The Boring Jobs I’d Give Grok Bot First

The impressive Grok Bot use cases are easy to find.

People use it to build apps, research markets, run businesses and carry on working while they sleep.

Then you set up your own and think...

“What do I actually give it?”

I’d start with something boring from my own to-do list.

Your work probably looks different to mine, so change these examples to fit whatever is already on your list.

I’ve included what I’d actually say to Grok Bot under each one.

1. Research a company before a meeting

Give Grok Bot the company name and tell it why you’re researching them.

I’d normally want to know:

• What the company sells
• Who its customers are
• What has happened recently
• Who I’m meeting
• Its main competitors
• Anything worth bringing up on the call

Then I’d ask for a short briefing I can read beforehand.

I could find all of this myself.

But that normally means opening loads of tabs and trying to work out whether the company blog has been abandoned or they genuinely haven’t done anything since 2022.

I’d rather let Grok Bot do the digging and check what it finds.

What I’d say:

I have a meeting with [company] and I’m speaking to [name]. Research the company, what it sells, who its customers are, its main competitors and anything important that has happened recently. Research the person I’m meeting too. Give me a short briefing with the most useful things to know and link to the original sources. Mark anything you couldn’t confirm.

2. Build a list you’ve been putting off

Competitors.

Potential clients.

Podcast guests.

Journalists.

Suppliers.

Events.

Whatever list you keep telling yourself you’ll make when you get a spare afternoon.

Tell Grok Bot who should be on it, what information you need and who should be left out.

Then get it to build the spreadsheet.

I wouldn’t say:

Find me some good leads.

That could mean anything.

Give it enough information to decide who belongs on the list.

What I’d say:

Find 50 UK ecommerce brands using Shopify with fewer than 100 employees. Include the company name, website, LinkedIn page and head of marketing. Leave out agencies, inactive companies and anyone without a working website. Put everything in a spreadsheet, link to the sources and mark anything you couldn’t confirm.

I’d still check the list before using it.

But I’m not spending hours copying company names from one website into another.

3. Check every page of a website

This always sounds like a quick job.

Then three hours later you’re still opening pages.

Give Grok Bot the website and tell it what you want checked.

That could include:

• Broken links
• Missing information
• Old claims
• Prices that don’t match
• Pages that don’t work
• Different contact details
• Forms that go nowhere

Change the checks depending on the website.

An ecommerce store might want every product page checked.

A local business might care about opening hours and addresses.

An agency might want old examples removed and its team pages checked.

What I’d say:

Go through every public page on [website]. Check for broken links, pages that don’t load, outdated information, different contact details and prices that don’t match. Put everything in a spreadsheet showing the page, the problem, what you found and what needs checking. Don’t make any changes to the website.

4. Make sense of customer feedback

Customer feedback always ends up in different places.

Reviews on one website.

Survey answers in a spreadsheet.

Support messages somewhere else.

Notes from calls that nobody has looked at since they were written.

Give it all to Grok Bot and ask it to work through everything.

I’d want to know:

• Which complaints keep coming up
• What customers like
• Where people get confused
• Which requests appear most often
• The actual examples behind each finding

I don’t want a vague summary telling me customer sentiment is “mostly positive”.

I want to know that 17 people struggled with the same part of the signup process and see what they actually said.

What I’d say:

Read all of the customer feedback I’ve given you. Group repeated complaints, questions, requests and positive comments. Tell me how often each one appears and include real examples from the feedback. Keep one off comments separate so they don’t look more common than they are. Finish with the five things you think need my attention first.

I don’t need to sit there reading all of it myself.

5. Compare your options before buying something

I do this whenever I’m looking at new tools or services.

I give Grok Bot my budget and explain what I need.

Then I get it to compare the options.

Pricing pages.

Features.

Usage limits.

Customer reviews.

Common complaints.

Whether I need to sit through a 45-minute sales call before someone will tell me the price.

What I’d say:

Find and compare the best tools for [job]. My budget is [amount] and I need [requirements]. Check the current pricing, limits, important features, customer reviews and common complaints. Tell me which one you would choose and why. Include links so I can check everything before buying.

This saves me collecting the same information myself and still ending up unsure which one to choose.

6. Watch something you keep checking

Competitor prices.

New job listings.

Reviews.

Industry news.

Product launches.

A page you’re waiting to change.

If you keep opening the same websites to check the same things, give Grok Bot the job.

Be clear about what you want to know.

Otherwise it might tell you about changes you don’t care about.

I don’t need a message because someone changed a full stop on a pricing page.

I want to know if the price changes, a plan disappears or a new product appears.

What I’d say:

Check these competitor pricing pages every [day/week/month]. Tell me if a price changes, a plan is added or removed, the usage limits change or a new feature appears. When something changes, show me the old information, the new information and the page where you found it. Ignore small design or wording changes.

I’d genuinely be happy not checking those pages myself anymore.

7. Sort out an inbox

I don’t mean let it reply to everyone pretending to be you.

I’d start much smaller.

Give it an inbox or folder and ask it to work through what’s there.

It could:

• Separate important emails from newsletters
• Find messages waiting for a reply
• Group emails about the same problem
• Pull out dates or actions
• Find things you promised to send
• Show you anything that looks urgent

Then ask for one short list of what needs your attention.

What I’d say:

Go through the emails in [inbox or folder] from the last 30 days. Find anything waiting for a reply, anything I promised to do, important dates and anything that looks urgent. Group newsletters and promotional emails separately. Give me one short list of what needs my attention first. Don’t reply, send, delete or move anything.

You can let it prepare replies later if you want.

I’d still approve anything before it gets sent.

Even knowing what needs dealing with would save a lot of people time.

8. Find all your invoices

You know when the end of the month arrives and you suddenly need to remember which 14 different tools charged you?

Then you’re logging into each one, finding the billing page and downloading an invoice called something like document-84375645.pdf 😅

I’d give that job to Grok Bot.

For the services it can access, it can:

• Find each invoice
• Download it
• Rename it properly
• Put it in the right folder
• Make a list of anything missing

For this job, it only needs access to the billing pages.

I wouldn’t give it permission to change anything.

What I’d say:

Go through the billing pages for [list of services] and download every invoice for [month]. Rename each file clearly using the service name and date, then save them in [folder]. Give me a list of anything you couldn’t find. Don’t change any subscriptions, payment details or account settings.

Your accountant doesn’t care that you’ve built an AI team.

They just want the missing invoices.

If none of these jobs fit, look at the thing you keep putting off because it takes ages and doesn’t need much thought.

Personally...

I’d rather have one Bot doing two hours of boring work than a whole team waiting for me to invent something impressive.