One Person Can Now Run an Entire Business With This AI - Ep. #331

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Anything you see on Twitter that people are getting wrong about GrokBot?

Yeah, everything.

Let's hear it.

Everything that I see on Twitter is like, whoa, I just had GrokBot make this knowledge graph and it called my dad and, and this and that.

And It's just advanced forms of procrastination.

Yeah.

It's got a bias for action. It just does stuff.

I couldn't automate it with Codex, couldn't automate it with Notion. GrokBot took over immediately. It was doing stuff that I couldn't set up. I don't think you need a lot. I don't think you need to customize. I don't think you need to make 80 different agents. They're just good to go. They know what to do and they can work on it even when your laptop's closed.

It's already done. What the crap? Oh my gosh, it works. That's crazy. Okay, that was very easy. Geez. If someone is brand new to GrokBot and they want to use it to build something like you're saying, what's like a good first step or an agent that can get someone to revenue?

This is a pro tip.

I can't go 3 feet nowadays without hearing about GrokBot. What is GrokBot? Well, we all know we have ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, which is owned by Elon, X, Twitter, whatever. That's Grok. Grok just came out with GrokBot, which is an agent. It's an AI agent that's Groundbreaking. It's amazing. It does stuff for you. We've talked about agents before, but this seems to be the best one so far. So last year I had a friend named Billy Howell on the pod. You guys loved him. He was one, one of my best episodes of last year. We'll link it in the show notes. He's on the cutting edge of these agents. So I had him on to teach us and tell us what is GrokBot, how can we use it, how can we prompt it? Most importantly, how can we make money with it? If you hear a few acronyms you're not familiar with, CLI, command line interface, it's just a way of interacting with a computer. API, It's a way that software interacts with each other, but don't worry about all that. If you've ever wanted an AI agent to run a business for you, start a business for you, and make money for you, today you're going to hear it from a guy who's actually doing that today. And then after I hang up with Billy, I go ahead and download GrokBot for the first time and build an app. Guys, it blew my mind. Okay. OpenClaw is cool, right? But it's pretty confusing. This is as confusing as signing up for a Facebook account is. It's not confusing at all. And it really freakishly blew my mind how quickly I had a working sellable app. So interview first and then build second. Okay. So why don't we just start broadly and tell me how you're using GrokBot today?

Okay. So I'm using it to run the Arlington Bagel, which is my local events and restaurant news newsletter. It runs editorial, it runs research, and it runs the sales team as well as the Shopify for the lovely hats. Uh, but what I like about it is I can only give each of those agents one thing to do at a time. And I've noticed, I don't know, Chris, do you, do you use GrokBot at all?

I never have, but I want to.

Whoa. Okay.

Yeah.

Okay. So yesterday I set up a second GrokBot account. It's cheaper now. And I was like, I just want to try this. It's been doing some great stuff. You know, I tweeted some of it, like it's helping me schedule junk pickups, helping me like find tee times, find cheap Wizards tickets, a bunch of cool stuff like that. But I've got fricking, I've got 20 bots. And everything I think that I can do, I can do with GrokBot. And so that's the problem. I sit texting GrokBot all day. And that happens even worse, I think, to people and tools like ChatGPT or Claude because of how projects are set up and how threads are set up. And so all that is to say, GrokBot makes you very mission-focused. But if you're using it for everyday life stuff, I don't think you're going to get like the max potential. I don't think it's going to click for you. Does that make sense?

Yeah. But like, for instance, right now I need to rent like a pump to get the water out of my pond. And I'm, I need to browse Facebook Marketplace for skid steers. Like there's so many things on my to-do list right now. You don't think it would be good for that or like good. It's not like using its full potential for stuff like that.

No, no, no, it is. I mean, it is good for that. I guess I just think if you're going to be using something that's so like it's mission-focused, it wants to, it wants to ship. It wants to build stuff. Like I think that's what. You should be using it for.

Like, yeah, it's built for builders, not to be like a personal assistant. You're saying?

Yeah. Yeah. The reason why I like it is it just really clicked because A, it's, it's mission-oriented. It's built for builders. And B, because I told myself, hey, you're going to use this just for the newsletter and to grow the revenue of the newsletter. You're not going to add a bunch of agents to do your taxes and take your dog for a walk and stuff. And that's just, I've made more progress on this newsletter in the last, you know, 2 weeks than I did in In 3 months. And so, you know, I said this the other day, my, my intern left, uh, because he, he got a different job and I replaced the intern, which is something I couldn't do for 2 months. I couldn't automate it with Codex, couldn't automate it with Notion. GrokBot took over almost immediately, like in 48 hours. It was doing stuff that I couldn't set up.

