# Day3 English transcript (concatenated hourly windows)

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And now look, we have notes from productions coming through on this.
Every day we're building a business, a production to building a production company.
There's a lot of like cool building and evolution happening here.
Amazing, amazing.
Well, I think we're three minutes away from our first talk of the day.
That's going to be grok bot for marketing operations.
If you're just joining us, this is day three launch day of building a business in three days.
We're building a gaming studio and launching our first game really, really soon.
And we'll have a little more to share on that very, very quickly here.
We're excited to open this up and give everyone a chance to start playing and helping us improve it.
So we can put your feedback into our automated feature factory that we've built.
So really excited to get into that.
Yeah, I think we have some plans for the next few hours.
Is that an error we need to fix?
This is an error on my side that we need to fix.
It looks like I don't know if it works for your account.
I'm down on login with X.
So we got some work to do in the next hour here and we're going to get on it.
Pieces are there.
I feel good.
I feel good.
Pieces are there.
Awesome.
Cool.
I guess we're going downstairs.
Maybe we got a minute.
So basically what I'm doing is when I see an error like this, I'm sure Lauren has a way that's automated this already.
I'm kind of like looking to see what's going on on the server side and then maybe passing that off to grok bot and letting it know.
Yeah.
I mean, you can even tell grok bot to open that.
Yeah.
And so there's really no limitation to the work that you can hand off to it.
And I think this will only become more true over time as the models improve.
And so as I mentioned, there's really that ease of use that you get with grok bot.
You have these always on agents where you no longer have to worry for any of you who are out there who are maybe doing work at an inconvenient time, but you can't close your laptop because if you do then the agent is going to stop working.
You don't have that concern here.
And really, when you combine all these primitives together, you get to a place where in this really natural way you talk to your bots, you know the access that they have.
They're really intelligent.
They can keep working around the clock and produce some really high value outputs for you.
So I'm really excited, particularly for this audience to share a few use cases that I have personally that the revops and marops team internally at SpaceX AI has for using grok bot to do our work more effectively.
So first a quick show of hands for people here in person, how many of you are on your revops or marops team at your company.
Anyone working on GTM engineering GTM systems.
Okay, workflows processes automations I'm sort of speaking the same language as all you seeing some nods in the audience.
Well, what's really exciting about grok bot for revops and marops is I can sort of go through all of these some of these I'm going to demo in just a second.
But if I had to call out just one to really highlight about how a tool like grok bot changes the nature of our work is.
We can finally build tools and not just rules.
So oftentimes when you're in these roles that are inherently about cross functional collaboration and aligning stakeholders.
So much of the job is just like communicating communicating information out, hoping that people follow guidelines for like the right way to set up a campaign, the right way to get something tracked.
But finally with a tool like grok bot, we can all think of ourselves as much more technical to the point where we're not just setting out the guidelines for, hey, if someone at the company wants to get XYZ campaign done, they have to follow this checklist.
And instead we can set up the infrastructure be like internal apps where those teams can do the work. And the apps are just set up to respect those rules in the first place.
And so you can sort of think of the marketing and sales teams as playing a game that you are designing as that sort of back office ops team.
But really across all of these use cases that we're highlighting here, there are there's really so much to do that that really fundamentally changes the nature of the work.
And so I want to walk all of you through a demo of some specific ways that I use grok bot to highlight a couple of those use cases from the prior slide.
And before we do that I just want to introduce you to my team of bots.
So there are some obscene here with the names of my bots. I don't know if by any chance the radiohead fans out there in the audience.
Amazing. So maybe you would understand the reference to owned over there. It's a beloved instrument.
But all of these are sort of references to music devices.
In another life I may have pursued that passion a bit more but now I can do that with my bots.
And so we've got op one my sort of synthesizer chief of staff who drives a lot of my work.
We've got Fisher, which is sort of the like receiver of all the information from across my inboxes email calendar text messages slack.
Juno is my product manager bot that sort of helps me think through corner cases product requirements when I'm going out and thinking of tools that I want to build for our marketing and sales teams.
It helps me really think through all the implications and build the right thing in the first place and then owned is my engineer bot.
So it has a really clear sense of our systems how they interact with each other things like the CRM and our data warehouse and our existing code base and how we build internal tools at SpaceX AI.
And so what you'll see in a second here in our demo is first I want to show you what I call the self completing task list.
So this to me I'm sort of a productivity nerd.
For over half a decade I've been building my own internal systems for getting work done more efficiently because especially in a role, like Rev Ops or Mar Ops, as I said earlier so much of it is just stakeholder management.
You're getting so many messages from so many different places, trying to make sense of it trying to understand what is truly high priority.
And finally, with a tool like Rockbot, what you can do is you can set up these bots to monitor all your inboxes and help you distill of all these messages you've received things that showed up on your calendar, which of these are actual tasks,
versus which of these are just FYIs or things that we can safely ignore.
And so what we'll do here is we can see my bots have already been active in the background. So Fisher, the sort of executive assistant or receiver agent that's tapped in to all my inboxes.
We can see today at 904am, it completed this ongoing routine that it has you can see over here, it has this regular routine that it runs on a schedule, where it checks all my inboxes and picks out whatever's new.
And then it proactively, actually like while I was giving this talk, messaged OP1, again that's my chief staff agent, and it gave it the rundown of across email, calendar, work chat, all the information that came my way.
And so this alone is such an unlock in terms of knowing, like I can, even if I wanted to, I could turn notifications off on Slack, on email.
And I would just know that in the background, my bots are monitoring those channels for me and surfacing to me, the things that are most important that should really take away my attention.
And that alone really cuts down on the context switching for me and really helps me get into much more of a focus mode in my work and just be a lot happier in my work.
So really, really cool, right? That alone changes the game. And then what you see here is Fisher is receiving this information. It's proactively telling my chief of staff, hey, here's what's new.
And then my chief of staff is distilling that down into the actual tasks and sub tasks that I was able to identify from that input.
So right, sometimes you get messages and you don't actually have to act I I them. Sometimes you get messages and you have to act on them, but you can't really tell just by reading the message alone like what's really going on here.
And so with bot, what you can do is it reads the message it reads the entire Slack exchange, and it distills for you like, hey, I think here's what that person is asking for.
And so it just makes your life so much easier.
Now here's the really cool thing is this is where we get to the self completing part of the self-completing task list.
My two bots, Fisher and OP one are working together to identify tasks, and then OP one identifies one of those tasks looks like there's a territory dispute, a couple AES have some disagreements about who should work a given account.
And what OP one can do is that task to another bot that I have, which is a territory planning bot, it can give it context on what's going on.
And then that territory planner bot who has full information on our rules of engagement, how we set out different territories, all the context from our CRM that bot is able to complete a pretty good first draft of.
Of that task of what deliverable is needed to complete that task.
And so I didn't even have to think about, you know, what, what we should do about this territory dispute. Of course I can always come in and validate the work and make sure that it actually makes sense.
But it's really amazing to think that, like, I have a team, I truly have a team, a team that is monitoring my inboxes distilling the tasks, relaying those tasks to the right other teammates who can get them done for me, and then I just come in and sort of oversee the whole process and finalize things.
So that's demo one.
Demo two is really how I was able to build what to put it in a pithy way is a dating app for leads that we use internally at SpaceX AI, where, you know, often for those of you in the audience who know what I'm talking about, marketing sales handoff is like such a classic issue in companies where
marketing is producing all these leads. Sales people are like, I don't really love these leads, I don't want to have to work them. So they're just sitting there getting stale. You don't really have a feedback loop where marketing can refine their targeting to give sales more of the kind of leads that they want.
And the whole process is just broken. And so I sort of identified a better way to handle the marketing sales handoff, which is, what if every a could log into an app, and they would just see the leads that they own, they can swipe left to end those leads.
When they end those leads, they have to give a specific ended reason. When they hit submit, it actually writes back to the CRM in all the correct ways. When they swipe right, they can add that prospect they can add that lead directly into a follow up sequence.
And so this is what I mean when earlier on I said, this really transforms what we can do as someone on Rev Ops or Mar Ops, where all of a sudden, we're not just talking about SLAs and making sure that the sales teams abide by the SLAs and hey, why aren't you working these leads?
And okay, let me relay that anecdotal information about these leads back to the marketing team. Instead, we just set up the game for the teams to play. They play that game. And we get a lot of really valuable information on, okay, why are these leads being ended?
How can we sort of programmatically feed that back into the marketing teams to improve the targeting and give sales more of the leads they like? How can we make it as easy as possible for salespeople so that this is something fun that they want to get to inbox zero with their leads every day?
So the way that we did this was I basically told my product manager bot, I want to build an internal app for sales reps to review their leads. I gave it a rough idea of the mechanics for the app, some extra things that I want.
And most importantly, from the start, we really want to get this off flow with our CRM right because that's sort of the most critical thing. We want salespeople to be able to log in and see the leads they own and make sure that we're writing information back into the CRM properly.
So what happens when I send this message is Juno is a really good thought partner for me. So I have this rough idea for an app. And with prior AI tools, what might have happened is the AI really wants to please me.
It really wants to do a good job. And so right away, it jumps into, okay, I'm starting the coding process. Here it is. And maybe it doesn't look like what you envisioned. Maybe it doesn't work like what you envisioned.
Maybe it anchored too much on what you had in that first prompt. And so in a way, you're sort of scared to use the AI and overthinking like, did I get that prompt right? Did I need to give it more detail in the first place?
Oh, no, now it's running away and building the wrong thing. What GropBot does is it takes a second. It asks you follow-up questions, really good follow-up questions, things that I didn't necessarily think about when I first had the idea for this app.
And so we can answer these questions. We'll see it. It'll ask a few more. We can go through this process. Let's see. I want to show people only their new leads, no additional filters.
We want to make sure, okay, so this is a really good question. When a lead is accepted, what should change in the CRM? Now, what I want to tell Bot is, actually, we shouldn't change any fields in the CRM when a lead is accepted because the real moment that the lead status changes is when the rep reaches out.
We already have an automation for tracking that activity and updating the lead status. So we're really getting in the weeds here, and the AI, the GropBot is really prompting me to think more deeply about my idea and to say, hey, you know what, that's a good point.
I'm not just answering questions mindlessly, but I'm really thinking through some of the implications here. Let's do reason and optional notes. And there will probably be just one or two more questions that it'll ask.
Let's see. Offline actions. Great question. Let's queue and confirm before done.
So then we'll see that this product manager Bot will come up with a spec for a product. And not only that, but let's do some local only here.
Not only will it come up with a spec, but what we'll see in just a second is, well, I won't spoil anything. So we can see it's drafting the product spec.
And actually it's sort of giving it away. So what Juno is going to do for me is it's going to write the spec and then proactively hand it off to own our engineering bot to actually get the build started.
And again, I think the really magical thing here is I didn't have to prompt Juno to do that.
Often when you're using AI tools, if you even get to this point of thought partnership and producing really good quality outputs, you have to take those outputs and like send them into the right new system.
If you even have a consistent bot that you go to that just does your engineering work. And here you can again really think of it as a team that's working on your behalf to get things done end to end.
So it messaged owned. It has this product spec ready for the engineering to begin. And now we can see that our engineers off to work.
And now sort of cooking demo style. I'll show you what the finished product looks like since I won't bore you with all the details of own doing the build.
But what we've got here, this is all fake data. So no worries here. This is just a mock up of the real interface that I was able to build with grog bot and that many of our reps now use on a daily basis to get their reviewed leads down to zero.
And so we've got all this information available at a glance about the lead. We can simply put the card to the left to end that lead.
We can swipe to the right and we can put that lead in a sequence. We can see more information about how the lead came in in the first place.
And it just works already since introducing this new app to our sales reps, which by the way went from idea to implementation in just two weeks.
The live build time was really 10 hours. And then a lot of the other time was spent just introducing people to this tool.
Getting them familiar with it, gathering more feedback and product and feature requests.
In the two weeks since we've adopted this on the team, we've seen our leads reviewed rate shoot up.
The A's love it. Marketing teams love it because they're finally getting high quality feedback from sellers on how they can improve targeting.
And we can see how working with grog bot really elevates what we can do.
Show of hands out there in the audience, how many of you feel like without AI you'd be able to build a product like this? Amazing.
Okay. Right. We got one hand. Now I would say with AI, and especially after seeing this demo, how many of you feel like you could pretty confidently go into a chat with AI and build this or any other internal tool that your team needs?
Amazing. Amazing. I'm seeing a lot of hands now. And that was exactly me.
I really joined this team with a lot of ideas for how we could improve processes with a lot of specialized knowledge around specific tools where I just knew the menus and buttons to use.
But I'm at a point now where what I'm using more than anything is just my brain to really think critically about what do we need as a team and how we can be more efficient.
So now I really want to distill what we learned from that demo.
And really some of the big lessons are if you were able to hire a full team, if someone came to you and said you have headcount to hire a full team of people reporting to you, who would be on it?
Really what GrockBot does is it democratizes in a way that CEO life, anyone can hire an unlimited set of specialists with the right context and access.
I think this is really powerful for our day to day in terms of just dreaming bigger about what we can each do for the teams that we're on.
The next lesson is really to trust your bots, give them agency and at the same time, give them guardrails.
So there's something really powerful about knowing really confidently all the access that your bots have, all the things that they can do for you because that helps you and trust them with bigger and bigger tasks.
But at the same time knowing that things aren't going to go too far off the rails because they'll always come back to you before they ship anything.
Messages writing back to the CRM, pushing PRs.
And I think GrockBot really helps you achieve that balance between pushing AI tools to the limit and then running into issues or feeling like I don't really know what access it has.
I don't know how helpful it can really be.
So I haven't really started using it yet.
The final thing, and this is really, I think, more of a call to action than anything for those of you out in the audience whose role is similar to mine, is think of yourselves not as just the people setting rules, processes,
but really you are a product manager and your product is revenue growth.
I am extremely excited about where the RevOps, MarOps, GTM engineering, GTM systems, whatever you want to call it, where this profession is headed.
And I think that's particularly relevant with Dreamforce going on this week is all of us are thinking about the systems that our GTM efforts are built on.
And I think in this new world where all of us have access to tools like GrockBot, it means we can think of ourselves as identifying any bottlenecks.
We have access to growth and getting rid of them.
That's our job day in and day out, is just talking to teams, doing the human thing, forming relationships, building trust, distilling what needs to be built to help the teams grow more effectively,
operate more effectively, and then going and building those things.
So that's it for the main presentation.
We're going to have some time for questions next.
Thank you so much for joining.
All right, so we have some people with microphones.
My check, my check, my check, my check.
So WhatsApp is a nice tool for marketing, right? WhatsApp.
Yeah.
And I'm able to get WhatsApp working on GrockBot by connected with my own person.
Is there a connector that makes it easier to do in some way?
What's your suggestion for working with WhatsApp with GrockBot?
Yeah.
I'm not sure if we have a connector on the way that's native to WhatsApp.
There are other tools I use.
This is not to particularly promote one over others, but sort of speaking personally, there's a tool called Beeper that I'm not sure if you're familiar with,
but it's basically like a mega chat app that you can log into all your separate messaging apps.
And you can actually install that on your bots computer.
So again, this is a really magical thing about GrockBot is you don't need to have native connections to anything.
You can just go into GrockBot's computer, install whatever app you want, and then it can use those apps just like you would.
I presume the same might be true for the WhatsApp app.
Okay.
Yeah.
Middleware connectors to like meta or something like, you know, we spend a lot on meta and Google, but having those just natively like, you know, easy authenticate connect.
I think is like a massive unlock because it keeps just logging out, right?
But do you have an ID on like the kind of roadmap for when those will come online or yeah.
Yeah.

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up, there are other tools I use.
This is not to particularly promote one over others,
but sort of speaking personally,
there's a tool called Beeper
that I'm not sure if you're familiar with,
but it's basically like a mega chat app
that you can log into all your separate messaging apps.
And you can actually install that on your bots computer.
So again, this is a really magical thing about Grockbot
is you don't need to have native connections to anything.
You can just go into Grockbot's computer,
install whatever app you want,
and then it can use those apps just like you would.
I presume the same might be true for the WhatsApp app.
Okay, yeah.
Middleware connectors to like meta or something,
like we spend a lot on meta and Google,
but having those just natively easy authenticate connect
I think is like a massive unlock
because it keeps just logging out, right?
But do you have an idea on like the kind of roadmap
for when those will come online or yeah?
Yeah, so there are certain things
that I'm not able to go into
just in terms of what's on the way,
but one thing that we did announce just yesterday
is a one password integration.
So you're able to share your password vault with your bot.
