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TLDR
Grok Bot is a powerful middle ground between simple Q&A chatbots and complex coding agents, capable of automating a wide range of personal and professional tasks through specialized bots, routines, and integrations. The real story is the degree of orchestration: it can manage email, browse the web, act as a coding agent via Cursor CLI, summarize meetings, clean up your computer, and even order food — all through a single interface that feels more persistent and personal than other agents.
Key points
- Grok Bot can manage email by reading Gmail, archiving low-effort emails, batching summaries, and suggesting replies, with routines that run daily at 7:30 AM.
- It classifies emails using a user-defined scoring system (e.g., for sponsorship leads) and labels them automatically, running every 30 minutes during work hours.
- Through the native Here plugin, Grok Bot can publish content (text, images) to the web instantly, generating public or private URLs without needing an account.
- Browser use is cloud-based: Grok Bot can navigate Amazon, shop, return items, book appointments, and even order food via DoorDash (using browser control or CLI).
- Grok Bot can function as a coding agent by calling Cursor CLI directly, with persistent context across projects and workstreams, and can follow up on CI status until green.
- Meeting summaries are automated via Fathom integration: Grok Bot checks for new transcripts, writes summaries and action items, and can take voice commands during the meeting.
- A 'Chief of Staff' bot serves as a central hub that delegates to specialized bots (email, food, calendar, etc.) and can be accessed via Telegram, including voice notes.
- A 'Computer Cleanup' bot scans the local hard drive for deletable files, categorizes them by risk (low, medium, high), and runs weekly to free up space.
Tools mentioned
Techniques
- Routine-based task automation with scheduled runs
- Browser automation for web tasks (Amazon, DoorDash, etc.)
- Email classification using scoring heuristics
- Delegation through a central 'Chief of Staff' bot
- Computer cleanup by scanning files and categorizing deletion risk
- Meeting summary workflow via Fathom API integration
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Transcript (captions)
I've been using Grockbot every day since it came out, and it feels more personal and more capable than any other agent that I've used. And to be honest, I wasn't expecting it. The UI is built to
give every bot the feeling of a persistent character rather than a thread that you can just throw away. And I really like it. So, in this video, I'm going to show you all of the incredible
use cases that I'm using Grockbot for. Plus, I'm going to show you some of the best practices that I've learned in how to get the most out of Grockbot. So, let's get right into the first use case.
Email management. If you get a ton of email like me, if you have multiple email addresses like me, you probably spend so much time trying to get to inbox zero. And now it's much easier
with Grockbot. I have a specific bot agent that I called the email agent. And every single day at 7:30 a.m., it looks through all of my emails from overnight and from the day before, any that are
left over. And the first thing it does is look for emails that can be easily archived without me having to look at it. I have dozens of emails that are just, you know, like one-off
notifications and things that I don't really need to pay attention to. And so it puts those together for me and ask me if I want to archive them. So here it says overnight leftovers that look easy
to archive. 14 out of office auto replies from my newsletter that goes out and then it gives me a bunch of other emails that look like they don't need my attention directly. It gives me a little
button I can push. I click that and it autoarchchives it. Now, to actually accomplish this, you're going to go into plugins and you're just going to make sure your Gmail plugin is added. You
click add. A little prompt is going to pop up in the thread just asking you to connect. You click the button, you authorize Gmail, and you're done. It now has access to read your Gmail, add
labels, draft replies, archive everything. Then what I ask it to do is after those easily archable emails, I ask it to look for kind of the loweffort ones that I need to actually pay
attention to and it'll batch them together. These are emails that I actually need to look at or get some information from, but I don't necessarily need to reply to them. I
don't need to spend a bunch of time on them. And so I have to blur these out because these are my personal emails. But that's what is showing right here. It's just a few sentence summary of a
number of different emails all batched together. I can take a very quick look, understand it, and then just say archive. And the cool thing is Grockbot will actually learn over time and you
can tell it, hey, anytime you get an email like this, go ahead, don't even ask me. You can archive it or put it in kind of the lowest effort email review batch. Now, once I'm done with that, the
way that I get through the rest of my emails is super interesting. I have it go through each one that requires my attention, requires some kind of action, and I have it read all of the context.