I just want to take 2 things you just spoke about and kind of put them together. So you talked about your intern left, so you replaced it with GrokBot. Is it safe to say like, Instead of saying, you know, it's best to use GrokBot as X, Y, or Z, it's best for builders, replace GrokBot with the word intern. Like, let's say whoever's listening to this has never had an intern or a personal assistant or whatever in their life. What you're saying is that, that amazing PhD-level helper, it's best to point them at one thing because you don't want to get a new employee and say, try this. Can you do this? Can you go get my coffee?

Can you?

They're like, whoa, coffee? I thought we're doing Facebook ads, right? It's, it's like the same principle as hiring a human.

Yeah.

Focus them, have them doing one thing or working on one project at least. Is that accurate?

I think, I think that's exactly it. Yeah.

Can you share your screen and show kind of what tasks it's doing to grow your newsletter so we could see like how it works, how you talk to it?

Okay. So if you've never seen GrokBot before, this is one of the things that makes it great. It doesn't look like ChatGPT. It looks like Apple iMessage.

Yeah. Or Telegram or Discord, whatever.

Yeah. And so you have each of your agents here and I've got a chief of staff one. That's the one I started with. And basically I connected him to my Google Drive and my Notion where I already had a bunch of documentation and plans and, and work documents for this newsletter. And I said, go through and read and reread everything. And then tell me, what are the first 3 agents you would build to get the ball rolling replacing this intern?

Okay. So you're, you're saying like, hey, gimme ideas on how I can use you.

Correct. Yeah. But within reason, right? Do you, do you see how I'm like, let's start with 3 agents. And so the first 3 that it built, you might be wondering, it was the researcher, the beehive expert, and, uh, the, uh, the bagel brand. 'Cause we also were kind of doing a rebrand. And if you don't understand, it's okay. It's confusing. Uh, this is a newsletter about local events and food. I called it the Arlington Bagel because it was breakfast time that we were sending it out and I thought it would be funny just to associate it with breakfast.

Okay. And Arlington, Virginia. And so it is the top line chief of staff. That's like the, the bot that runs all the other bots. And then everything below it are agents that are running concurrently or could be running concurrently that GrokBot is creating to do all these tasks. Is that right?

Yeah, correct. So you have to ask it and it, it won't create one of these without you telling it to. To my knowledge, it hasn't done that. So they have their own computer, but the cool thing is that all the agents share it. So if you've saved passwords in there or installed something in the terminal, they can all use that tool. If you've got documents, right? So instead of them all having to go into a Notion or Google Drive every time, they can just store stuff on their own computer in folders. They can, they can also access your computer too. But so how I like to think of it, if, if If all this is sounding crazy, it's like, now I've got 2 computers to worry about. I, I think let them do what they naturally do and work on work product, product on their computer. And then when it's done, when it's done, they put that deliverable either in your chat or in, in Google Drive and send you a link. Uh, that way it's not like, all right, work on my computer a little bit, then go take this and work on yours.

Mm-hmm.

And, and if you have them work in the cloud, um, if, if you have them do tasks on their computer, which they will do by default, uh, then they can work on it even when your laptop's closed. Which is a cool thing.

Do you worry about security at all for this? Like, do you have your credit card uploaded?

I do, but that's one of the other great things about the way I set this up. They can only mess up my Arlington Bagels specific Gmail and the credit card with a $200 limit that I set up for them. They don't have, they don't have my personal card. They don't have, you know, my Gmail with pictures of my ID in it, uh, because I specifically firewalled it.

Gotcha. Are you using Mercury?

I am.

Okay. So with Mercury, it's like you create a digital card, daily spending limit, total spending limit, give the card to it, and it will, it will make decisions using that.

Yeah. And they get a little weird about you. They don't like when you put in information like that. So I think if, I think what I'll do is the officially supported plugin, this is a pro tip, is Stripe Link. I think it requires a Stripe account and you can just put money in and it's like a debit card, but it'll use less tokens and they'll, the agents will like it because it's like a native connector. There's a big marketplace here of plugins. And the other thing, it's just a little thing that makes me really happy is you can go click add on all of them and then you don't have to go to authentication. The first time the bot asks to use it, then you can do the authentication or put the API key in so you can get everything set up. Without getting slowed down, uh, that like the first time when you're getting everything ready.

Okay. Can you tell it what models to use for certain tasks?

No, I, that's something that people I think are asking about, uh, and that they might add in at some point. I know a lot of people are, another thing they're doing is logging into ClogCode or Codex on the, on the GroqBot's computer and being like, okay, you use ClogCode.

