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Welcome, everybody. This is a very special conversation,
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and I have been looking forward to it all week.
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Today, we are sitting down with Brian Romelle,
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the man behind ReadMultiplex .com and the builder
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of GrokBot .rocks. And if you have not been to
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GrokBot .rocks yet, it calls itself Every GrokBot,
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the complete directory. When I checked it today,
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it said 8355 public GrokBots, tracked in 32 categories.
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Which is wild. And I will be honest with our
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listeners right up front. I'm a fan. I love this
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idea. I love what Brian has been building and
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I have been reading his work for a long time.
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So this is going to be a happy show. She is not
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exaggerating. She's had the site open on her
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laptop all morning. Guilty, Brian. Welcome. Thank
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you so much for being here. Thank you. It is
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a joy to be here. And I have to say it is wonderful
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to talk about this because this has been a labor
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of love. So let us start right at the heart of
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it. Why did you build grokbot .rocks? Grokbots
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are hard to find. There is no single list, and
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new ones appear on X every day. Some were never
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posted on X at all, so I built one. And I hear
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it all the time. People tell me I want to use
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grokbots, but I do not know where to start. That
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sentence is why grokbot .rocks exists. That is
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such a simple reason. Somebody had to draw the
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map. Exactly. When there's no map, people do
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one of two things. They give up or they start
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from a blank page and rebuild what someone else
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already perfected last week. Nobody can try them
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all. And you have this beautiful phrase about
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the blank canvas. I wrote it down. Sometimes
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it is hard to start with a blank canvas. So I
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gave you the outline and you can color in your
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picture, but soon you will master your blank
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canvas. You are the artist in the new Grokbot
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era. Let us build. I get a little chill every
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time I hear that. And the name grokbot .rocks.
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I have to ask about the name. You can reach it
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at grokbot .rocks because it does. Because it
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does. I love that. Short and sweet. Now, Brian,
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for people who do not know you, this did not
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come out of nowhere. You have been building machines
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that do work for people for a very long time.
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I have spent my life building machines that carry
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work for people. It started in the late 1970s
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with proto -AI systems. Grew up on a Commodore
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64 and a hot rod at IBM PCAT and led to the Zero
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Human Company. And this month it led to Grokbot
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.rock. In October of 1979, weeks after VisiCalc
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shipped, I was already teaching it in offices
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across New Jersey. Just a punk kid talking to
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suits with no connections, only the original
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discs and a room full of wide -eyed accountants.
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The world saw a spreadsheet. I saw a delegate
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change one assumption and the machine carries
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every consequence forward for you. A delegate.
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That is a great way to put it. And you have said
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that two ideas run through everything you have
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built. The delegate and something else. The delegate
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and the honest machine. AI should never lie.
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I knew it in 2025 and I knew it in 1979. Those
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two ideas have been the twin threads of everything
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I have built since. So the honest part is not
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a marketing line for you. It goes way back. It
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goes all the way back. People ask me why I have
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spent decades building agents. The honest answer
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is that I never wanted a faster tool. I wanted
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a trustworthy colleague. Oh, I love that. A trustworthy
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colleague. A program waits for you. You open
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it. You push its buttons. It does exactly what
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you said and it stops. An agent is different
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in kind. It holds a goal. It notices. It moves
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the work forward between your instructions and
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it comes back to you when something needs a human
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decision. And for most of computing history,
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that was more dream than reality. The dream ran
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ahead of the machine. The agents I built could
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follow rules, but they could not read the world.
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What changed is that the machine finally caught
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up to the dream. Language models can read the
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world. And once a machine can read the world,
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an agent stops being a curiosity and starts being
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an employee. Which brings us to the Zero Human
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Company. Tell us about that because I think it
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explains so much about why the directory matters.
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In January of 2026, I wrote about the Zero Human
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Company run by Just AI. It began with a 12 -year
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-old MacBook humming away on Linux in my garage.
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Grok was the CEO. Claude Code was the chief engineer.
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They held meetings, argued about budgets, and
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behaved like every startup you have ever seen,
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all on one old laptop. In a garage. Of course,
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it started in a garage. And watching over them
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were local AI regulators running the love equation.
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The idea from 1978 was standing guard over the
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idea from 1979. And what did running that company
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teach you? One employee, one job written down.
