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0:00I run a team of bots now. One handles my inbox, one watches
0:03my calendar,
0:04one reads my Granola notes and tells me what I agreed to,
0:07and they talk to each other.
0:08Then I connect one of them into an internal app I built.
0:11Now. The bot goes and does the work inside my own system.
0:15All of it inside. Grok Bot starts free.
0:17Paid tier is about ₹750 a month in India.
0:20Full walkthrough.
0:21How to build one, how to connect it and where it breaks.
0:23Let's get started.
0:31I will go through in this particular order.
0:33Feel free to skip to any of these chapters that you want to,
0:36but I would recommend you to go through one by one,
0:38because this is going to create a flow for you
0:40to understand everything about Grok Bot.
0:42And I'm going to explain some of my use
0:44cases, what I did with Grok Bot as well,
0:46so that you get to understand
0:48how you can connect this to your own use case as well.
0:50To give you a good intro about Grok Bot.
0:53It's been released
0:54like two weeks back and everyone is playing around
0:58with Grok Bot.
0:58Everyone is talking about this Grok Bot
1:00on Twitter and everywhere
1:02because this is like game changing moment
1:04in terms of personal agents to build an army of
1:07AI employees, right?
1:08So that's why it just created that craze around bots.
1:11Okay. What is this Grok. Right. Grok Bot.
1:14It's built by Elon Musk's SpaceXAI team.
1:17It became super popular
1:18because you can run in the cloud,
1:20and because every account that is being created in Grok Bot,
1:24they get a virtual account and virtual computer,
1:27which is like a virtual machine, and where all your applications,
1:30wherever you want to run and it will be run there.
1:33So that's why it became super powerful.
1:35They have their own mobile app as well, right?
1:37So you can do it in desktop and also you can
1:40you can go
1:40wherever you want and you can see the updates
1:43and run it from the mobile app as well.
1:44See, it all started with the, you know, OpenClaw and Hermes.
1:48And now Grok Bot became super famous because it provided
1:52that flexibility and it made even the non-tech
1:55normal users person who runs the company.
1:58And everyone can do, you know, create bots, which is seamless,
2:03you know?
2:03So that's why this whole Grok Bot became super popular.
2:07And there is so much use case,
2:08and there is so much you can do with Grok Bot.
2:11Okay.
2:12So I think that will give you a good intro about this.
2:14And see, I was playing around with OpenClaw, Hermes
2:18of course, right now with Grok Bot
2:19when Grok was releasing this bot and Hermes also
2:22they released that bot kind of stuff,
2:24which is profiles what you say, but then you know where it is.
2:28It's been there for a long time.
2:29But since Grok Bot became so popular and Hermes as well,
2:32you know,
2:33they released this particular feature
2:34and they also released more features
2:36about talking to agents. Right?
2:38So I have
2:40I have done a lot of things with Hermes as well and done
2:44a lot of bots work automated a lot of work with,
2:47you know, Grok Bot as well.
2:48But of course this is focusing more on Grok.
2:51But as you know, I'm going to touch this
2:54at the end of the, the course, you know,
2:56end of this class about a bit about Grok Bot and Hermes.
2:59And then I also
3:00I will also create a separate video about the,
3:02you know, explain everything
3:04about running a bot in Hermes and Grok Bot.
3:06I think you get the understanding of
3:07what is a Grok Bot right.
3:08So how do we what do we do with that
3:11right now I would like to of course install, you know
3:14and you know that right.
3:15So we need to install it.
3:17So to do that, you just go to x.ai/bot.
3:21And once you go
3:22there you have an option to download
3:24for Mac OS because I'm using Mac OS.
3:26But you also
3:27you will get to see that in in Windows or Linux,
3:30whatever you are using, you would be able to download it
3:32as an application for the desktop,
3:35but also you have an option to download it
3:37for your mobile as well, so you can run it
3:39wherever you want.
3:40Right now, the they have the mobile app for iOS,
3:44but not for Android, and probably it will be for sure.
3:47It will be soon.
3:48And but I think the best. Right.
3:51So you have both desktop app
3:53and also the mobile app and all your agents bots
3:56are running in the cloud.
3:56So like I said,
3:57it's super simple and you just download
3:59your desktop application
4:01and once you do that you will come to see this.
4:04Okay, this is my setup and with the many bots
4:08running around and but don't don't
4:10don't get overwhelmed by that.
4:12Yeah it's I will go through it. Right.
4:14So you know this is my Grok Bot desktop application.
4:17And of course on the side, whatever you see are bots.
4:21You know, every bot
4:22that I have created for my own use case and in the middle,
4:26of course, the chat and the right side, it's
4:28more about the team and also the individual.
4:31You know how it is being run.
4:33So we'll go through it right on the bot.
4:36So yeah.
4:36So the setup is super simple.
4:38It's not complex.
4:39Just download an app and then,
4:41you know, quickly create an agent or create a bot.
4:44So once you come to that I'm,
4:45I'm going to walk you through some of the things that I have
4:49done. And then we will create a bot.
4:51Okay.
4:51So what
4:53I have done so far with Grok Bot is of course I divide.
4:57You can go quickly, go and create this new chat,
5:00you know, a new bot or create a group chat.