Yeah.

To build this for me or to do these tasks. And I don't know that, I, I really don't know that anyone watching this needs that. I think those are for like the hardcore, I'm building 20 different apps and I'm maintaining an enterprise-level software. So you could do that.

Okay. Um, so give me some examples. So what does Bagel Outbound do?

Yeah. So Outbound right now, I think I have to click in. I've never talked to Outbound directly. Let's actually see. Oh, Uh, every week the chief of staff, actually I told it what to do and I haven't checked in. That's good news that nothing's broken. Every, every week the, the chief of staff works with the Bagel Outbound and instead of, this is another way about thinking about AI that I think helped, will help people not, uh, not burn out, not be like, this is impossible. And it's chunking work like this. So instead of boiling the ocean and telling Bagel Outbound, You know, make me a list of every business in Arlington and get me their phone number and their email. Instead, I'm just like, every week, let's focus on 5. Maybe it's 5 that we've mentioned or 5 that follow us on Instagram and let's get their information and let's prep a custom package with what an ad would look like and send it to them. So just kind of chunking that work. And it also, I think, feeds the agent better context and helps it iterate better. Because instead of it doing something wrong 100 ways, it's only gonna do something wrong 5 ways and then I can correct it. I can't review 100 different ad packages. Um, so that's kind of how I've thought about setting up this outbound.

Has, has GrokBot found new subscribers for you yet or any, any sponsors for you? What is it? What, what have been the most impressive things that it's done for your newsletter?

The most impressive was it found an old email in my Gmail that I had missed from like a month and a half ago, uh, that led to a, led to us going to this guy's business and meeting him. And now we're putting together an ad package for him and figuring out, um, the sponsorship. So the outbound, I'm not quite, I haven't, this is like a month old. I haven't really been sending out.

No.

I've been kind of Being like, let it work, build the list and make better ad copy. But it's handling all the emails with readers and current and previous sponsors, and it's done a great job.

What are some best practices for using it? Like you, you've, you already said a few of 'em. You wanna chunk it up. You don't ask it to do too many things. Try to have it focus on one thing. Anything else, like on how you should prompt it, talk to it, or what plugins or connectors like are you just can't live without?

So here's another best practice. I think I have an agent that its only job is to know about how Beehive works and specifically like how our Beehive works. Beehive is where we send the newsletter. It's got all our stats. It's, it's where we, you know, put in ads and stuff too. So it's really important. Uh, and I pretty much just told the chief of staff, I was like, hey, uh, can you fire hose this guy with the Beehive docs? And, and teach it what it needs to know. And anytime we have a question about stats in Beehive or laying something out, or how should this work, it goes to this guy and it works. You just have a Beehive guy. It's like a real office, right? You have an Excel guy. Uh, what other types of guys are there?

An ads guy, SEO guy.

Ads guy, SEO guy.

What businesses or ideas do you have that are tempting you with Grokbot right now that you haven't chased yet?

I, well, uh, anything, anything with code, it, I noticed I just had it make a, uh, like a simple, let me see if I can show you this. I did this. I did. And again, this is an example of tinkering and not working on a real monetized project that I warned you guys not to do. But yeah, I was sitting on the beach in Nags Head and wanted a way to kind of remember trips like this. So I, I gave it GitHub and Cloudflare. And got it logged in and now it can just create static sites for me. So every time I go on a trip, I text it some pictures and when I was there and where, and it looks way better on mobile. I've never seen it on desktop, but it's like a little scrollable magazine with, uh, it picks a cover photo and which ones it likes and lays it out to be artsy.

That's really cool.

And so something like this, what I would do, was I wouldn't sell a bunch of junk websites like this. I think I would want to help someone customize landing pages for their leads. So people who are in sales, like, um, well, I, for example, I was talking, I was buying season ticket package for the Wizards the other day. Go Wizards. And the way they were showing like the packages and where the seats were, was kind of archaic, but they had all the information. And I was like, man, like, I think you could sell so many more of these if you just made a, like, Billy, like, here's the seats you could have and here's why we picked them. Because Chris, like you and I, we know we can make anything exist with code, but most people out there don't. And I think with GrokBot, you could teach people to do that in a way that makes sense to them, just like using iMessage. So teach them.