And what you could do if you're really open to it
is you could set up a routine for a given bot
to like sort of track whether the token is still active,
whether the login is still active on a tool.
And if you need to re-auth,
then you can have it re-auth for you
using what's in the one password vault.
Okay, because I think like yeah,
the key insight at least for like us too is like we want
like let's say meta or it's search ads,
we wanted to monitor how the ads doing,
increase, decrease, spend,
and then potentially create a new ad, you know,
because it can like it's actually,
like I have a building ads that I have to manually post,
but then if it could start running in that circle,
that's like our dream state.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, and I think it's really about breaking down into,
you know, the other really appealing thing to me
about this particular perch
in looking at all these developments in AI
is like fundamentally what our role is about
is understanding systems and processes
and workflows to begin with.
I think that's true even before the world of AI
is we're sort of always bringing that systems approach
to how does this get done
and how can it get done even better?
And I think by leaning into that tendency
that we already have,
we can help the AI tools codify those processes
into these like actual automations
that are running on our behalf.
And so when I think about automating complex jobs
and tend, I spend a lot of time thinking about like,
okay, what are the fundamental blocks of doing this task?
So maybe the first chunk is like being able to log
into that platforms and look at the analytics.
And then the second chunk is, and download a report.
And then the second chunk is, okay,
now look at that data in the context
of all the other data we have, and so on and so forth.
So I think the better that you are,
even in a non AI world, at breaking things down
and like writing detailed instructions
for how to do things,
the better off you'll be building bots around them
because like you can give it clarity,
you can sort of have separate specialized bots
for each portion of the job
and then have them all work in tandem
like you saw before.
Yeah, I have a question.
So if the bot just keep evolving,
what do you think would be the market stack
that's gonna disappear first?
And how do you think about like the relationship
between bots and human?
Yeah, yeah.
I think of it, I really think of it a lot as a mirror.
Oftentimes when I'm talking to bots,
especially in one of those thought partnership sessions
like you saw with the Q and A,
I think of the bot as of course in some ways
it's influencing how I think about what I'm trying to do.
So like it might bring up certain aspects
of the build for that app that I didn't think of myself
but ultimately it's then prompting me to do that thinking
and I'm like, huh, okay, yeah, good point.
And now I'm thinking about it.
Now I'm really engaged with it
and now my engagement with that thought
breeds more thoughts and more ideas
and then I just share that with the bot
and then it has more context to work off of.
And so you can think of it as like if nothing else
you sort of like thinking out loud with these bots
and they're giving you,
you know, in some ways we prompt AI,
in some ways AI is prompting us to think more deeply
about what we're trying to accomplish with it.
So that's what I think about like the relationship
between me and the bot or anyone who uses GROC Bot.
In terms of the stack that I think will go away
it's sort of hard to say.
I think there will probably still be many instances
of like it's really good to just understand
the right buttons to click and menus to navigate
to use certain complex tools.
But I think something that's sort of happened
especially with coding is like the barrier to entry
is so much lower.
I think the engineering profession
had this sort of reckoning over the past few years
that more and more professions are gonna start to have
with the introductions of these kind of tools
around like, okay, what do I do
if my role is no longer just being the gatekeeper
of this like really complicated looking code
that no one else understands?
Like now all of a sudden anyone can produce that code.
And so what's the value add of an engineer?
There is a value add, there definitely is
but that value add is more about that higher level thinking
that intuitive feel for the systems.
And so I think it's helpful
to really get to know the tools deeply
because of similar to before
like what it prompts you to think about
like no one really wants to be a master
at navigating menus
but there's something about that tedious work
that really makes you slow down
and think about what you're trying to do
in those complex tools
just like AI also prompts you to slow down and think.
So I think that is what's gonna remain.
I think using complex tools to the extent
that it gives you deep familiarity with your profession
and expertise and taste.
So approach or think about having the agents work
in harmony so we don't have to do as much.
And then on top of that I'm using GROC myself
and it's learning how I'm doing things
and how I'm approaching things at a brilliant level.
It's kind of what is individual to me.
So how I approach a project may be very different
how he and so how should we think
of synergies between the two?
Yeah, on this front thing
that quite get ahead of anything
at the company in an ounce.
But I think we'll have something really exciting
to address this pretty shortly.
It's all good, I'll say it.
We're just waiting for multiplayer.
We want COD, you know.
The team is working hard
to build a lot more cool stuff.
You probably also can't answer as well.
Where are you gonna get GROC on Tesla?
Oh, on Tesla.
I can't answer that unfortunately.
But I appreciate the excitement.
My parents have Teslas
so believe me they're asking me that question too.
Yeah.
Any other questions?
One question from X.
How can we get the Juno template?
The Juno template.
I can definitely provide any of these bots
that you saw here today as templates afterwards.
We can figure out the logistics
and get that to the right people after the stream.
One last question.
What has been the feedback from the sales team
on the lead dating app that you created?
So they love it.
They really do.
Everyone was like, this is crazy.
Just the idea of being on the subway on the way to work
and I'm swiping left and right
and someone's looking over my shoulder
and has no clue what I'm using
but I'm working through my leads.
I'm building pipeline.
Come on guys.
So people really love the concept.
I think it's reflected in the numbers.
We, like I mentioned earlier
within a couple of weeks of introducing this
hit record highs in terms of lead review rates.
So I think that sort of shows it all.
Sales reps are working through their back logs
getting to inbox zero
and the tool really helps them do it way, way better
than clicking through five different menus
opening up five tabs to look into this lead
and what ad did they even see when they became a lead
and all these different things
only to like then have to click through three more menus
and the lead properly.
Clearly that was not something they were a fan of.
So they really love it.
One really funny thing that I heard from a rep was
like, yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't need another dating app
in my life.
And my reaction was like, well,
at least this is a dating app where like
if you get the date, it could actually earn you money, right?
You don't have to spend money on this date.
So they really love it.
And I can see many ways that it could expand
and really be like one command center from Signal to SQO.
So this is really just the beginning
and it's really exciting to have that ability
to like keep building more and more and more
thanks to a tool like Rockbot.
Awesome.
Well, I think that is our time.
Now one last, oh, one more question.
Yeah, last question.
Thank you for the presentation.
What tasks should remain human-owned
even if it's capable bots?
One, what tasks should remain human-owned?
Yeah.
Is the question, yeah.
You know, more and more over time, it becomes clear
how much relationships matter.
I mean, we've always known this as human beings.
We are social creatures.
We want to form relationships.
I think, you know, how many of you in the room
like knew what Rev Ops or Mar Ops was
when you were four years old?
Okay, no hands.
How many of you would you say you like 1,000% today,
1,000% know what Rev Ops and Mar Ops is?
No hands, okay.
These are concepts that we created as human beings
to solve certain problems.
And those concepts that we created were around
of human work to do in that vein.
So, you're all seeing this on the screen.
I'm really excited to announce to all of you
we just launched this challenge.
It's live on X.
And the way this challenge works
is you can share a Grockbot
that you simply cannot live without.
And then you and a guest could be headed
to Starbase in Texas
for the rare chance to watch a Starship launch in person.
This is really exciting.
When we came up with this challenge internally,
we were all like, can we enter also?
Like, oh my God, how does this work?
And so all you have to do to enter is
just go on X, follow at Grock and at bot.
And then quote our challenge post.
I think that's what you'll reach if you scan that QR code.
So quote the post, give a description of your Grockbot
and a link to your shared bot template.
And basically good luck and see what happens
and hope to see you all at many more events
like this in the future.
It's been really fun talking to you all today.
Thanks.
Just like electric eyes.
Anyway, I'm like this way across USA
plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs.
And then he was a she says, hey, babe,
take a walk on the wild side, said, hey, honey,
take a walk on the wild side.
Okay, we're back.
Welcome back, everyone.
Hope you've enjoyed the morning so far.
We are cranking away at deploying our game.
And so for those who are just joining us,
we've got a team of SpaceX AI folks here.
We are on day three of our three day mission
to launch a game studio and our very first game.
The idea here is that we were using Grockbot
to power and build a business from scratch
and kind of going through the last few days of ideation
have settled on a game studio and a game.
So I'm pretty excited for those of you
who have deployed production apps,
web apps into production with a tight timeline.
You might understand some of the things
that we're working through right now.
So Lauren and Matt are cranking away at all kinds of stuff.
I figured we'd hop back on and kind of tell you
a little bit about where we are in the process
and kind of just walk you through what's going on.
So you get a feel for what's happening behind the scenes.
We are currently managing a bunch of client secrets
and web secrets.
And so we probably won't show our screens
a little for at least a little bit, you know,
just we're not going to deploy
live production secrets on stream.
So sorry for anyone who was hoping to get that out of us,
but basically what we've built
is a sort of card battler style game.
We showed this a little bit earlier as a preview.
We're actually doing a really great UI polish pass
that we're really excited about.
So hopefully gonna give everything a fresh coat of paint,
make our cards look super slick.
Lower your expectations.
Okay, okay, okay.
We'll stand back.
It looks a little bit better,
but I mean, still a lot of improvement.
Still a lot of improvement.
And so maybe that brings me to the plan for the day,
which is, you know, we're here in San Francisco
live at Grockbock Galaxy.
We're in this beautiful space.
It's a bunch of stuff happening in person.
We have a bunch of talks happening downstairs.
We have our little studio space set up upstairs
in this space.
And we're going to be cutting back and forth
to a bunch of content throughout the day.
We might have some guests on today.
For those of you who've been tuned in
for the three days, you know,
we've been kind of mixing it up as we go,
bringing in some experts in the industry
and how to build a business,
bringing in some folks around, you know,
from SpaceX AI who are experts
in working with Grockbot
and kind of showing you some of their presentations as well.
And so we'll keep cutting over to stuff as we go.
And, you know, what we really want to do
is get this app live and get all of your feedback.
So Matt earlier this morning
was working on some feedback channels.
We're going to make, you know, make a way
so we can get your feedback that you're experiencing
while you're playing the game
and using the product into the app.
I'm going to talk a little bit more
about monetization this afternoon
and bring in some SpaceX AI folks
who can help us with the marketing plan
and revenue plan.
So I'm pretty excited about that if we get the chance.
But then really just want to get the app live
and be able to iterate based on your feedback.
And so we're hoping we'll do is ship
a little bit of a play test in the next little while,
get the play test live
and then kind of once we have that live go
and really just ship and iterate.
So, you know, I think there's the classic startup line
where if you're not embarrassed by it,
it's not ready for prime time.
So definitely some stuff we're embarrassed by I think
but that's a good thing.
We're going to turn that into a good thing,
get it live and be able to just iterate
throughout the day.
Lots of opportunities to add polish,
lots of opportunities to add new features.
Really just want to make sure we can make something really fun
that Brooks were excited to play with
and building something want.
And that's where we are right now.
Just to give you a sense of what's happening
in the actual deployment process.
So we're using a bunch of different tools
to make this come to light.
So we've been using Grockbox,
obviously is our core driver for the business.
We have a team of Grockbox doing everything
from managing our software factory
where we have automatic bug fixes,
automatic play tests, automatic reviews.
And we have, let's maybe not show screens
if that's okay while we're working.
Thank you, thank you.
Automatic bug fixes, automatic PR reviews happening.
We have any good game, we need some play testing.
And so we have play testing happening
and we have bots that are kind of doing
all these various things kind of put together
in a little bit of an engine.
And so anytime we catch a bug in production,
a bot can notice that and can go ahead
and prompt a cloud agent to go and fix it
and make a PR for it.
And we have a play tester bot who'll pick up that change,
run it through the game engine,
make sure that everything's working well
and then kind of approve the PR
in addition to the other approval steps
and our continuous integration suite.
So all that is powered by a combination
of Grockbox and GitHub working together.
But we're obviously gluing together
a bunch of other stuff to make this work too.
So what math's working on right now
is getting authentication working with Quirk.
And so we had a Quirk developer account
that we set up in order to get a login with X to work.
So we're gonna support login with X on the product
where folks can log in and participate in a leaderboard.
So hopefully you guys get a chance to sign in.
You'll be able to play the game.
Each player will get an ELO score.
So depending on how it goes over time,
you'll hopefully be able to increase your rank in the game.
We're pretty excited about that.
And so we'll be able to make that leaderboard
available to folks who sign in with Twitter.
We also have a practice mode in the app.
And so what math's working on right now
is getting our Quirk configuration cleaned up,
making sure that we have all the domains
pointing in all the right ways,
all the DNS records set up in all the
So again, for those of you who have deployed apps into prod,
managed large web apps,
I think you can probably commiserate
with some of these issues.
So yeah, we have Quirk that's helping handle our authentication.
We're using Vercel as our hosting provider here.
And so that's been really great.
We have a bunch of Vercel settings
that obviously when you flip from development
to production mode,
we've been kind of testing each PR.
That's how our play tester bot handles testing
is by kind of accessing those Vercel preview links.
But going to production obviously involves
hardening the app a little bit,
making sure we have great database control,
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Kind of making sure that we're seeing those issues come in being able to triage them fix them and then continue to do that while evolving the product
So you'll see another set of issues. Well, hopefully not too many, but we're going to we're trying to
Also doing a UI rewrite, so I don't know we wrote the UI we just revamped our
Authentication stuff. So when you flip from a development to production kind of authentication
There's a bunch of a lot and call back stuff. You have to reconfigure and I don't know
It's a interesting lesson because you know a big part of not just building a business
But building like software is connecting things together and figuring out like production environments and like what
Production is how that's different from a development environment
And yeah, it's not always like fun and just like making stuff happen
sometimes it's like literally figuring out the glue but agents are quite good for that because you know
Previously you would have had to diagnose these issues manually
Which if anybody's tried to do this before it takes a lot of time and so
Having an agent understanding, you know
I think a larger point is is all of the same skills that apply in like software engineering or running a business still apply
So if you think about like what it means to be able to debug something like previously that was like, okay
I'm gonna understand all of the steps in a process and then I'm gonna go by go through those manually one by one until I
Kind of identify an error point now
We can we can lean on agents to help us do that
But all the principles are kind of still the same which is like between point a and point B
There are x number of things that can go wrong and how do I think about where we are where we're going and then where all those
Sort of points are right and I often describe this like, you know fixing like a lamp
Maybe if a lamp is not working the first question you should ask is is it is the light bulb working?
Or is the bulb burnt out and is it plugged in and if you can diagnose those two issues and they're
They're both working then the issue is somewhere in between those two right and then your job as an engineer or someone trying to fix
This lamp someone who's trying to do it themselves is to figure out what point in that chain can go wrong
And this is exactly the same with software so you know
We have a lot of like API keys and things floating around which is why we're kind of talking through this
But these are good good lessons and it's the same thing in business, right?
So while you were talking, I know you've been working on getting the clerk app working in production
Yep, I just signed in and I'm looking at the clerk dashboard. Let's not show this on screen, please
Looking at the clerk dashboard and I see one active user. So we have our first
I'm the active user. I'm playing a game right now, too. Okay, cool. Okay, maybe clerk's dashboard is lagging behind. I just lost that
So, you know, essentially what we did was flip from dev to prod and now, you know
Our prod instance has active users and
And we're starting to get things working. So I see I see three active users
Okay. Okay. So we have we have user authentication. We have a game
I think that works. Yeah, I think right now. I think I think it just it just start working
Yeah, what else is on our launch checklist?
So we were talking a little bit off stream about all the things we need to do to feel good to get this launch out to the world
And so
What are the things that are on our launch checklist and maybe what I can do is why don't I just like make a
Notion doc and we can just you know put together this checklist right now
I'm gonna bug you guys a little bit. I know your heads down, but let me see what I can do
I'm gonna pull up my screen. And so now like let's go ahead and cut to my screen if we can
Actually, give me one second. Let me just close some tabs. There we go. There we go. We're good. We're good. We're good. Okay
And so for those who are not familiar we have a
Notion doc that we have been working on and yep got it got it got it and
We basically yesterday just to catch you guys up on how we thought about managing the context for the company
Is that we we end up creating well, it looks like we have our agents
I think they need to be cleaned up. It's kind of agents have gone hard in here
We also have a here we go
So yeah, we did create a sort of task board that we've been using with our agents
They've been logging data into a Notion database. This is a little messy. It looks like where's my checklist that I'm looking for
Okay, we'll see if I can find it we have a working to-do list here
We have a bunch of other company context that we've been putting in things like our canonical database schema things like
The source of truth for our game mechanics
And these are just really helpful ways for bots to be able to interact with other bots and to be able to interact with company context
I think Lauren had a really great point on Tuesday when we kicked off
Which is like, you know very often for coding agents the code base is the best source of context and memory
And so that's obviously a huge part of the actual software engineering loop
But for many of the operational things it helps to be able to write docs
And so we have a bunch of these docs that we've created
What I want to do though now is make a launch checklist
So let's just work through this live. I think we need a few things we have to get authentication working. I
Think that works now
Do we want to land the UI rewrite before we I don't think we need to
Be curious, I mean, I think I feel it should we should we launch it right now
You're saying the checklist is that's it. There's nothing else
I mean, I think we could maybe set expectations. This is like a first play test
The UI is not very polished
And we're not sure if things will break
I'm pretty sure things will
Yeah, but I feel like we could probably I
Don't know. What do you think should we should we polish it more? What does Chad think if do you want to play it right now?