So, that's not only the current thread, but previous interactions with the person, and basically summarize the whole thing and try to suggest what the next action could be, whether that's a
reply or whether it just needs me to make a decision on something. And it actually does this incredibly well. And again, the more context you give Grockbot, the better it can help assess
each of these emails. For example, I connected HubSpot. I gave it access to my Google Drive where I take notes and I store contracts and everything like that. And now Grockbot knows to go check
those different sources. And then it will better understand what actions it should suggest for me on each individual email. And that's how I do it. And a lot of times it's actually just writing an
email for me, which is quite nice. And it sounds like me too, which is also quite nice. So with all of this, I'm able to get through my email much more quickly than I would otherwise. And I do
get a lot of emails. So this is a really big timesaver for me, and it can be for you as well. I have a prompt that you can give to your Grockbot to accomplish this exact workflow. I'm going to drop
that and all of the other use cases that we're going over today down below. Next is email classification. Not only do I want help triaging my emails, but I want Grockbox to actually label my emails to
help me sort through them and categorize them for later. And so I make YouTube videos. I get a lot of sponsorship emails. And I do get a lot of spammy sponsorship emails. And so I actually
have Grockbot give a score to each of those sponsorship emails. And so I can see the spammy ones automatically archive those. And then for the rest, it's basically like a lead scoring
system. And I did build this lead score heristic up over time with OpenClaw, but I basically just took that scoring system and then put it in Grockbot and now it just works. And so you might need
to work with Grockbot or whatever agent you're using to help come up with that scoring system, but you can do that too. And not only just scoring for sponsors, but you can label any types of emails.
So I get emails from PR companies. I can easily just label those. I have internal ops and about a dozen different labels that I use, which again is just super helpful if I ever want to say, "Okay,
give me all of the highquality sponsor emails that have come through. Show it to me." It can easily do that now. And so you can see I have this set up as a routine. And you don't need to set this
up manually. You can literally just tell your Grockbot to set up a routine. And I have it set up to run every day during the week, every 30 minutes between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. So it's not just
burning tokens when I don't really need it. It'll do a batch job first thing in the morning. So you can see all the different runs down here. Another one of my favorite use cases is actually
allowing Grockbot to publish things to the internet really easily. so I can share them with my team or with clients or with you all. Here is sponsoring this video. I love their product. I use it
all the time. In fact, I actually don't use it. My agent uses it all the time and it just knows anytime I need to publish anything, it will use here. Now automatically, they actually have a
native plugin now. So, if you just search for here now in the plugins list, here it is. I've actually had the skill installed. So, I'm going to install the here. now plug in the native one right
now. And just like that, you're live. That's as easy as it gets. And so when you need to publish something, it will give you back a public or private URL within seconds of needing to publish
something. So you can see right here, I published this little picture of the 3D boat that I printed. I said, "Publish this." It did it. And then it dropped a link right here. Here. Now is completely
free. You can publish almost anything to it. And you don't even need an account. And in fact, I'm going to publish all of the prompts that I go over in this video using here. Now, and I'm going to drop a
link down below for that. Thanks again to here. Now, huge fan. Go install here. Now right now into Grockbot. All right. Next is calendar management. Another one of those things that you'll save a few
seconds here and there, but over the course of a year, this really starts to add up. And so, all this bot does is it's a bot to interact with my multiple calendars. It knows about my calendars.
it has authenticated into my calendars. I don't usually interact directly with my calendar bot. I'm usually talking to my chief of staff who will then delegate it out to the calendar bot. But I will
explain the chief of staff later. But all you need to know is I use this for a lot of really cool use cases. And so I use this to help me negotiate meeting times. So if I have somebody emailing me
who wants to meet, I don't have to go manually look through my calendar and go back and forth with them. I simply have my calendar bot do that. It checks automatically for overlapping meetings
and helps me reschedule if I ever have that. And honestly, I get a lot of emails that have multiple calendar dates in them. And all I do is have Grock check the email and then create calendar
events for everything in that email. Super useful. And again, the way I want you to think about Grockbot and each of these bots is they should kind of have one main task. All right. And next is
browser use. Don't forget Grockbot has incredible browser use and it all runs in the cloud. I'll touch on the cloud aspect of Grockbot a little bit later in the video, but just remember anything
that you can do in a browser, Grockbot can do for you. And so a few things that I use browser use for are well first shopping on Amazon. I'll just tell it to go find me something. And it's kind of
interesting if you remember back, Amazon actually sued Perplexity because they said Perplexity agents should not be able to browse Amazon and the judge threw it out. So now agents can freely
use Amazon. And that's what we're going to be doing with Grockbot. So right now I have it searching for a 45B tungsten cube, which Brian recommended. And if I actually open up the computer use right
here, you can see it's a mere $20,000. All right, so here we go. Closest thing on Amazon is the 4-in tungsten cube from Midwest Tungsten Service. Shout out Midwest Tungsten Service. Listed at
$20,000 in stock. Hey, I can get it within a week. So there we go. And it's really easy. It can find anything for you. It can even complete the purchase once you
sign in with Amazon. And to do that, you just go to the browser right here and you click sign in, right? Just sign in like normal. It works just like it would in your own browser. And once you do it
once, it's going to persist. So you don't need to always sign in each time you want to use it. You can have it put together grocery lists for you. You can have it register your car at the DMV.
