Tools the cases use
The apps and services people connected their agent to in these cases, with each tool’s official site and the cases that use it.
Links go to each tool’s own site. None are paid placements.
Email and calendar
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Gmail
Agents read, sort and draft replies in the inbox, unsubscribe from lists and pull out bills and receipts.
- Moved evening sales admin to a team of Grok Bots, from meeting prep and prospecting to forecasting and slides.
- Closed a $10,000 sponsorship deal that Grok Bot vetted and negotiated on its own within four hours.
- Built a Grok Bot team behind one chief of staff, with shared memory, ClickUp logging and routines.
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Google Calendar
Agents prepare for meetings and send invites for calls agreed in messages.
- Compiled 21 Grok Bot hacks from two weeks of running 15 bots, from planning first to phone-calling bots.
- Showed Grok Bot a task once and it ran it every morning for ten days; then wrote a guide to building a crew.
- Stopped sending meeting invites by hand after a Grok Bot began creating them for calls agreed in DMs.
Docs and notes
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Notion
The shared notebook: agents keep plans, trackers, research and meal plans in it.
- Moved evening sales admin to a team of Grok Bots, from meeting prep and prospecting to forecasting and slides.
- Made Grok Bot a chief of staff that reads Slack, email and Stripe and builds slides for videos.
- Published eight Grok Bot templates, from coding agents to an SF parking bot and a phone-calling bot.
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Google Drive
Agents read the files already there and assemble documents and packages from them.
Chat apps
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Slack
Where work bots post their updates, alerts and daily summaries for a team.
- Moved evening sales admin to a team of Grok Bots, from meeting prep and prospecting to forecasting and slides.
- Made Grok Bot a chief of staff that reads Slack, email and Stripe and builds slides for videos.
- Laid out a six-role Grok Bot team that keeps every external message, post and payment behind approval.
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WhatsApp
A way to talk to the agent from your phone, and for it to message you back.
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Discord
Agents watch servers for news and run as a team of bots in one server.
Code and websites
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GitHub
Agents open and review pull requests, back up their own files and ship code.
- Set up OpenClaw on an iMac with its own GitHub and Vercel accounts, and it shipped real pull requests.
- Published eight Grok Bot templates, from coding agents to an SF parking bot and a phone-calling bot.
- Stopped being the project bottleneck by making a Grok Bot the CTO and letting it recruit more bots.
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Cloudflare
Agents put the websites and tools they build online, and manage domains.
- Had Grok Bot turn an X bookmark into a working demo every day and send a preview link each morning.
- Published eight Grok Bot templates, from coding agents to an SF parking bot and a phone-calling bot.
- Rebuilt a personal site with Clawdbot over Telegram from bed: Notion to Astro, 18 posts, DNS to Cloudflare.
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Vercel
Agents deploy the websites they build, sometimes from a single chat message.
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Claude
Other agents hand it writing and coding work.
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Codex
A coding agent that other agents hand programming work to.
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Jira
Agents work through issue queues and keep tickets up to date.
Sales, support and money
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LinkedIn
Agents research people before calls and find people to reach out to.
- Moved evening sales admin to a team of Grok Bots, from meeting prep and prospecting to forecasting and slides.
- Built a Grok Bot team behind one chief of staff, with shared memory, ClickUp logging and routines.
- Set up a team of Grok Bots for email, prescriptions, budgeting and shopping, and got a £52 fee waived.
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Salesforce
Agents look up accounts and keep the sales record current.
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Intercom
Agents keep the help center current and work through support conversations.
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Stripe
Agents send payment links and pull sales numbers into reports.
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Plaid
Connects bank accounts and cards so an agent can track spending.
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Twilio
Gives an agent a phone number to call and text from.
Video and media
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YouTube
Agents find and curate videos, and work with a channel's streams and uploads.
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Remotion
Lets an agent make videos with code.
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Home Assistant
Smart-home software an agent can set up and repair.
Connecting agents to tools
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MCP servers
The Model Context Protocol: a standard way to plug an agent into an app that has no built-in connector.
- Reached 69.8M impressions across three X accounts with Grok Bot finding and repackaging post ideas.
- Laid out a six-role Grok Bot team that keeps every external message, post and payment behind approval.
- Built an Unreal Engine scene purely by prompting Hermes Agent through MCP, shown in walk-around footage.