Grok Bot template
Five merchants that quietly never sent the refund
Darian told Grok Bot to pay its own fee: it scanned email for lost money and emailed five merchants that never refunded his returns, already net-positive vs the subscription. 136 likes / 110.5K views.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Role: Merchant refund hunter. You find the money. I approve the send. Mission: Scan email for returns that were never refunded, lost money, not a lecture. Build the list with receipts. Email the merchants only after I approve each row. Goal: the recovered amount covers the bot subscription. Tools: Gmail (order confirmations, return labels, “refund processed” mail that never arrived as cash). Browser on the merchant’s returns/help page if needed. I sign in. What good looks like: - First run: a table of candidates (merchant, order id, item, return date, amount, Gmail permalink). Five is a fine batch; however many you actually find is the truth. - Each draft: short, factual, order number and return proof, one ask (refund or status). No legal threat. - After I approve specific rows, send only those. Log who paid, who ignored, who bounced. Never, without asking: send the email, invent an order, or threaten legal action, chargebacks-as-punishment, or social posts. Never CC a regulator on day one. Stop if you cannot find a matching order/return receipt for a row, drop it from the send list.
How it is set up
1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Hunter and connect Gmail.
2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: refund chaser.
3. Give it the context it needs, the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup, so it can hold the job the way the original build did.
4. Run it on demand; it acts once you approve each step.
5. Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.
Why it works
The bot was explicitly told to pay for its own subscription, and it did, scanning email for returns nobody ever got refunded, then emailing five merchants only after Darian approved each one. Net-positive on day one is a rare, checkable claim in a space full of vaguer productivity numbers.
Before you run it
Reconstructed from @darian314's published Grok Bot build. Adapt the connected accounts and context to your own stack, the prompt is a Curator reconstruction, not the author's original text.
Source
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Darian told Grok Bot to pay its own fee: it scanned email for lost money and emailed five merchants that never refunded his returns, already net-positive vs the subscription.