5:03But of course whenever you want to create a new bot,
5:04click the new bot and then,
5:05you know, talk to what you want to create it for.
5:09But I'm not going to create one. We'll do it later.
5:11But I have like I said, you know,
5:12I have created many bots, a couple of them.
5:14I'm going to explain to you what this is about.
5:16So, email checking.
5:19That is one which what I did was I connected,
5:22you know, my email,
5:24which is one of my personal email and also my private
5:28like the company email.
5:29So how do you connect that?
5:31You know, you go to plugins and there is an option to
5:33connect with your Gmail.
5:35And once you click the plugins and you get to go to Gmail,
5:39and I have connected
5:40both my work Gmail and also the personal email.
5:43So this is what I really like
5:45about this part, because typically any plugins,
5:48they allow you to connect only one email account.
5:51But you know that, right?
5:52So everyone has multiple email accounts and they have to track,
5:55you know, keep track of multiple accounts for sure.
5:58And I have like, I don't know, ten,
6:00I don't know 8 to 10 accounts.
6:01But of course
6:02main accounts are like primary 1 or 2, three three accounts.
6:06So I have connected my work account and personal account.
6:09And because I have a lot of spams,
6:11a lot of things going on, and it's better to go with agent
6:13so that, you know, it gives me a, you know,
6:15good understanding of
6:16what is going on with my email
6:18so that I don't miss the important ones.
6:20And I think the plugins
6:22are really great, because you can see that
6:24I have connected a couple of my emails,
6:26and also you can see that there is an option
6:28to see the tools.
6:30You can see that
6:31there are 31 different items that is enabled
6:33and which is creating a draft for email, updating a draft
6:37or send message you can always switch off on.
6:40And for any particular I would say like a tool enabled.
6:45Right.
6:45So so that's the flexibility that you can
6:47you will have
6:48because whenever you connect to any email, you know,
6:50I was afraid because I don't want to
6:52I don't want, you know, agent to send an email
6:55to my client automatically because which is risky, right?
6:58So that's why I have opened it right now.
7:00But I will close it.
7:01I will talk
7:01so that this is not going to send an email to anyone.
7:06Right.
7:07So that's that's how you have a lot of things.
7:09And of course you can
7:11you can definitely, you know, enable certain things
7:14and switch off certain things so that, you know,
7:16it will be more secure for you and you have more control
7:19on this as well.
7:20This is what it is.
7:21There is so many plugins out there, and I have connected
7:24couple of main, main ones, which is Gmail, Google Calendar
7:27and Granola and many others that I use regularly.
7:32And once you connect the plugin and now the this bot, you know
7:36when you're going to say that,
7:37hey, you know, just check my email
7:40every day at 9:00
7:42and tell me the ones that is important
7:44and to which I have to probably know,
7:46to which I have to reply to or like, you know,
7:48which I'm
7:49I didn't reply to for a long time,
7:50or that is something that is coming up,
7:52you know, that I have to be careful about.
7:54So I just tell it to bot like, you know,
7:57hey, this is my instruction, and run a job.
8:00Okay?
8:00So and what you do is, you know, it,
8:02it just create the cron job which you can see in the right.
8:05That's routines what I would say.
8:07And it runs every day at 9:00.
8:09Right. You can see that there is instruction.
8:11There is a name and it is active.
8:13You can always test run it.
8:14And you can see that
8:16when to run at 9:00 and there is a personal inbox as well.
8:20It runs at nine o'clock.
8:21So I get two notifications, two messages
8:23specifically at 9:00 and one for my work
8:26email account, or one for the personal email account
8:28so I don't have to be with my laptop.
8:30I just receive it on my mobile, and I can see
8:33what's going on and something that I'm missing
8:35or anything that's important that I should not miss.
8:38I can also ask you to write a draft email as well.
8:40You know which it will do.
8:42And even if you have to send it,
8:44it will send it and save it as a draft message as well.
8:47So yeah, that's one of the bot that I use regularly.
8:50And of course there is other ones like Lenny.
8:52Lenny's like, you know,
8:54there is a product person, you know, he's
8:56a famous product guy.
8:58I think many of you know about Lenny's newsletter
9:00and he has his all his podcast into turn this into an MCP.
9:05So what I did was, you know you know,
9:07he also released this as a template.
9:09So I just used Lenny's bot as, as one of the bots
9:13so that I can talk to this bot about any decisions about
9:17product hiring or anything.
9:19So it will go and bring a lot of data from there.
9:22So this is a couple of bots, and of course I have
9:25other bots as well on the this is more on my company
9:28side of it, CloseFuture.
9:29You know, I run CloseFuture.
9:31It's an AI implementation partner.
9:33So which is
9:34we work with companies in in in supporting them,
9:38understanding the process and supporting them
9:40in implementing agents to make the process
9:43more smoother and more faster as well.
9:45So I have a couple of other bots like,
9:47you know, head of GTM, which is go to market strategy,
9:50head of product, co-founder and chief of staff.
9:53Chief of staff will always check all my all my calendars and,
9:56you know, things like that.
9:57It just helps me to
9:59to see what I should do and, you know, to keep track of it.
10:02It's more like a personal assistant, right.
10:04And head of engineering.
