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You agreed on the plan. Then your A.I. lost track of it.
You can quickly (<5 minutes) set up the new Grok Bot platform to be your Chief of Staff, reading your emails, calendars, and project management tools and telling you what to prioritize, and even let it draft simple email repsonses for you to save you time. This is not another daily summary. One bot reads the mail and the calendar, drafts the work in Gmail, and only pings you for a yes or no. I run it on Mondays when the emails are deep and there is a lot to prioritize. It puts out the fires first, and reminds me of things easy to miss.
What you are hiring
Grok Bot is a desktop app. It is not the chat at grok.com. You download it, start a new bot, and name it Chief of Staff. One bot is enough. Do not start a team of bots tonight.
Connect Gmail and Calendar separately. Gmail does not add Calendar. I also connected Drive, because I want it to be able to put a file there, and Asana, where my project management tasks are. After you connect, open Tools and take the dangerous ones away.
| App | Leave on | Turn off |
|---|---|---|
| Gmail | Read, draft, label | Send, Reply, Forward |
| Calendar | Read, list, free/busy | Create, update, delete, RSVP |
| Drive | Read and write, if you want files parked there | Nothing, unless a folder should be off limits |
Treat Send like handing a new hire the company card. Drafts only. You still edit, attach, and send.
The three things it is allowed to care about
Save these as standing rules for this bot, not just this chat. Change the names of your tools if you don’t use Asana. Keep the order.
Save these as your standing rules for every task, not just this chat.
You are my Chief of Staff. Protect my time.
Priorities, in order:
1. Unblock what is already late or due today. Asana, the shared calendar, and the inbox are the source of truth. List only tasks that are overdue, due today, or blocking a client. Cap at 3. If there are 14, rank them. Do not dump the board on me.
2. Keep my leads warm. One next action each. Not “do sales.” Reply, send the file, book the slot, or park it. If a lead has had no human touch in 14 days, that is a fire. A system email that someone viewed the proposal is not.
3. Answer only the emails a human must answer. Client info requests, please send, please confirm, something that unblocks their side. File shares, project notifications, and “someone viewed this” get labeled and left out of my morning.
Never send email, never RSVP, never create calendar events unless I say send. Draft in Gmail only. Label the draft BOT DRAFT plus the subject. Reply in 4 lines: Fires / Drafts ready / Decisions / Ignore pile.
After a good reply, tell it to remember those rules. Do not wait to repeat them tomorrow.
What a good morning looks like
I say go. I get this, not a novel. If it writes a status tour of every project, it failed.
| Line | What belongs there |
|---|---|
| Fires | Three things, max. Overdue, due today, or blocking a client. |
| Drafts ready | Already sitting in Gmail. You edit and send. It does not. |
| Decisions | The calls only you can make. |
| Ignore pile | One line on what it filed away. Not the pile itself. |
A member on the call asked the version I wish I had asked sooner. A meeting email comes in. A kid starts crying in the other room. You saw it. You didn’t answer. Will the bot catch that?
Yes, if a reply was required and none went out. It is looking for things that were stated as due, things coming up, and people you have not answered. It will not be perfect. You and I both have 500 things. It is trying to grab the ones that feel like fire.
You don’t have to schedule it
I told it the rules. I did not tell it to run every morning. I come in when I’m ready and say run now. It can run on a weekday timer, laptop closed, if you want that later. Start with run now.
No Grok Bot yet? Do the same job in the Claude chat you already pay for. Give it the mail and the calendar, turn send off, and each morning say run today’s report. You have to open it. That is the trade. The bot is the version that can be waiting when you sit down.
If the click-through part is the piece you want, where it opens a page and brings a file back, that write-up is your AI can click through websites. This post is the morning, not the browser job.
Fifteen minutes, one bot
- New bot. Name it Chief of Staff. Not a group.
- Connect Gmail. Then connect Calendar. Turn Send, Reply, Forward, create, update, delete, and RSVP off.
- Paste the standing rules. Tell it to remember them for this bot only.
Here is mine:
“Save these as your standing rules for every task, not just this chat.You are my Chief of Staff. Protect my time.
Priorities, in order:
1. Unblock what is already late or due today
Asana + the shared calendar + inbox are the source of truth — not your inbox.
The bot’s job: list only tasks that are overdue, due today, or blocking a client. Cap at 3. If there are 14, it ranks; it does not dump the board on me.2. Keep the my leads warm — one next action each
Not “do sales.” One concrete move per live lead: reply, send the file, book the slot, or park it.
If a lead has had no human touch in 14 days, that is a Fire. System “someone viewed the proposal” mail is not.3. Answer only the emails a human must answer
Client info requests, “please send / please confirm,” presentation asks, something that unblocks their side.
File shares, Asana notifications, DocuSign-was-viewed, “X commented in Y” → label and archive. Do not put those in my morning.Never send email, never RSVP, never create calendar events unless I say send.
Draft in Gmail only. Label “BOT DRAFT [and relvant subject]”.
Reply in 4 lines: Fires / Drafts ready / Decisions / Ignore pile.Now connect Gmail + Calendar if needed, then triage the last 48 hours.”
- Say run now. You want four lines, and drafts already in Gmail.
- If it dumps the whole board, the cap failed. Tell it again: three fires, then stop.
The other job from the same call, locking a plan so a long chat can’t drop it, is you agreed on the plan, then your AI lost track of it.
