Scan weekly for design partners and competitor moves
A founder-advisor in xAI's startup program describes a set of Grok Bots for founder-led sales, including a Monday scan for companies that fit the ideal customer profile and a research bot that reports what changed at competitors.
What they did
At 7am each Monday a bot finds companies that posted about the target problem or hired for a relevant role that week, checks the deal tracker, Gmail and Calendar to skip existing customers and open conversations, and sorts each into keep, hold or disqualify with a reason and link. A competitor bot runs from a separate research email and never posts or contacts anyone, and a weekly insights bot clusters feedback and call notes into ranked themes with suggested changes to the customer profile.
What happened
The output is a sorted account list with draft first messages waiting in Gmail, plus a competitor change report ending in one positioning move and one content angle.
Keep in mind
Nothing is sent without the founder's approval, and the vendor guide reports no measured outcomes such as meetings booked or deals won.
Try it with your agent
Every Monday at <time>, find companies that match <your ideal customer profile> and that posted about <the problem you solve> or hired for <a relevant role> in the past week. Check <your deal tracker> and my inbox so you skip current customers and open conversations. Sort each company into keep, hold or disqualify with a one-line reason and a link, and separately list what changed at <your competitors> since last week.
Replace the <angle brackets> with your own details.