Bin Day Reminders — a real product built on Prompteryx
A live consumer service that reads every UK council's website and emails residents before each bin collection — built end-to-end on Prompteryx, with no bespoke backend.
Bin Day Reminders is a real, running product — not a demo. UK residents enter their address, and before every collection they get an email telling them exactly which bins to put out. Behind it there's no bespoke scraping infrastructure and no team maintaining 300+ council integrations. It's built end-to-end on Prompteryx.
It's the clearest proof of what the platform can do: an AI browser agent works out each council's website once, that run is replayed cheaply on a schedule, the collection dates are parsed, and a branded reminder email goes out — all orchestrated as Prompteryx workflows.
The problem
Every UK council publishes bin dates on its own website, in its own format, behind its own address lookup — 300+ different sites, many with postcode searches and dropdowns and no API. Building and maintaining scrapers for all of them by hand would be a full-time engineering effort.
How it works in Prompteryx
A simple public page takes an address and email and confirms it by double opt-in — itself a Prompteryx flow.
The AI Browser Agent navigates the resident's council website, enters the postcode, selects the address and reads the schedule — handling dropdowns and logins like a person.
Once an agent succeeds for a council, its steps are captured as a deterministic recipe, so future checks for that council are fast and near-free — no AI cost.
Collection dates are extracted and stored, and a weekly re-check keeps them fresh — on Prompteryx's server-side scheduler.
Before each collection, an automated branded email tells the resident exactly which bins to put out — built with the same email tooling as the rest of the platform.
Start from a working workflow
How Bin Day works on Prompteryx
The end-to-end pipeline — sign-up, scheduled AI scrape with deterministic replay, date parsing and the reminder email — assembled from standard Prompteryx building blocks.
See it in Prompteryx
Why Prompteryx for this
AI agent + deterministic replay
The AI Browser Agent cracks each council's site once; the recorded recipe then runs cheaply forever. Pay for discovery once, replay at near-zero cost.
Scheduling at the core
Every resident's weekly re-check and every pre-collection reminder runs on Prompteryx's server-side scheduler — no servers to manage.
Email automation built in
The branded confirmation and reminder emails use the same email tooling any Prompteryx workflow can use — no separate email service to wire up.
Proof it scales
One platform, 300+ wildly different council websites, a real consumer product — without a bespoke backend. That's the whole point.
Real-life examples
Some councils make you pick your address from a dropdown after a postcode search. The agent handles it, and the recipe replays it deterministically next time.
When a council changes its website, the next scheduled run's agent self-heals and a fresh recipe is captured — residents never notice.
The same pattern — agent discovers, recipe replays, schedule, notify — is how you could build your own monitoring or reminder product on Prompteryx.
Frequently asked questions
Is Bin Day Reminders really built on Prompteryx?
Yes — it's a live product running entirely on the platform. The council scraping is the AI Browser Agent plus deterministic recipe replay, the weekly checks and reminders use the server-side scheduler, and the emails use Prompteryx's email tooling. There's no separate custom backend.
How does it handle 300+ different councils?
It doesn't hard-code each one. An AI agent reads each council's website like a person would — postcode search, address dropdown and all — and once it succeeds, the steps are captured as a cheap, repeatable recipe for that council.
Could I build something like this?
That's exactly why we show it. The same building blocks — AI Browser Agent, record-to-replay, scheduling, integrations and email — are available to every Prompteryx user. See it live, then start your own.