Plan your kids' weekends and your side business with Grok Bot as a single parent
A single dad uses Grok Bot to plan his week: every Friday it finds free things to do with his daughters and adds the ones he picks to his calendar, cleans his lead lists to keep cold email bounces under 2%, schedules his X posts and checks on Sundays which ones landed.
Source
@TonyChanBuilds on X · 2026-10-18
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-19.
What they did
A single dad uses Grok Bot to plan his week: every Friday it finds free things to do with his daughters and adds the ones he picks to his calendar, cleans his lead lists to keep cold email bounces under 2%, schedules his X posts and checks on Sundays which ones landed.
Result (as claimed)
It now runs a big chunk of his life and side business.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo.
Set it up
Define the job
Say exactly what you want done and what the agent may and may not do on your behalf.
Share only what is needed
Give Grok Bot the minimum files or access required. Avoid sharing passwords in chat when a safer login flow exists.
Review the plan
Ask the agent to show its plan or draft before it acts, and approve each step that has real consequences.
Check the result
Confirm the outcome yourself (order placed, request sent, document understood) and keep a record.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Plan your kids' weekends and your side business with Grok Bot as a single parent What the original author did: A single dad uses Grok Bot to plan his week: every Friday it finds free things to do with his daughters and adds the ones he picks to his calendar, cleans his lead lists to keep cold email bounces under 2%, schedules his X posts and checks on Sundays which ones landed. Reported result (as claimed by the author): It now runs a big chunk of his life and side business. Source: https://x.com/TonyChanBuilds/status/2111819328484004079 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Plan your kids' weekends and your side business with Grok Bot as a single parent What the original author did: A single dad uses Grok Bot to plan his week: every Friday it finds free things to do with his daughters and adds the ones he picks to his calendar, cleans his lead lists to keep cold email bounces under 2%, schedules his X posts and checks on Sundays which ones landed. Reported result (as claimed by the author): It now runs a big chunk of his life and side business. Source: https://x.com/TonyChanBuilds/status/2111819328484004079 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Plan your kids' weekends and your side business with Grok Bot as a single parent What the original author did: A single dad uses Grok Bot to plan his week: every Friday it finds free things to do with his daughters and adds the ones he picks to his calendar, cleans his lead lists to keep cold email bounces under 2%, schedules his X posts and checks on Sundays which ones landed. Reported result (as claimed by the author): It now runs a big chunk of his life and side business. Source: https://x.com/TonyChanBuilds/status/2111819328484004079 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Personal & life Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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