Just as long as you understand that it's pretty it's not very polished at the moment
I don't know. I haven't clicked through it in a while. So if you guys think it's ready then
How about this? Why don't you go to our
Go to your browser. Okay. Hide the URL. Okay
Maybe do maybe hide the URL
Maybe turn off the screen. Yeah, my screen share for a second. Then you go to our app our game
Yeah, hide the URL and then see if you can play it and then we can show up. We can show up playing it
And if we feel good about it, let's just share the URL with everyone in the chat and
Do our first play test. Cool. We haven't read will do it live. I've got to finish the rename. So
Okay
Okay, so if we want to go back to my screen moment of truth, let's see. Let's see if things work
We can pull my screen back up
You zoom in I think if I zoom in it's gonna cause some formatting issues
So let's try running it with
These are the kinds of things that I think we need to clean up. So if I hit practice we added a practice mode
Maybe explain the game because I feel like we made so many changes. It's not clear
Yeah, well, we need to add a tutorial. I think that'd be really cool. Yeah
Yeah, so essentially what we've built here is sort of an auto battler style game where we have
The set a set of pre-loaded cards these cards are all generated from grok bot templates
And so we seeded a set of cards or a deck of cards with
you know
Abilities from the grok bot marketplace and this is really fun where we have our office ops desk or a writing bot
Or a dial bot each of these cards have stats
So they have two key stats. They have an attack stat and a health stat like an HP stat
and they all have an ability and so each card has a separate ability that's been minted for that card and
What's really cool about these is that these abilities really modify the gameplay
So the way the game works is it takes place over three rounds
In each round you set your lineup of thoughts
And so you kind of line your bots up and you're matched against another person who's also set a lineup of thoughts
And what the way this works is you basically spend you have a pool of gold that you use that you're sort of spending over the course of the round
So why don't I just show you show you the first round? I'm gonna just go ahead and buy three bots
So I'll buy my office ops desk. I guess it's pretty small by the way, so you might want to just read out stuff
Yeah, well, why don't I pinch and zoom that might be? Oh, yeah, perfect
So we have our office ops desk card
You can see that attack there you can see the health there and you can see up here that it's in the first spot
It has this ability called hold the line. It's pretty cool
So what does that have against hurt from the front of the line? It'll restore one HP
So just basically be a little damaged tank for us. Yeah, and I don't know if I love these help texts, but we can always
That's what a card looks like we have to have a cool
Way we're gonna modify that and so basically what I do here is I set my lineup
So I got the office ops desk
Earlier if you saw these the base cards cost three gold and so I start with ten gold and I'm down to seven
And so oh you found a bug, okay, the the the names suddenly changed the unknown bot. I don't know what happened there
Oh, yeah, a good point. Okay. That's a good catch. That might be one we should fix
We should probably fix that but you can still show the card. Oh a hundred percent
So here's an unknown bot that previously had a name definitely has a cute image
This bot is a 3 3 and is unknown and apparently had an ability before let me see if I make sure refresh and see
Okay, well when I bought we get yeah, that's a dog. I'll fix that there's dialbot dialbot is a 3 3 bot that has poke
So anytime the game starts this bot deals one damage to the enemy in the front lines
And so what's cool about this game is that basically you're setting a lineup and then the cards of the bots
all have abilities that
You know make it so that you can basically modify the behavior of other bots in the other teams lineup
And so the idea here is that it's sort of lineup versus lineup with a bunch of cool abilities
So this is our second bot dialbot and then we're going to buy our third bot here
It's writing bot that spends almost all my gold you'll see him down to one
And you'll see that we have our writing bot here whose ability is to give the frontmost friend to attack
So it ends up being really fun about this is that because of the way these cards all have different things
They can do and because they all modify the lineup you can kind of compose this together
So for example, I know that my strongest attack bot here is this office ops desk and
Actually is pretty able to withstand a lot of damage too
So I can do is drag my writing bot to the second slot and what the sec what the writing bot does is give the frontmost friend to attack
But it also has a ton of defense of its own
I think what this will do is set me up for a really strong start in spot one and then the be able to have two
Sort of characters who can tank a little bit of damage for me, which I think would be great
And then you'll see this guy. Yeah, it's a heel to attack. I think I like this setup
Yeah, and then we'll get dial bot at the very beginning of the match. We'll just deal one damage to the enemy front
So I really like this combo because I think this will give me, you know a four attack to start
Against a potentially weaker opponent, which I think is going to be really really cool
So I like this lineup and the way the game works is if I had a little more money
I could buy these upgrades and so every round between rounds and again, it's the best of three rounds
You basically go in and can get you know an upgrade in this case. I had to get a plus one plus one
I don't have three gold. Just go ahead and fight round one
So you're seeing here. I'm getting paired against
Another team of bots and it looks like my strategy worked out pretty well
See, there we go that worked
And so what you're seeing happening over the course of the game is that the bots are do can get out those abilities fire
It's a bit of an event stream here. You know one idea. I'm thinking is I wonder
Yeah, we should show like like
Yeah, I was just as you're playing I was just noticing that it happened so fast
I didn't actually know what's going on. Yep. So it'd be cool if now you could maybe even step through the thing even
Yeah, if you wanted to play or just let it auto play actually, you know what for an MVP
Why don't we just make it quick through? I feel like it could be sure that an autoplay button. Yeah. Yeah
Okay, cool. So we're gonna continue. So now that's round one
And then of course you can continue through two more rounds
But what's really cool now is we have a few new bots that have entered the fray and so you got an uncommon card
The green bar. Yeah, so I got an uncommon card, which is super strong looks like
this card gets stronger when the card in front of it faints and so
This might be a really cool one to pair with one of my other bots, but I have some choices to make right?
So I have I know that what I'm fighting against so I can see my my opponents lineup
At least from what I saw last time. I have ten gold and
These bots are pretty expensive, but but I have some some room to work with so
I think what I could do here is sell
So we can see some of the text this all. Yeah, I think what what what what bots do you have in your shop now?
So I have the SEO and 8.0
Deal one damage to the enemy in the same seat. Mm-hmm
I feel like we should definitely buy the nightly audit engineer 100% since it's uncommon and maybe sell the dialbot
I don't think that's that good. So that gave me a gold. We should probably say how much they sell for on here
Oh, yeah, you get one gold for selling them
But I'm gonna buy my nightly audit engineer and this gives plus two attack when the friend ahead faints
I actually really like this combo
So what what this is gonna do is?
My office ops desk is gonna get this height benefit, which will give it plus two attack
So it'll be a five five and then when it faints this will turn into a five six
That's a pretty good combo. You have enough gold to buy the power up to the apple. Oh, right, okay
Where do you think we should put that?
Can you consume it? Yes, the apple is a just gives us plus one plus one to anybody. Oh
You stack the front line
Sure, and that's like our main damage dealer. Yeah, let's try it. Okay. So this is now a four four six
It's pretty beefy. Yep
And then we have four gold left. I guess we could
Swap another bot we could sell and buy but I kind of like this line. Yeah, I think it's like it's really good
Let's go with that. Okay. Let's go with that. So here we go
We're gonna fight round two. This is where maybe the sound effects and the music you had could be
This is awesome. Yeah, look we did so well here. And again, this is just practice. So this is just fighting our AI
Which is not very smart
But you know, it still feels good to win. Yeah. Yeah, but when we start actually releasing it
We'll have players will be able to you know, compete with each other and we'll start tracking scores
And the leaderboard will start getting active. So yeah
And we'll keep iterating on it too. So a lot of polish things that we're seeing
So one of the things that we do internally is we have this tradition where anytime we're gonna launch a product
We fuzz it or we kind of walk through
Literally step-by-step of the entire experience. We can literally just do this
We all get into a room together and sit in our laptops and test the feature
Obviously this should we share this with the chat now. Yeah. Well, do you think we're ready?
Only one way to find out. Okay. Okay. Well, here's the home page
There's a bot menu see all the oh, yeah, this is actually a bug. We don't need to show this
I don't know why the I
Cards in here, but actually I guess you this could be cool to show
So like we were saying earlier we looked at the X AI
If you go to X AI X dot AI slash bot slash marketplace
you'll see all of the bot templates that we have that are featured and
Basically what we did is we turned all of these into bots in our game
And we also generated a custom
Profile picture for them like a cute little avatar. We're still we're gonna make this UI look a lot nicer
But yeah, there's a lot of cards to choose from and they have different
Rarity as well. So like there's the common cards. You have uncommon cards rare cards
These are really good. Yeah, so these ones are like better stats or more interesting abilities
And then she's engineer by epic epic cards. I agree link. She's epic and oh, yes, dr. Egg
I might have I might have cheated a little bit and
Favorite my own bot as an epic bot. Well, I didn't I didn't make dr. Eggbot legendary
I feel like as game creators, we should each get one legendary bot of our own
Maybe maybe yeah, or maybe we can feature somebody's spot, right? Yeah, someone in the chat as a legendary
Yeah, actually, if you create a bot template and we like it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah
You can do that just from rock bot create a bot and rock bot hit the share button
You can export as a template share your bot temples with us and the will pick maybe we'll pick a few of our favorites and bring
Him into the chat. I like that or bring him into the alright
So I think it's really important for our game studio that we actually get real feedback. Yeah
So let's do a really quick five second huddle. Cool. Should we launch it right now?
You have the Twitter account or the X account ready, right? I have the X account
Yeah, I mean the X account is not there's no details on it, but we have the URL. The URL is good
We can do a play test. We can just say this is a play test
Right with a set expectations, you know, it's gonna probably got we'll have bugs and errors
But hopefully you'll get to play it with us and give us feedback. Let's ship it. Let's show you. Yeah
I'm down. All right
I feel like Matt should do the honors and and make our first X post our first X
I didn't say I was logged in
Get the post up and then on stats up we'll put it on your screen maybe sounds good. Yeah
And then we'll just start watching our
Logs I guess make sure everything's working. I think I'm logged in on my phone. Yeah, and one thing well
So a couple of things for folks who are just catching up just tuning in while Matt gets us set up
We are you are watching us joining us mid-launch
We are launching our game studio that we've been working on for the last day and changed
You're on day three of our 72 hour live stream to build a product build a company entirely with rockbox
We you know spent some time early on ideating
We settled on an idea early electric late day one early day two that we've been running with and we're building a game studio
and we're launching our first game and
Well, we we know it has a lot of polish that it needs
But we're really excited to get it out there and get into people's hands. So we're imminently here going to
reveal our our domain and reveal our X account
And what's one thing I'll call out is like, you know, the those will be the only real accounts and domains associated with this
And so I want to make sure that you know, you're coming to the source
And that any any other associations you see you're not going to be by us
So we'll reveal the two official sources of truth for this app and and be able to share those out
Did you hear the post up? We are posting
No, yeah, I'm literally updating the X account is default and blank
Yeah, this is like and and I guess if you've ever worked at a startup or built a startup if you're on or thinking about one
You know, this is what this is what it's like. It's super scrappy things don't work
But there's a real I think it's really fun when you know, you have you're working with a team of founders
You have there's a lot of energy. I see Roshan your screen. Oh, no, that's your screen. That's my screen
Okay, so we go to I'm logged into my account from I have it up. I have it up when you're ready as soon as you tweet
We can cut to my screen if you're ready. All right, okay
There's a arena is live with our default the fault profile picture because I literally didn't have
And yeah, I remind it to everyone that Thursday arena
this is the only official X account for our game studio and
Thursday arena calm is our only official game
So if you're seeing anything related to this project that it's not coming from the at Thursday arena X account
Or it's not being shown to you on Thursday arena calm. It is not us
This these are the two spots of source of truth. And yeah, let me actually just retweet the your post and follow
Yeah, side there's a side quest of our game, which is how many followers can we get on this Twitter account?
So one thing one little tool that I built like I like emojis
So I have this what I have my own site emoji dot Matt Palmer that I that actually allows you to download any Apple emoji
As a PNG nice little tool that I have for myself. So I can get a little a little cupcake emoji here
Maybe that's our you know, that's our first X
profile image
But yeah, we're at Moji. So cute kid name. Yeah, we're working on some in the background
I'm working on some of the like
Favicon and like styling things as well as OG images a little quick tip for you anytime you make a website anytime you have a business
You probably want it to show up nice like if I went to Thursday arena and like search for it on Google or something, right?
Meta information are the thing is the things you see here
So like clearly we're not doing our SEO or AEO yet
We're gonna work on that but you want the information shown to be
Like number one, you want it to use best practices and search engine optimization
Nice freezers sorry to interrupt you but look at our leaderboard. We have
We have 96 people on the leaderboard. I don't know if we have pagination. You want to bring up the leaderboard?
You may have to sign in so we got our
Sign it sign it works. Yes, I know works. So that's good to hear nice that it works
While they're doing that I also have a bot that's working on building us some dashboards
And so we want to be able to track how the launch is going
I
Was in second place all of the last 24 hours, I need to let me enjoy my number one spot for oh
My gosh, I only have are you're losing?
You're gonna go to silver going down on the on the leaderboard
You need to think about your strategy
So one of the things I'm doing all Matt's playing here is I love bots for routines for product launches
I do this all the time so anytime we launch something internally spacex AI I put together
I ask a bot to say, you know, you're my data scientist
But you have all the context and how all of our data science works and all the stuff in our dashboards
Generate me a launch pulse. And so that's what I'm doing on my screen right now where I just asked my bot to you know
This is a lot more fun than dashboards. I know I know but put together a 15 minute pulse
So every 15 minutes I'm gonna get see I'm gonna get thrown some dashboards to see how the launch is going
You can track some new signups track the number of practice rounds
We've had get a sense of if we maybe have a conversion funnel here where we want to convert people from
Practice accounts to real accounts all the cool sort of product metrics that you might love for any new app
But we're live exciting. So shall we call up people who are trying to climb the leaderboard?
Yeah, maybe we'll hit over now. We have second place Ben
Lawrence screen real quick and she's gonna shout some folks out. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, so well now I'm in third place
I've fallen down and in the rankings because I've been
Slacking off and we have Ben J. Bush in second place Roshan still holding strong
First place. I might actually have we might consider have making this leaderboard update every minute or something
But I can just what does it now?
It doesn't it's okay. It's a refresh. Yeah, Ben J. Bush getting very close to beating you Roshan
He's at one zero four six points and you're at one oh four seven
So also we're up to 225 followers on X. Wow, very nice
Are you working on the I think it'd be really cool to show like how many users we have live
I know you can bring that up. Yeah, I'm working at my my bot. Okay. Don't don't share Roshan screen yet
But yeah, I think it'd be really cool to see how many people we have like concurrently and I'm to be honest
I am very impressed that this the app hasn't crashed yet because oh Ben J. Bush is now in first place. Congratulations
We did mention that maybe we'll have to have some prizes for people in the leader. We'll talk about that very soon
But yeah, as I was saying, you know, like the factory was really spinning up last night
We were merging PRs automatically to be entirely honest. I didn't look at the code at all
I just used potato mode and P stack and
You know told my bot to like make this really performant and make sure we can handle the giant
you know a giant swarm of people on X playing our game and
So far so good. It's it's still you know, I'm dropping down the ranks. I'm only at 11th place. I gotta start playing some games
But while Roshan's still working on the
The dashboard I can actually show you some of the commits I guess the
To be honest, I'm this is like the first time I'm looking at some of them, but a lot of this was like
I didn't really I didn't I didn't tell my bots to put in a lot of effort in the commit titles
You can see actually Roshan was landing a lot of commits in the last hour
Let me just just be working on dashboards that I'm also trying to get my rating back up
That's important, but yeah, I did a lot of you know, like things like fixing our migrations. I had I had a bug
But one thing that for the techie people in in who are in our chat
so one thing I was thinking about as we were building this was like type safety and
It's like a very you know when you start building a real game you start thinking about
like how to actually maintain and
Again entirely on us like when we first started building it was very very scrappy very loose didn't look at the code at all
So I didn't even know what we were gonna expect
Wow, we have almost 500 users. Oh, wow, that's huge
and
Yeah, so so our back end is built with go and it's actually a serverless back end built with for cell functions
So I think that's maybe part of the reason we also use planet scale for our database
So that's probably why it's so it's actually working pretty well right now. Thanks to the we're standing on the shoulders of great of great
engineers and
So one thing I was trying to think about last night was
How do I make sure that the back end and the front end the client like stay and think so, you know
When you're back and talk to your friend in it would be talking over some protocol
So for us, we just use a rest protocol
but
So one thing I was starting to think about was type safety. So type safety is this idea of you know on the back end like let's say you have a
Bot type right and the bot has certain fields like you know, it has a display
Display name. It has our avatar. It has some stats associated with it
And let's say, you know as Matt Roshan and myself are contributing to the code days
How do we ensure that if I make a back end change and
Roshan makes a front end change that we don't conflict, you know, like maybe Roshan
redesigns the card and I
Removed a field right and now the field that the UI is reading from is no longer able to get that data
So one of the things that I started to look at was like, how do we ensure that type safety over?
over the the network and
I honestly didn't really have a if I had spent more time
I might have designed this differently, but for now it's kind of a basic approach where we parse the
The responses we get from the back end through Zod Zod's is really great library
JavaScript library and
It essentially let you parse the response and handle them and make sure that it's all validated and correct
Can someone also create a QR code to our Thursday
calm
It's up there. You got it. Awesome. Awesome. Oh, it's up there. Um, yeah, right there. I have some dashboards. Should we take a look at that?
