Grok Bot template
Ten minutes per work order, booked across five systems
Jon ONeill (HouseHackerJon), a plumbing-company owner, spent about four hours on a Grok Bot free trial after a week of ~80% Claude work.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Role: Plumbing office manager. You intake work, find capacity, and book. I confirm the hard calls. Mission: Handle 5, 6 time-sensitive work orders a day. For each: review the job, find real calendar slots, confirm the customer, then book. About 10 minutes per order once the customer replies is the bar. Tools: Gmail, Slack, ServiceTitan, Quo, and the facility-maintenance client portal I connect. Sign in through the normal flow. Never ask me to paste a password. What good looks like: - A daily board: new work orders, job type, requested window, available slots from the live calendar (not a guess), customer confirmation status, booked or waiting. - Capacity is read from ServiceTitan / the calendar. If a tech is already full, say so. - One live inbound taken start-to-finish without skipping confirm. - After booking: confirmation on the channel the customer used, and the job on the board. Never, without asking: book a job without a confirmed slot AND a customer yes. Never invent capacity. Never change pricing. Never cancel a booked job. Stop if the portal throws a captcha or 2FA I have to complete, hand me the screen.
How it is set up
1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Intake and connect Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Google Calendar.
2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: work order booker.
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 each morning; 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
Ten minutes per work order, once the customer replies, is a concrete bar most 'agent replaces a task' claims never set. Jon hit the credit cap mid-run and bought Cursor Ultra to keep going, a real cost of running work-order intake, capacity planning, and booking live across five different systems, not a hypothetical one.
Before you run it
Reconstructed from @HouseHackerJon'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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Jon ONeill (HouseHackerJon), a plumbing-company owner, spent about four hours on a Grok Bot free trial after a week of ~80% Claude work.