been paying $4.62 for a 10-second Seedance 2.5 clip that costs $2.32 at the maker’s own price same model. same settings. no markup. no subscription. just pay as you go. what you actually get: → one key for every leading image, video, audio and 3D model → the model you call is the model that runs → every request itemized in the console building at scale? enterprise deals go up to 40% off leading models’ own API prices (volume-based). the models are ready. your app is next.

Claude Code just showed one guy what his phone does while he sleeps. TikTok had turned his mic on 347 times. with the app closed Instagram did it 211 times, Facebook 189, Snapchat 94. each activation lasted 3 to 15 seconds long enough to catch a full sentence you said out loud that was just 1 of 4 posts that blew up this month: → a “photo” sent over Bluetooth that wasn’t a photo. a week later the phone was mocking its owner on screen → a Walmart teddy bear in a kid’s room, uploading video every 30 seconds all night → $3.99 here, $2.49 there. 7 months of Apple Pay charges under $6. $4,712 gone before anyone noticed → and Apple’s answer: every charge was “Face ID authenticated” you’re checking your bank app every day. you’ve never once checked what your phone does when you’re not looking do this tonight, it takes 10 minutes: → iPhone: Settings > Privacy > Microphone. the orange dot = mic is live right now → scan your wifi at night with the house asleep. whatever uploads during silence is the problem → every charge under $10 and every device in your payment apps you don’t recognize. screenshot before you touch anything the tools security people actually use, free: → MVT by Amnesty International. scans your phone for known spyware → TinyCheck by Kaspersky. shows everything your phone sends out over wifi every prompt, command and fix is in the article below. bookmark it before you need it ↓

elon told 39 million people Grok Bot is a chief of staff. most of them will run it like a smoke alarm 7 bots on a 5-minute routine = 7 × 288 × 7 = 14,112 runs a week. if 30 find something real, the other 14,082 just woke up to look around the math on one routine: → every 5 min = 288 runs a day → hourly = 24 → once a day = 1 → every run burns your weekly usage pool. even the test button 5-min vs hourly is 12x the usage for the exact same job. one busy routine can eat a week's pool in a day the fix: schedule the job, not the clock → morning brief: once, 07:00 → call prep: once at 07:00, preps every call on today's calendar → invoices: once, on the 1st → renewals: once, every friday → inbox: hourly, work hours only. the only bot that earns it → ~100 runs a week instead of 14,112 where it breaks: → a meeting moves after 07:00 and the prep is stale. add one rerun at 13:00, not 288 → 40 emails land at once. batch them into the hourly run, never one run per email the rule to put in every bot's description: ------ Before any work, check what changed since your last run. If nothing changed, say nothing and stop. Never send, pay or sign without my approval. One job only. ------ save this before you give your next bot a schedule ↓

your $30 X subscription came with an employee you can rent out to small businesses. most people use it to ask what's on their calendar 7 Grok Bot setups people will actually pay for: → receipts and inbox desk: solo founders drowning in email → lead research with drafted outreach: agencies and B2B founders → team bot inside their slack → webhook intake: anyone with a form on their site → content research desk: creators → competitor watch inbox: marketing teams → morning brief for traders: it drafts, you decide why they pay: it's not answers, it's routines. "every weekday at 8:00, do X". "when an email lands from this domain, do Y". a cloud agent with its own computer that keeps working when the laptop is closed the one i'd sell first is lead research. every founder hates prospecting more than paying for it. the bot finds leads, reads what they posted, writes a first line for each. a human hits send, or the client's domain burns two rules before you sell any of it: → the client owns the account and pays the plan. you charge for setup and upkeep → every routine run burns the weekly usage pool, even the test button. one busy slack trigger can eat a week in a day routine wording, what to charge and where each one breaks ↓

anthropic just opened its books and the number that should scare you is 900% net revenue retention. customers who paid anthropic a year ago now pay ~9x more the best public software company at this, palantir, sits at 157% that 9x is you → the $20 plan that became $100, then $200 → the "one more opus run" at 2am → the 5-hour limit that burned out in 30 minutes last night they didn't just find more customers. they found out how much more you'd pay and you will. so will i

holy f*ck, Grok Bot just replaced your assistant it's f*cking insane… but only if your prompt isn't one line "check my calendar every morning" gets you a calendar this gets you a chief of staff: bot 1, morning brief "Every weekday at 07:00 read today's calendar, open reminders and unread email. Send me one message: the 3 things that matter today, every meeting with one line on who it is, anything that moved since yesterday. If nothing is urgent: 'quiet day'." → 07:00, one message. you know your whole day before coffee bot 2, call prep "15 minutes before every call with someone outside my team, find them in my contacts and read my last 5 emails with them. Send me: who they are, what we last agreed, what they'll ask, one question I should ask. Max 6 lines." → you never walk into a call cold again paste them into the bot's description, not the chat the other 5 are in the article. bot 3 signs into your billing pages on the 1st and sends every invoice to your accountant. that job used to die at the login screen ↓

your Grok Bot routine runs every 5 minutes. it costs you ~12x more than running it once an hour same bot. same job. 12x the bill that's 288 runs a day for a job you read twice the fix takes 30 seconds: → most jobs run once a day: morning brief, renewals, weekly numbers → hourly is for the inbox. nothing else → every routine gets one line: "if there's nothing important, say nothing" → one bot per job. small and boring beats big and clever do that and the bot you used to ignore becomes the one message you actually open the full 7-bot setup with every prompt below ↓

2.7 million people just watched Grok Bot get access to their phone. most of them will ask it what's on their calendar and close the app that's like buying a Tesla to charge your phone the setup that actually uses it: 7 bots, one job each → morning brief at 07:00: the 3 things that matter today and who's in every meeting → call prep 15 min before every call: who they are, what you agreed, what they'll ask → invoice collector on the 1st: every invoice to your accountant, totals to you → follow-ups after every meeting, waiting in your drafts → inbox router: max 5 emails that actually need you → weekly numbers every monday in 3 lines → renewal watch every friday one bot, one job. the Grok Bot team said it on their own livestreams every prompt is ready to paste below ↓

holy sh*t, someone just watched 72 hours of the Grok Bot team's own livestreams and turned it into one copy-paste setup not the docs. how the people who build Grok Bot actually run it: their prompts, their schedules, their costs what's inside: → a one-message install. a bot from the marketplace reads the repo and designs your whole setup, then waits for your yes → 7 prompt habits the team landed on by themselves → the rules file every bot reads before it does anything → 5 routines and 5 connector rules that save time, money and nerves → 5 ready teams built from marketplace bots → a first-week plan and a checklist to screenshot the line that changed how i set up agents: "verification is the job. writing code is the easy part" and 3 rules i'm adding today: → "if a routine finds nothing important, say nothing" → "anything that leaves my team is a draft. I send it" → every Friday the bot compares my edits to its drafts and turns the difference into style rules 16-minute read. every setup is a block you paste save this ↓