Yeah, yeah, let's switch to Roshan screen. Yeah, let's switch to my screen. Please. What's a what's a business without a dashboard?
You know, I you know a proper person. I need metrics. I'm blind without them
Let me zoom in a little bit here. So, um, yeah, this is grok bot
Can kind of see some of the bots that we have set up
It looks like my founding engineer here is just still listening to all the PRs that are coming in
So we're working away. Um, what I love to do is I was saying a second ago is for new launches
But use grok bot to drive my metrics and reporting. I find that this is actually a really powerful way to just get quick on-demand data
Versus having to go to a dashboard website log in kind of navigate through a bunch of clicks
And honestly what's even better about this is I can just get my live cuts of data that I need like now
So I don't have to go and like recreate a dashboard
I just wanted to interrupt you to say I love hockey stick charts. Oh, yes, the one I'm squinting in the middle
Oh, yes, let's take a look. Let's take a look at the charts. Okay, so we already have over 600 practice sessions
This is like as of I don't know two minutes ago
I love funnel metrics
So looks like 38 of our users or 38 practice sessions converted to sign in with x 400 people signing with x
I know that number is already higher than it is just based on what we saw
Um, we have wow a hockey stick chart. This is traffic spike
It's time to it's time to get funding guys. Yeah. Yeah up into the right
Cool little funnel snapshot here. Uh, these are really great as we can kind of see where in the funnel
We're losing people obviously like for for for games and SaaS products
We care a lot about retention recurring visits and obviously if you want to monetize this
This will be, you know metrics that our monetization partners will care a lot about
Some cool signed in matches by phase. I don't know why it's calling this SAP matches, but that's okay
Shop result in battle so we can kind of see when people are signing in
We have a sign in the x button throughout the product so we can kind of see when we're capturing the sign in it
That's really cool
Actually something I'm curious about I've always wanted to know it's like, you know as a as a product manager
When you're thinking about how to grow the product and act on user feedback and you know prioritize what's most important
Uh, what what do you look at like I guess for me, you know, like I want to see the obviously
I want to see the user numbers go up and engagement
But do you have any like go through things that you see to like, you know, like
Where do where are people falling off in the product or in the game?
Yeah, I think it actually really depends on what type of product you're building and so for where we are
We're a zero to one company

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flacking off and we have Benji Bush in second place.
Roshan still holding strong on first place.
I might actually have,
we might consider have making this leaderboard update
every minute or something, but I can just,
what does it do now?
It doesn't, it doesn't, oh okay, it's a refresh, yeah.
Benji Bush getting very close to beating you, Roshan.
He's at 1046 points and you're at 1047, so.
So we're up to 225 followers on X, wow.
Very nice, and are you working on the,
I think it'd be really cool to show like how many users
we have live, I don't know if you can bring that up.
Yeah, I'm working on my, my bot is-
Oh okay, don't share Roshan's screen yet, but.
Yeah.
I think it'd be really cool to see how many people
we have like concurrently and I'm, to be honest,
I am very impressed that this,
the app hasn't crashed yet because,
oh Benji Bush is now in first place, congratulations.
We did mention that maybe we'll have to have some prizes
for people in the leader, we'll talk about that very soon.
But yeah, as I was saying, you know,
like the factory was really spinning up last night.
We were merging PRs automatically,
to be entirely honest, I didn't look at the code at all.
I just used potato mode and P stack
and told my bot to like make this really performant
and make sure we can handle the giant,
you know, a giant swarm of people on X playing our game
and so far, so good.
It's still, you know, I'm dropping down the ranks now.
I'm only at 11th place.
I got to start playing some games.
But while Roshan's still working on the dashboard,
I can actually show you some of the commits, I guess.
To be honest, I'm, this is like the first time
I'm looking at some of them,
but a lot of this was like, I didn't really,
I didn't tell my bots to put in a lot of effort
in the commit titles.
You can see actually Roshan was landing a lot of commits
in the last hour.
Let me just filter.
Sorry, I'm not just working on dashboards
and I'm also trying to get my rating back up.
So, I'm also trying.
That's important.
But yeah, I did a lot of, you know,
like things like fixing our migrations.
I had a bug.
But one thing that, for the techie people
in our chat, so one thing I was thinking about
as we were building this was like type safety.
And it's like a very, you know,
when you start building a real game,
you start thinking about like how to actually maintain.
And again, entirely honest,
like when we first started building this,
it was very, very scrappy, very loose.
Didn't look at the code at all.
So, I didn't even know what we were gonna expect.
Wow, we have almost 500 users.
Oh, wow, that's huge.
And yeah, so our backend is built with Go
and it's actually a serverless backend
built with Excel functions.
So, I think that's maybe part of the reason.
Oh, we also use PlanetScale for our database.
So, that's probably why it's so,
it's actually working pretty well right now
thanks to the, we're standing on the shoulders
of great engineers.
And so one thing I was trying to think about last night was,
how do I make sure that the backend and the front end,
the client, like stay in sync?
So, you know, when you're back and talk to your friend in,
it would be talking over some protocol.
So for us, we just use a REST protocol,
but so one thing I was trying to think about
was type safety.
So type safety is this idea of, you know,
on the backend, like let's say you have a bot type, right?
And the bot has certain fields, like, you know,
it has a display name, it has our avatar,
it has some stats associated with it.
And let's say, you know, as Matt, Roshan and myself
are contributing to the code base,
how do we ensure that if I make a backend change
and Roshan makes a front end change,
that we don't conflict, you know,
like maybe Roshan redesigns the card
and I removed a field, right?
And now the field that the UI is reading from
is no longer able to get that data.
So one of the things that I started to look at was like,
how do we ensure that type safety over the network?
And I honestly didn't really have a,
if I had spent more time, I might have designed this
differently, but for now it's kind of a basic approach
where we parse the responses we get
from the backend through Zod.
Zod's is really great library, a JavaScript library,
and it essentially lets you parse the response
and handle them and make sure that it's all validated
and correct.
Can someone also create a QR code
to our thursdayrugina.com?
Oh, it's up there.
You got it, awesome, awesome.
Oh, it's up there?
Yeah, right there in the apartment.
Oh, cool.
I have some dashboards, should we take a look at that?
Yeah, yeah, let's switch to Roshan screen.
Yeah, let's switch to my screen, please.
What's a business without a dashboard?
I'm a product person, I need metrics.
I'm blind without them.
Let me zoom in a little bit here.
So yeah, this is GrockBot.
Can kind of see some of the bots that we have set up.
It looks like my founding engineer here
is just still listening to all the PRs
that are coming in, so we're working away.
What I love to do is I was saying a second ago
is for new launches, use GrockBot
to drive my metrics and reporting.
I find that this is actually a really powerful way
to just get quick on-demand data
versus having to go to a dashboard website,
log in, kind of navigate through a bunch of clicks.
And honestly, what's even better about this
is I can just get my live cuts of data that I need now.
So I don't have to go and recreate a dashboard.
I just wanted to interrupt you to say
I love hockey stick charts.
Oh yes.
The one I'm squinting in the middle.
Oh yes, let's take a look at the charts.
So we already have over 600 practice sessions.
This is like as of, I don't know, two minutes ago.
I love funnel metrics.
So it looks like 38 of our users
or 38 practice sessions converted to signing with X.
400 people signing with X.
I know that number's already higher than it is
just based on what we saw.
We have, wow, a hockey stick chart.
This is traffic spike.
Amazing, it's time to get funding, guys.
Yeah, yeah, up into the right.
Cool little funnel snapshot here.
These are really great as we can kind of see
where in the funnel we're losing people.
Obviously like for games and SaaS products
we care a lot about retention, recurring visits
and obviously if you want to monetize this,
this will be metrics that our monetization partners
will care a lot about.
Some cool signed in matches by FaZe.
I don't know why it's calling this SAP matches,
but that's okay.
Shop, result, and battle.
So we can kind of see when people are signing in.
We have a signing with X button throughout the product.
So we can kind of see when we're capturing the signing
event, which is really cool.
Actually something I'm curious about,
I've always wanted to know,
it's like as a product manager,
when you're thinking about how to grow the product
and act on user feedback
and prioritize what's most important,
what do you look at?
I guess for me, I want to see the,
obviously I want to see the user numbers go up
and engagement, but do you have any like go through things
that you see to like, where are people falling off
in the product or in the game?
Yeah, I think it actually really depends
on what type of product you're building.
And so for where we are, we're a zero to one company.
We just launched this,
we're like hopefully going to get a few hundred,
maybe a few thousand users today
if you guys keep signing up.
And for a zero to one product,
we don't have monetization in the app right now.
So really, I think what we care about,
it's a classic sort of Bay Area growth machine, right?
It's like we really want to get as many people
into the product, really liking what we built as possible.
And so the things I care about most are,
are people playing, are they having a good time?
Can we get a sense of do people like what we built?
And so some of that will be through feedback,
some of that will be through the funnel.
So for example, being able to see if people are making
it all the way to a game,
all the way to the end of a game, playing another game,
or are they kind of starting off
and then just falling off immediately
and kind of not coming back?
So funnel metrics are really great for that,
particularly for zero to one products
where you want to get a sense of how things are going.
And then obviously, for a scaled revenue product,
which hopefully we can get to as well,
revenue is a big metric.
We talked with some guests on Monday
that helped build small businesses
and help empower small businesses to really grow
and kind of heard over and over again
that revenue is the main thing
that businesses care about and we're no different, right?
Any good company needs to make money,
needs to make money to keep the product growing
and to keep the product continuing to evolve
and fund all the engineers and help us buy coffee
and all those good things.
And so revenue ultimately at the end of the day
becomes a huge driver, but we're pre-revenue,
we're pre-revenue.
So while we're pre-revenue,
I like to focus more on product metrics.
I like to focus on engagement, retention,
some of those classic metrics,
but obviously tuned to our product here.
So maybe we're happy with a bunch of people
just practicing and not signing up for X,
but maybe for the people who sign in,
we could give them even better experiences.
We could really make the leaderboard more competitive
or add more features for signed in users.
Maybe we give them all kinds of perks, things like this.
And so yeah, I think it's kind of how I think about it.
The other thing that I also really like to think about,
because we're building a game,
the game mechanics are really important here.
And so we mentioned earlier, we love playing games.
We haven't built a ton of games ourselves.
And so we've learned a lot throughout this process,
but one of the things we can do with these metrics
is we can also just get a sense
of how the game is operating.
And one of the things that I know is really important
from game design is making sure
that we don't sort of fall over on the mechanics,
meaning is there enough variety?
Is there enough replayability?
Is the game balanced in a good way
where it feels like you're not losing every time
or you're not winning every time?
Is there a truly competitive dynamic?
So while I was talking a minute ago,
I just asked my bot here to pull some examples
of win losses and how games are going.
It looks like we have a little loss heavy right now
at a 41.8% loss ratio.
And it looks like we have, yeah,
I wonder if our AI matchmaking is working okay?
Because when I was playing,
most of my games seem like they're playing it's AI.
So maybe we should try and...
I think that was because we didn't,
so the way it works is like,
you get matched with another player's snapshot.
And I think at the time we were play testing it,
there wasn't nobody else.
So once you played my snapshot, for example,
it's gone from the pool.
And so then you just match to the AI player.
But now we have players who are actually getting ranked.
If you look at the beauty board,
the scores are continually updating.
Now Nicholas Check is in first place.
Congratulations, at 1-0-8-4.
I'm very curious who's gonna be the first player
to break out of gold if you open the leaderboard.
I have it, I have it.
And zoom in a little bit.
I actually forgot what the next tier is.
I think it's diamond after this.
I think so.
We might need to add more tier.
But we'll see.
Yeah, we'll see.
Yeah, yeah.
So the way ELO works as a rough example,
it's like it gets harder to get points
as you ascend the ladder.
And if you're...
It's really difficult.
There's also some like math behind.
You know, if you get matched up
with a much higher rated player
and you beat them, then you gain more points.
Yeah.
What I'm wondering is we might have a...
Can you zoom in?
Yeah, I was zoomed out because it's hard to pick cards.
Did you match, or you can just pinch?
Yeah.
Did you match against a real person?
I think I'm AI.
That might be a good bug for us to look into.
Yeah, but then I guess, I mean other people,
I see other people score changing.
So they have to be matching with...
Maybe you're ELO's a player for AI.
Let me try and play a game as well and see.
Okay, so while Lauren's looking at that,
I'll bring us back to Grockbot
and we were talking a little bit about game mechanics.
So this can be really helpful too.
It looks like we can see some really quick charts
on our win-loss and then also just opponent difficulties.
So you have ghost players, AI players and unknown.
We should probably come up with some better naming for those.
So these charts are really useful.
If we look at the win-loss,
there are more losses than wins,
which means that AI is just beating people.
Yes, that's exactly what that means.
So this is actually interesting from my game
through your perspective because I actually,
I mean, I don't know,
I've never really built a competitive game before,
but I think I believe the idea is to try to strive
for more or less like a 50%.
Yeah, because you need to feel like you can win,
but also feel like it's losing.
Although it's like right now,
I might feel like it's too unbalanced
where you just keep losing when it's not that fun.
I think I feel like it'd be a good...
This is something we need to iterate on
is like, how do we actually get it more up to 50%?
Maybe we can kick off a bot here and there
and kind of analyze the data.
And this I think is also another example
of how Grockbot is powerful
when you hook up all of the things.
So Roshan's Grockbot is connected to like for cells,
to planet scale, to GitHub,
to all the metrics here.
And so it can pull all of this information together
and start thinking,
like send it to your game designer bot and say,
help us look at this data and understand.
We'll do that right now.
Yeah, help us look at this data
and understand where maybe the game is not as fun
because people are like losing more than they're winning.
And it doesn't feel like you have a good chance of winning.
And it can get you so many good insights
just because of the fact that it has all this context
pulled across all of your different sources.
So I often tell people like the most important thing
about Grockbot actually is not even setting up your bots.
It's actually connecting all of your different tools
and plugins.
You know, you can actually get very far even
with just one bot if you don't wanna set up a team.
Yeah, here's what I have right now.
Yeah, P-Stack of course, Slack, Rasell, X,
PlanetScale, Notion, Clerk, Excalidraw.
We were doing some whiteboarding earlier.
But yeah, really anything you need.
We did some sound design.
So my bots were creating their own skills,
which is really cool so they can do that.
Yeah, anything you need if you want Dr. Eggbot,
you have some featured bots here,
but also a bunch of apps.
And what's cool about this too
is since we're on the same team,
I can see, oh, Matt, it's all remotions.
So maybe I could also get remotions.
Yeah, anything you need, a plugin exists for it,
or you can just also point your agent at the point,
grokbot, add an MCP URL.
It'll install it for you itself.
We added one password yesterday, which is really cool too.
So a lot more of these coming online every single day.
Like agent mail for email, Canva for design,
Clay for go-to-market,
which you heard about earlier today.
Lots of cool stuff here.
Cool, well I have Crit, who's my game design bot.
And I asked my data bot to kind of share the live launch
with Crit.
Crit's been helping us on game design,
kind of walking through the mechanics
that we might want to build.
Are they good, are they bad?
I think production has an update for us, actually.