Yeah.

how to set up so that they can go into GrokBot and be like, okay, I've got this guy, Billy, who wants to buy tickets. You've got a list, you've got a spreadsheet, you've got pictures, make him a quick site, use my GitHub and Cloudflare, and I can show it to him during our sales call. And that's, I mean, that's applicable to anyone that does sales. And I think you could do that with anything. You know, you could do the same thing with helping people manage Shopify. You could say, okay, We're going to go in and you could do it for them, right? So you could, you could start with your agents, do like a done for you. And so I've got my Bagel Shop Bot, and I could be like, okay, Bagel Shop Bot's locked, jacked into your Shopify. It's going to find, you know, your average, it's going to analyze your average cart value, like your chargebacks, all this stuff that you didn't know, and then make a report. And then we'll get you set up so that you can just have this run on a routine. Uh, with your own ShopBot, uh, every week. Um, but you could just do it as a service too. Uh, and what I would do is, uh, you can actually start, you can do sections so you can segment out like by client. And there, I think they're adding in a teams thing. I haven't been able to figure out how to do it, but I read something from someone at SpaceX. So it could be like, it's exactly for this agency use case.

Mm-hmm.

So say you have a team of 5 and they're all cracked at optimizing Shopify. Well, you could use that team on, you know, Chris's croissants, right? Client. And then you could have that same team on a different project. So I think they're kind of going where, where I'm thinking on this, which is setting up GrokBot agent teams and then using them on different small businesses.

Hmm. Okay. What, so you got what, Perplexity Computer, Claude Cowork, um, Manus. What would you say makes GrokBot different from everything else out there that might be similar?

Well, it's one, it's got Grok, which feels like the most unneutered AI agent right now, which I, yeah, I think it's just gotten worse and worse.

Um, Grok has, or the others have?

Well, I think I've just noticed the others doing a lot of like the, what do they call it? Like the text watermarking. Like they will not write stuff in my voice that they used to.

Yeah.

Uh, and GrokBot is, like I said, very mission and like solution-oriented. So I like have to stop it. Uh, I, I was like, you know, I was asking, I was like, hey, can you look into like the pricing for someone to come pick up some junk from my house? And it was like, okay, it's this much money. I'm going to go fill it out for tomorrow at 1:00 PM. And I was like, whoa, like, hang on. Uh, let me ask my wife first. Uh, and the other ones are way more like safety. They have more safetyism baked in about, are you absolutely sure? And you're like, yes. And then it'll go and be like, well, I wasn't sure, so I needed, I wanted to make sure with you. It's kind of like how like a, a new intern might act.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, um, so it's got a, it's got a bias for action, CrocBot. It just does stuff. It.

Yeah, I mean, you can tell that it's people like SpaceX people working on this. And it reminds me very much of interacting with like SpaceX and Tesla people. Um, the, I, and the, the interface is super simple. These little icons here are some of the secret sauce, I think, because they're so easy to, to recognize. And then a lot of other agents, it's either just this gray box with a name or some crazy AI generated thing. Um, so this just helps you save so much time. Finding, oh, there's my research bot. There's my bagel sales bot. Uh, the, on mobile, it's the best, I think, for virtual computer, the way this computer pops out on your phone so you can see what it's doing. Uh, it's just really easy to use. The mobile app is not an afterthought, which I think it was kind of slapped onto a lot of other existing products. Um, I haven't done teach a task yet, but you can record.

Ooh. Yeah. Yeah.

So you can record yourself doing a task. Um, I guess that would be like if you're just like automating something.

Have you ever tried, um, do you use Replit? Like what's your, what's your go-to? Yeah, I love Replit. Okay.

Replit.

Yeah. I've got, you know, dozens of Replit projects in the works and the, the most time-consuming part of Replit is prompt, reprompt, fix, fix this, not this. No, you didn't do it right. Back and forth, back and forth. The last mile. Have you ever thought of either starting from scratch with GroqBot via Replit or having GroqBot go into your Replit to an old project? And saying, this is what I want. It needs to work. Like it needs to work as if you're a user. Here's my credit card number. Go through the whole process. Make sure that the product works. The signup flow works. Keep testing over and over and over. Look at the actual code and like just keep tweaking it until it's a fully functional product. Have you ever tried using it for that?

Yeah. You're talking about like the last 20% of—

Yeah. Which is harder than the first 80%. Yeah.

I have thought about that because I have so many Replit things that are stuck at 80%. Um, but I, no, I hadn't thought of doing that with GroqBot because I more so wanted to use GroqBot to go into my Replit and be like, here's where all these projects stand. Here's like what the issues are. Here's where they're deployed.

That'd be amazing.

Uh, so I kind of lose track of that.

