Welcome back to the AI Edge (by Miles Deutscher) weekly newsletter!
This week, we're breaking down how to build your own 24/7 AI team with Grok Bot.
A normal AI session lives inside a chat window and stops the moment you close it.
Grok Bot is different. You can give each Bot a job, connect it to the tools you already use, and let it keep working in the background (even when your laptop is closed).
By the end of this guide, you'll know how to set up your first Bot, build a small agentic team around your workflows, and copy five real use cases to get started.
As always, after our main guide, stick around for the Midweek Edge for this week's AI news and Looking Ahead, where we compile the top AI research, trends, and workflows.
Let's get right into things!
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Grok Bot Explained in 30 Seconds
Think of Grok Bot as your own personal team of desktop employees.
Instead of opening a chat every time you need something done, you create named Bots with specific jobs.
They can work together using websites, apps, files, and connected tools, while keeping context between tasks, and continue working in the cloud after you leave.
The big difference is that you're no longer prompting an AI for individual answers. You're now giving an AI teammate a job to own.
Set Up Your First Grok Bot
Getting started is fairly simple.
Grok Bot is available through SuperGrok Plus and Heavy, Cursor Pro+ and Ultra, and Cursor Teams plans.
From there:
1. Download Grok Bot
Install the desktop app on Mac or Windows. You can also use your Bots through the iOS app
2. Create your first Bot
Make sure to give your bots:
→ A name
→ One clear job
→ A short description of how you want it to work
For example:
Name: Alex
Job: Research Assistant
Description: Research topics for me, find useful sources, and return concise briefs with links. Ask before taking any external action.
3. Give it a real task
Don't start by trying to automate your entire life.
Give the Bot one useful job, review the result, correct anything it gets wrong, then build from there.
Build Your AI Team
The best way to use Grok Bot is not to build one massive Bot that does everything.
Instead, you want to launch agent swarms where an entire team of bots each has different responsibilities.
This is Miles' current setup:
→ Alex: Research
→ Sandra: Real estate
→ Jonathan: Portfolio/CFO
→ Lucy: Executive assistant
→ Oscar: General tasks
Each Bot keeps the context around its own work, so Alex can learn how you like research done while Lucy filters your Slack.
Once a workflow is working properly, you can make it reusable in two ways:
Skills teach a Bot how to perform a repeatable task.
Routines tell the Bot when to run that workflow automatically.
For example, you could teach Alex how you research YouTube outliers, save that process as a Skill, then create a Routine that runs it every morning at 6am.
Grok Bot can also hand certain work off to Cursor agents. For delegated tasks, you can specify which model Cursor should use, and what to use it for.
One important rule: Keep actions like sending, publishing, purchasing, or deleting behind your approval.
5 Grok Bot Workflows (+ Prompts)
Here are five ways Miles is already using his AI team.
1. Alex: YouTube Research Assistant
Alex scans YouTube every morning and looks for videos performing unusually well compared with the channel's size and normal performance.
Instead of manually hunting for ideas, Miles wakes up to a shortlist of outliers and potential spin-off angles.
Setup Prompt:
Every morning at 6am, scan the top YouTube channels in AI and markets.
Find recent videos that are significantly outperforming the channel's normal results relative to its size.
Give me the strongest outliers, explain what made each one stand out, and suggest spin-off video ideas I could explore.
Include links and never invent performance data.
2. Sandra: Real Estate Scout
Sandra checks property listings throughout the day and compares asking prices against historical pricing and nearby properties.
Sandra’s goal is only to interrupt Miles when something looks genuinely underpriced.
Setup Prompt:
Twice a day, scan property listings that match my criteria.
Compare each property against recent historical pricing, nearby comparable properties and local market trends.
Only alert me when a property appears significantly below market value.
For anything you flag, show me the listing, comparable prices, estimated discount and the main risks I should investigate.
Never contact an agent or make an offer without my approval.
