3 Days to Christmas: The AI Holiday Rescue Pack 🎄

Issue #17 | Forgot a client gift? Need to write your end of year letter? Feel like you didn't get all the client outreach done you wanted? Here's 3 examples of how ChatGPT's new 5.2 "Reasoning" update can help calm your holiday nerves.

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Matt Spangler
December 22, 2025

It is December 22nd. You have 72 hours until Christmas.

The deals are (mostly) done, but the life administration is piling up. You have last-minute gifts to buy, a "Year in Review" email you meant to write two weeks ago, and a travel itinerary that’s already stressing you out.

Instead of panicking, let's use the new ChatGPT 5.2. The latest release from the industry leader was meant to respond to Gemini’s incredible new 3 model. But we’ll steer clear of the comparisons in this issue and focus on how it’s update of "Visual Logic" and "Deep Reasoning," can now handle the nuance that it takes to provide value during your holiday rush.

Here’s 3 Examples of how the latest update from OpenAI can help you clear the to-do list, so you can get a much needed break.

🎁 The "Personal Shopper" (Search + Validation)

You’ve decided to stand out and give New Years gifts instead. But your gift ideas are generic and you don't know which one will truly make them remember you. ChatGPT 5.2’s new shopping integration doesn't just find products; it evaluates them against your client's persona (which it remembers from your past chats). It searches for availability, checks reviews, and validates the choice against what it knows about your client.

Prompt: I’m deciding between a [Breville Espresso Machine], a [Sonos Roam], or a [Le Creuset Dutch Oven] for a client who is a 'tech-focused minimalist' with a small kitchen (based on our past chats). Search current prices and reviews. Then, rank these 3 gifts based on:

  1. Suitability: Which fits a 'small minimalist kitchen' best?

  2. Perception: Which brand signals 'luxury' most effectively?

  3. Availability: Which can I get delivered by Dec 24?

Give me 3 other options of gifts I’m not thinking about and then rank all 3 for me with your recommendation.

🗓️ The "Year in Review" Letter

You know you should send a "Year in Review" letter to your sphere, but you don't want to sound like you're bragging about volume. You want to build community. The newest version of their Reasoning Model excels at tone and can weave your stats into a story about resilience and gratitude. The more context you give it from your past year the more it can personalize it.

Prompt: “Here are my stats for 2025: [Upload data about # homes sold, total volume]. I also had [1 crazy story about a difficult closing] and these awesome [life moments].

Write a warm, 200-word 'Year in Review' email to my past clients. Constraint: Do not make it a 'brag' post about numbers. Frame the numbers in a way that emphasizes what this community means to me and the connection we all need at the end of a turbulent year. The tone should be grateful, slightly vulnerable, and optimistic for 2026.”

After that you can upload your list of clients and have it open a doc and write individual letters to each with a customized approach based on personal info it found in your emails or CRM.

✈️ The "Zero-Stress" Travel Concierge

You have a flight to catch, gifts to pack, and a dog to drop off. Your brain is fried. Let 5.2 be your project manager. Paste your raw flight details and your to-do list, and ask it to build a "Backwards Timeline”. It will solve the how do I fit it all in challenge with a step by step schedule.

Prompt: “I have a flight departing at [Time] from [Airport]. I need to check a bag. Before I leave, I need to [Task 1: Walk dog], [Task 2: Wrap gifts]. Create a strict, minute-by-minute 'Go Time' schedule starting from right now until I board the plane. Build in a 30-minute safety buffer for traffic. Tell me exactly when I need to walk out the door."

Bottom Line

The best gift you can give yourself this week is mental bandwidth. In 2025 ChatGPT 5.2 changed from the friend who writes listing descriptions to a full blown team member. It's a logic engine that can handle the mental load of the holidays for you. It’s caught up in many ways to Gemini 3 but you should still be using both, so make sure you read up on the advancements it can help you with from Issue 15 if you missed it.

Hope this helps inspire you to use it to free your mind a bit the next few days. Now go be with your family and friends.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Agent Intelligence!

—Matt

🎉 Community Update

To the 125 Agents in my December Cohort (& subscribers). A massive high-five! You crushed it. You’re now operating at a level 90% of the industry hasn’t achieved. I learned a lot from you as well about how to improve my trainings for next year and I’m excited to implement those.

Keep an eye out for my personal "Year in Review," soon where I'll break down the wins, the losses, and the exact AI stack I'm taking into 2026.

If you’re interested in learning how AI can help your real estate business grow in 2026, the next training (March 23-April 3) is open for Registration. You can see testimonials from agents of the December course at the bottom of the sign-up page. Here is one example:

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