Because I built this tool that it, it makes it easy for people to easily create and send liability waivers. Think DocuSign, but only for simple liability waivers. Um, and it just, you can create a link easily. You can send it out to tons of people easily. And then you can store the signed waivers in your account easily, but there's just a lot of moving parts. It's like pricing and the Stripe integration wasn't working. And then like the actual product of filling out the form, making sure it worked, the email resend API, everything. It would just be so nice to say like, it just needs to freaking work. It just needs to work. Keep playing with it and fixing it in Replit. Keep prompting Replit. Until it fully works as it's supposed to. Here's my vision. Get it there. I want to try that.

I think I could do that. I think I'll try that.

Yeah.

I think if you want an idea of something that would really help like business owners is social media, like ideation and management. Um, I, I have so many friends that need help just with content calendar stuff and things like defining like their, their social brand and their, uh, their content pillars. Right. I think GrokBot would be great for that. It's helped me kind of define and set up templates so that I like don't have an excuse not to post on this newsletter. And they're not like perfect or amazing, but the thing has to exist first.

Yeah.

Uh, and then you can tweak it and play with it. And I really want to get it on video editing. I have an inkling if I can teach it some of the stuff that like I've done with Codex on video editing, I could do complete in the cloud. My laptop doesn't need to be open. Drop a video file. Okay. GrokBot, come in, grab that, cut out dead hair, uh, add transitions. I think I could get it to do that really well. And yeah, yeah. The, and the one other thing, I'm just going, I'm rolling here. The one other thing that I've been dying to do, I thought of my answer for your earlier question on what would I do? What have I been itching to do with GrokBot that I haven't done yet? Uh, and that is, I just want to give it a Shopify and a credit card. And an idea and start it from scratch and say, go.

Facebook ads, do everything.

Yep. The, it's, it's really good at finding out what integrations to use. And it'll pop up like in here, like, hey, there's not an official integration, but you can put an API key in here. Kind of like what Replit started doing first. And so I have been editing. I've had like 3 Shopify store ideas. One is college-themed game day cowboy boots, which is really, I, Maybe probably people not in the South don't know that that's a big thing right now.

Oh yeah.

Uh, and so that, I mean, I was so, I just, I went back for a game day and I was like, I never thought I'd see people in Charlottesville wearing cowboy boots on a game day, but they don't have logos on them and every SEC school does.

Oh yeah.

Uh, so that's one idea. And then another one is, I love this. Like, I don't know, does your, your, your wife or like your wife friend either talk, ever talk about like products they see on Instagram? Whenever they say, whenever they mention a product that was a really good ad or that they bought, it like, it just sears into my brain and I write it down. And so one is like these, like, I don't know, it's like the water bottle thing, you know, every year there's a new water bottle. Well, so now there's, there's a blanket, some blanket that girls love. And, uh, the name is escaping me, but it's a $200 blanket.

Minky Couture, or are they from Utah? Utah is like the blanket capital of the world.

Is it? Yeah. Wait, let me pull up my— I've got it on my phone.

When you drive down I-15 in Utah, I'm not exaggerating, every other billboard is a blanket billboard.

Really?

It's the most random thing.

Oh, well, anyway, maybe we should, because blanket was the one I decided I wanted to go with. Maybe I should go to Utah and get blankets. It's called, uh, it's called Lola.

Uh, yeah. Minky Couture and Lola. Those are like the two, that's like the Coke and Pepsi of blankets in Utah.

Okay.

Expanding outside of Utah. They're like really soft and plush and—

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a killer. It's such a great product just to have. It's, you can give it as gifts and I like it. Uh, and then the other one was, well, it's random. Uh, I'm really into like terrycloth clothes recently. Like we went to this beach wedding and I bought a bunch and I was like, this is great. I want to, I want to make a brand that's like this. Uh, or at least, or at least like start with towels, start with like one hero product. And so. I went into GrokBot and I created a sourcing bot and I was like, your job is to research these 3 ideas and use Import Yeti to try to look at these brands that I like. And then write me a memo on each brand and what you think a good price point is, what you think you could get the cost to realistically, and what kind of hero products you would do, and then pull that all together and Give me like, which product out of these 3 ideas would you go for? Uh, and I made sure to be like, do, do 2 rounds of adversarial review with, there's like a, a different bot in here. Um, I think Chief of Staff it used, so that you get real feedback and they would, they would find things like, oh, like that supplier's website 404s or, so get out all the stupid AI stuff that you usually run into.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and it did like, I think the best research of any bot I've ever used to do like product research. It was pretty amazing.

I'm kind of obsessed with this idea of having it just run with a Shopify store because what, what is a Shopify store? It is designing a site, AKA picking a template or a theme. There's tons to choose from. You can buy one, you can get one for free. It is Facebook ads, right?

It can do that.