10:05So all this is under
10:07CloseFuture account, and which is you can see that, you know,
10:09I can always move any, you know, move, move a particular
10:13bot to any new section so that we can do.
10:16And also I have created two bots around events
10:18because I regularly go to events.
10:20And next month
10:21I'm going to the
10:22tech week. Tomorrow I'm going to the Bangalore Tech Week.
10:25So I have created two bots just to track keep track of it
10:28because SF Tech Week, you know you it's the thing is that
10:32you know they are going to open
10:34all the events mostly on the 8th of September.
10:36So it's 80 is going to
10:38there will be a lot of people there
10:39trying coming around the world,
10:41and I don't want to miss couple other events.
10:42So I just run the bot every day.
10:44And to see that if any new events are coming up
10:48so that I don't miss and I can, you know, I can
10:52of course, subscribe to it or like, you know, RSVP to it.
10:56Also I did
10:57with Bangalore Tech Week, which has already started.
11:00But you know, a couple other events that I'm going to tomorrow.
11:03And so what I did was not just asking you
11:05to check all the events.
11:06Also, I give my Luma access, you know,
11:09Luma is the place that I go and book the events, and I
11:11have given the Luma access.
11:13Then what it did was, it's checking which events
11:16that I got approved
11:17and it creating a plan that okay,
11:19I am going to the first event tomorrow
11:21morning this place
11:22second event in different place and which you can always see
11:25that you know tomorrow I'm going to this
11:26AI agent security workshop, which is happening at 9:00.
11:30And you know, there is an address
11:31and I was checking for the map as well.
11:33So now it has all the context about my events
11:37where I'm going to.
11:38And also it knows the address.
11:39So which will definitely help me to plan around,
11:42you know, which one should I go first and next and the next.
11:45Right.
11:45So that is what this Bangalore Tech
11:48Week bot is doing.
11:50And there are a couple of you
11:52know, bots as well I have created, which is around
11:54marketing, one for Baskaran Builds, because see,
11:57with Baskaran Builds,
11:58It's around like we create a lot of AI content around
12:02in many social medias, and this is just a bot
12:06that helps whenever
12:07I want to create any content, and it helps me to think
12:10whether this content will suit us. Right.
12:13So so that's why we created I created this bot
12:16and I have another bot as well.
12:18Around GSC check which is Google Search Console.
12:21So I have like 4 or 5 websites.
12:23And sometimes I missed checking
12:25how this is performing well in Google in terms of SEO.
12:28So I just connected with like all my, you know,
12:31four different Google accounts like Google search accounts.
12:35And then, you know, it's every day at 9:00, it brings me
12:38which one is doing good, which one is not doing good.
12:40The blogs itself, clicks, impressions and everything.
12:43So this is a great use case.
12:45But also I will tell you some experience around this.
12:47So what happened was it was asking me to give you the
12:50my personal email, you know, personal email
12:54access in this computer in the, in the desktop.
12:57But I'm afraid because I don't want to give
12:59my personal email to the, you know, to to the laptop,
13:03you know, to Grok's computer, because it's of course
13:06it is in my account.
13:07But still, you know, you don't want to expose
13:09your personal email credentials, right?
13:10So then you know what it did what I was asking.
13:13Okay.
13:13Is there any better way to do it?
13:15And then it proposed me,
13:16you know, a couple other ways that you know how I should do
13:19create a project in Google Search
13:21Console, Google Cloud Console, and then give that access to the
13:24Google Cloud Console accounts.
13:26So then, you know, it worked and now it has
13:28access to my all my four Google Search Console accounts.
13:32And in every day it runs at 9:00 and brings me the results
13:36so that I just have to read that things like that, you know,
13:39you just create bots for your different use case.
13:42But what we can do is I'm going to create a new bot
13:45and so that, you know,
13:46you just don't listen to the bots that I have created.
13:49Right.
13:49So what we are going to do is, okay, let's create a new bot.
13:52What we are going to do is, you know, I use a lot of Granola.
13:55I think Granola is a tool that I use a lot
13:59with all my meetings because it's like a
14:01I would say
14:01like it's a Fireflies or like a meeting recorder,
14:05but mostly the notes and the notes
14:07are really good with Granola.
14:08So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a bot,
14:10you know,
14:10it can go through everyday meetings
14:13that I'm having because it records all the meetings,
14:15but most of the time I don't follow up.
14:17I missed following up and all like the next steps
14:20that I should do. So this could be a good bot.
14:23Tell me every day that this is what I should do
14:26and I'm going to create.
14:27Click new bot and new bot is working.
14:29So I'm going to say that hey, I connect I use Granola a lot
14:34and I want to connect Granola here so that,
14:37you know, you will bring me,
14:39you know, the notes or the next steps
14:41that I should do
14:42based on the notes that you are taking
14:44the previous day or the before as well.
14:46And I want
14:47this to be run every day at 9:00 so that I get the notes
14:51very early and I can take actions on it.
14:53See there are two two options, right?
14:55Either you can go to plugins and connect
14:56Granola there, or you just tell, okay,
14:59this is the tool that you want to connect.
15:01And Grok Bot is super smart enough to.
15:03It will prompt you to connect to Granola from here.
15:06Okay so now I found the Granola connector.
15:09Add it to your account.
15:10Yes I want to connect.
