Issue #27: Someone built a free directory of 130 ready-to-use Grok Bots. Here are the best ones for small businesses.

Last issue we covered what Grok Bot is. This issue covers what to actually do with it — starting today, for free.

A community directory called GrokBot.dev launched this week. It's an independently built, openly curated library of 130 shareable Grok Bots, 35 plugins, and growing — all submitted by real users on X and YouTube who've already built and tested them.

The whole thing is free to browse. One link installs the whole setup — instructions, memory, and workflow — directly into your own Bot.

For any small business owner who read last issue and thought "this sounds interesting but I don't know where to start" — this is your starting point.

Before we get into the specific Bots worth installing, here's how the directory works.

Shareable Bots (130 total) are complete, ready-made Grok Bot setups that someone has built, shared on X, and submitted to the directory. Each one includes a prompt that installs the whole configuration — the Bot's instructions, its memory setup, and its operating routine — into your own Grok Bot with a copy and paste. You're not sharing the creator's Bot. You're replicating their setup on your own.

Plugins (35 total) are tools and APIs that extend what your Grok Bot can do — giving it access to external services like WhatsApp, social media platforms, ad management, CRM systems, and more. Most require a separate account with the plugin provider.

The "connect your Bot to feed" feature is particularly clever. There's a single prompt you paste into your Grok Bot that sets it up to check GrokBot.dev every morning and proactively suggest the newest, highest-rated Bots relevant to your interests. Your Bot essentially curates the directory for you on autopilot.

What it costs: GrokBot.dev itself is free. The Bots are free to install. You still need a Grok Bot-compatible subscription to actually run them. The directory doesn't change the pricing — it just makes the setup dramatically easier.

Here are the most immediately practical Bots from the directory for a typical small business owner, curated from the 130 available:

1. Dispatch (Work, Ops & Back Office) Does a nightly scan of your email, Slack, LinkedIn, and X DMs and books the missing calls — the follow-ups you meant to send but didn't. For anyone who ends each day with a mental list of "I need to get back to..." and forgets half of them by morning.

2. Invoice Hunter (Money, Deals & Finance) Finds invoice PDFs in Gmail and packages a month's worth into a CSV. If you currently export invoices manually or ask your accountant to do it — this handles it in one automated run.

3. Competitor Watching (Research, Monitoring & News) Snapshots your business against 3–8 competitors and sends an alert only when something materially changes — new pricing, new product launch, significant content shift. Not a daily noise feed. A signal when something actually happens.

4. Post Call Assistant (Work, Ops & Back Office) After every meeting, it drops your action items and a draft follow-up email into your inbox. If you're already using Fireflies for meeting transcription, this pairs directly with that workflow and handles the output.

5. Marketing Bot — CMO (Work, Ops & Back Office) Turns your product into the marketing around it. Feed it what you sell and it generates the content angles, copy directions, and campaign ideas a CMO would bring to a weekly meeting. For any solo founder who is also the marketing department.

6. Bounty Hunter (Money, Deals & Finance) Digs through your email and bills for refunds and credits you never chased — subscription overcharges, duplicate charges, missed refund windows. Set it once, it finds money you didn't know you were owed.

7. Scout — Competitive Intelligence (Research, Monitoring & News) Watches competitor websites, their search rankings, and their AI-answer visibility (whether they appear in ChatGPT or Gemini results for your category queries). Relevant to the Ask Maps and GEO optimisation we covered in Issue #13.

8. Inbot (Work, Ops & Back Office) Inbox-zero bot across every inbox you actually use. Categorises, prioritises, drafts replies for routine messages, and flags the ones that genuinely need you. The most upvoted Bot in the Work category — 4 upvotes, which at this early stage means multiple independent people found it worth recommending.

"Can't I just ask Grok to do these things without installing a Bot?"

You can, and for one-off tasks that's often the right approach.

The difference a configured Bot makes is persistence and routine.

When you ask Grok something in a regular conversation, it starts fresh each time — no memory of your business, no scheduled runs, no context about what it did yesterday.

A configured Bot retains its setup, can run on a schedule (nightly, weekly, every morning), and builds on prior runs — so the Competitor Watching Bot isn't just doing a one-time snapshot, it's tracking change over time and only alerting you when something shifts.

The shareable Bots from GrokBot.dev are also pre-tested — someone else has already figured out the prompt, caught the edge cases, and shared what actually works.

That saves you the configuration trial-and-error that eats time when you're trying to set one up from scratch.

Important update since the last issue: When we first covered Grok Bot, the entry price was $120/month. That changed fast. On August 21, xAI expanded access to Cursor Pro+ at $60/month. On August 26 — three days ago — they expanded again to every SuperGrok and Cursor Pro plan, bringing the entry price down to $20–$30/month.

The Bot usage pool is separate from your existing plan usage on these lower tiers, so you're not sacrificing your regular Grok access to run Bots.

That's a significant shift. At $30/month for SuperGrok, the math for small businesses looks much more reasonable than the $200 entry point we reported two weeks ago.

This week: go to grokbot.dev and spend 10 minutes browsing the Work, Ops & Back Office category. Pick the one Bot whose description most closely matches a task you do manually every week. Read the detail page.

If you have Grok Bot access, install it. If you don't, bookmark it — the directory is free to browse and the setups will still be there when you're ready.

That 10-minute browse is worth doing regardless, because the category descriptions alone are a useful inventory of what AI agents can actually handle right now.

GrokBot.dev is an independent community project — not affiliated with xAI.

It was built and launched the same week Grok Bot went live, by developers who recognised that the biggest barrier to Grok Bot adoption wasn't the technology, it was the blank-page problem of knowing what to build.

The directory solves that by making the community's collective experimentation accessible to everyone. It currently has 130 Bots, 35 plugins, and is adding new entries regularly. There's also an API and an MCP server, meaning your Grok Bot can query the directory directly without you opening a browser.

The pace of community contribution in the first two weeks suggests this is going to be a meaningful resource as Grok Bot matures beyond early beta.

Installing every Bot that looks interesting in one session. The temptation with a directory like this is to configure five or six Bots simultaneously and end up with a chaotic, overlapping set of routines running in parallel.

The businesses getting real value from Grok Bot in early beta are the ones who started with one Bot, validated it works for their specific situation, then added a second. Start with the single highest-leverage task. Let it run for two weeks.

Then add the next one. The directory will still be there.

Until next issue, Kris

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