It can make creative. It is going to the Facebook ad library to see what comparable brands are doing well. It is Google Ads. I'm sure it could do that just fine. It is sourcing products. You can dropship them or you can actually source them. It can do that and go to Alibaba, AliExpress, whatever. It can do competitive research. It's a slick brand, good design. It can do that. Um, like what?

Well, I guess Shopify is like AI first. That's the other great thing is building in Shopify, I think is a good idea because the, the agent can do a lot of, most of the store stuff from the terminal and can Build you a custom store using the Shopify developer package. And I think once you do it once, you could scale. I think you could stack different stores fairly easily once you get all those pipelines flowing. I mean, like I got my Shopify bot set up for the Arlington Bagel the other day, and I, I don't want to scroll up in like docs, but someone wanted a return and it immediately went in and was like, hey, we've got this overdue return that you didn't notice.

Cool.

I wrote an email for someone. Uh, you just need to confirm that you want me and I'll process this return and I'll email them. And it was just like a fish in water.

Yeah, man, that is cool. Um, all right.

So the other reason I'm crazy about this is I, I think with the cost of developing software going to zero, there's something about building something in the real world that I think is worth doing and that you still could have like an edge in.

Yeah. Anything you see on Twitter that people are getting wrong about GrokBot?

Yeah, everything. Everything.

Um, let's hear it.

I just, I know I'm fixated on this, but I want people watching to like take this away is like, this is an amazing opportunity you're getting. This is a new product. It works great. You're getting probably $10,000 worth of tokens for whatever your subscription, $100, $200 subscription, doesn't matter. Uh, use it to make money. Stop, stop organizing your Gmail. I fall into this trap. Stop organizing your Gmail for the 6th time. Like, yeah, you can use it to triage some, but like, that's not going to change your, your, your life or, or how you work with AI is doing that same thing. Use this as an excuse to take an idea that you've had seriously and explore it because that's the best one that I found at exploring ideas and then going to market. Um, so everything that I see on Twitter is like, whoa, I just had GrokBot make this knowledge graph and it called my dad and, and this and that. And I don't know. I think people are getting—

These are advanced forms of procrastination.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I, I just get frustrated that, uh, I don't know that, that a lot of people put out the same kind of tasks.

It, it is funny cuz like long before AI, long before these agents, Doing the thing, like selling the thing, starting the thing was always the hard and the scary part. And so we always did market research and talked to people about our idea and got an LLC because that felt like we were making progress when you're not actually making progress. Making progress is selling something. And it, you would think, you would hope that like having an agent do, do it for you takes that fear away, but it's really the same. You're just transferring that fear to the agent, you know?

And I, and I still do it, Chris. I did, I was, I did it earlier when I was like, well, I've had this outbound thing running for Uh, a week and I haven't said go on it and I should say go. And then if the people are like, this sounds like AI, I could be like, okay, sorry, I added AI. You know what I mean? Instead of tweaking and tweaking. And, um, I don't think you need a lot. I don't think you need to customize. I don't think you need to make 80 different agents and have them ingest a bunch of stuff. I think they're just good to go. I think they know what to do.

Yeah. If someone is brand new to GrokBot and they want to use it to build something, like you're saying, What's like a good first step or an agent that can get someone to revenue?

Well, I mean, this is probably second nature for a lot of people listening, but you just have to nail what your value prop is and what your offer is. And GrokBot's really good at that. Do what I said, like with those products and be like, what do you think we can get the cost to on this? What do you think the price point is? What's our hero product? So even if you're selling consulting or services, have GrokBot Do Chief of Staff and say, I want to sell gutter cleaning. Okay. What's my hero product? Oh, it's a, it's a summer, end of summer, um, gutter clean or, or spring refresh or whatever. Uh, I think GrokBot says, I think you could price it at this price point, this price point, or this price point. I think you could hire someone based on where you live. This is the, the going rates. Uh, here's what I think you would, would spend on a website. And, uh, then build the website based on that offer, right? Uh, so I think nail, nail the offer first with GrokBot and then build 3 agents that monitor like your inbox and your website. And that's all you need, right? You, you, you need a Google Sheet and Gmail to sell anything, right? So you can teach GrokBot to sell with just Gmail and a Google Sheet. Um, just get that offer nailed down.

Okay. Billy, this has been amazing. Where can, where can we find you if we want to learn more about Billy?

I've got a great YouTube channel, Billy J. Howell, and then Twitter, Billy J. Howell on Twitter. Follow me there. I've got some free resources that I'll probably put back in my bio so that you guys can get some help with like prompting and vibe coding. And please go, go do what I said. Go Go take that idea or that offer and go talk about it with GrokBot and build a 3-agent team and run it for a week and make your first sale and then tag me on Twitter. That's, or DM me on Twitter. That's what I love. I love when people DM me. Uh, yeah, I don't need anything else from you crazy people. Yeah.