15:11So I'm going to say add Granola.
15:13And probably it will prompt me to go.
15:16You know I need to give the authentication.
15:18So it will take me to the browser and give to it.
15:21It's once it's authorized I will save the 9 a.m.
15:24briefing.
15:24So I'm also I'm going to
15:25change the name so I can change the name
15:28to my Granola meeting bot.
15:33And also I can put it as marketing or I would say
15:35like admin side of it.
15:37And you can label it as admin, okay.
15:39And you can also give some description
15:41about this particular bot as well. Okay.
15:43So this is adding Granola.
15:44Now once it's authorized
15:45I will say okay create routine and let me see if it's created.
15:49Also it created a routine for it as well.
15:51When I say routines, it's
15:52it's going to run at 9:00 every day on weekdays.
15:55You can also change to every day as well.
15:57It's just super flexible every day as I will have.
16:01I have meetings on Saturday and Sunday as well.
16:03So just that.
16:04So I'm going to I think this is okay
16:06and I'm going to go back okay.
16:07It says it's connected and well let me check.
16:11I want to check if Granola is connected because yeah.
16:13So I have already connected it before.
16:15So that's why it already has its Granola connected.
16:18And you can see that the tools
16:20that it's going to use, it's going to query
16:22the Granola meetings list meetings
16:23list, meeting folders and everything. Right.
16:26So I'm also what I can do is I can do the test run as well
16:30because I don't want to wait until tomorrow
16:329:00 to see the output.
16:34So I'm going to test run and see if
16:36if it can bring some notes from that.
16:39But sometimes I think today I don't think I recorded anything.
16:43So probably it might not bring anything
16:45because we said that, you know, it's going to check yesterday's
16:48specifically the notes. Right.
16:52You can see that.
16:53You know, it just ran one minute ago.
16:55But in a couple of, you know, no Granola meetings yesterday.
16:58So that's why there is no meetings.
17:00But, you know, I had like a lot of calls that, you know,
17:02I did, you know, last week, this week on September 2nd.
17:07And so a couple
17:08other things that I did last time was on Tuesday.
17:10So that's why there is some notes from this as well.
17:13So now you get the point. Right.
17:14So you just you don't have to wait.
17:17You know,
17:17you don't have
17:17to go and fetch all the notes and the things that I should do.
17:22So since my Granola is coming to all my meetings
17:25and sometimes I missed the deadline, and also I miss what
17:28I should do next,
17:29so it just runs all the time right now with the Grok Bot.
17:32So every day at 9:00.
17:34And I can also connect multiple other meetings
17:36summaries as well, then it just work together.
17:39Okay.
17:39So this is how you as simple as that right?
17:42It's just the
17:43this is how you create
17:44a bot, connect with the plugins with different tools
17:48and then create a routine. Then it works magic.
17:50So that's on how to create and configure a chat bot.
17:54So now and I'm going to teach.
17:56There is also another way to create,
17:58you know a bot or I would say like you know create a task
18:02because sometimes you don't you mention
18:05this is how you want to do.
18:06You want the bot to work like that, it's not going to
18:09understand everything.
18:10So that's why, you know, what the Grok team did was,
18:13you know, they let us just screenshot,
18:17I would say like a screen record.
18:18The the task that we want to do.
18:20And it understands the process step by step.
18:23And then it's going to,
18:24you know, create a skill around that.
18:26And then we can create a bot around this,
18:28you know, the work that it should do.
18:30So what I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new bot.
18:33Let's, let's do it.
18:34And, and I'm going to create a new bot.
18:36And in this bot
18:38what I want to do is I think everyone knows GitHub. Right.
18:40So the place where
18:41you will store the code and GitHub repository and,
18:45and right now this new bot is just getting created okay.
18:48So right now the new bot has been created
18:50and I can just click the the globe.
18:53You know the the laptop icon
18:54which is just opening the new bot screen.
18:57And what I'm going to do
18:58is I'm going to click this again so you can see that it's
19:01going to starting the desktop, which means,
19:03you know, it's going to open that virtual machine.
19:05And the one virtual machine
19:07that has been shared by all the bots out there.
19:10And that's why, you know,
19:11the bots can talk to each other because just imagine that
19:14if each bot has its own machine,
19:15they don't understand the context.
19:17You know what everyone other bots are going through.
19:19So keeping that in one machine, which means, you know,
19:22the it's a virtual machine that is running in the cloud.
19:24But at the same time, they each one, you know,
19:26whatever they're doing as a task,
19:28they can talk to other agent and be more act more like a team.
19:31So what I'm going to do is I'm going to teach a task.
19:33There is an option called Teach a Task.
19:35So I'm going to open the Google Chrome.
19:37And I'm going to teach a task to how to do this okay.
19:40So it's going to open a Google Chrome.
19:42Might be slow okay.
19:44Just open a Google Chrome I'm going to record this.
19:47It just started recording it
19:49and I'm going to click the Google Chrome.
19:51And I'm going to put it as GitHub, taking a lot of time
19:53and just telling to
19:56just to tell that, you know, I'm not a robot, but it's just,
19:59you know, impossible to do that here.
20:01But I hope you understand the process. Right.
20:03So how this is working, it's just, you know,
20:05you need to open the Google Chrome inside
20:08that particular computer and which is a virtual computer.