All of these tedious tasks that require you clicking through websites that might take just, you know, 10 minutes, 20 minutes each. You save so much time by just having your bot do it for you. One
of my favorite use cases is having my Grockbot return Amazon items for me. So rather than clicking through the whole return flow, it just goes and does it for me and gives me the QR code for it.
It can book you gym times. It can book you doctor's appointments. I'm telling you, it really is incredible and it saves a lot of time. All right, next. And this came directly from the cursor
team. They told me about this. You should actually be using Grockbot as your coding agent, which kind of sounds weird, but it makes sense once you understand the logic. And so, here's the
gist of how it works. You have your coding agent in Grockbot. It has all of this context about you, how you like to work, and it can actually call the cursor agent CLI directly from Grockbot.
And again, the Cursor team told me, the engineers at Cursor told me this is how they're using Grockbot today. And so the way that they told me they're doing this, and I haven't done it myself yet,
but I want to explain how they told me. They said they're creating a new bot for every project that they're working on and even bots for the work streams. So if you have multiple work streams within
a single project, you want to create a Grockbot for each of those. Then they actually initiate it from Slack. So they all chat in Slack and they will actually kick off different tasks to Grockbot
which then delegates to the cursor CLI all from Slack. And again it has access to notion. It has access to email, Slack, GitHub, everything it needs. And it can actually collect and persist that
context apparently better than cursor can directly. Then if they need to generate more notion docs or plans or anything, they do that straight from Grockbot. It can kick off cloud agents,
cursor cloud agents directly from Grockbot. Grockbot will follow up with those cursor cloud agents and make sure that it's working and it completes the task end to end. And so an example of
kind of the endto-end workflow, also maybe known as a loop, the Grockbot will look at a PR and if the CI isn't green, it will continue to follow up and fix it until it is. And it just knows continue
doing it until you get a green CI so that we can merge. And so instead of seeing all of the context, all of the text really that you usually get in cursor, you get very brief summaries in
Grockbot. And you can always ask for more detail because it is technically just cursor running within Grockbot. It is very interesting. And next, if this sounds like a joke, I am actually
serious. I have Grockbot ordering food for me from Door Dash. Door Dash announced its CLI product a few months ago, and there is a wait list for it. So, if you don't have access to it yet,
go sign up for the wait list. I'm still on the wait list, so I haven't actually done this myself, but I know a lot of other people who have. And basically what they're doing is they're allowing
their bot to order food for them. Now, you can do this through browser control with Grockbot today, even if you don't have access to the CLI. It's just a lot slower. And so, I just typed open Door
Dash and order me a sandwich any from Mendescino Farms. And you can see I already set up my Grockbot to use the CLI. I'm just waiting to get access to it. but it knew, okay, you don't have
the CLI yet. So, I'm opening Door Dash in the browser instead. And so, in a second, we're going to see the browser open. It's going to navigate. Here we go. You can see it already. It's going
to navigate to Door Dash. It's going to look for Menescino Farms. And there it is. It's going to order me a sandwich and get it ready. Once I sign in, once I give it my address, it will have all the
information, and I'll just be able to order it with a quick voice note or with a quick prompt. It's so easy. All right. Next, this is another one of those super powerful use cases that I use every
single day, multiple times a day. This is the meeting summary workflow. And basically how it works is I have the Fathom notetaker join all of my meetings. And so it will record the
meeting. It will then transcribe the meeting. I've connected it to Grockbot. Grockbot every 30 minutes will check Fathom's API to see if a new meeting has been recorded. It will then ingest the
transcript. It'll write a summary of the meeting. It will write up action items. So, it will detect different things that I committed to during the meeting or that the other person in the meeting
committed to me. It will write those up and then it will send that to me either in Grockbot, it can send it to you in Slack. And I've even hooked up Telegram, which I'll show you in a moment. And
then the next thing, and I haven't done this yet, but I think this is really going to unlock the power of Grockbot. I'm actually going to have it look at my list of to-do items, look at all the
context it has about me, and try to figure out if it can actually go accomplish one of those items for me without me doing anything. And don't forget, during the meeting, you can
actually talk to Grockbot. I know it might sound a little awkward if you're meeting somebody for the first time, but certainly if you're talking to your team, you can just say like, "Oh, hey
Grockbot, don't forget to remind us to email that person next week or anything like that, and it will read that transcript." And remember to have action items that you specifically told
Grockbot to do. So, this is probably between email triage and the meeting summary. These are my two favorite, two most powerful use cases that I do with Grockbot today. Okay, so this next one