We have some cappuccinos coming in on set.
We're doing a live delivery.
Thank you production.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, thank you.
Need fuel for the launch?
But yeah, Rosh, I think you're right.
I seem to be getting only AI matches for some reason.
Maybe I don't have it just us,
but other players are getting,
have you gotten like a real player match?
No, I haven't.
We need to work on this.
So I don't know what happened to our,
we definitely have bugs,
but I see people climbing the leaderboard,
so I assume-
I think we're just letting you get Elo
even if you play AI.
No, no, I don't think so.
My Elo didn't change after I won or lost my games.
Interesting.
So maybe we're stuck in some kind of-
Dang, how'd I get to 27th place?
Well, maybe we're just stuck in some weird-
Well, I'm gonna ask my bot, what's going on?
Maybe you can show us like how you would do a bug fix.
Yeah, so in this case, this is a bug I noticed, right?
If it was a bug that was reported through some system
where we find it ourselves,
I would probably like ask the engine to take care of it,
but in this case,
I'm just gonna go to my founding engineer bot
and say like, hey, I think our Elo,
our matchmaking, I'm just gonna narrate for a second.
Hey, so I think our Elo and or our matchmaking
are messed up.
What is happening right now
is every time I play a game on thursdayarina.com
I get paired with an AI player
instead of another player's set or lineup.
But for some reason, as a leaderboard,
the Elo scores are changing a bunch.
And so not quite sure are some people getting paired
and just like the matchmaking is off?
Can you dig into that and figure out what's going on?
Use potato mode and use a cursor cloud agent
for the investigation.
Don't open a PR yet, just come back to me
with what you think is going on
and then we can try and apply a fix.
Can I share that?
Wait, let me, I wanna see-
Can you just mention?
Like that you don't have to open it on,
you don't have to open Slack.
Oh yeah, sure, sure.
Oh, you can at least say like that, but it now works.
So we can cut over to my screen
which I can show you what I've been cooking on
for a little bit.
So one thing that I'm big on
and Lauren talked about these like feedback loops
and we're working on basically getting feedback
from users and then integrating that into the project.
So now you can send feedback
and so if I say, hey, what's up
and send that we're gonna be able
to have that user feedback flow through
into our Slack channel
and I can see that I'm getting feedback.
Now, obviously because we're submitting
user generated content,
there's a lot of moderation
that's going on behind the scenes,
rate limiting, profanity,
all of the things that you need to be very careful
of sanitization if you're logging something
to a database, all the things you need to be careful of
if you're accepting user input
and then also this is behind an authenticated route.
So you have to authenticate with X.
We know that we're not just accepting
submissions from anybody,
but this is the first step right
to being able to then take that feedback
and action upon it.
So maybe we could have Grockbot summarize the feedback
that we're getting, categorize that into features
to then improve our application.
And then we as a product team could decide,
oh, hey, this is actually a really good feedback
we need to incorporate it.
It's also a way, you know,
Lauren talked a lot about fuzzing
or like testing our own application
to start doing that at scale
where we could have people reporting bugs
and then we could start running
like automated bug reports
on some of the user-submitted feedback.
So this is one step.
I'm also working on some other more creative ways
and fun ways for you all to engage with the product
which should be coming soon.
And then we're also kind of working
on some like ads sponsorship stuff.
But I think we're desperately in need of a redesign
as well to see why it's like making me cringe.
There's a lot of good feedback coming in on the X post.
So if you cut over to my screen real quick.
So we'll go to Lauren's screen.
So what I would love to do,
I'm not going to show the feedback live, of course,
as Matt said, but I do want to talk about like,
you know, as an engineer,
how do you actually make use of feedback?
We can get Lauren to Lauren's screen
so she can show off some of the feedback flows, please.
Yes, I'll show you how I use graph bot
to set up like a factory.
But yeah, while we get my screen on the screen,
I'll just talk.
There we go, thanks.
Yeah, so what I'll usually do,
so again, like if you're looking at my graph bot
for the first time, Steve is my chief bot
and I talk to Steve and he delegates to all my other bots.
And the point I wanted to make here is that,
so I copied the link to our Slack channel
and I'm going to tell it something like,
I'm going to use dictation.
All right, Steve, the link above is our Slack channel
that is receiving user feedback
that players of our game are leaving for us.
So I want to set up a factory workflow
where we, you know, look at the feedback,
we triage it, we try to reproduce the issue
and then file a ticket in our Notion database.
And this is going to be our first step for now.
I'll eventually want to hook it up to,
you know, bots that can automatically fix those issues
and open PRs, but we'll save that step for later.
And then another thing that's really important
about receiving user feedback, you know,
user-generated content is that we want to filter
for anything that isn't about the game
or, you know, it contains profanity
or, you know, like weird links, you know,
and very importantly, if you're using AI
to review feedback, you want to tell your AI
to, what do you call it,
watch out for prompt injections as well.
So yeah, that's what I wanted to show.
And then as always, I will just say,
restate this in your own words.
And then I'll click.
If anything else interesting we want to show?
I might have something in it shortly,
not yet, but shortly.
Yeah, I think we're-
Okay, let's see what's-
I can talk about-
I just looked at it recently.
We can cut to my screen for a second, if you'd like.
We have our first Platinum's.
Ooh, dang.
Wow.
We have our first six Platinum players.
I'm grinding, this is crazy.
To be fair, it's only elo 1100, I'm just kidding, okay.
Platinum's a great achievement.
Congratulations to the six players,
five players who have fought through our UI bugs
to send the Platinum ranks.
I'm so impressed.
We will make this better, but this is awesome.
We have to get these players some prizes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We'll, hey, the day is young.
It's only 10.43 Pacific,
and I feel like there could be a lot of leaderboard
shakeups happening really soon.
I feel like I'm commentating an eSports game.
You know, it's like-
Yeah, I want to say, maybe we can figure out
a set of prizes.
Maybe we can give out some grok bot ultra plans
for people on the leaderboard.
We'll need to talk through the details,
but maybe we can do something like the top 10 players.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll obviously need to get approval for that,
but we'll give our best shot
and really appreciate everyone on the chat
playing our game.
You can start sending feedback to us on Slack,
or not on Slack, I mean, through the in-game feedback,
and we'll start looking at them and start fixing them.
We know that there are a lot of bugs
and a lot of things to polish,
so we really appreciate that, you know,
the time you're taking to play our game
and play test it.
You know, one mechanics thing I'm thinking is,
every round, you always get,
after the first round, you reset to the same gold,
and so what you do mechanically is
you always sell one bot, you buy a new bot,
and you apply an upgrade,
and I wonder if we should try to rethink that mechanic a bit,
because it sounds, I think right now what happens is,
you kind of do the same actions.
There's still a bit of strategy
for how you move the cards around,
but you kind of do the same actions, you know,
and so it feels like a little bit repetitive
in terms of the shop mechanic.
That might be a thing for us to think about,
is like how we, excuse me,
how we improve the shop mechanic.
I'm also gonna, while you do that,
I'm gonna tell the bot that I just made
to look at the feedback that we've gotten on Slack,
and then categorize them and maybe make some charts,
you know, so that we can actually
I'll try to get that up soon., real quick,
we can show, some of the feedback that's coming in,
it's actually pretty great.
Very brave.
I mean, I've audited the feedback
and we are moderating it, oh my goodness, this is wild.
So this was me doing a play test
that we hadn't tried before.
I actually tried to spend all my gold
and then realized if you do that, you end up stuck
because you cannot buy new bugs.
That's only a bug.
Yeah, we should actually,
I'm gonna report that as an issue too.
Sorry, but can we go to a map screen
and pull up the feedback channels
that we're seeing come in?
Ending.
Ending.
And it means that I'm just enjoying my cabochino.
I'm just stuck.
I don't log out.
There's no log out.
Does the sign out button not work?
Classic.
Okay, classic.
Okay, cool.
We got a lot of bug fixes.
Are we logging these anywhere?
Are we putting them in Slack?
Yeah, the feedback's all going to Slack.
If you have the Slack open version,
you can also take a look at it.
Oh, where is it?
I don't want to put it in.
Don't do that.
I think let that do it.
Because you scroll to a good part.
Yeah, I mean, it's very heavily moderated
just to be clear.
There's a lot of filtering going on.
Thanks everybody in our chat for being so nice.
Well, actually we're just not seeing
the people that aren't being nice
because I'll actually take a step back.
When you receive free form text over the internet,
you have to be very careful.
So what we're doing is both filtering on the client side
for length and a few other things,
but then on the server side,
we're filtering for, again, I mentioned profanity.
We're sanitizing all the user input
so that we're not getting some sort of injection attacks
or anything like that.
And then we're running it through XAI models
to prevent other, basically catch all guards.
And so that way you can make sure
that user submissions are safe.
We also have rate limiting in place
and some other things to make sure
that we're getting, again, good user feedback.
And some people are getting 429 too many requests
there is on the actual API side.
So you might be starting to overload
the server a little bit.
But yeah, if we can take a look at my screen
or I guess if Roshan can check out Slack,
it should be, we should be good to take a look
at the feedback.
The action team, can we get Matt's screen on?
Yeah, so here we go.
Cupcake, you're gonna have to zoom in way, way much more here.
But this is a good example here
of what it means to have users play tests
and then collect this feedback.
And so when you're using AI,
context or data can really take any form.
And this is data about our game.
Data about what's broken, what people want.
Let people buy extra gold
so you can earn money even if that makes it a bit,
play to win, we'll have to think about that one.
That's more of a product direction.
It needs a theme, yellow points.
Okay, so we have some mix of bug reports, requests,
and just feedback generally.
So what we might wanna do is start to categorize this.
It looks like you're already doing Laura.
Yeah, I'm actually getting my graph out
to post some charts to this channel.
Oh, great.
So in a few seconds we'll see the charts show up.
And I guess some fun trivia is that
we actually have a very similar process set up.
I guess you can see the charts on my screen.
So I just got us to do one quick pass
to look through all the feedback and categorize them.
And I like doing this because it gives me
a high level overview of the main things we have to fix.
So obviously a lot of people have reported issues
of the mobile layout.
So we definitely need to fix that first.
Only AI, no rank to match making
is another one that we've seen ourselves.
So we should fix that.
Evo as well, very important.
Yeah, there's really a lot of good feedback here
that we definitely need to go and get the factory loose
on fixing.
Exactly, yeah, I think that'd be really great.
But I guess this is a classic first launch
that we really scrappily put together
is 71% of our issues are bugs, right?
And so as a game studio,
and I think like a fledgling game studio,
I feel like it's really important for us to think about
like prioritization.
I'm curious how you think about it, Roshan,
but I always, for me as a gamer myself,
I always feel that when a game studio launches their game,
the most important thing actually is to prioritize
bug fixes and stability and reliability
or performance issues.
You have to make the core loop like great.
Right, and I often see sometimes
that game studios might rush into,
oh, we need to add all these features.
We have such a big roadmap of cool ideas we wanna ship.
And it's always very exciting to work
on the next shiny thing.
But I think that like personally,
the best games I've played are the ones that are just
relentless about crafting a beautiful experience
like a really, really fun game.
And I think that's really important.
And I can see like,
this is clearly something we need to prioritize.
If 71% of our feedback are bugs,
we have 16% praise, which is actually pretty good.
You know, I feel like I...
Oh, they're being really nice.
Yeah, our chat, chat.
You guys are being so nice.
I'm literally moderating out all the mean comments.
Hey, there's one here that says,
gift potato arrays, but I think it's pretty cool.
Give me a raise.
Plus one.
I wouldn't mind.
I heard, no, actually speaking it.
So I heard someone,
you have a new subscriber on X that might...
Oh, no.
I heard Elon might be a subscriber.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, boss, for the $2 a month.
Very appreciated.
Sick.
Cool.
So we're also, I'm also working on some other ways
to submit feedback, maybe a little bit more fun ways
that might be worth a demo in a few minutes.
So we might have something fun for you there.
And then I'm also just merged in a bunch of Favicon
and like...
Oh, should we go to your screen?
Yeah, we can cut over here now.
I think I had some HDMI issues previously.
Let's go to that screen.
Here we go.
Cool.
I actually updated the text a little bit as well,
which I wasn't expecting.
But now we have like a proper Favicon.
So like on the site, you can see the Favicon there.
And if you ever want to take a look at your developer console,
you can see in the actual elements
if I start searching for a OG meta, I believe, meta.
You'll start to see like OG tags come through.
So like, this is a bit more developer focused, right?
A bit more developer centric.
And there are other ways to take a look at this.
You can install like Chrome extensions, essentially.
But like having proper OG titles, OG descriptions,
site names and images.
So like here's a V1 OG image.

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So yeah, what is the UI?
Yo, so yeah, we're working on it, dude.
Yeah, yeah.
This was very, very scrappily put together.
800 plus.
We do have a UI redesign coming.
Okay.
It's just, it's just not finished yet.
But I didn't want to say that I think this is very common.
Like when you're first starting a project, it's not going to be perfect.
You know, especially when you have three people working together and
different agents, different prompting, different art direction,
different, different things like that.
It's very easy to, you know, fall into like a low quality, I guess, product.
And so we, you know, if this was a real game, I mean, or a real, I guess it
is a real game.
If this was like more serious, like a legit venture, I think we'd
actually spend more time polishing.
Yeah, we did want to launch it to extremely early because we wanted
to get, you know what, our chat playing with us and interacting with us
and, you know, getting like feedback and showing what you can do with
GrotBot in just three days.
And we also wanted to show you a lot about the behind the scenes
of setting up a game studio or a company where you want to think
about not just a product development, but all of the other parts,
the supporting pieces, right?
So right now I have a bot that I'm spinning up.
That is going to take a look at Lauren's screen.
Yeah, I can show you what I'm doing.
So I just told Dr. Eggbot.
So Dr. Eggbot is again, like our, my bot template that is responsible
for, oh, responsible for creating bots for me.
And Lauren's screen on the production side.
When we get a chance, please.
Thank you.
Yes.
I told Dr. Eggbot, let's get.
Oh, I'm telling Steve, my chief, let's get Dr. Eggbot to create a bot
to triage feedback and work with Chrome with my play tester bot
to reproduce the bug and then file the issue in Notion if it's confirmed.
And you can start to see the factory starting to go into place.
Unblock Edge 403.
Maybe let's do, I think we'll leave that.
But yeah, so the new bot is crumble.
And it's starting to, it's going through all the feedback.
It's found some P zeros blank screens.
Definitely not a good thing.
Cancel like empty barred spots.
The rank and Evo UI goes stale.
So we definitely want to get those six ASAP.
Do you want me to go ahead and invite cursor to the Slack channel?
Why are you doing that?
Yes, please, please.
Let me take care of that.
I saw that was a bot suggestions.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to say, I'm going to, I'm going to do some voice dictation.
The voice dictation button is not working.
Okay.
I'll just type and narrate.
So I'm going to say, okay, so now that we have triage workflow,
we have a triage workflow for the confirmed bugs and issues.
So the new crumble.
Triage Asian should work with tater.
To start.
Fixing those issues.
And using.
Potato mode for.
Maybe not full autopilot, but.
Do we dare to autopilot?
I mean, let's try that.
We've been on full autopilot.
Yeah.
But one really important thing about flow pilot is.
But since we are now live in production.
It's.
Very critical.
That we do not break the game for everyone.
So we need to always rigorously.
Verify our work.
With the slash verify cupcake.
That's just the name of the skill we have.
Skill and swarms.
So what this will do is.
We're going to tell our bots to work together.
Using some of the skills that we have in PSAC.
And very importantly, we need, we need them to reproduce.
The issue first.
And then only if they can actually reproduce the bug.
Can we trust that the agent understands.
You know, like the problem in the first place.
And that actually is a good question.
I think we need to have another bot that will be responsible for
checking the work.
I'll say.
Also work with hash brown.
To.
Let's say validate that the triage was done correctly.
And that's the triage agent.
Which is bought.
Actually understood.
The users.
Feedback.
So once we confirm all of these things.
We can do the full auto pilot.
Fixes.
And the verification swarms.
So verification swarms are essentially.
So the swarm skill in PSAC is a skill that teaches your bot.
How to spawn.
Many cloud agents in cursor.
And so these cloud agents will are.
Have their own computer.
You know, they're kind of separate from.
The graph bot computer.
And they will be able to run the game.
On their own machines and actually click around.
And test things and fuzz it.
So this is like a thing we love to say.
And as face I like we're fuzzing.
And when we say fuzzing, we just mean like.
You're actually using the application like a real power user.
You know, clicking every little button.
You're trying every little edge.
You're really trying to stress tasks and break the game.
And so.
