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International House Move

Using Herculean to plan an international move

Intermediate

Herculean is built for individual productivity and performance. Moving house is one of the more involved processes an individual can experience with a number of responsibilities, practical obligations and strict timelines & dependencies.

The organisation is a task in and of itself.

In this example we provide the very prompt that we gave to OpenAI Codex running GPT-5.6 Sol on Low reasoning settings. This one prompt set up the entire project in Herculean using Herculean’s features and model education to provide a strong initial moving plan including a number of inferred tasks and complications we casually referred to in the prompt.

Our Prompt

You

I am moving house in roughly three months. I want you to help me organise the aspects that I need to deal with for physically moving. Don’t worry about the sales considerations as my conveyancer is taking care of that.

Could you use Herculean in a new project called ‘House Move’ to create a number of new tasks that cover aspects such as:

  • Mortgage management
  • Packing
  • Managing utilities
  • Mail management
  • Home and other insurances
  • Change of addresses
  • Property and other tax considerations

I want you to add dependencies on the tasks that you make so I can see which tasks depend on other tasks. I also want you to add appropriate labels so I can see what sort of categories and issues I would need to deal with. I also want you to flag anything where you need me to make an explicit decision in the task and provide what the problem is and what considerations or options you’ve already found.

Some basic information from me that might be relevant:

  • My house is in England in the UK
  • My mortgage is with Halifax. The sale of the house will pay off the whole mortgage and will leave me with £50k left over
  • My new house is in Ireland and has no mortgage or other required payments
  • There is just me and my cat called BIG STEVE

Included in this chat are two key aspects:

  • We have a cat, meaning a separate entity that has additional travel and moving concerns
  • We are technically moving internationally, from the UK to the Irish Republic

Both of these are casually mentioned and no focus or weighting is given to either aspect.

As Herculean briefs the model on how to organise a project appropriately, we provide structure to the AI agent to ensure that it doesn’t stray off track and that it has a method and approach for dealing with additional requirements like our cat and the international aspect of this house move

GPT 5.6 Sol

I’ll build this as a practical move plan, excluding sale/conveyancing work. I’ll first check current UK–Ireland requirements, then create the project, category/decision labels, tasks, and dependency links in Herculean. Where your exact move date or choices are still unknown, I’ll make that explicit inside the relevant task rather than inventing details.

The project is created. I’ve identified two easily missed cross-border items that will be built into it: Irish Transfer of Residence customs relief for household goods, and BIG STEVE’s pet-entry documentation/compliance check. I’m now adding the work categories and decision flags.

The task set and dependency network are now in place. I’m doing one final read-back of the project graph to verify that no task or dependency was missed.


• Created the House Move project in Herculean with:

  • 27 tasks
  • 45 dependency links
  • 9 category labels
  • Explicit Decision Required flags
  • No sales/conveyancing tasks
  • No invented move date

View the dependency graph (https://web.herculean.chat/dependencies/projects/01a0d2e3-d2fa-76a0-aed2-9b15084418d3)

The main decisions flagged include:

  • Exact move date and travel route
  • What to take, sell, donate or store
  • Whether you’re importing a vehicle
  • Removals/ferry arrangement
  • Managing and converting the estimated £50,000
  • Irish utilities and insurance choices
  • Royal Mail redirection duration
  • Arrival-year tax treatment
  • BIG STEVE’s carrier, route and approved entry point

I also added work that’s easy to overlook:

  • Halifax redemption figures and possible early-repayment charges
  • Irish Transfer of Residence customs relief, inventory and possible PBN
  • Transit insurance
  • UK departure notifications and Irish tax-residence review
  • Cat microchip, rabies documentation, Animal Health Certificate/passport and arrival compliance check
  • First-week Irish administration

The task notes incorporate current guidance from Irish Revenue (https://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/individuals/transfer-residence/procedure-at-importation.aspx), GOV.UK (https://www.gov.uk/moving-or-retiring-abroad), Halifax (https://www.halifax.co.uk/mortgages/existing-customers/early-repayment-charges.html), Royal Mail (https://www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/redirection), and Ireland’s Pet Travel portal (https://www.pettravel.gov.ie/).

Resulting board

Within 3m 19s the AI had integrated with Herculean and produced a full project with 27 tasks and a full dependency list.

The house move project board
The house move project board

Additionally, the dependencies were fully linked allowing for a full dependency view of every task showing what relied on what.

The full dependency graph
The full dependency graph

Tasks were instructed to link to appropriate documentation, hence when picking up the task later you’re able to follow on easily with direct links to the resource and instructions:

Mail redirection task linking to Royal Mail services & information
Mail redirection task linking to Royal Mail services & information

Additionally, as part of the review and structure process, our cat BIG STEVE was not missed and we have tasks in place for ensuring that he can join us, legally and compliant in this country move:

Specific task for BIG STEVE linking to Irish Government requirements on inbound pets
Specific task for BIG STEVE linking to Irish Government requirements on inbound pets

Additionally, the AI added a number of labels indicating where decisions were required, which tasks ealt with the changing Tax & legal authorities, which are to do with Insurance and other concerns surfaced from its research.

The Advantage

This example took less than 5 minutes to generate an initial house move plan, complete with references, legal guidance and a full dependency map. The saving in personal energy is substantial, leaving you free to start and to adjust and improve your plan as you go.

By connecting your AI to Herculean you provide a single long lived place for you and your AI to work together to plan, research and execute what you need to do. Your AI can revisit this project and its tasks at any time to update, add or complete tasks as they occur.

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