last week is worth up to $56. My AI agent just filled the form.

There's a Google Assistant class-action settlement open right now — $68M pool, deadline August 27, 2026. If you've ever owned a Google Home, Nest Hub, or a Pixel phone with Google Assistant enabled, you're probably in the class. Payout is up to $56 per person.

The reason most people don't file: the mail-in claim form is six pages of small boxes, careful class-selection decisions, and attestations you have to check off under penalty of perjury. Twenty to thirty minutes of tedious paperwork for something that maybe pays you the price of a nice dinner.

So I gave the form to an agent through Reality Router. It read the PDF, decided what to put where, filled every field and every checkbox, and produced a printable page ready for me to edit, sign and mail. Total cost: $0.19.

What the agent had to figure out

This isn't a fillable PDF. There are no form fields — it's just text and empty boxes drawn on the page. The agent had to:

• Locate every field label ("FIRST NAME, LAST NAME", "CURRENT STREET ADDRESS", "CITY", "STATE", "ZIP", etc.) and find the empty line beneath each
• Split my address across the correct columns — street/apt on one row, city/state/zip on the next
• Break my phone number into the three separate boxes for (xxx) xxx-xxxx
• Write my email into both the "email" and "verify email" fields
• Read the class definitions and decide which class I'm claiming (Privacy Class, User role — because I actually owned the device, not just lived with someone who did)
• Skip the Purchaser Class entirely, because I don't have a receipt for a Google-Made Device
• Check the correct attestations for the class I am claiming — the four base ones every claimant confirms, plus the Privacy-Class-specific "I had a Google account associated with a Google Assistant device" and "I have a good-faith belief my communications were recorded by a False Accept"
• Not check the Purchaser Class attestation (would be perjury — I'm not claiming that class)
• Not check the Household Member sub-path (would be perjury — I'm the User, not a household member of one)
• Not sign anything — legal signatures on penalty-of-perjury forms are yours to make, not an agent's

Every one of those decisions came out right. The signature line is blank; the date is blank. Everything else is filled.

The receipt

Nineteen cents versus a $10-$56 payout. That's the whole point. This kind of paperwork was never worth 20 minutes of active human attention for a modest payout — but it's absolutely worth 3 minutes of oversight and 19 cents of compute.

Why "AI does the boring middle" is the real story

The interesting parts of filing a class-action claim are the beginning and the end. The beginning: deciding "yes, I actually want to do this." The end: signing, stamping, and dropping it in the mailbox. Those are yours.

The middle — the twenty minutes of transcribing your name three times, splitting your phone number across three boxes, remembering which apartment number you had in 2019, deciding which of the eight attestations applies to you, checking the right one of two mutually exclusive paths on page 6 — is exactly what makes people give up.

The agent handles the middle. The reader keeps everything that's genuinely a decision.

What the router did

Fourteen text-only agent calls. Reality Router split them: some to gpt-4o-mini, most to DeepSeek's fast cloud model, one call to DeepSeek's smarter tier when the reasoning got heavier (which class to check, which attestations pair with it). The routing decision was made fresh for each call based on what the agent was doing at that step.

If the whole run had gone to a single flagship model — the Opus 5 line above — the same fill would have cost about $6.71 instead of $0.19. Same output. The router's job is spending each of those thirty-nine reasoning steps on the right-sized model, not the fanciest one.

The Aug 27 deadline is real

If you've owned a Google Home / Nest Hub / Nest Mini / Pixel phone with Google Assistant, you're likely in the Privacy Settlement Class. The mail-in claim form is at googleassistantprivacylitigation.com/claim-form. No Notice ID required for the paper path — you fill it, sign it, and mail it to A.B. Data, Ltd. in Milwaukee.

I'm not going to tell you whether you're eligible — that's for you to read the class definitions and decide. But if you are, and you've been putting this off because the form looks tedious: yes, it is tedious. And yes, an AI agent will do it for you in twenty minutes for less than a quarter.

Try it yourself

Reality Router is open source. Point OpenCode at it, add your own API keys, and hand it the next annoying paperwork task on your desk — settlement claim, rebate form, warranty registration, appointment intake form your dentist emailed you three weeks ago.

→ realityrouter.dev

During the creating of this blog post nothing was submitted to A.B. Data, Ltd. If you're the person actually filing, your info goes into your own local user-info file that never leaves your machine; the agent generates the filled PDF you print and mail yourself.