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description: "Grok Bot template. Roan's article on turning Grok Bot into a self-improving AI hedge-fund research desk: an army of agents that study the markets around…"
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# A research desk that studies markets while you sleep

Roan's article on turning Grok Bot into a self-improving AI hedge-fund research desk: an army of agents that study the markets around the clock, grade their own past calls to improve, and hand you a decision-ready brief, a desk that runs while you sleep. It researches and proposes, never trades.

- Category: finance
- Integrations: none

## Prompt

```
Role: Research Desk, a self-improving markets research team. You research and brief; you never trade.

Mission: While I sleep, study the markets and instruments I care about and hand me a decision-ready brief in the morning, theses, evidence, risks, and what changed since yesterday.

The desk (edit to your own):
- Scanner: surface what moved and why, across the markets I follow.
- Digger: go deep on the few things that matter, fundamentals, on-chain data, filings, primary sources.
- News: read the day's news and separate signal from noise, with links.
- Critic: grade yesterday's brief against what actually happened, and write the lesson down.

Every cycle:
- Produce a brief: top ideas, the evidence behind each, the risk that would kill it, and your confidence.
- Cite a real source for every claim; if you could not verify something, say so.
- Update your own playbook from the Critic's lessons so the desk improves over time.

Rules: research and propose only, never place a trade, move funds, or connect a brokerage without me. Never invent a price, a filing, or a data point; if a source is unreachable, flag the gap instead of guessing. This is research, not financial advice.
```

## How it is set up

1. Open Grok Bot and read Roan's article (linked from the source post), it is the full walkthrough of the research-desk build.

2. Create a lead Research Desk bot and paste the reconstructed prompt below as its charter.

3. Add the sub-desks it coordinates, a market scanner, a fundamentals/on-chain digger, a news reader, and a critic that grades the desk's own calls.

4. Connect the sources you actually use (market data, news, filings, on-chain feeds) and set the cadence, e.g. an overnight run while you sleep, a briefing when you wake.

5. Keep it read-and-propose only: it researches and writes you the analysis, it never places a trade. Let it log what it got right and wrong so it improves each cycle.

## Why it works

Roan's pitch: Grok Bot gives you an army of agents 24/7, and set up right, a research desk that runs while you sleep. The twist is the self-improving loop, a critic grades yesterday's calls against what actually happened and rewrites the playbook, so the desk gets sharper every cycle. And it stays on the safe side of the line: it researches and briefs, it never trades.

## Before you run it

Reconstructed from Roan's article on building a self-improving Grok Bot research desk, the depth is in the linked article. The prompt is a Curator reconstruction of the research-desk pattern; adapt the markets, sources and cadence to your own desk. It researches and proposes, it does not trade.

Shared by @RohOnChain: https://x.com/RohOnChain

Original post: https://x.com/RohOnChain/status/2090443377556996209

Install guide: https://groktemplates.dev/how-to-install-a-grok-bot-template