20:11And you just record, start teaching a task
20:15and then you know, it will understand the process.
20:17And once you stop doing that, so then it will just
20:21the recording would be sent to this particular bot.
20:24And it tries to understand this.
20:26And then, you know, it will create a skill based on that.
20:30Then after that, of course, you know you can launch the bot,
20:32but I'm sure you know it's not going to do anything because
20:36because it's we didn't record anything specifically.
20:39It's just that Google is not allowing us.
20:43Previously when I did for a couple other bots,
20:45it just works.
20:46But you know, now, you know, they want to,
20:48I don't know, put more restriction.
20:49It's just crazy.
20:50Okay, so this is the next way to how you can create another bot
20:54based on teaching something,
20:56a task and then convert that into a skill.
20:58And then this will help you to
21:00create the bot and how our process that you
21:02want to teach.
21:03Okay, so this is on the teaching a task.
21:07But then the next part
21:08which is important, which is now you have created
21:10bots, right? It's more like a teammates.
21:12And when you run a company the teammates always talk,
21:16talk to each other.
21:17Because let's say I want to build a product right.
21:19There will be first person product manager.
21:20He understands the product.
21:21And you know, he he understands
21:23he understands
21:24the user's problem and converts that into insights.
21:27And then, you know, of course he's going to create the PRD.
21:31And then he's go to the designer.
21:32And the designer will not just just design.
21:35He will talk to the product manager
21:36and understand his scope and what he has to design for it.
21:40And also at the same time, the product manager
21:42will also discuss with the developer. Right.
21:43So every time this is like a team, right?
21:45So this is what we see
21:47with any product tech product or anything.
21:49And this is the same with the bots as well.
21:51You know just running keeping it separate is good.
21:54But what if you can make them talk to each other.
21:57And that's where all the craziness I would say,
22:00like the good insights come and like they can talk to
22:03they can, you know, fight for it.
22:05You know, they just brainstorm.
22:06So that's why this is good.
22:08So I'm going to walk you through some of the things
22:11what I did.
22:12So I have created a couple other groups.
22:14First one around how do you do that.
22:16You can just, you know, create a group chat.
22:18And you can always choose the different chats,
22:21different bots that you want to put it
22:22in that particular group. So that's it.
22:24So as simple as that.
22:26So what I did you know
22:27I have created three groups, one for Growth Review.
22:30And I'm going to show you what I did.
22:31So once I click Growth Review you can see that
22:33there are three bots, which is Lenny, GSC check
22:36which is Google Search Console, and Baskaran Builds.
22:39So what I did was I just, you know, created a loop like,
22:43you know, a weekly loop, which is, you know, it goes in
22:47search the data
22:48and at the same time be able to, you know, based on
22:52the things that happened.
22:53It also tries to understand from the Lenny's archive
22:55because he has a lot of rich documentation.
22:57Then of course, it's going to tell me, like,
22:59you know, the places that I could improve based on,
23:02you know, the Baskaran Builds as well.
23:04So it's like three different people
23:05that is talking to each other.
23:07So you can see that the Lenny bot says,
23:08that's a bit I can do. When GSC check and Baskaran
23:13Builds drop the week's
23:14search and channel numbers here, I will check them against
23:17Lenny's archive.
23:18So it's going to just, you know, give the numbers.
23:21See, at the end of the day, what what are we going to do.
23:23The numbers, the Google Search Console,
23:25you know, my numbers are down.
23:26And at the end of the day I need more insights
23:28and what I should do next. Right.
23:30So and getting that expert advice from someone who did that
23:34for a long time.
23:34And you know,
23:35he has rich insights of data from the podcast.
23:38So that probably will help. Right?
23:40So that's why I created this group.
23:41And of course you can see that
23:43Lenny bot talked, and then GSC says, yes.
23:46Okay.
23:46I will own the weekly search drop here, not the daily 9 a.m.
23:50dump. CloseFuture first, other sites only if they move.
23:55Okay, so.
23:56And then Baskaran Builds comes. They all talk.
24:00Right.
24:01So that's, that's a good part about keeping all the bots
24:04together in a group
24:05and moving to the second one, the Tech Week desk.
24:08So what I did was I also put together three
24:12different bots, which is like one for Bangalore Tech
24:15Week bot and SF Tech Week bot and also Baskaran Builds.
24:20So Baskaran Builds like I mentioned
24:22it's it's it's it's a brand that we keep on building around
24:26AI contents.
24:27So I go to a lot of events, but at the same time.
24:30Of course I want to see if I can convert that into a content.
24:34Right.
24:34So since it has every detail about which event
24:37that I'm going to and the people that I'm going to meet
24:39and the organizers and what kind of event that is.
24:44So it can suggest for sure.
24:46It can suggest,
24:47you know, those, you know, those two bots can suggest
24:50hey, this is the event I'm going to,
24:53and Baskaran Builds will tell that, hey,
24:55this is more relevant to what I want to do.
24:57That okay.
24:59Let's, you can meet them and you know
25:02get some more content around this
25:03and then we can create content around that.
25:06So yeah. So that's what it is right here.
25:09You know you can see the message as well.