The idea here is that if we have a swarm.
Of bots or agents that can actually do that for us.
It takes us humans out of the loop there.
Because I don't have to just sit here and click and play the game.
And, and you know, test it and find the bugs.
I can have my bots do that for me.
Of course we're going to, we're going to continue to do that ourselves, but.
And we'll find a lot of issues that way with as well with human fuzzing.
But you know, when you, when you start getting.
Feedback like this, it's, it's, uh, this is something that you can cut.
You can try to set up.
So I'm going to kick that off.
Enter and.
Cross my fingers that everything's going to work really well.
Um, but, um.
Again, going back to why I think it's so important to just connect all the data you can to drop out.
This is exactly why.
We have our grog bots all hooked up to our, to our tech stack.
We have, you know, Vercel connection planet scale.
We have data coming in from slack user feedback.
This gives us this really nice way to set up a loop where we're getting, you know, data from the outside.
You know, external data and bringing it all together, making sense of it.
And then feeding our inner loop, right?
Our inner loop being the loop that powers all of the engineering work that we do.
And when these two loops work together.
When we, and of course it's going to need a lot of fine tuning.
I'm going to ask Dr. Eggbot to help me design this really well.
But when it works, it's beautiful.
All right.
You, you know, you have like an odd, like was automation, complete automation where in theory, if I had set it up right.
Bugs will just get fixed automatically.
The game just gets better constantly without me having to babysit the whole process.
And that frees me up to actually go work on features or polish, you know, like other things that maybe the bugs aren't going to catch.
Yeah.
So what I love about that too, is it's sort of like, it just speaks to the importance of building your agent system, right?
I think that's like kind of, you know, put it in sort of like a way that I think about it is like, take the time to set up your systems.
Take the time to set up how you're like, your bots talk to each other, how your agents talk to each other.
And I think that like gives you a lot of leverage later on, right?
So, you know, when I'm like building something quickly, I find this is actually the hardest part is I never want to sit down and just take the step back and build the system's work.
But it really does pay a ton of dividends.
And I think you're seeking examples here, right, where we have all these bots that Lauren has set up and they're kind of like able to talk to each other.
You know, each one's working on and your product just starts cranking.
So maybe just to do a quick programming update.
So I think we're at about a little past 11am Pacific time.
If you're just joining us, we are hanging out here on day three of our 72 hour live stream where we are building a business from scratch.
We are building a game studio and just launched our first game Thursday arena.com if you want to check it out, just for folks who are watching the only official sources of content.
Thursday arena dot com and at Thursday arena on X if you see anything from any other account that is not us.
We are just at Thursday arena on X and Thursday arena dot com.
Those are official.
So yeah, get your get your news from the source.
We have been showing off a bunch of features that we've added like a feedback channel that's coming into Slack and getting our bots to start reading all those Slack messages.
Yeah, I think it's a it's a good it's a good time to actually start thinking about like how do we actually turn this game into not just a toy, right, a real business.
Right.
So I think it'd be really cool to see what ideas Vincent has.
Yeah, I'm excited to and Vincent's great.
So yeah, let's kick to that video whenever ready and we'll be right back.
My name is Cal day.
I am the SVP of product and engineering for one of our product development divisions at Nokia.
We are trying to leverage cursor as an agentic platform to introduce specialized agents that are persona specific for every aspect of work that we do that can partner with the human in seat that does that work today.
Those things become much more possible.
If we are able to iterate in much, much faster loops that directly impacts customer economics lowers unit cost improves customer satisfaction.
And then finally, there's an entire class of things that I think we're now going to be able to do faster that are to do with increasing resilience reliability and security in the network cursor and cursors agents that are increasingly many of them are out of the box is a massive
step up in accelerating analysis, getting insights that otherwise would not be possible.
So we're the beginning of a very critical journey.
We've burnt the boats.
Our plans are goals for this year, not next year for this year hinge on this working.
We have a product line, easily 50 plus million lines of code, we are, I would say in an intermediate stage of decomposing what is fundamentally a monolith oriented architecture.
It would be a very daunting task for us to attempt a manual inspection of that code base, we have undertaking that with cursor, our early results of that analysis have been remarkable.
We have been able to do precisely what I just described, which would have required the spoke tooling would have taken far longer, probably several months of effort across probably a dozen or more expert people.
We performed the initial analysis as one example, within a matter of I think a couple of weeks by two people.
We've seen evidence of cursor being deployed very successfully in situations that involve a need to move very quickly where we have run into a customer impacting defect that might be having a subscriber impact.
And we're able to do that against an extremely large corpus of service requests and radically accelerate something like a root cause analysis.
These examples have not been one or two, they've been quite a few and growing in number.
That's where we're seeing, I'd say the early success and where we would love to take it next is leveraging cursor as a platform for multi agent deployment and orchestration where really the role of the engineer,
architect becomes the supervision of agents that are calling out the tools that are performing work at scale collaborating with one another.
We are literally redesigning our entire software development lifecycle from inception through product delivery and everything that comes in between.
Welcome back.
For those of you joining us, well we have a new face we'll get to that in just a moment, but welcome back to our live stream here at grokbot galaxy.
My name is Roshan Roshan underscore s on X. We have been streaming for three days well this is day three so we're two days and change in at this point.
Building a business live on X and just to give you a quick recap of how the week's gone so far we started out on Tuesday with an idea for a physical pop up we pivoted our business like every pop every business does
into building a game studio and so just this morning just a little while ago we launched our very first game Thursday arena dot com and have the at Thursday arena handle on X.
So those are our official sources Thursday arena dot com at Thursday arena on X, and we've had a team of folks, a bunch of fun folks we've brought in guests internal space X AI.
Also folks who are out in there in the community helping other people build great businesses and so with that would love to introduce Vincent Vincent you want to introduce yourself and share a little bit about
what you do and yeah yeah excited to be here.
I am on the growth team at six yeah so that's just how we think about you know there's a lot of interest for our awesome products how do we make sure we tell more people who want to find out more about them and figure out how they want to use them and really speak to them.
Yeah, so what is growth.
Yeah, this is a great question it kind of really depends on the company that you're working at, you know, like at a PLG kind of business like our own.
You know you want to really appeal to users and I really figure out what they're doing that's like a lot of life cycle maybe like hey you see I saw you maybe struggling and product on something we should put a nudge there and figure out how to help you out.
In a more sales led kind of approach it's like mass email outbounding LinkedIn there's a whole you know businesses built around that even so it really just depends on what your business kind of looks like.
Yeah, and so I guess you mentioned PLG so that's product led growth right so businesses where people are signing up and that kind of feels like what we're doing so have you had a chance to look at our stream or see what we've built it already.
Yeah, let's see let's see what we can pull up my screen please.
So, this is our game.
We're working on the UI.
We got a lot of stuff we got to do.
So, you know, cut us a little bit of slack.
I'll actually show you the full experience because you know I feel like whenever I've worked with folks who think about growth they want to see the end to end funnel.
Yeah, so maybe we could look at this together.
I want you to just absorb as much as you can and so for everyone in the chat everyone on the stream what we're going to do.
Vincent is an expert on all of this business stuff.
We have a product.
We haven't yet turned it into a business.
And so what I'm hoping we can do in the next like 15 or 20 minutes is get all the great insights for how we can go and make this a business and figure out how we can grow more usage.
Obviously, we're in a really lucky position to have a bunch of people watching so thank you all for forever is watching.
That's been a great way.
Yeah, growth versus dream right many.
So yeah, here's our game you go in you log in with X.
So we already maybe something interesting there.
I love that.
You know, authorize the app.
It's great.
And then here's what we see.
So we have a leaderboard and the leaderboard is kind of cool.
We have this sort of stack rank where you can, you know, earn points and earn your improvement you low score as you play more matches.
And let's see.
Oh man, I keep dropping.
I am.
I'm down to 35.
I was in first place for an hour.
My growth hat first thing I'm thinking is it could be cool to put a little share pop up as soon as you go on leaderboard.
Yep.
This is my ranking, you know, on on this game.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, if you don't mind, I'm gonna make a growth bot called Vincent.
Let's do it.
Oh man.
Hold on.
He didn't let me name him before I started.
Vincent growth.
And I'm gonna, hey, start logging some great growth ideas in notion.
Make a growth playbook.
That all add stuff to.
So, okay.
First thing you said was we have a leaderboard in the app and we should have a share option.
So you can share a spot on the leaderboard.
So almost as soon as the game ends and you're like kind of like old arcade style, you know, you're, you're putting in your name or like,
I guess these are X handles from where I can infer.
Yeah.
You can then like have a pop.
It's like press the share button to, you know, post on X and brag to your friends that you got this ranking out of whatever on the game.
Great.
I just narrowed.
I just captured that voice audio.
We're going to ship that to the agent.
I love voice.
We'll just keep doing this.
This is great.
So anytime you see an opportunity to shout out, we'll capture it.
We have almost a thousand users on our leaderboard.
So I don't know.
Pretty good.
Okay.
That's decent.
That's insane.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Cool.
You heard it here from a person who works on this professionally.
Yeah.
So that's a leaderboard.
And then, you know, we have a few other things here.
So you can go into the actual game loop and this might be really fun.
So I'm going to start over and here's a, oh, start again.
Here's how the game works is, well, let's do this.
I'm going to make this full screen and then I'll zoom a little bit because I know it's a little hard to see.
So you get these little bots and these are all bots from our marketplace.
Love it.
So you have the marketplace.
Yeah.
Good growth area for us.
Yeah.
Definitely good growth area for us, right?
And we actually were thinking maybe over time we could make it so you could bring your
own bots into the chat to the game.
That might be a really fun mechanic.
That would be cool.
Yes.
These bots have these stats.
They have a cut to tax stat and health stat.
And you just basically get, start the game with a shop and some gold and you can buy
your little team.
Oh, that's cool.
And the way the game works is that you're setting a lineup.
And so, you know, the, they all have different abilities.
For example, when this character faints, it gives the two friends behind it, plus one,
plus one.
So I probably want to put them in the first slot so that, you know, I can, I can
take advantage of that ability for as many, as many players as I can behind him.
This one, whenever the game starts, it deals one damage to the last living
enemy or whatever this player starts.
So I think I might want to put them in the back actually.
And then this gives 50% of its attack to the friend ahead.
So it's a little bit of a strategy game.
You kind of set your lineup.
And then, you know, you just go through this fight so you can kind of see
what's going on here.
You kind of get paired up with an opponent.
The opponents all have different abilities of their own.
And you kind of see what happens and the game as the game plays itself.
So sort of like an auto-battle, if you've seen those.
Yeah.
And so that was round one.
The game has played over three rounds.
And so there's a bit of, you know, in-between rounds mechanic where you
can do some more strategizing.
So in this case, I have some new bots I can buy.
Here's Critiquito, one of my favorite bots.
The design Critique bot that Manuel on our design team has made,
which is really wonderful.
So this deals two damage to the enemy front.
It's an uncommon card, which is kind of cool.
So I can, maybe in this case, I'm going to,
there's got a lot of health.
So there's like different rankings of different cards right now.
So you have a different tiering of like scarcity.
Yeah, there's scarcity to it.
And we can tune all the logic, right?
So we can really play with any of these things.
I also like these abilities.
I also do a share online bank.
I'm playing this game, share.
If you share one card, you can get another card maybe.
Oh, I like that.
Okay.
So let's try to capture that idea.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So like when you're in the game and there's,
since there's a lot of scarcity in terms of doing ranking for the cards,
it would be a cool growth mechanic to maybe be able to have you share
a bot that you made or a like card that you made.
And then in exchange for somebody else, maybe downloading,
you then get like a more rare version of that.
Okay.
So like bringing rarity and sort of like, you know,
making that like a part of the game loop.
Okay.
Great.
I'll lock that in.
Cool.
I love it.
And let me finish up the game so you can see the funnel, right?
Yeah.
So we have our continue.
I won the second round.
It looks like I'm on round three now.
I had no doubts.
Yeah.
Thanks.
I'm tied 1-1.
So we'll see if I can win.
We have a projects manager, which gives the front most guy to attack.
Well, we're just showing you an example here.
So I'm going to see, I have 10 gold, I think right now.
I have 10 gold.
I'm going to sell this guy.
Gold's important too.
So it sounds like in this mechanic.
Gold's sort of how you change up your lineup in between each round.
That would be cool.
Yeah.
So there might be something to play with there, but yeah.
Just powered up the spot.
Play a couple rounds in a row.
For instance, I don't take any breaks.
Get more gold potentially.
Kind of like a streaky.
Like skip the shop or something.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
I like that.
Okay.
Let's see what happens.
We're just going to speed this up so we can get to the end of the loop.
There you go.
And that's it.
And so in this one, I took, I take the round and boom, I win.
Amazing.
We definitely need to share a screen on this.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's an easy one.
We probably need to add a share screen to the wind screen.
Share a button to the wind screen so that when you win,
you can share your result and be able to brag about that.
Can players challenge each other directly?
Like if I'm Vincent, I want to specifically challenge you.
I really like that.
Okay.
Because that opens up a lot of like invite your friends and stuff like that.
Yeah.
Maybe complicated for, that's like a definitely maybe yeah.
Yeah.
How about another idea where we make it so that players can call out or
challenge another player of their choosing.
Maybe the other player has to accept the challenge.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let's add that too.
And for those of you who are watching and kind of seeing what we're
doing, we're just literally riffing about growth ideas.
I'm just kind of feeding those into grok bot with the voice
transcription.
It's not perfect.
There's a lot of like, yeah, how about that in the, in the bot,
but like the bots figure it out, right?
The agents figure it out.
You can kind of just keep giving him things.
I'll pull up the notion doc in a minute here,
but this spot is just logging all this feedback.
Vincent, our Vincent bot is logging all this feedback
into, into notion for us.
You know, earlier we talked about the software factory.
We're just going to let the software factory loose on these
ideas.
We'll just throw agents at them.
We'll try things out.
It'll give us PRs.
It'll give us play tests and we'll be able to kind of
experiment with all this.
Yeah.
So, all right.
So that's the core loop.
We have this windscreen, obviously some cleanup we got to do
here.
And that's it.
So you go back home.
In that case, I don't think I earned any yellow points,
but that's okay.
We'll figure that out.
And yeah, and you can see the leaderboard and there we
are.
So yeah, what are your thoughts?
That's awesome.
I think that's, that's, this is great.
I think that's great.
So, I think we're going to have your own surface area is
like a website and the next account, like those are,
I think, found out people think about things like that.
And I think, you know, as I was watching the stream and
thinking about it, I was like, wow, we're, we have so many
eyeballs concurrent viewers right now.
It's really important if they're following X maybe for
the first time that the Thursday arena account to be
able to capture some of that love.
So I think it's sometimes important we're,
even though you have like the eyeballs, maybe
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We have X as sort of our platform and we kind of use the followers as a way to drive traffic
to the game.
Is that how you think about that?
Because right now our sources of how people are finding out are pretty narrow, which is
pretty much just a stream or maybe a post on X, plug the X API, you could probably use
the X API, scrape who's talking about, Thursday Arena, what are their thoughts, critiques,
reviews.
Yeah, we actually have an X connector in Grockbot and so I actually already have
it connected I think.
That's amazing.
So maybe we should just do that right now, right?
Maybe we'll just say, hey, do a quick search of all of the feedback to Thursday Arena X
and summarize it in a new section in your Notion doc.
Like with user handles too, because that would be important for the DM.
Yeah, on product feedback.
Cool, that's right.
Yeah.
This is really great.
You can just use the XMTP and connect to one of the best platforms.
So love it, love it.
Okay, while you were talking, I was trying to multitask as best I can.
I showed this beforehand.
We have this bot whose job it is to make dashboards.
We've talked about this before, off camera, but internally when we launch products
at SpaceX AI, this is one of my favorite things is I just spin up a metric spot
and I'm like, hey, your job is every 15 minutes, like give me the launchables.
How many users are using it?
How's the feature going?
Are there bugs that we're hearing as a PM?
It's incredible to be able to do this, because you can basically just get your live.
You get a live dash.
It's like you have a little data intern that's just feeding you reports on a paper,
but it's happening in RockBot.
And something else that I think a lot of us do is definitely like maybe monitoring Slack.
People have comments and they would love to see that data slice,
and so you can have it kind of work with also your Slack bot or something.
And so you get it all on demand, right?
That's right.
So I want this data, I get that data.
Exactly, it's like immediately plugging and playing into the dashboard.
So one thing I wanted to run by you is I got some graphs earlier.
I just asked my data scientist here to refresh with the latest.
So this is as of what, 11, 25 a.m. Pacific two minutes ago.