Billy, thank you.

Thanks, Chris. Pleasure.

Okay, now I'm gonna try GrokBot for myself and build an app. And if you're listening to this on audio only, I walk you through all the steps. It's a little better on video if you wanna watch on Spotify or in a few days it'll be live on YouTube, but you still get the gist of it on audio Only don't say I didn't warn you. Okay, so I just got out of massage, and during the massage, I of course didn't have my phone, so I of course was able to think, and I was thinking about Grokbot, believe it or not, and I was wondering what it could do. I've never used Grokbot before. This is not sponsored by Grokbot. This is just me wanting to try the new AI thing. So Grokbot is an agentic AI tool. In other words, it's an AI tool that goes out and actually does stuff for you and not just returns answers to you. So some of my best videos have been the ones where I'm out and about doing something, I get a business idea, and then instead of just building it, I build it on screen. So that's what this is going to be today. I'm downloading Grokbot for the first time ever. Here's the business idea that I had. So I want to build a product that does not exist. I want to build it for myself because I think this will help me be more productive. But I think I could also sell it. I could sell access to it. I think other people would find it productive. So you've maybe heard of the concept of timeboxing, right? A lot of successful people timebox. They literally go to their calendar and say, you know, 7 AM to 8 AM meditation, 8 AM to 9 AM emails, 9 AM to— they schedule and plan out their entire day so they're more productive. Not my thing. But it's hard for me to be accountable to a calendar event that no other human is a part of, right? Whereas if I put money into something, I will be accountable to it. I will do that thing. But that's not what this idea is. My idea is to lock me out of my inbox for the majority of the day, so I have to get caught up on my emails in a specific time frame. So it's like forced timeboxing, right? As opposed to like, oh, I put it in my calendar, so now I'm gonna do it. No, you won't. I won't. You won't. So originally this was going to be an app that locked everything on my computer except for my mail app or gmail.com. That way, while working during the workday, I was forced to get caught up on my emails during that time. I couldn't get distracted, browse Twitter, whatever. But I don't really like that. So instead I'm gonna do the opposite and I'm going to lock down gmail.com and my mail app for 90+% of the time, 95+% of the time. On some days it will be completely locked, like on the weekend, so I don't work. But during the week it will be unlocked, it will be usable until like 10:00 AM. That way I will feel pressure to get caught up on all my emails because that's something that I struggle to do. That way I have to finish my emails until 10:00 or else I won't get another shot until the next day. I think that pressure will force me to be more productive. And I can use this app for other things, not just email, but for making sure that I just do what I need to do on the computer. Like it will literally block certain websites or certain apps. So either I have to stay in there or I can only use it for a defined period of time. So I could vibe code this, but I want GroqBot to vibe code it for me because I just had this conversation with Billy and he's a GroqBot expert and he said he's never tried it. He's never had GroqBot go into Replit for him, prompt it for him, and then fix it, test the website, test the software, look at the code, test it back and forth because that's the hardest and most tedious part of vibe coding something is Getting it to being perfect or close enough to perfect to sell the thing or to use the thing yourself. So that's what I'm gonna do here. Okay. I'm installing GroqBot. Okay. Okay. All right. It wants me to connect a bunch of stuff. I don't want it to do a bunch of stuff. Billy said, my friend Billy said that you want to treat GroqBot like an employee, right? A good boss, and I'm not saying I'm a good boss cuz I'm not very good at doing this. A good boss does not tell an employee, do this, now try this, do this, do this, do this, do this. Try this work project. Work on that project. I do that. It's not good. A good boss says, this is your job. Just do this. Just focus on this. That's what I'm gonna do here. So I'm not gonna connect it to any of this stuff. Okay. Now I'm gonna go into Claude and I want Claude to know what I'm doing. All right, here's my prompt. I'm gonna use GroqBot to code an app for me that I can use myself and eventually sell. I wanna prompt GroqBot to go into my Replit account to build this for me. Not just build it, but build, test, fix, build, test, fix over and over until it's ready. The app needs to allow me to open windows. Of time where my Mac Mail app plus gmail.com is only accessible from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. every day of the week. Outside of those hours, I cannot visit either Gmail inside my Arc/Curl browser or even open my Mail app. This is intended to force me to get to inbox zero every morning since this will be my only opportunity. I can unlock this lock with a password, but ideally only my wife knows this. I guess it needs to function like a Mac app or a Chrome extension or both, but Grokbot needs to first build a workable version of this that I can use for myself and ultimately build a website and sell this app as a SaaS on this website using Using my Stripe API and anything else it needs. Write a beautiful prompt that is GrokBot friendly using all the technical coding terms I know nothing about so I can just build this with as little intervention for me as possible. It is okay to approve any and all Replit overages and charges without my approval, not exceeding $100 a day. I really don't want to mess with this. GrokBot needs to keep testing the app for bugs and asking Replit to fix it over and over. Go. Okay, pushback from Claude. The blocker has to live on your Mac. Yes, Replit builds web apps. A website can never force quit your mail app. So the real build is a Mac menu bar app plus a browser extension. 2 things an AI agent physically cannot do for you. Create your Apple Developer account and your Chrome Web Store dev account. Budget 20 minutes total for those. Test the habit first for $0. It is structured in phases with an autonomous build test fix loop. Okay, so I don't know what any of this stuff means, but I'm gonna try it. We're gonna copy it. We're gonna go back to GrokBot. Claude named it Morning Lock, so we'll just, we'll go with that, even though I don't like it. Okay, there's the prompt. Okay, so it's working. Ask me for anything you need so I can walk away and be confident you can work uninterrupted. Credit card number, logins, etc. Okay, we're gonna authorize Stripe. Uh, we're gonna go back to Stripe test mode. Authorize. Resend. Okay, that was very easy. So it's gonna do GitHub and Replit next. Okay, I'm not 100% that I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing, but it looks like extension test. That means Chrome extension. I think it's It's already building this thing in the background, and it just tested 23 different things and all of them were green. So that's kind of wild. GitHub. Okay, so it says open that, sign that device, continue, authorize. Okay, GitHub is ready. It's already done. What the crap? Is it already done? They just put the thing in my downloads. It's right there. Okay, Mac menu bar app is— okay, so it just built a Chrome extension. Okay. Open Chrome colon slash slash extensions. Okay, there it is. Okay, those are all the domains it's going to block. Okay, there's the accountability password. Confirm and start. It already works! Oh my gosh, guys, I've only been recording this— you're seeing the edited version, but it's only been recording for 31 minutes and 37 seconds and it's done. And then I can change the settings. It's locked right now. Oh yeah, of course it's locked. Yeah, because it's supposed to be locked. Oh my gosh, it works. That's crazy. But let's say, you know, today is Friday at 4:34 PM. So we're going to say it should be unlocked on Friday until 10:00 PM today. Save schedule. Okay. Now go to Gmail and it works. Change it back. Save schedule. Go back to Gmail and it's locked.