3. Jonathan: Personal CFO
Jonathan acts as a portfolio analyst.
This agent setup can review portfolio data, track overnight moves and upcoming market events, then flag anything that deserves attention.
Setup Prompt:
Every morning, review my current portfolio and give me a short briefing.
Include:
- Major overnight moves
- Important upcoming market events
- Material changes in my positions
- New risks worth watching
- Anything that may justify reviewing my current allocation
Separate facts from your analysis and never place, change, or recommend executing a trade without my approval.
4. Lucy: Executive Assistant
If you wake up to dozens of Slack messages every morning, you should deploy this Bot.
A dedicated Grok Bot to check your communication layers 24/7 and collate everything into one report.
Setup Prompt:
Every morning, review the Slack channels and conversations relevant to me.
Skip general chatter and anything that does not require my attention.
Give me:
- Urgent or time-sensitive messages
- Decisions waiting on me
- Messages I should reply to
- A summary of anything important I may have missed
Draft replies where useful, but never send anything without my approval.
5. Oscar: Generalist
Not every task deserves its own dedicated Bot.
It’s good practice to keep a generalist bot for general questions and queries.
Setup Prompt:
Act as my general-purpose assistant for tasks that do not belong to one of my specialist Bots.
Before starting, check whether the task should be handed to one of my existing Bots.
If not, complete it yourself using the files, tools, and context available to you.
Keep the output concise, show me what you did, and ask before taking any consequential external action.
Is Grok Bot Worth It? (honest analysis)
The real value of Grok Bot isn't that it’s inherently anything new.
You can already build always-on agent systems yourself using other tools like Claude Code.
What Grok Bot does well is remove much of the setup and maintenance headache of tools like Hermes and OpenClaw.
Grok Bot is now included with Cursor Pro+ at $60/month, while SuperGrok Plus starts at $100/month.
So, is it worth paying for?
If you mainly use AI for chatting, writing, or occasional questions, probably not.
But if you already have repetitive work across multiple tools or other AI apps, the value becomes much easier to justify.
One thing to remember: all of your Bots share the same account-level cloud computer, including its files and logged-in sessions. Don't treat separate Bots as separate security environments.
Our recommendation is:
Start with one desktop task you find yourself spending 3+ hours on each week.
If Grok Bot can reliably take that work off your plate, turn it into a Routine and build the next Bot from there.
Midweek Edge
Our manually curated list of the most important news updates across AI, robotics & tech.
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Pricing By 20%
OpenAI has reduced GPT-5.6 Sol credit usage by over 20% for the next three months.
Codex 5-Hour Limits Are Back
OpenAI just restored the 5-hour usage limit for Codex.
OpenAI Pauses Its Frontier Model Training
OpenAI has paused a frontier reinforcement learning training run while it improves security evaluations.
This follows the preliminary evidence that Astra, its upcoming model, may reach OpenAI's Critical cybersecurity capability threshold, alongside a recent security incident.
Grok Build Adds Browser Use
Grok Build now supports the Browser Use plugin.
It can open websites, navigate pages, extract information, and interact with web apps directly.
Open Grok Build, run /marketplace, find Browser Use, and install it.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT For Teens
OpenAI launched a dedicated ChatGPT for teenagers.
Parents can now connect teen accounts and manage additional controls.
Looking Ahead
Our manually curated list of the top AI trends, research, workflows & more.
Upcoming AI Models (Rumors)
Several AI models are rumored to be coming soon.
We’ll keep tracking these as official details emerge.
Hospitals Using AI See Lower Mortality Rates
A recent study found hospitals using AI-enabled workflows were associated with lower mortality rates (9.9%) and fewer preventable hospital stays (7.2%).
The strongest results came from operational improvements like scheduling and workflow management.
AI Lab Valuation Keep Rising
AI labs have seen major increases in company valuations over the last three years.
→ OpenAI: +740%
→ Anthropic: +2,304%
→ Magnificent 7: +72% market-cap growth
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