
Hola, Bot fanatic.
Another week (aka year in AI news) has gone down… and that’s why your boy is here to enlighten your inbox with the latest and greatest sauce 😤
It would appear the SpaceXAI team doesn’t sleep.
How do we know this?
Because they shipped more Grok Bot upgrades in the past 7 days. Let’s talk about it.
On September 17, they announced that voice was rolling out on desktop and mobile. This means you can literally CALL your Grok Bot and have a conversation. They’ve got different voices and voice speeds (1.5x anyone?!) Try not to fall in love, weirdo 😉

On September 18, they announced voice notes from Bots. So if live voice convos are too difficult for you, worry not. Your Grok Bot can send sweet sweet voice memos (with transcripts). Nice touch for Daily Briefings.

On September 22, the team revealed a cleaner interface for working with your Bots. So now you’ll know which ones are actively working (or conspiring against you 🤔 ).

There are many more updates to go through, but methinks it’s time to transition over to the Tips & Tricks…
I’ll leave a few more nuggets here (Grok Bot improvements from one of the lead engineers on the team, and here (Morning Brief Bot template from Grace Clarke, who helps translate AI into english for us normies).
Ok… onwards!
3 Tips & Tricks
01 | Organize your Bots in Sections
Grok Bot calls its sidebar folders Sections. On desktop, right-click a Bot and choose Move to → New Section. Name the Section for a workstream your team already recognizes.
For your agency or SaaS team, that might mean Prospecting, Sales, CRM Management, and Account Management. Put the recent-conversation Bot, the company-research Bot, and a brief compiler in Prospecting. Keep the Bots that work with signed customers in Account Management. The Section makes the roster easier to navigate; you still have to give the compiler access to the researchers’ notes.

This is my personal newsletter squad. They help with keeping the ship running smoothly
02 | Prep the prospect call
For a prospect call, ask the recent-conversation Bot what people have said about the company and its category in the last 30 days. Ask the deeper-research Bot what the company sells, who it says it serves, and what its public material can actually support.
Have the compiler turn those notes into a one-page call brief: verified facts, recent signals, five questions tied to sources, and anything the Bots couldn’t establish. Check the links, then use the gaps as questions on the call. The brief cannot tell you what the prospect privately needs.

03 | Build post-onboarding customer intel
After onboarding, run the same research roles again with the question your team needs to answer. Say you just signed a skincare brand. You could ask which ingredient concerns appear in recent public discussion and which ones the brand’s own site addresses. Add only the onboarding material the account owner has approved for this use. Ask the compiler to separate company facts, public customer language, contradictions, and questions for the account owner.
Here’s the handoff I’d give that compiler:
Using the recent-conversation notes and company fact sheet you can access, make a one-page brief for [CUSTOMER] about [BUSINESS QUESTION]. Separate facts from hypotheses. Cite dated sources and flag conflicts, missing evidence, and questions for the account owner. If either input is missing, say so.
The account owner can review that document and decide whether it belongs in a creative brief for copy or ads. If the specialist files aren’t in a place the compiler can access, paste or attach the approved results yourself.
2 Bot Templates
These are installable marketplace Bots, with setup steps on their pages. Their output depends on the sources and access you configure. X or Reddit coverage isn’t automatic; ask each Bot what it could actually reach.
last30days
Add last30days to Grok Bot for the recent-conversation job. Give it the customer, category, question, and date window. Ask for links and dates rather than a pile of unsourced themes.
Research public conversation about [CUSTOMER] and [CATEGORY] from the last 30 days. Look for buyer language, recurring frustrations, alternatives people mention, and questions related to [BUSINESS QUESTION]. For each useful finding, give a direct link, date, and short paraphrase. List the sources you actually accessed and the ones you couldn’t. Don’t treat one post as a trend.
Researchy
Add Researchy to Grok Bot for the company fact sheet. Its assignment is different: establish what the company says about itself, then note what still needs checking.
Research [CUSTOMER URL] for [BUSINESS QUESTION]. Use the company’s current site and dated primary sources first. Explain what it sells, whom it serves, its stated positioning, public proof, and relevant alternatives. Link each claim. Put contradictions and missing information in their own section. Do not treat public comments as verified company facts.
Use either Bot on its own, or bring their sourced notes together for the compiler to review.
Agentic Alpha
Give the team a Company Brain
The sidebar Section keeps your Bots together. The Company Brain gives them something reliable to work from: what you sell, who owns each account, current decisions, customer language, useful examples, and links to the original files. Without that shared context, you end up explaining the business again in every prompt. Worse, one Bot may use an old offer while another uses the current one.
If it’s just you, start with one folder for your offers, active projects, decisions, and examples of work you like. You own the updates. With 2 to 10 people, put reviewed company facts and approved customer context in a shared place. Name the person responsible for each area, so a teammate knows whom to ask when a note looks wrong. At 11 to 50 people, give sales, product, and account teams their own owners and access rules. Keep a decision log and a regular review habit. Otherwise, an old meeting note can quietly become the answer every Bot repeats.

The useful test is whether someone can check a claim. If a Bot says a customer asked for something, the account owner should be able to open the dated note and see what was actually said.
I like the shape of Corey Haines’ makerskills Company Brain: raw source material, a reviewed wiki, and outputs made from it. It’s a great setup if you feel comfortable starting with a GitHub repo (which may sound complicated, but it’s where the software nerds save their code… kinda like Dropbox for code).
HQ for Work is another way to organize company context without asking every teammate to learn GitHub. Give each Bot the approved files it needs through the file tools you’ve set up. Putting Bots in one sidebar section does not give them access to the same files.
I'm so curious to hear how this goes today.
Give me some feedback on the newsie.
What's been helpful? What are you trying? Reply back.
My bots and I await your response.
Toodles ✌️
Jesse
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