How to use Grok Bot as chief of staff for a YouTube and course business
David Carbutt's Grok Bot reads Slack, email, notes, Notion and Stripe, briefs him daily, builds slide packs for editors, fact-checks scripts, reviews sales calls and set up a Stripe discount.
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Every morning, read [Slack, email, Notion and meeting notes] and brief me on clients, open sales, content due and who owns each next step. Flag anything blocked or overdue.
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- David Carbutt (@DavidCarbutt_)
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- Reported result
- David reports daily briefs, slide packs delivered to editors, a caught error in a video and a live Stripe discount code. He gives no time or revenue figures.
- Human involvement
- David reviews scripts before filming and directs the bot's work. No formal approval gates are described.
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How the agent did it
- He connected Slack, email, meeting notes, Notion and Stripe.
- The bot briefs him each morning on clients, courses and workflow owners.
- It fact-checks course scripts written in a linked Claude project.
@DavidCarbutt_ wrote that he had used Grok Bot for less than a week and called it one of the best products he has used. He says he is not a developer and talks to one chat that already knows his business.
He says it reads Slack, email, meeting notes, Notion and Stripe, and knows his clients, the courses he sells, the agency, the sales calls and who owes each step in the workflow. Rather than him briefing it each morning, it briefs him.
He gives several examples. Course scripts are written in a linked Claude project, and the bot briefs it, fact-checks the result and makes it sound like him before he films. For YouTube, it builds 1080p slides, zips them with a cue sheet and posts the pack in Slack for the editors. He says it caught a wrong number in a SpaceX video on the night he was filming, rebuilt the slides and resent the pack.
It sat in on sales calls, reviewed the process and wrote a rule from it: book the next call before hanging up, send the Stripe link while the prospect is still there and stop emailing homework. It also created a live 50% off Stripe code for an AI course with an expiry date.
He calls it a chief of staff he hired on a Tuesday. He gives no time or revenue figures.
Who it's for: Creators and small agencies juggling content production, courses and sales.
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What did the bot do for his YouTube videos?
It builds 1080p slides, zips them with a cue sheet and drops the pack in Slack for editors. It also caught a wrong number and rebuilt the slides.
What did it do in Stripe?
David says it created a live 50% off code for an AI course and set when it expires.
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Remaining steps
- It builds 1080p slide packs with cue sheets and posts them in Slack for editors.
- It reviewed sales calls and created a time-limited Stripe discount code.
About this account
The bot briefs him, prepares slide packs, rewrites rules from sales calls and set up a Stripe code with little prompting.
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Credit: David Carbutt (@DavidCarbutt_) — X
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Grok Bot · Slack · Notion · Stripe · Claude
Chief of staff · YouTube · Sales calls
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