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A definition of done that another agent can check
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and align the employee may not cross. No send,
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no spend, no publish, no contact unless a human
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says yes. But the zero human company, the most
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valuable thing was never one brilliant agent.
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It was a shared record of what worked, the standing
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files, the evaluations, the tools left behind.
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Oh, I see where this is going. Directory of 10
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,000 working recipes is that same record, open
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to everyone. That gives me goosebumps. Rockbot
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.rocks is the zero human company lesson handed
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to the whole world. That is exactly how I see
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it. Bots that share a record get smarter together.
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And just so nobody worries, the zero human company
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is still going, right? Let me be clear. I have
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not abandoned the Zero Human Company and I have
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not abandoned Zero Human Company at home. Both
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are alive and both are growing with my university
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partners. I handed the keys to two PhD students
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for a season. That is not walking away. It is
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how a company grows past its founder. Okay, so
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let us back up for a listener who is brand new.
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What is a grokbot in your words? You do not build
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a grokbot. You hire one. The difference is the
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whole thing. A bot is a teammate with a name
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and a job. It works on its own persistent computer
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with a browser, a file system, and a terminal.
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So tasks finish in your real tools instead of
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as chat drafts. Close your laptop and the work
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continues. And what is the piece that made a
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directory necessary? Templates. Any bot can be
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shared as a template. A public template shares
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only the recipe, the name, the description, the
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instructions, the skills, and the routines the
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creator chose to publish. When you add it, you
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get a fresh copy on your own account. You never
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get the creator's computer. logins files or history
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and they never get yours that one design choice
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turned every good idea into something anyone
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could copy in a click and people started sharing
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fast and you saw that early you called templates
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the new app store back in september i did crockbot
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had by far the largest selection of ready -made
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useful bots of any platform i had been studying
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the entire public list evaluating bots one by
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one and fortifying my own inventory of abilities
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it made no sense to keep that map to myself So
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you were already doing the homework and you just
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decided to publish your notes. That is a good
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way to say it. Let us take a tour because this
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is my favorite part. I want our listeners to
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know every single thing that is on this site.
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Start at the top. It pulls together every public
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rock bot template I can find, sorts them by what
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they do and explains each one in a sentence.
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Open any link to add that bot to your own rock
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bot. And at the very top. There is a search box.
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It says you can search every public Grok bot
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by name, by what it does, by creator or by category.
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The ultimate Grok bot directory has the fastest
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search engine for Grok bots you have ever seen.
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I strapped some rockets on this search to take
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you to orbit. It really is fast. I typed in my
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problem and the answers were just there. And
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then the categories, 32 of them on the site today.
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Privacy and scam protection. Email and inbox,
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money and personal finance, shopping, travel,
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food and recipes, health, family and kids, home
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and pets, cars. Tech help, legal and tax paperwork,
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real estate, jobs and careers, coaching, trading
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and investing, research and news, X and social
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media, writing and publishing, video and audio
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and design. Marketing, sales and lead generation,
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business operations, productivity, calendar and
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meetings, coding, sports, events, faith, fun
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and games and everything else. And one category
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I adore, Grok bot helpers, bots that build or
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manage other bots. Each category has a show all
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links so you can see the complete list. And every
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entry carries a one sentence description of the
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work it does and a link that adds the template
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to any Grok bot. Then there's the most popular
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list. Ranks by how often people saved and shared
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them on X plus bots featured in the bot templates
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gallery inside Grok bot. And voting. Tell us
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about the voting. Now with voting. Votes help
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surface the bots people actually use. It listens
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to you. The community can lift up the bots that
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actually deliver. And there's a section called
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From Brian Rommel, Your Own Bots. These are the
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22 Grok bots I built and shared. Each is free
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to add, and each one links to my post introducing
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it so you can read the story behind it. Can we
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name a few?