Okay.

That's amazing. Look, and I have this tweet pulled up right here. I was gonna, like, live tweet this, but I didn't even have time to hit tweet. How's the Mac app coming? Need my Replit login? Glad it's sticking. Check the Mac app. Ooh. What if I had Grokbot go into my Replit account and finish all of the projects that I have, like, 90% finished? Spelled got it wrong. Whatever. All right, we're good. It's signed into Replit. It's signed into GitHub for me. GitHub is a place where you can store code. Okay, it's pizza night, so I gotta step away for a minute. I'll be right back. Guys, I did it. We did it together. We have a sellable product here. It's done. I want, I want to show you something real quick. Okay, right here. Okay, so look what happens when I click this little lock icon up here on my Mac. I think you can see that this pops up. And I added some more features off camera because I couldn't help myself. And now it does all kinds of other things. So unlocks my mail. But then in addition, the Chrome extension right here. Okay, look at this. It pulled in my most visited websites. That was one prompt. And I can block all of them. I can block none of them. I can block all but one. So hey, stop looking at YouTube Studio. And this, this could be embarrassing, right? You can see everything I look at here. I— there's no editing here. RV rental websites, whatever. I can block all of these, none of these, so I can lock in. And then I can even send my password to a spouse, a loved one, whatever, so they have to be the one to unlock it for me. So I didn't tell it how to look, what colors to use, what the user interface should look like. It just built this for me. Freaking incredible. And it works and I'm using it. Now I need to sell it. That's going to be on part 2. So stick around. And look, here are my prompts here. It wasn't that long. It didn't take that long. Can you have it list out all the most commonly used apps and websites on that computer and browser to make it easier for the user to block ones they struggle with? Boom, done. The icon doesn't work. Boom, fix. Cool. Everything works. So I don't know if this is clear or not, but this is not a sponsored video for Grokpot. Nobody paid me to post this video. I just think this is transformative. And you can profit from it. So please enjoy, please share with a friend, and we'll see you next time on the Koerner Office.