I Set Up Grok Bot as a Team of AI Agents for My Web Shop: First Days and What Broke

TL;DR: I tested Grok Bot for a couple of days to see if it can do real work or if it's just a toy. I set up a team of bots for my web shop: a boss bot that decides what goes on the site, a Facebook page bot, a Facebook Ads bot, a product researcher, an AliExpress sourcing bot and a bot that fixes things on the site. A second boss bot handles my Axagen side with Gmail connected. It works, but it's slower than a human, it stopped for CAPTCHAs and a timed-out login, and it asks for approval during setup. I haven't run the shop with it long enough to have sales numbers, so there are none here.

I was skeptical. There are already a few AIs that can do similar jobs. What got me to try it was the price drop and that it's now included in more plans (I mention the Cursor plan and a Grok subscription in the video).

My use case is simple: I have a web shop, and I want AI to control it completely. I can already do most of these tasks in Claude or other AIs, like I showed in earlier videos with VS Code. The difference I wanted to test: set it up once and the bots just work, without me giving commands every time.

Click New bot, then Create bot. That's it. Then you tell it who it is and what it's for. You can type the description in settings, or just tell the bot its job in chat and it fills in the description itself. Voice commands work too.

My first one was a local PC bot. I asked it to set up the program I was recording the video in, on my own computer. It did it in a couple of minutes without hesitating.

This is the part I like most. You can tell a bot, "This is another bot, this is your friend, talk with him." One bot does local computer work, another uploads things to the website, and they talk to each other. I pin the boss bots at the top so they're easy to find.

Each bot also has its own screen with Chrome, a file manager and a terminal. You can open it and click around yourself like a normal computer.

In the video I asked the researcher live to find one more product and hand it to the AliExpress bot.

My second boss bot runs my Axagen side. Go to Plugins, pick Gmail, give it a name, click Authorize, and approve in the browser. A couple of clicks. I added Google Calendar live in the video. It was added in seconds, then I authenticated, chose the account, selected all access, and it was done.

I asked this bot to read my email, analyze my YouTube channel, and read my Skool community to suggest how to make it more alive, because I don't have much time to spend there.

Written up from my video with AI help; the test and the opinions are mine.

Full run on video (my channel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MfvPKdK1cY