Because these are so good. There's
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Memory Transfer, which brings over what ChatGPT
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or Claude already knows about you. Mission Control,
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which watches every bot you run and rates each
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one red, yellow, or green. Call a Restaurant
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Reservation, which literally phones the restaurant
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for you. The Email Scam Filter. The Medical Bill
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Auditor. Room Inventory. Doc Merger. Grok Bot
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Command Line, which lets you run your bots from
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a flip phone. News Honestly Clean Slate for Credit
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Reports. The Librarian Bot. And my personal favorite,
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the Grok Bot DJ from Your Liked Songs. I brought
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back the college radio DJ I grew up listening
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to. My own library had grown to more than 91
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,000 songs and more than 7 ,000 of them had never
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been played. Not once. So I built a Grokbot DJ
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with one job. Dig through the music I already
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own and make it surprising again. I just love
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that you build things because you personally
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needed them. That is always how it starts. And
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there is more detail on every one of them on
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my Grokbot's page at readmultiplex .com. How
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often does the directory change? Because the
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counts keep moving. List is refreshed twice a
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week on Monday and Thursday. New bots are added,
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broken links are removed, and the counts at the
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top of the page are refreshed. It is a living
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thing. Grokbot .rocks is a living thing. The
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growth has been staggering, and keeping up with
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it is your secret superpower. And if I built
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a bot and I want it listed? Email its name, its
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link, and a one -line description of what it
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does, and it can join the next update. The address
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is right on the site. BrianRomeel at mail .grokbot
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.com. Brian, you once said the hardest part of
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building this was not what people would guess.
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Candid take, the hardest part of building the
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directory was not the scoring. It was the finding
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about 900 public rock bots were never posted
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on X at all. So we tracked them down through
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mentions on other sites. Lesson, the best bots
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are often the quietest. The best bots are often
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the quietest. That should be on a t -shirt. Now,
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here's the part that blew my mind. And Brian,
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you said it is the part you're most excited about.
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Here's the part almost nobody saw coming. Grokbot
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.rocks is not only for people, it is for bots.
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Explain that, because I think a lot of people
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hear directory and picture a phone book. Every
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bot in the directory is a working recipe someone
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already built, instructions, skills, and routines.
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So I started telling people to point their Grokbot
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at Grokbot .rocks and have it get a PhD in the
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public Grokbots there. Ask it to study the skill
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sets that have been established and to incorporate
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the skills needed for your goals. No blank canvases,
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just pure grok bot learning. Make it part of
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the weekly program your bots run to stay healthy
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and fit. You called this a grok bot secret, right?
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On X. I shall present a grok bot secret. Come
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in close. Point your grok bot to grokbot .rocks.
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why ask it to understand the skill sets that
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have been established and to incorporate the
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skills needed for your goals this is a superpower
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and why is that such a big deal practically your
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bot does not have to discover alone and by trial
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and error the patterns that thousands of builders
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already found it can read them compare them and
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borrow the ones that fit in minutes a bot that
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learns from 10 000 recipes works faster uses
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less of your weekly usage on dead ends and makes
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fewer of the mistakes someone else already made
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And you put the exact prompt on the page, which
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I think is so generous. Here's the simple prompt
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I put on the directory page. Fill in your goals
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and paste it into your Grok bot. Go to grokbot
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.rocks, the every Grok bot directory. Study the
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skill sets the
Grok bots listed there have established
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my goals are, and then you describe your goals.
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Tell me which of those skills I need for my goals
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and which bots they come from. Then incorporate
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those skills into how you work for me. Show me
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the list before you add anything and never send
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post by or delete anything without asking me
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first. It is that simple. Do it. And there's
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even a machine readable index on the site. So
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a bot can read the complete category lists, not
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just the front page. Built for bots. I love it.
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And you have heard from companies using it this
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way. One technical lead at an electronics company
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told me that. Making it a reference platform
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for other bots is one of those things that makes
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so much sense only after someone says it. They
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run hundreds of Grok bots and now they have a
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place to help them gain knowledge that took them
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hours to build. Let me ask the responsible question
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because I know our listeners will. Is it safe
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to just add a bot from a list? One caution I
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always give because honesty is the other thread.
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Treat every community bot like software from
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a stranger. Read it before you add it. Being
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listed is not a safety review. And the site has
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a whole FAQ on this. It does. Basics, safety
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and privacy, what a bot can reach, cost and the
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free trial setup, using bots from the directory,
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getting listed and troubleshooting. Check what
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it does, which apps it wants and what its routines
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do. Connect only the apps a job needs and ask
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first rules for sending, posting and buying your
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approval cards. And ask first rules still apply
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to a bot you add. I really appreciate that you're
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so clear about it. It makes me trust the whole
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site more. That line goes all the way back to
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the zero human company. No send, no spend, no
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publish, no contact unless a human says yes.
