用Grokbot搭建AI代理团队：聚焦单一项目与上下文管理

Grockbot is here and there's a reason why it's going viral. I mean, anyone who's non-technical could spin up these agent teams and actually run a business end to end. Today's episode is for anyone who's interested in starting a business, running a business that is completely run by AI agents. And we show you not just big ideas that you can run, small ideas that you can run using Grockbot agent teams that do 2, 5, 10, $25,000 a month.

I had my friend on Billy Howell come on the podcast and show you exactly how he runs his local newsletter business using Grockbot agents. So, this episode is for anyone who's interested in starting a business that actually has agents running the entire thing. We're going to show you how to use Grockbot. We're going to show you how to spin up these agents. We're going to show you the best practices. We're going to show you the business ideas that work here.

Enjoy the episode. I'll see you at the end. and I can't wait to see what you build. [music]

Thank god Billy Howell is here. And Billy, by the end of this episode, what are people going to learn?

You're going to get an inside look at a business that I built and run with Grockbot. And you're going to come away with how you can set up your own business using Grockbot.

Okay. And a little birdie told me that you think Grockbot is like the best place that anyone could run agent teams, right? So, you're going to go through the best practices of Grockbot, how you're using it. You're a guy who literally tests every single tool. You test hundreds of tools to millions of people with the rundown. You're going to show us how Grockbot works. You're going to give us the best practices. You're going to tell us how we can use Grockbot to build businesses and run Asian teams.

And by the end of the episode, can you commit that the person that is going to give their time to this episode have will have a better understanding than anyone on the internet to run a business with Grockbot. Yeah, 100%. Because most of the content I see around Grockbot is wrong. They totally don't understand why this tool is powerful. And I'm going to just transmute all that information into people's brains because I'm so excited about this and it's all I think about.

All right, let's do it.

Okay, so Grockbot is this new agent team tool. And if you haven't seen it, it looks like this, Greg. Now, what we're looking at here is the team that runs my newsletter. My newsletter is called the Arlington Bagel. You can see it here on the hat. Pretty sweet. And it goes out to 6,000 Arlingtonians every Thursday. And I used to have an intern, my cousin Marshall, run this newsletter. He would research it. He would put it together.

He would edit it. He would man the email desk. But cousin Marshall, I had to let him go because Grockbot is just so much better.

Sorry, Cousin Marshall.

What actually happened is he went to work at a summer camp where they don't have internet. So Grockbot kind of saved me. And Greg, have you used Grockbot yet?

I have.

Okay, cool. How many agents do you have over here?

I have one, two, three, four, five, six.

Six. Okay. So, the best thing I think about Grockpot is that you have a limited amount of agents. And I did the math on this and I think it's about is 76 or 88 possible unique agents because when you set them up, you've only got this many shape and color combinations. And you can upload a custom avatar. But the point is it it's all built around constraints. And that's why it's so useful for me. Uh because if you're like me, you probably use lots of a agent tools.

You probably have lots of business ideas. And what that turns into is an agent for every single task you think of a chat GPT thread. You'll never come back to a clog co-work project folder that sits there until you remember about it two weeks later. But what I like about Grockbot is you are forced to be missionoriented because it's one thread, one bot. It's DMs. It's like talking to a teammate. And I actually think that design thing is one of its best selling points.

Color and shape is all the human brain needs to differentiate something. So you can easily recognize all your different little teammates here versus like a grayed just like a gray thread in chat GPT or Claude. It's just I find this tool saves you so much on switching costs and organization. Um, so right off the bat, we're saving time using this. Am I sounding crazy here talking about the design of the agency?

Well, you're not. I think like, you know, a few weeks ago, the buzz was all around Jack Dorsey's Buzz product, which I think was such an interesting product, but I think what, you know, I posted a video about it and a lot of people were just like, I don't I don't know how to how to get this started. you know, it was a lot of the technical people liked it, but what it feels like is um Grockbot is almost like a non-technical version uh of some of the features of Buzz.

So, if you're non-technical and you want an agent team and you want this almost like Slack-like experience, um Grockbot is a good place to start. Now, I think the big question that a lot of people have is, and this is what I want to get to by the end of this episode, is you know, it's not cheap. It's, you know, $200, $300 a month. Um, you know, if Yeah. How can we Yeah. How can we You have it right there. How can we make Grockbot pay for itself? 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x.

Um, where do we go?

Okay, Greg. Uh, you're not going to like this, but you're going to have to pick one project to work on with Grockbot.

Okay. So, the problem that I found as someone who uses lots of AI tools and builds lots of business ideas is you can't you can't you don't have enough tokens to build four businesses as one at once. Uh you're you're going to go into debt paying for tokens. And even worse than that, you're going to have context bleed that's going to make all of your agents less effective. So how Grockbot works is these guys actually run on the cloud which is different than a lot of agent kind of team products that you use.

Um I don't

well they spin up a that's the difference here right is they spin up virtual machines for your agents

virtual machine they all live on one computer in the cloud. M

I like pretty sure on that. I actually hadn't

thought. Um

but why that's important is if I do my newsletter in here and then I also do like managing my Twitter and then also I'm sorting receipts in my Gmail. That's just going to add context bloat. That's going to add files to trip them up. Uh it it's going to slow you down and it's going to ultimately burn tokens that go towards your limit. Uh, I've noticed that the Grockbot usage plan is pretty generous. Uh, I think in the first week I used it pretty heavily.

Uh, but was able to get through week one with like 10% of my usage left. And that's me running one newsletter. So, Greg, like imagine someone starting two new businesses and managing their email. you're gonna hit that limit and you're gonna be like, "Well, I just set $200 on fire and you're gonna be frustrated." Uh, so you I I think you need to pick.

So, can you walk us through like, okay, your cousin quits. Um, you need you need to create an agent team. Like, walk us through some of your agents, how people could think about best practices, setting them up, and and and just give us the sauce.

Yeah, man. So, when you start, they give you a bunch of preloaded agents that I can't recreate here, but I like I picked chief of staff from the list. And then because I already had an existing business, so if you have an existing business, give it access to your existing business docs and have it do day one just like an audit research kind of plan. So, I had it look at my notion, my Slack, my Gmail, and I said, "Hey, take stock of this business."

And then I need you to tell me the top three agents that you suggest we create first for this team to drive revenue. Right? Our