GlennHasABeard uses six scheduled Grok bots to monitor his creator business

• Six bots handle creator-business monitoring: GlennHasABeard says Claude wrote the scripts and Grok Bot runs them on a schedule.
• Running all six costs about $30 a month in API credits, according to his breakdown.
• Posting stays manual: the bots read and report, and he explicitly ruled out having them post for him.

The nerdiest bot scores old posts against their own month's typical views. Another remembers previous shoutouts so it can nominate different mutuals each week.

GlennHasABeard says he upgraded his plan specifically for Grok Bot's direct connection to the X API, then built the setup over a weekend.

1. Headcount: Quarterly audits of followers and followed accounts. Flags fake or inactive accounts, logs unfollows, and tracks how long a follow-back has been pending.
2. Creator Scout: Every morning, finds verified AI artists near his account's size whom he doesn't already follow.
3. Shoutout Desk: Every Monday, selects 10 small mutuals posting AI or traditional art who haven't previously received a shoutout from him.
4. Mention Radar: Twice daily, gathers unanswered replies and quote posts, prioritizing verified mutuals.
5. Warm Leads: Finds verified accounts that repeatedly engage with his posts but don't follow him. He doesn't specify its schedule.
6. Rerun Picker: Selects older successful posts for another quote post and supplies a fresh angle for each.

His audience has grown, so comparing every post against today's typical reach would disadvantage older work. He spelled out the selection rules in a reply:

• Historical baseline: Views must reach at least 1.5 times his typical views from the same month.
• Minimum age: The post must be at least three weeks old.
• Cooldown: Anything he has quoted in the past 60 days is excluded.
• Weekly output: The top 10 arrive every Monday, each with a fresh angle written by Grok.

Grok Bot's automation documentation distinguishes two building blocks:

• Skills: Reusable instructions describing how to do a task.
• Routines: Scheduled or supported event-based triggers telling a bot when to run a workflow.

The service operates on a persistent cloud computer, so scheduled work can continue while the owner's laptop is closed.

GlennHasABeard's $30 monthly estimate covers API credits; he also mentions a plan upgrade without specifying the tier. He may share the bots once the bugs are ironed out, and says they are still learning what a “Share Your Art” post looks like.

His recent creative posts document several production workflows:

• Animation: He uses Blender previs as a reference for Wan 3.0 in Runway.
• Upscaling: He describes rendering at 480p and using Starlight Precise afterward, citing sharper edges on previously blurred freckles.
• Local video: A 15-second mushroom animation was rendered locally in ComfyUI, then upscaled to 4K with Topaz. The camera stays locked at soil height while the mushrooms open left, middle, then right.

The mushroom animation rendered in ComfyUI and upscaled with Topaz

In a separate update, GlennHasABeard reported his best day on X since September 18. That day's posts and replies brought 8,919 impressions, while the previous day's posts added another 7,612.

His question about the longest AI film people had finished went from 2,578 to 4,069 impressions. Those older posts supplied roughly 46% of the combined total he reported.