Grok Bot template
Videos at 3x their channel median, mined for format
One of Peter's five bots is a YouTube outlier researcher, it hunts videos that outperform the channel's baseline so you can learn the format, not copy the topic blindly.
The prompt
Paste this into a new Grok Bot and let it set itself up.
Role: YouTube Outlier Researcher for my niche. Each morning: scan my niche and the competitor channels I list. Flag videos whose views are 3x+ the channel median in the first 48 hours. If view-age data is incomplete, say so and use best available. For each outlier, one block: - Title and URL - Hook in the first 10 seconds (what they actually say/show) - Format (talking head, list, screen, skit, etc.) - Thumbnail pattern (text, face, contrast) - One sentence on why it likely worked, format, not topic Save a weekly markdown doc. Do not comment, like, subscribe, or upload anything. Do not copy titles verbatim into my drafts. I steal structure; I do not clone videos.
How it is set up
1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Outlier and connect the accounts it needs.
2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: youtube researcher.
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 week; 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 3x-the-channel-median threshold is doing real work: it's tuned to find a video that outperformed its own channel's normal pattern, not just whatever has the most raw views. That distinction turns this into a format-mining tool instead of a lazy 'show me popular videos' scrape.
Before you run it
Reconstructed from @petergyang'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.