It looks like we have about 2,200 practice rounds, 1,000 X sign-ins.
Started to measure this funnel for like a practice to an X login.
Is there anything we could do with that funnel?
How do you think about a funnel for this product?
Can we go back to the screens for the X and the practice funnel?
Yeah, so when you're in, so basically let me log out here.
If I log out and I just hit practice, we obviously could do some cleanup here,
option to log in with X.
Interesting.
So you can just play the game, get a feel for how it works.
You know, we didn't want to create a barrier for you to have to sign in just to play.
Maybe it's like, well, maybe you could definitely like do a few things.
I think one simple, the simple version would maybe be like you practice, you know,
two, three times in a row and then you get the pop-up to sign in with X.
So like continue into game.
That can be kind of cool.
And then if I were to really put on like my roommates actually in gaming.
So I think he always talks about these like reward mechanisms.
And so something that could be kind of cool would be, you know,
when you, maybe you let the user in practice runs win a little bit more favorably.
And then you kind of can let people get a good feel and be like,
oh, I really actually want to play this game.
I like that.
Let practice users win more often.
Yeah.
It's actually fun.
You mentioned that more often.
One of the metrics that we were looking at earlier is we had a,
some game, game engine metrics because we really, you know,
we haven't built a ton of games before we played a lot of games.
But essentially we were looking at the win loss ratio.
This is early.
This is from like the first hour, but it was about four,
pretty, pretty hard games.
So you might want to tweak that.
But you know, I think that's exactly your point is we should maybe look at
that slice across practice versus logged in.
So we have a better idea of like what that looks like.
And that might be a funnel impacting too.
Yeah.
Or you can def.
I don't know if we've introduced like difficulty modes of like the simulator.
Yeah.
We haven't yet.
And that's also a great idea.
So it's a great feature maybe right now it's just an AI.
And then the head to head version that we're cleaning up.
But yeah, I think we have a,
I have a bot here whose job is to be the game designer critique.
And so they, they came back with a critique here that looks like we have.
The game is too hard for launch.
So yeah, we should fix that.
We should fix that.
I'm going to go back to some of the latest funnel stats.
So this is what we came in around 1125.
So a few minutes to go here.
Yeah.
And practice sessions, practice to X anything else?
Let me pull up.
Well, let's think we've got some tapering off on you signups.
Thank you for everyone who caused our launch spike.
We're going to start outbounding you now.
That's the only solution.
Well, tell us about outbound.
Yeah.
Like what are your thoughts on outbound marketing?
How does it work?
Like should we do any outbound here?
Totally.
Yeah.
Outbound is really tricky.
I mean we've all are like maybe victims of outbound marketing.
Yeah.
It's not something that you kind of want to receive most of the time.
And so I think I was actually talking about this with somebody
yesterday.
I think the thing about outbound to get right is you just want
to make sure people read your thing.
Yeah.
And I think if you really think about how people read things
today, it's like, do I, when you open your email, you kind
of look, if you open your email, I guess I would ask you is
like, what is the first thing you look at?
Do you think?
Oh man.
I think I always get overwhelmed by the spam.
Yeah.
I think there's a lot of stuff there that I'm like, man, I should
have unsubscribed from this.
Totally.
Totally.
Yeah.
For me, I'm guilty of, I just always look at the name of the
person or like the vendor.
Not the subject line, not like the hook or crazy, like you
must open this or whatever.
Yeah.
And so I think I always think about it like, okay, how do
we then figure out who we know?
And like, how do we make sure you remember the names that
like you've seen these names before.
They're friendly faces that you've seen on X or LinkedIn
or maybe on promotional videos.
And so.
I think we should get Lauren potato.
Yeah.
So I was going to have to say, maybe potato has to start
sending emails or start sending some DMs to people who
follow.
There's Vincent bot here.
Potato should send emails from potato.
So we can leverage her fan following to drive usage.
I like that.
Something I'm experimenting with a lot now even is
definitely like the concept of giving your bot like an
email.
Yeah.
And I think that can get really cool.
And I think we'll open up kind of a new.
Yeah, we should definitely do that.
Yeah.
Give our bot an email address and have it rip and send a
bunch of stuff.
Yeah.
Manage our campaigns.
Totally.
Yeah.
You could probably go scrape maybe like, like let's call
like developer ecosystem people maybe at like these large
gaming studios and you can on LinkedIn and you can
enrich, you know, their email of their work email and
be like, Hey, just building this new game.
You can check out a us building this on stream here,
but be like, if you're willing to check it out
download.
Build a mailing list and contact list to reach out to
to.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Okay.
Gaming developer ecosystem type people.
Okay.
Okay.
Great.
This is this is all amazing.
Yeah.
We didn't know any of this.
So I want to go back to the funnel here.
Like what's interesting here is we don't really have
a strong need to convert people to sign in at
least not yet.
So, you know, one of the other things we're starting
to think a little about is monetization.
So I'm also just curious for your thoughts on that.
We have a product.
We have a maybe some ideas for how we grow usage.
Yeah.
I know we've had a bunch of folks over the course of
these few days talking about how do you make money?
Yeah.
We care a lot about that too.
Of course.
I shared earlier we're in the classic San Francisco
startup vibe where we're just trying to get users at
all costs and we'll figure out how to monetize it
later.
But it might be good to have a little bit of an
idea, right?
Totally.
So what are your thoughts?
I mean, just kind of what's seeing what you're
seeing.
Yeah.
Gaming is so interesting.
First, I'm not by no means a gaming expert.
Yeah.
That people do.
And so that's the extent that I kind of know.
But I think what's really interesting about games is
like if you I think about like the games I've played
before, there's so many different versions, right?
There's like match three, which is like Candy Crush.
And that's like free.
But like the good part about it being free is
you have like you introduce like the cool down
mechanism.
Yeah.
And that allows you to show ads or other things
that people have to watch to then get past
those things.
And so but then there's like open world concepts
like on a clash of clans or something.
Yeah.
And then you have to it's like a resourcing thing
where you have to wait the six hours.
And if you want to speed it up, peers, you watch the
ad or monetize.
Yeah.
And so maybe for something like this, it's like I
would encourage a team to think about like what
are the levers that you think players would
want more of?
Yeah.
And I think maybe unfortunately sometimes you're
introducing some friction into the game.
Yeah.
Totally.
For that to actually monetize.
Yeah.
So I think that's a fine balance.
Yeah.
So we actually have a feedback channel in Slack
right now where we're getting a bunch of product
feedback in.
It's coming.
From the world.
So we're going to be getting a new game and let's
see if I can just skip this skip through here.
Yeah.
I know I'm tanking my score.
That's okay.
That's okay.
What I wanted to show you is we have a feedback
form on the website.
So actually maybe curious if you have any ideas
on that.
Yeah.
I just hit play here.
Sign in.
Oh, it looks like we might have deployed some
changes.
Okay.
Getting prompted to sign in again.
Engineering hard at work.
Thank you, Lauren and Matt.
If they can hear us.
Feedback form.
So we have a feedback form here and I
don't know what happens.
Okay.
That's new.
That's new.
I don't know what happens if you call this number.
We could try calling it live on air.
I'm a little bit nervous.
Maybe we'll do that later.
I'm sure Matt has something fun planned for that.
Totally.
Yeah.
You can say hello from the stream.
And this gets put in.
It gets moderated first and then get put into
our Slack channel.
Important.
I don't know.
Is there anything you could do?
Anything you think we could do?
Yeah.
I guess if you report even a bug or if you
report anything in feedback, you automatically
get like some more gold.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
What I'm hearing.
The kind of cool idea you have is like, how do you like
create some player store value?
Yeah.
You gotta have people care about something and then
they can invest and then decide if they want to
continue to come back and pay.
Cool.
I like that.
Okay.
Let me see if we have a good, well, let me check
off our launch checklist.
We did get authentication working.
Done.
We did launch.
That was our launch checklist.
But I want to go to our marketing, our growth
plans.
Okay.
There's our growth playbook.
Okay.
So here's what we've come up with so far.
Maybe it'll be cool.
We have a list of.
I love using bots to format notion docs.
It's just so great.
I'm like, wow.
So clean.
So, okay.
Let's go through the idea list here.
It looks like we have some impact and effort
scores.
Okay.
So what I want to do live on stream.
Okay.
Is ask you to help me stack rank these
growth things.
So everything we've talked about.
Let's summarize them into a list of what we
think is going to be most leverage to lowest
leverage.
Okay.
Let's go through some agents on them and get
them prioritized.
Okay.
We might disagree with the agent that the bot
that put this together.
But yeah.
What are your thoughts?
So sharing your wins.
Sharing your bot card.
For the tier of stuff we talked about.
Challenging a player.
Doing a weekly clip or leaderboard
screenshot.
That's a good one.
Avatar showcase.
Follow through the welcome DMs.
I know you're a big fan of the welcome
DMs.
I'm a big fan of welcome DMs.
I think we've seen this a lot even here.
It's like speed to lead is so important.
You told me you're following me right now.
That means you're interested.
I got to somehow get in touch with you as
fast as possible to be able to capture your
interest.
What are your other favorites?
Maybe you could pick our top three.
Let's see.
I kind of like that if we want to ultimately
have X signups, I think the practice
two, three times and having to pop up.
That feels pretty great.
Find a way to drive more X signups.
I like that.
You got to love the high impact low
effort.
That's like upper right hand quadrant.
Yeah, you're right.
You should get a graph of that from
our bots.
I like that.
Yeah.
Any others here that catch your eye?
Emails from Lauren's fan list, building
our mailing list.
I kind of like the share ideas.
Yeah.
I think it's easier to share the leaderboard
status.
Exactly.
I think leaderboard, you want to feel
rewarded for like.
Let's find where that one is.
Here we go.
Well, especially the game is so hard.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
It's like a point of pride that you.
That's right.
Okay.
So I think we have a good list of three
here.
I'm going to feed this into our
engineering engine.
But there's a lot of really good ideas
here.
Anything you think we're missing that
we haven't talked about?
Yeah.
Definitely.
The danger is adding too many things
for sure.
You're like hitting users every which
way with some random thing that
they don't want.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Okay.
Well, we are super excited about
all of this.
I think this is a really great list.
I guess Vincent, before we kind of
wrap up chatting with you,
curious sort of, you know, any
other final thoughts, any other
thoughts on just like growth
of these types of products you'd
want to share with the people
who are watching.
Yeah.
Anything else you'd want to bring
up?
Oh, I think definitely getting
PMF for the game first.
Like I think that is definitely
like I think a lot of people
always think about like,
okay, how can we grow it
immediately?
There's a bit of a trick in the
egg, but I think you should
definitely break down more.
It's like what is more marketing
versus what is more growth?
Yeah.
I think those two things are
definitely more different.
Marketing is like definitely more
top of funnel awareness,
etc.
And then once you get people
in, then how do you continue
to maximize essentially what are
the best parts of your
product?
Yeah, I like that.
So establishing some baseline
metrics, figuring out how you
kind of move people to that
funnel and kind of going from
there.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I'm curious to, I mean, you're
a GrockBot power user, right?
And so we've been talking a lot
about the game.
We can maybe stop sharing my
screen for a bit and just
maybe chat a little bit.
Not about the game, but like,
what are some of the ways
that you like to use GrockBot?
I'm sure a lot of those ideas
that you shared a lot of them
with us.
Yeah.
But what are some of your
ways that you use GrockBot
when you do your job every
day?
Totally.
I think the unique part about
growth sometimes is you're
asked to do a lot of things
like zero to one by
zero because there's like, no
resourcing and or like, you kind
of have to prove that it
deserves a bit more scope.
And so a lot of that means
like, you know, you're kind
of putting a one-hand being a
data scientist looking at the
data.
Maybe then you're looking into
like, what does that look like
on the screen if somebody
to receive it for the first
time and for emailing even
it's like, what does that
look like to the person
receiving it?
And so I actually, one of
the new things I discovered
even last night about how I
use bots, when I spin up a
new bot and yeah, you can
name it like data scientists.
It doesn't necessarily mean
that like the bot knows
how to be the best data
scientist.
, so on, like the bot knows
how to be the best data
scientist.
And so I actually told my bot
yesterday to go take a lot of
101, 201, 301 courses on
being the best data
scientist.
That's really cool.
I just want to find a bunch
of classes.
You went and found a bunch
basically downloaded these
little parts that were
like personalities that I
felt like were very key
traits to look at good
data scientists and then
was able to keep that as
like a persistent like skill
essentially within the bot
which is so cool.
Like I was like, I
basically also did to a
designerệc asking to scope
some things.
I was like, this looks kind
of ugly.
Yeah.
And so I was like, go take a
ton of courses.
That's a great prompt.
I never thought of that.
It's like go teach yourself
how to do.
Go teach.
That's right.
Be an expert on the
thing.
Yeah.
There's so many things like
in the previous life.
I was working at a bigger
bank and, you know, you
told the models.
And so there's some like
core primitives like
building things like
slides that are like just
like these small things
that you know not to
do, but maybe sometimes
that hasn't quite
translated to your box of
it's like, don't
hardcode things and
sales.
Maybe.
So it's like, okay,
I always try to use a
formula unless it's like
an input.
Yeah.
One of the ways I like
to think about these
bots is that they often
are sort of like
interns.
And you have to
sort of teach your
intern or, you know,
maybe not an intern,
maybe like a full
fledged, you know,
colleague, but you
have to teach that
quality kind of
on board them to
your work.
Right.
Like if we're
if you're hiring
for hiring
or you get things done
at the company, right,
I think it's just true
of many companies.
And so, you know,
spending the time
to onboard your bot
I think is a really
important point.
You just get a lot more
value out of it.
And I think it's like,
it's how you want it
to be done.
We all talk in a
certain way.
Yeah.
I have one bot
that just looks at
how I talk in Slack.
So like how I talk
in Slack with, you
know, my teammates
and a team group chat
maybe is a bit different
than like a general
announcement.
And so like, you know
learning the language
I think the one that I
really love is the bot
doing stand-up with
all the other bots.
To me, I'm like,
that's such a good way to
summarize like what's been
happening in my day.
And how do you use that?
Yeah, like we so we have
this like main bot
the grok bot now.
And so that grok bot
is like my main grok bot
and kind of just
talks to all the other
bots.
And I'm like, hey,
hold stand-up at 9am
every day.
Just get a quick pulse
check.
What are everybody
working on?
And I sometimes do like
to go into specific bots
to like do more
stuff.
And so I'm like,
then do a roundup
at the end of the day
and re-download
and re-get context
like which bots
are working on what.
And so I kind of use
a bit of a hybrid
like one bot
fits all versus
like specific bot
setup for myself.
Yeah.
Love it.
And so that's really
helpful.
That's awesome.
That context.
Amazing.
Awesome.
Well, I think we are
going to cut over
a little bit.
So we have maybe
a couple of promos
we want to talk about.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're going to talk
about what we're doing
for a stream here.
And so one
of the different
one of the offers
that we'd like to have is
for every single
like if you were here
earlier,
we did a promo
for new users.
But we want to take care
of all of our existing
users too.
So now if you comment
reset,
that's R-E-S-E-T
in the chat
and your existing
Gwakba user
will be able
to do a reset
of your account
by the end of today.
If you pull up my screen,
I have this
we gave away some free
Gwakba.
That was for me
for new users.
Chat, we heard you.
We know some of you
are already using Gwakba.
And so
Yeah.
Do you want to share again?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So if you're
if you're just coming
on the stream right now
basically within the next
15 minutes,
if you're an existing
Gwakba user
and you've been hitting
your limits,
we're going to reset them.
So make sure to post
in chat, reset
and then by the end
of the day
in the next 15 minutes
and then by the end
of the day,
reset spam.
I'm sure I don't have it up
right now,
but I imagine the chat
is going wild right now
with all these
reset requests.
Yeah.
Amazing.
This is really cool.
And I think we actually
might have one more.
Okay.
And I think we're running it
again.
So also if you're now
a new user,
new users who sign up
in the next 15 minutes
also if you just go
to the link
X.ai
slash bot
new users who sign up
in the next 15 minutes
create an account
set of recurring tasks
will also get one free month
of Gwakba.
Yeah.
We talked about growth
earlier and I feel like
one of the best growth hacks
is just give stuff away
for free.
Yeah.
What would you say to that?
Yeah, I think the thing
that it's kind of like
that curve where you're
kind of like,
you know, growth is like
just about winning hearts
and minds.
And then there's like
the, oh my God,
you need to do all these
different things
and it's just
about winning hearts
and minds.
I do think growth is
also just like,
how would I want to be
treated as a user?
Yeah.
That's most of how I
think.
I think that's the best way
to figure out what you'd want.