25:10Hey BLR Tech Week I'm going to Bangalore
25:12Tech Week and you know the dates
25:15and let me know the events that I'm going to attend and see how
25:19you know where I could connect and where I could create value.
25:23So I would say meet some people that are worth meeting and also
25:26what's will as well, so that they can record
25:29and put it in, in, in, in of course in shorts or YouTube.
25:33Right.
25:34So that's, that's what the plan.
25:36And then the week bot will just talk, you know,
25:40this is the event that I'm going to tomorrow.
25:42And then you know, Baskaran Builds will say hey this is good.
25:46And you can,
25:46you know, go to the local AI room,
25:48which is people who are building low,
25:50you know, models using local in locally.
25:53So that is I'm super interested so that when I meet
25:56interesting people I can create content around that.
25:59So and SF Tech Week it says,
26:02you know
26:02you can do the RSVP
26:04because SF Tech Week is not happening this week
26:07because it's going to happen next month.
26:08Yeah. So this is really good right?
26:11So you have three different person
26:13and just talking in the group and about different areas,
26:17common areas that you get insights from everyone.
26:20So yeah this is this is how you create your group chat.
26:24And even if you don't know okay, what do I put it together.
26:29You can just ask a bot, hey,
26:31you can
26:32you can have a good understanding
26:33about all the bots that I'm working with.
26:35Tell me which bots that I could work together.
26:38I can put it in a group.
26:39And that's how I got some suggestions as well.
26:42Hey, I created many bots, but now I have to connect them.
26:45Okay, which one should I put together
26:47But also, as a best practice,
26:49I think it's better to keep like three as a max.
26:52You can keep 3 or 4 bots in a group
26:55because if you go too much,
26:57I think it's same like in a working in a team as well.
26:59If you have a team with like, you know, in a, in a working
27:03the same task with like 5 or 6 team members,
27:05then it's always hard.
27:07It's easy to manage you, the two, 3 or 4 bots.
27:09And because you can understand their opinions
27:13and see how you can create value around that.
27:17Okay.
27:17So yeah, so that's how you create the group chats.
27:21And I have created those group chats.
27:23And of course for the CloseFuture group
27:25I have a group chat which is which,
27:27which is bringing the bot of co-founder, chief of staff,
27:31head of Engineering, Head of Product
27:32and Head of growth of you know GTM go to market strategy.
27:35So so those those are the different groups that I run.
27:39And of course,
27:40I'm creating more groups as well
27:42because I am trying to find value together.
27:44So so that's more on the the value
27:47that we create as a team or the group chats.
27:51Right.
27:52And moving to the next one, which is about, hey.
27:55Right now I created a Grok, you know, Grok Bot.
27:59But the best strategy, what they did was
28:03you can share your Grok, you know,
28:05you can share your Grok bots to anyone.
28:07And what you can do is you can just go to any of the bot
28:11that you have created and you can ask you to,
28:14hey, can you create a template for this
28:16so that I can share it with my teammates? Right.
28:18You just create
28:19you can you just ask that it's going to create a template
28:23that can be shareable with anyone.
28:26So that's what many people are doing it.
28:28And you and I got this Lenny bot from Lenny.
28:32You know,
28:32who shared it in Twitter.
28:33And then I thought, this is a good bot
28:35that I could connect to.
28:36And yeah.
28:38So and then I know
28:39I just connected this as simple as that. Right.
28:42So where you can find out, I find out there are two pages
28:45which I can go and find the Grok bots
28:48which many people have created and the good ones.
28:51So I go to the Grok Bot templates page or Grok dev, and you can go there.
28:56You can find different bots that has been created,
28:59and you can click some of the, you know, bots
29:02and you can see the reference where they it came from.
29:05And you can open Grok Bot
29:07when you click open in Grok Bot, it's going to open it,
29:10of course, it's going to open it in your,
29:12you know, Grok Bot desktop app, and you can run it. Yes.
29:16So that's how you can do.
29:18And also there is bot dev as well.
29:21You can also check
29:22from different Grok Bot that has been created.
29:24And you can do the same process. Just go to the
29:28some some of the page
29:29and we can, you know add to Grok Bot as simple as that.
29:32So and Grok Bot will understand what you want to do.
29:35And it will create a bot based on your profile and everything.
29:40So that's that's a great way right.
29:42Grok templates.
29:43And one more thing that I want to talk to you about
29:46before going to the security part of it is about running,
29:51you know, and a bot running a bot is of course,
29:54you can run it
29:56time to time,
29:57you know,
29:57that's why there is routines and you can run it every day.
30:00You can run it weekly, you can run it
30:02a particular time.
30:03You can run it every hour, every I would say like, you know,
30:06there is like, yeah, every hour, every day.
30:08So you have different options for sure and intervals as well.
30:13But there is one more thing that is really good, which,
30:16you know,
30:16if you don't
30:17might not know about this, but there is always an option
30:20to, you know, trigger it and which I'm going to do,
30:23which I'm going to show you what I'm what I have done.
30:26So if I go to this particular GSC check,
30:29which is Google Search Console, check.
30:31So the thing is that it's really good
30:32because, you know,
30:33it is in touch with like Google Search Console
30:37and for different properties,
30:38I would say for different websites
30:40and every day bringing me insights at 10:00.
30:42But this is only me.
