How I use Grok Bot
to run my business
Andrew Warner · real screenshots from my agents’ chats
Blurred: phone numbers, emails, family, kids, neighbors, card numbers. ← → to navigate.
01
Publicity
I suck less at self-promotion
Sep 1: I ask Peri to find my wins and chronicle them in Notion
Oct 3, 12:10 PM: Peri pitches the Claude Code + Codex post
Oct 7, 2:26 PM: my how-to post
Oct 7: Elon quote-posts it. “True”
Oct 8, 3:18 AM: Peri spots the spike and pitches a follow-up
Oct 8, 10:13 AM: Peri drafts the follow-up
Oct 8: my follow-up, the 5 questions
Elon again: “As easy as asking”
Beyond social, Sep 29: Peri turns Greg Rollett’s LinkedIn comment into a guest testimonial
02
Property management
Maggie catches the rent and bills the tenant.
Sep 29: Maggie catches the tenant’s rent wire
The garbage bill comes in: auto-pay notice, Sep 1
Maggie’s garbage invoice for the tenant
The electric invoice: billed by the tenant’s actual daily use
Maggie: queue up all three utility invoices
03
Zapier automation
Finding what to automate
Cursor, Sep 18–22: the extra usage bills
Sep 24: Wade Foster launches Next Gen Zaps
The daily meeting-link check
04
Marketplace
How my agent sold the trailer and the lawnmower
Two things to sell: the trailer and the Cub Cadet
Trailer · Aug 21: “relist it for me”
Trailer · following up with buyers in Messenger
My negotiation rules
Trailer · Aug 23: offers come in
Trailer · Aug 23, 6:16 PM: picked up
Trailer · Aug 24: “the trailer is gone”
Mower · dropping the price: $850 → $700 → $499
Mower · the offers it tracked
Mower · Aug 27, 5:36 PM: the buyer drives it away
05
Inbox
Work Mail Butler’s digest
Work Mail Butler, Oct 12: what it archived for me
Work Mail Butler, Oct 12: the urgent one
06
Physical mail
Postman reads my paper mail
Postman shows me a new envelope from PhysicalAddress.com
07
Wally names the numbers
Wally, Oct 6, 8:56 AM: the overnight recap
Wally, Oct 5, 7:47 PM: “Test it with 5 people and show me”
Wally, Oct 5, 10:00–10:18 PM: my rules before bed
08
Address book
Dex cleans up my contacts
Dex: backup first, then a merge preview (Jesse Pujji ×4 → 1)
Dex: done. Geoffrey Barrows’ mobile confirmed from email
09
Anniversary
A bot with one deadline: Oct 11
The gift shortlist: every option with a photo and a link
Twice-a-day nudges
The experience back-and-forth
Booked: the Airbnb experience
Oct 11: our anniversary
10
Research doc
It made this research doc