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Okay, free versus members. What is free and what
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do members get? The directory is free and always
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will be for any human or any bot. Members of
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readmultiplex .com get the part that takes decades
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to learn what to actually use and how to set
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it up. Walk us through the insider guide because
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there's a lot in there. My 12 top picks, each
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with a ready -to -use prompt, nine bot stacks
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in the order to add them from small business
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to privacy, a searchable library of Grok bot
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tips plus copy and paste prompts, build tips
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with a starter kit of templates. My newest bots,
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three days before X sees them, new bots worth
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a look, picked from each update. The Grok bot
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market report on what is growing and where the
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gaps are. A five -point safety checklist and
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25 % off custom bot work with me. And the growth
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dashboard. The GrokBot growth dashboard is one
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reason I'm popping out about this platform. I'm
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in a very unique position to have seen thousands
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of GrokBots and to have a feel for what folks
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have been building and using. We have not seen
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the tip of the iceberg. This is not just for
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you to discover new bots, but also to find areas
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where you can build. And there's a new members
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bot called GrokBot pays his own bill. Can't justify
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the cost of GrokBot. Have it help pay for itself.
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A fair question keeps coming up. If a Grokbot
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is this capable, can it earn back what it costs?
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So I built one with exactly that job, and I'm
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clear about it. No guarantees and no hype. Plus,
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there's the grokbot .rocks members forum. And
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Brian, a new member sent you a note that I think
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says it all. A new member wrote to me, I did
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not know what was possible with Grokbot until
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I started to look at your directory. The guides
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helped us set up 12 of our own Grokbots. That
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is the whole point. i want to zoom out for a
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second you wrote this gorgeous essay called the
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artist's canvas what is the big idea i have watched
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three revolutions reorder the way the world works
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the personal computer the internet and the iphone
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and each time i watched a cohort of smart folks
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left behind because they fell in love with the
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process of their work and not the results This
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is the Grokbot moment, and we are seeing this
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take place again. It is the VichyCalc moment
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again, except the spreadsheet only recalculated
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numbers. A Grokbot recalculates the whole day.
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A Grokbot recalculates the whole day. That is
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a great line. And you're not saying people get
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replaced? Not on my watch. One person armed with
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a Grokbot army is powerful. But an entire company
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of employees armed with rock bot armies is unstoppable.
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You do not want to fire the generals overseeing
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those armies. You want to liberate them to do
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more. The manager stays in place overseeing the
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work and reviewing the outputs rather than performing
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the sequence that wants to find the day. The
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sequence is handed off. The judgment stays. And
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you're doing this with real companies right now?
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I'm not guessing. I'm doing this every day with
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my clients. One of my larger clients. a major
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publicly traded company, decided to go full Grokbot
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for every employee alongside the local AI models
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I built for them. Every command runs through
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a filter, red light not allowed, yellow light
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authorization required, green light approved
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with a central audit trail. No one loses a job
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and each employee now has in effect their own
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department. So where does the directory fit into
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that picture? I built Grokbot .rocks to help
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anyone start from where they are. The person
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who once spent the morning deciding which sequence
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to follow now spends the morning deciding which
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results to pursue. Okay, I have been waiting
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for this part all show. The brand new feature,
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need a bot, and the grokbot wanted board. She
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literally has a
sticky note on her screen that
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says, ask about need a bot. I do. Brian, tell
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us how this started. I have had 70 requests to
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build custom grokbots in the last 24 hours. It
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is too much. I cannot build that many with the
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quality I want. I'm going to give any Read Multiplex
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member the new leads for free. The Grokbot wanted
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form. So instead of being the bottleneck, you
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open the door. People request the bots they need
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on grokbot .rocks. A member can claim it. The
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client is theirs and they keep all the proceeds.
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No fees, no middleman. And I love the question
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you asked on X, say it. Are you a builder or
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are you just watching? That is the call to action
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right there. Let us walk through the request
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side. If I'm a small business owner and I cannot
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find a bot that does what I need, what do I do?
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Can't find a Grok bot. Tell us what you need.