30:44I want this to be shared to my teammates as well.
30:47So that's why I what I did was, you know,
30:51I created the routines,
30:53but at the same time, I want to connect you
30:55to my internal application that I have built.
30:57So one way is I'm going to tell to Grok that, hey,
31:01I use this my internal application.
31:03So whenever you create that, you know, insights at 9:00
31:07and push those insights to Supabase as well,
31:11which is the back end that I'm using for my internal app.
31:13So it will push all these insights to my every day
31:17at 10:00 to the internal app, which everyone in my team,
31:20they are using it so they can just go and search
31:23and they can understand,
31:25hey, which one is working, which is not,
31:26and they can focus their effort on that.
31:28So that is one you just ask to do that.
31:31But of course you have to do some setup in the Supabase.
31:34And so what I did was you can see that this is one of
31:39this is our internal application,
31:40you know, content or CloseFuture diver
31:42which is tracking everything.
31:44What we do about the content that we are creating
31:47from different mediums.
31:49So in the analytics part,
31:50what I did was I have a search console.
31:52So everyone might
31:53be using this particular app which we created internally,
31:56and it ran today as well that, you know, it's
32:00it brings all the insights
32:01about how CloseFuture, whatever
32:03is working in terms of the
32:04Google Search Console and of course on the different
32:07Baskaran Builds,
32:08Chennai Startup Map and other, you know, other sites as well.
32:11So but this runs every day at 9:00.
32:15But there is also another thing which is run.
32:18Now I can trigger the Grok Bot from my application itself.
32:22I don't have to go to the Grok Bot and talk to, hey,
32:26you know, do this or do this at a particular,
32:29or do you do this at a particular time?
32:31So that's why there is an option called webhook.
32:34You can trigger a bot from anywhere you want.
32:37Right.
32:38So when you
32:39when you go there you can have you have an option to click it.
32:43Right.
32:43So this is typically whenever you say that I want to run a,
32:48you know, a bot, right? I want to trigger a bot.
32:51So there is a webhook.
32:52And whenever, you know,
32:53whenever the webhook fires, it gives you the URL and the key
32:57because I don't want anyone to just fire my trigger, my bot.
33:02So that's why it's secure.
33:03And you get that, you know,
33:04the URL and the super, you know, important key.
33:07And you have to configure here which means once
33:11you configured it here.
33:12So you just run it and you click run and it's going to run.
33:16So you trigger the bot and then you get back
33:19the result on the bot is done.
33:21So you just be able to trigger your bot from anywhere you want
33:25and you get back the results.
33:26So that's what the webhook does.
33:29And also you can do it in multiple ways as well.
33:31And another which is you can also
33:33run it on a schedule, which is the cron,
33:36or you can trigger it from a Slack
33:37message, GitHub event or Teams message,
33:40even from your Microsoft Teams, Linear and Sentry.
33:44And you know, many different ways.
33:45But I think
33:46typically you want customizable way
33:47I think is better
33:48and the other ones are much easier way to do it.
33:51And I use webhook here because right now you see that
33:54I created a bot and it is a good bot.
33:57But of course I want to share it with my team.
33:59Now I have connected my application.
34:01Just the possibilities are endless here.
34:03Okay, so
34:03because I just want to show
34:05show you this about the trigger, how we can trigger it
34:08and from a webhook.
34:09So on the security part of it, of course,
34:12the critical ones are like right now, see,
34:15everything is running in the cloud and all these bots
34:19share one computer which is running in the cloud.
34:22And whenever you give
34:23credentials, and of course, every bot
34:25has access to it and they can, you know, get the access.
34:29Right.
34:29So but this is good because that's how an agent should run.
34:32And otherwise
34:33they don't have full access to how they can run it.
34:37So that's that is good. Right.
34:40But of course you try I try not to give
34:43my personal credentials
34:45in a computer that is running, you know, in the cloud of Grok.
34:49But I try not to in certain ways.
34:52Like, I just want to restrict that to a particular level.
34:56And when last time I said, right.
34:58So when it was asking me about the Google Search Console,
35:01it was asking full access
35:02of my personal email, which I don't want to do.
35:05And I was asking the bot again to how, you know,
35:08tell me different ways how
35:09I can make it work,
35:10but I don't want to give my personal email account access.
35:13So that's why you just have to be careful
35:15on the security part of it.
35:16And yeah, so it's also this is running in the cloud.
35:20And and I think everyone will face that same,
35:22you know, dilemma that, you know, hey,
35:24you know, my important credentials.
35:26I don't
35:26want to share it in the computer which I'm not in control of.
35:30Right. So just be careful on that.
35:33And whenever
35:33there is super sensitive like bank account details
35:35and those things, please don't give that and
35:38but try to do it in a proper way and make it more secure.
35:43So that's on the security part of it.
35:45But rest I think it's since it's
35:47in our one account and mostly we can manage that.
35:50So I don't think that should be an issue.
35:52And coming to the limitations and controls.
35:54So I would say see this is working everything in the cloud.
35:58So I can't that's that's a problem as well.
36:01So I can't work with the local files,
36:04the ones that is in my laptop or anything.
36:06So it has to, you know, that has to run in the cloud.
36:09So anything that has to run an open a project
36:11and that has to run it, that is stored in the cloud.