isn't really a use case. It's more how I use Grockbot. And I set up a bot called Chief of Staff. And let me show it to you. So I have Chief of Staff as a pinned bot. And if you want to pin any
of these, you basically just rightclick and then click this pin button right here. And then it's going to show up in the top anytime that you need it. And so I have this chief of staff that I
basically use as my main bot that I communicate with mostly. So, if I'm using the desktop application of Grockbot, I'll probably click into one of these individual bots, but sometimes
I just use Chief of Staff directly. However, if I have Grockbot plugged into anywhere else like Slack or Telegram, I am only communicating through my chief of staff. My chief of staff can then
delegate to any other bot that it needs to. So, I can tell my chief of staff, order me dinner for tonight. It will delegate out to my food bot. I can say, "Hey, let's triage the emails." It will
communicate directly with my email triage bot, but I'll communicate entirely through the chief of staff. It is really neat. And so, this is just a workflow that I use, but you can figure
out if you like it or not. So, the next pin bot that I use, and really the only other pinned bot that I use is the personal bot. I really tried to separate out my work life and my personal life,
and that's how I did it. chief of staff is everything workrelated, but if it's anything to do with my personal life, I talk to my personal bot for that. All right, the next one, and this is a kind
of a sub agent or a subbot of my personal bot. This is the schoolbot. And again, this is another one of those super high-V value use cases. If you're a parent, you know how many emails you
get from your kids' school. It seems like a huge essay every other day with calendar events and things I need to bring and remember and it's so overwhelming. I now have a schoolbot to
manage it all for me. It scans my personal email inbox once a day at 700 p.m. It looks for emails from my kids schools. It will look for important information in them that I definitely
need to know. It will quickly summarize the rest of the email and then it will send me a message in Telegram or in Grockbot and it will even look for calendar events that I need to know. It
will create a calendar event. It will invite my wife to it and it all happens automatically now. And so instead of reading through these massive emails once every other day from my kids
schools, I now just have Grockbot doing it for me. All right. Next is a very practical bot that I just started using. It is called computer cleanup and it is exactly what it sounds like. Grockbot
not only is a cloud-based agent, but it also has access to your computer. And so here's what I do. So I basically told it to look through all of the files on my computer. Look for any that it thinks
that I should delete. Don't actually delete it. This is really important. I told it do not delete anything. and categorize everything that it thinks I should delete into low risk, medium
risk, and high- risk. And so, I'm going to create a routine to run this once a week. So, I'll call it weekly cleanup. And I'll run it every week. And there we go. It's done. And so, every week, it's
going to look through all of the files on my computer and just keep my hard drive clean, which is very nice. Here's a few things. So, here's 90 GB it found that is low risk. 26 GB of cache. 17 GB
of superhuman cache. Here's cursor with a copy of my database locally. More cache, npm, unused docker images. It's all here and I can just say go ahead and delete it. Then we have some medium risk
380 gigabytes. I have 100 gigabytes of work trees which is nuts. And so then it just asks me if I want to delete some of them and I can go through it with Grockbot together. very very useful to
keep your computer clean. All right, so next, if you use OpenClaw, if you use Hermes, you've probably grown to like doing that through Telegram, and I definitely have. Now, Grockbot today has
an iOS app, but it does not have an Android app, which you know, fine. The Android app, I have heard, is coming soon, but if you want it in Telegram, it's not built in natively. It's not
that hard to set up, but it isn't done natively. So you do have to set that up manually. Now once again I've created a prompt. You can just copy paste it directly into your Grockbot. It will set
it up exactly how you need it. Once you copy paste this prompt into Grockbot. It will walk you through what you need to do in Telegram. All you need to do is open up what's called the bot father.
It's a contact that is in everyone's Telegram. You create a new bot. You give it a name. It gives you the bot token. And then you give that token to Grockbot. It sets up everything for you.
It works quite well. It just took a few minutes of massaging to get it to work for me. But all of the issues that I ran into, I have solved and it is included in the prompts that I'm going to give
you down below. And so now I can access my chief of staff Grockbot anywhere that I am from Telegram really easily. Plus, if you're on the go, you can drop a voice note in your Grockbot Telegram and
it'll behave just like a voice note to any assistant. it'll just work. So, here are my thoughts on Grockbot as a whole. One, it is a bridge between just asking Q&A with chat GPT, so you're just asking
a question, getting an answer, and more complicated coding agents like Codeex and Claude Code. If you're not technical and you don't want to think about using some of these coding agents, Grockbot is
such a nice middle ground. It really simplifies the interface. A lot of the stuff just works. Sometimes it gets a little bit complicated, but for the most part it does just work. So, it is very
powerful and I've been really pleased with it. It is definitely a big part of my daily workflow. Now, I reviewed Grockbot in full. Go check out that video right