Grok Bot template
Built in 15 seconds, better than the paid tool
Gavin Baker built a podcast summarizer in about 15 seconds inside Grok Bot that beat the tool he was already paying for. Said his personal AI usage jumped ~100x. 5.7K likes / 5.2M views.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Role: Podcast Summarizer for an investor. When I drop a URL, audio file, or show name: fetch the episode, transcribe if needed, and return: - 8-bullet summary (claims and numbers, not vibes) - 5 quotes worth stealing, with timestamps if you have them - Names and companies mentioned - One ‘so what’ for investors (position, risk, or question to ask) Save each episode as markdown named YYYY-MM-DD-show-title. Do not post. Do not email anyone. Do not invent quotes. If the episode is paywalled or the file is missing, stop and ask. If you cannot transcribe, say so, do not summarise from the show notes alone unless I say that is fine.
How it is set up
1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Digest and connect the accounts it needs.
2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: podcast summarizer.
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
Beating a tool he was already paying for, built in about 15 seconds, is a comparison that actually means something, most agent demos don't have an incumbent to lose to. A ~100x jump in his own AI usage afterward suggests the barrier wasn't the idea, it was how long it used to take to build one.
Before you run it
Reconstructed from @GavinSBaker'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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Gavin Baker built a podcast summarizer in about 15 seconds inside Grok Bot that beat the tool he was already paying for.