36:15So I think that is okay.
36:17So not with the files that is in the local.
36:19So that's the limitation.
36:21And also the model wise you are not supposed to use
36:24any of the different models.
36:25It's mostly it's going to be Grok models, Grok family models.
36:29That is a limitation as well.
36:30And also you have less control on the infrastructure
36:34that you are going to use because you don't know
36:36which infrastructure it's going to be.
36:37It's Cursor's or Grok's infrastructure.
36:39And so yeah, we just have to go with that.
36:42And also right now
36:43if I want to export any bots from here, you can.
36:46But it's been limited.
36:48But there is no straightforward option.
36:50But you still you can still do that
36:52because you can just copy it and then you know,
36:55all the instruction and paste it in
36:57different places, maybe Hermes or OpenClaw
36:59wherever you want to host it.
37:00So yeah. So those are limitations.
37:03But I know I understand that because it's
37:05you just always get the flexibility
37:07which is running it in the cloud
37:08and you can access it anywhere you want.
37:10But of course there is a it's closed
37:12and it's from a company.
37:13And then,
37:14you know, not like open source, which is Hermes or OpenClaw.
37:17And yeah,
37:18but of course there is always
37:20this positive negatives and I'm sure they will work on
37:22to improve this further.
37:23Yeah.
37:24So on the lastly
37:26it's about Grok Bot and the Hermes which I ran.
37:30And I just want to show you some difference.
37:32Quick difference about what those two different
37:37agents are and how they are different.
37:39But I will record another video about,
37:41you know, everything about them, you know,
37:43what are the positives and negatives
37:45and deeply running an agent and where it should work,
37:48and what type of agents that I should run here and here.
37:52So this is a deck that I created.
37:54And just to compare between Grok
37:56Bot and Hermes, and which you can see that
37:59the Grok Bot at the left and the Hermes. Grok Bot,
38:02of course, it's from the SpaceXAI
38:04team, and Hermes, which is from the Nous Research team.
38:07And so the shape of, you know, where it runs.
38:11Of course, it's as its own virtual machine per account.
38:14But Hermes, you can run it wherever you want in the
38:17Or from your machine, wherever you want.
38:19And of course, Grok bots.
38:21Getting started is much easier.
38:22Create the bot, message it.
38:24But Hermes, it's also it's easier.
38:26But because they have the desktop app.
38:28But I'm sure they are
38:29working on the mobile app as well, and it's easier.
38:33But of course Grok Bot is super easy, right?
38:36So and there are areas that where Grok Bot really wins,
38:40which is like laptop closed, keep working cloud side.
38:44But here,
38:45you know this only works when the machine is on.
38:48But of course you can run it in the as well.
38:49But there is a different setup app logins as well.
38:53And you know, SpaceXAI
38:56here runs the machine so you don't have to worry
38:58about that infrastructure part of it.
39:00And of course they have the native iOS app
39:04which Hermes doesn't have so far, probably it's coming soon.
39:08But there are places
39:09where Hermes really wins, which is it's open source.
39:12It's, you know, it's it just works with the files,
39:15your files that you can own edit and you can bring any model
39:19that you want.
39:20But of course, it's limited by the models.
39:22And you can, you know,
39:24you can create many agents similar to Grok Bot,
39:27but the agents that here, you know,
39:30that you create in Hermes can be isolated, can be divided,
39:34not relevant to other ones, but still they have the sessions
39:37and then
39:38they can talk to each other,
39:39but you have many capabilities to separate
39:42between how they access to different tools as well.
39:45Skills wise, you just record in Grok Bot, but here
39:49Hermes Agent writes its own,
39:51which we will talk about in another video, and cost wise,
39:55Of course it is.
39:56Grok Bot has its paid plan and Hermes.
40:00You can run for free from the desktop
40:02app with local models, or you can host a, you know,
40:06and you can run it as low as $5.
40:10So yeah, that's mostly it.
40:11And Grok Bot.
40:13Like I mentioned, it's a powerful bot.
40:16And it just I would say like a moment that how,
40:20you know, agents became super popular after OpenClaw, Hermes
40:24personal agents, personal assistant
40:25and but they all limited
40:27in certain ways because there is so much to think about.
40:29Run it.
40:29But time and time it got easier and more flexibility.
40:34But Grok Bot provide that, you know, next level that agents
40:38will provide more flexibility if it runs in the cloud.
40:40So I think that's what they cracked it and they nailed it.
40:43And many people are working on this and building more stuff
40:47and, you know,
40:48launching more templates that we could take and use it.
40:50But of course, careful of the templates that you're taking.
40:52And because we don't know what it contains. Right.
40:55So specifically, yeah.
40:57So that's it.
40:59Like, you know, go and build it, build
41:02anything that you think that you could start with
41:06that you want to automate
41:07and create a group of employees with you as well.
41:10This is great
41:11for solo entrepreneurs who want to run their enterprise
41:14and run their company
41:16and go and try out, build more bots and combine
41:19the bots in a group chat
41:20and let them talk to each other and try more things.
41:23I'm sure the bot will improve a lot, but yeah.
41:26So if you like the
41:27the breakdown, please like, share and comment.
41:30So until then, eat, sleep.

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