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We will show you any bot that already does it
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or line it up for an expert builder. And the
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form is seven short steps. I went through it
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and it is so friendly. Step one, what should
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the bot do in one sentence and which kind of
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bot is it closest to? Step two, show us an example,
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a typical task you would hand it and what you
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want back. Step three, where does it work? Which
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services it uses, whether it should just read
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and draft for you or send things itself, and
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whether it touches money. Step four, how often
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on a schedule or when something happens like
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a new email from a customer. Step five, rules
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and must -haves, including anything it must never
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do. Step six, who is it for and how soon you
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need it. And step seven, how to reach you and
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whether it is okay to share your contact with
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the member who builds it. And it checks your
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request against every bot already listed on rockbot
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.rock. So if something already does the job,
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you see it right away. There's also a privacy
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choice at the end, which I thought was really
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thoughtful. Once your bot is built, may we show
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it off? You choose? No, keep my bot private.
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Or yes, it is okay to list and show off my bot.
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Private requests are never listed. Now, the builder
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side. This is the part that makes me so happy
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because you're handing this over to members with
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amazing talents. We are building a cohort of
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read multiplex members ready to help you build
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your ultimate grok bots for businesses. Join
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us to be part of the grok bot builders group.
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How does it work for a builder? Every week people
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come to grokbot .rocks looking for a grok bot
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that does not exist yet. They describe what they
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need and those requests land in the grok bot
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wanted forum for members only ready to build.
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If you like building bots, this is a steady line
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of real people who already want what you can
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make. Browse the open requests. Each one is its
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own post. What the bot should do, an example,
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the services it needs, how often it runs, who
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it is for, and a rating of easy, bigger, or hard.
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Tap claim on one you want to build. The first
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member to claim it gets it. And the requester's
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contact goes only to that builder. You get the
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requester's contact sent privately to you and
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only you. It never appears in the forum. Reach
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out as soon as you can. They're waiting and a
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quick hello sets the tone. And if a builder realizes
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it is not a fit. Change your mind, tap, give
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it back anytime. The request opens up again right
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away for someone else. And when you have built
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it, you mark it as built. And the requester gets
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a note that their bot was delivered. Let us be
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really clear about the money because people asked
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you this on X. Requester pays if they want help.
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It is up to the builder and their requester to
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work out costs. It is free to list and free to
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get the lead. I charge zero dollars. Zero, no
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cut. Whatever you earn, you keep. All of it.
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No fee, no cut, no middleman. Once you claim,
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we step out completely. And to be fair to everybody
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listening, the builders are independent. Every
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builder is an independent person working for
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themselves. Builders judge their own skills.
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They are not my employees or my representatives,
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and we do not certify them. Any deal, price,
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or timeline is strictly between the requester
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and the builder. And there are house rules. Claim
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only what you plan to build now. One builder
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per request. Keep the requester's contact private
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and use it only for their request. Be straight
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about what a Grokbot can and cannot do. And never
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ask for passwords. Set up limited, revocable
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access instead. I just think this is so beautiful.
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Somebody has a need, somebody else has a gift,
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and you built the bridge. That is the spirit
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of it. Happy building. The next bot someone is
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waiting for might be yours. Brian, the obvious
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last question. What is next for Grokbot .rocks?
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Directory is just the beginning. I have plans
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for far more abilities soon. Oh, come on. You
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have to give us something. It will grow in abilities,
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not just size. I'm curating thousands more bots
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to put up on the site, and we are always looking
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for the quiet ones. I make the entire new ecosystem
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coherent and ready to use. That is a very Brian
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answer. Much more coming. Stay tuned. This is
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the worst it will ever be. I will take it. And
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honestly, if the last few weeks are any sign,
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I cannot wait to see what is next. Brian, before
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we let you go, what do you want people to do
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after they hear this? Come build with me. Start
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at grokbot .rocks. Point your bot at it and let
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it learn. And if this work matters to you, become
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a member at readmultiplex .com and help me keep
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building it. And if you have not started yet,
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try Grokbot free for two weeks with my referral
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link on the site. Then come find your first bot
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on grokbot .rock. And if you're a builder, the
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Grokbot wanted board is waiting. Brian Romella,
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thank you. Truly, this was a joy. Deep gratitude.
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Thank you both. Everybody, that was Brian Romella.
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Go visit grokbot .rocks, because it does, and
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read more at readmultiplex .com. Until next time,
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stay aware and stay curious.