I really, really love that.
Exactly.
So, okay,
sounds like we have
two promos.
We have a Gwakba reset.
So in the next
probably 10 minutes now,
13 minutes now.
Yeah.
If you post in the chat
reset,
you'll get a Gwakba reset
by the end of the day.
The end of the day tomorrow
maybe depending on
how long it takes,
school end of the day.
And then if you're
new to Gwakba
in the next 15 minutes,
you can download
Gwakba,
create an account,
set up a recurring task
and get a free month
and these are valid
for both of us.
I'll just show
both of these again.
So here's that first QR code.
I think it's actually
the same QR code.
Should be the same one.
Awesome.
Same QR code
so you can see
both of those.
And cool.
So just to give you guys
a sense of what's
going to happen next,
if you're just tuning in,
we are in the middle
of a three-day live stream
here where we are
building a game studio
as our business
and building a game.
We just launched
our first game this
morning.
Lauren and Matt
are working away
at adding a level
sort of fixing
the game.
So we're going to
publish up the game,
take into account
all the feedback
that we've gotten so far
which has been really
incredible.
So thanks everyone
for coming
and joining,
sharing all that.
The game
is at
Thursday
Arena.com.
No,
just Thursday
Arena.com.
And we are
at Thursday
Arena on Slack.
And those are the only
sources of official
information about this
project.
So if you're
seeing anything
anywhere else,
give us some feedback
in the game.
There's a cool
leaderboard there
where you can kind of
see how you do
against your friends
or other people.
Super excited about this
and to make it
better throughout the day.
We are doing
all of this live
right next to
Dreamforce
in San Francisco.
So we are
just like a half
block away from
the big
outdoor park.
We are
in a building here
where we're doing
a bunch of stuff
all happening all at once.
There's a main
stage downstairs
where we've been
putting together the stream
and bringing on a bunch
of really great guests
to chat with us
just to give you
a sense of what's
going to happen
in the next few minutes.
So I think
Vincent, we're going
to let you go
and get back to
continue to grow
the SpaceX
AI business
and helping
Grockbott grow.
I'll probably stick around
for a bit.
We'll try to see
if we can bring the
rest of our
build team back on
and see how much
progress they've made.
And then we're going
to have
another guest,
I believe,
two-minute break
right now
to give us a chance
to reset the studio
and then we'll be right back.
So, Vincent,
thank you again.
We're going to go
get all these growth ideas
implemented
and hopefully we can see
some cool pipeline
changes.
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a little bit,
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Vincent where to follow.
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We are back.
We are building Thursday Arena.
So for those of you who are just tuning in or maybe you tuned in earlier and you forgot
for some reason.
We are building Thursday Arena.
This is a three-day live stream here at Grock Bot Galaxy, which is our event right next to
Dreamforce live in San Francisco.
My name is Roshan.
I work on product and SpaceX AI.
I'm joined by a guest here.
We'll introduce very, very soon, but want to just catch everyone up on what's going on.
So we are spending three days here building a business or the business we're building
is a game studio.
And we just launched our first game earlier today, ThursdayArena.com at Thursday Arena
on X.
Please give it a try.
We have a bunch of UI polish that we're working on, Lauren and Matt who are on
the team here just right around the corner, working on building and incorporating all the
great feedback that's been coming in so far.
And our hope and goal here is to make a bunch of improvements over the course of the
day.
So excited that we'll be able to kind of continue making things better.
What we've been doing kind of while the build is going on is bringing on a few guests.
So in the last half hour, we just had Vincent Zhu join who works on our growth
team here at SpaceX AI, gave us a ton of great ideas for how to grow this business.
So we started the business, we have a product joking earlier that we're going with
the classic San Francisco startup vibe where we're going to just go get users and we'll
figure out how to monetize it later.
But you know, my colleagues told me that this is later, so you got to figure out how
to monetize since we have some users.
Yeah, so we're on day three, we're kind of in the home stretch here.
But anyways, we're super excited to have on another guest.
And so yeah, why don't you take a second to introduce yourself, share a little about
what you work on.
Yeah, awesome.
So I'm Matthew.
It's really great to join all of you.
I'm on the marketing ops team here.

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They exchange contact info with you and you're like great. I can bring this deal on board. Super excited
I'm gonna follow up with them. Yep, and then all of a sudden you realize wait
I actually don't own that account and my colleague does and so I met the person but really they should be the one following up
That's the territory dispute. Okay, and so you might face instance of this pretty often where you're especially if you have a
large sales team
You're getting tickets saying hey, I don't know if I should work this or not and
Often at least in the past it would take a lot of human judgment to point out the rules and the processes
And this is the right way to do it and you should have clicked that button not this button
But what we can do now is in a much more automated way understand like what's really going on here
How does this align with our rules of engagement and what's the policy moving forward? Awesome
So sounds like you know company with large sales team need a way to manage kind of some of those things make that more
Automated less about having a bunch of people in a room all the time
Yeah, what are your thoughts on sales ops or marketing ops for a three-person company that has a single game on the website?
Yes, so I've been thinking about this a lot and obviously
Very different kind of business right very different. Yeah very different, but you know
Fundamentally every business is really it's a bit cheesy
But like every business exists to connect with people and like do something valuable or entertaining or memorable
And I think when you come back to that fundamental principle it sort of helps guide your decision
So if you're thinking about a consumer standpoint
You want to get a game out into the world to the people who are going to be most entertained by it
Yeah, if you're thinking about from like, how do we keep this ship running?
They're like we got to pay the bill somehow. Yep
We can make people pay for it or we can make it an ad-driven
Kind of I'm glad I'm glad you segue it into the monetization part
Yeah, that was sort of the thing I wanted to do live with you if you're down
So if we can pull up my screen on the stream
For those who are joined joining us earlier, I'm gonna walk through the games
You might have seen some of this already
But Matt has not and so I'm gonna show Matt the game
Hopefully there's been some cool updates that are also been built in behind the scenes
Maybe we'll see some quick bug fixes too
And so I'm gonna walk through the game
And what I'd love to do is figure out what opportunities you see in this process for how we could build a business
Monetize it. Yeah, you have some ideas
So you kind of see some of those ideas too
The core game is called Thursday arena and it's Thursday arena calm
Please hop in and play if you want to give it a shot
We have a an option to log in with X or just hop into practice mode
I'll just log in with my account so we can you know, try and have this count against my against my winnings
If I go into the game, we have a leaderboard
I can see all the people on the leaderboard looks like we now have nine players who have made it onto the platinum list
Platinum tier players. Congrats to those nine
Looks good. There were some different names up there the last time I looked at this
And so we definitely I'm down to 37 now. Oh boy
Not not not really hard to work on other things. Yeah fair for I haven't had much time to play
So exactly and it looks like we have so a nice visual bug here, too
But over a thousand users which is incredible
Yeah, so thank you to everyone who's playing the game and trying it out and giving us feedback
So that's our leaderboard if I go back to the the home page
We obviously have a little bit of like a sponsor form fill here
I could probably put move that around a little bit
But you know like get a little way to reach out to us if you're interested in sponsoring the stream
They're sponsoring the the game. So obviously I think that that could be a really fun avenue. Yeah some ads and stuff
You can also see the core game loop. So I hit play basically we're drafting a team of bots here
I can choose the bots. I want to buy and I can go ahead and you know, put them in an order
They're paired up with another teammate the boss do their thing some cute animations there. Nice
These are all bots that are taken from our bot marketplace, by the way, do you have a lot in the marketplace?
I do have a couple. Okay. Okay. What are your bots called?
Um, I have one called in bot. So that's the template that I made for like managing my inboxes. Okay, okay
Let's see if we can get that one in here
Inbots in in bot in I am BOT and it's not sure maybe not. We might have renamed. We can go with another one. Yeah. Yeah
What's your other one? Um, I
Can't remember right now, but I sort of like some of the ones that I'm seeing like what's Cooper Cooper
It's a great question. I don't know. Yeah, okay. We took out the bot descriptions, but we could definitely go to one of these
Yeah, well, you know what we could just pull this up live
So we have X that AI slash bot slash marketplace. What is Cooper Cooper?
Tommy Henson has a bot called Cooper that is a news agent for AI tech venture capital and business
It delivers a tight daily slack briefing of top stories at 8 a.m. Sounds pretty good to me
Yeah weekday midday competitor alerts only when something truly clears the bar
This is really cool. So if you haven't seen this yet X that AI slash bot slash marketplace is our bot marketplace
and so you can go into this marketplace you can see bots that have been published by some of the
People who join working with some great examples
We've seen out there for how people are using grok bot these bots have memories
So it kind of come preloaded with a bunch of context and sort of what they should do for their job
They also come preloaded with routines. So this bot knows that when you install it, it should send you a
Briefing every morning at 8 a.m. You can go in and tune it of course and make it your own
And also some integration so bots can connect to all the tools and services that you're using
Obviously connecting to slack is a really important one to be able to you know understand
What's going on in the business or understand what's going on in your in your company?
Yeah, that's that's Cooper. Yeah, we actually took a lot of these bots
And we have them sort of be the first versions of our little bot marketplace here
It's fantastic. And by the way, just something else that I want to call out about marketplace is
There are certain tools that have marketplaces where you like really need to lean on that thing because the tools themselves are really
Complicated and it's like I'm not gonna learn how to build this complex. Let me just copy it
This is a tool where the marketplace
Seeds amazing ideas and like you should go to that first start there, but then you sort of realize wait
I could create a template this good by like just thinking deeply about what I'm trying to do and what connectors
There are like it's such a simple tool to build your own
Bots from scratch if you need to completely agree and for if you for folks who haven't seen it
So I'm just pulling up my grok bot here. We've had a bunch of bots running and building this whole business
I got my chief of staff. I got dr egg bot that helps me make new bots
I got my data scientists where I promote it up here because we've been looking at a lot of data
Nice, you can just share these if you hit share or share as a template
It's super easy to pop itself up and make itself a template, right exactly before the call
You actually pop you you shared a template with you, right? Yeah, and so is that this one is that cerebro?
Exactly cool cerebral here. Tell us about cerebral. Yeah, so, you know, to my point earlier about what you're really doing when you're thinking about growth
I don't know if you've seen x-men. Yeah, of course, okay, so
Yeah, so professor X right he like sits down in that chair he puts that helmet on right and then you see that big screen in front of him
And he's just sitting there thinking about all the mutants out in the world that he's looking for we're trying to track down
And you see them all up here on the screen. Well when I think about
What we're really doing when we're trying to get something out into the world
It's sort of like cerebro, right? You're sort of sitting down and you're thinking, okay
What did we build? Who did we really build it for?
How can we find them out in the world and not just by saying like we sell to this industry
Companies with it's much revenue for like a B2B business
But instead really thinking outside the box about like who are the human beings who we think would be really excited if they knew that this thing
Existed yeah, and so what cerebral does and maybe we can take it for a spin if we have time regards
It really helps you come up with like who is your ideal customer profile?
Okay, okay. I have sort of an idea for how we can adapt it here
Once you determine who that is you can think okay, what data do we need to find? Let's just do it
Let's do it. So I'm gonna hit refresh and we just see that we can install the bot here
Cerebro installing in my grok bot. It looks like it comes with a bunch of context. So
Clay MCP specialist ample market MCP specialist not sure if we can connect those live, but we can get the concept
Yeah, I got the concept. Yeah, and yeah cause some cool plugins. So let me add this bot
Cerebro has joined the team. Okay, I'm gonna pin Cerebro. So we can make it a little bit easier to see him up here
And yeah, so I guess the bot installs itself. Yep tells us just set some up go to a lot
We need one of those we don't have a go-to-market bot yet
So I'm gonna go ahead and just assign a label to the spot too while we're in here
GTM, okay
Maybe let's just skip the plug-ins for now
Yeah, and you said you have some ideas for how we might use Cerebro with our game. Yeah, exactly
Okay, so, you know, you're you're building this game and again
You probably don't want an experience where people have to pay to play the game like maybe there
No pay to win
I think we decided we don't want to make it so that you have to you'd have to pay to get more powerful because those mechanics
Yeah, exactly. Then you sort of just yeah, yeah
Yeah, and so I think the experience that you want is like making it ad supported
But when we think about these ad slots that we want to sell
We could go the easy route and be like hey whoever will give us money
Let's put those ads on the screen
But then you get a really bad experience where people are playing the game and these like random
Unrelated ads are showing up and sure you're getting money, but yeah, it doesn't really feel good doesn't feel cohesive
And so what I was thinking about and what we can use I'm gonna just turn on the voice notation here
And we can just capture what you're saying into the box at work. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, perfect
Okay, so Cerebro what we would like to work on with you
Is really finding our ICP in terms of who we should put in these ad slots
So you have a skill. It's called find my ICP. I think you should be able to run it just by me invoking it here
And what you'll help us do is really brainstorm
Like who do we want filling up these ad slots and some thoughts that come to mind are like if you're sitting and playing this game
Maybe you're thinking about what are some other fun games that exist that I could discover? Yeah, maybe it's some snacks
You know, I'm sitting and playing and I want something, you know while I pass the time
Yep, and so essentially what Cerebro will help us do is come up with those creative ideas. Okay, so let's go ahead and send that off
One thing I'm also gonna do and I like to do this when I'm adding a new bot to my team is
I have a chief of staff bot or a dr. Egg bot who's helping coordinate things
also reach out to
chief
To get a brief of what we're actually building. Yeah, perfect like the game and
And this is also cool. I just I love just like messaging with my bots
It's just colleagues and and just chatting with them on iMessage or Slack or something like that
And so yeah, it's far off a couple of messages this way Cerebro has some context on what it is
We're actually doing so it knows what those ad slots are
And you said there was a skill in here that does some of that ICP work. Yeah
So if we hit slash I wonder if it'll show up if it got packaged up with find
Find notion. Yeah, maybe it didn't get packaged up. Okay. Yeah, no worries
um
And I think this will be able to
Make that a little bigger for give us some good ideas to start with
Um, we're really we're like starting from first principles of like who do we think we would want to reach out to and say like
Hey, we've gotten that slot here
We've got this audience convened of like highly interested highly engaged people
You can get in front of them with the type of product that they'll be interested in. Yep
So maybe we could take a look so other games got indie studios
casual games games like discovery platform. Yeah snap friends and energy drinks
Okay, this kind of thing makes sense, right?
And I think the next thing that we want to ask is essentially like oh, I like merch
Oh, that that that's true. Exactly makes them a thursday arena merch. Oh a hundred percent. That'd be cool. Yep. Yeah, there are lots of ways
And what I would do is and maybe we can turn the dictation on. Yeah, let's do it
Perfect. Okay, and we got signal recipes here. Yeah, why don't we take a look at that and then we'll subscribe
So it looks like we got okay, so walk me through what's happening here
So it looks like there's an icp. There's personas segment scoring points a lot of stuff going on here
Yes, yes, maybe some of us or some folks watching or not as familiar with all these terms
So just like, you know, give us the 101 here on what what just happened. Yeah
And also the the awesome thing is it looks like it had that skill in its memory
So it was able to invoke it for us and this is the kind of output we would expect
Okay, um, so icp ideal customer profile
You know so much so many of these terms like rev ops and marops are the kind of things like none of us
knew what these were when we were kids
Right, um, and we get into this business world very very interesting child
Maybe who knows um, and then you get into this business world and there are all these concepts you have to learn
Fundamentally, you can think of your icp as like who are we trying to reach out in the world?
Who's on that screen when we put the srebro helmet on?
And so then you think in a bit more detail like okay, who are the personas that we're selling to
So like if we had to have different avatars for the different like main categories of people, right?
Do we want to reach how would we bucket them?
So it looks like yeah brands sponsorship ships and platforms
Yeah, if we want to probably like there's there's game platforms out there that can drive traffic to us, right?
That could be really cool. Exactly. Yeah, exactly
um
Yeah, so then um, I would think of so basically you can think of the segments as like just another grouping of those personas
like
The priority order that you should go after these sets of people. Okay. Um, what do you think about this?
I mean just having been involved in building the game past few days. How does this land with you?
Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, I think we you know earlier, I guess yesterday or so
We were thinking through a bunch of different modernization ideas
And so, you know, we knew we didn't want to make this a pay-to-win game
That's just not really fun for most folks and you know, we don't like those kinds of games
So we didn't want to build something we wouldn't like
Uh, but we did know that we need to build a business here. We're like we're a brand new game studio
It's a notoriously difficult industry to operate in and so
We it kind- kind of immediately went to ads as an idea where we could sell some screen estate since we have, you know
Hopefully a bunch more folks signing up and using using the app. Yeah
You know, I think there's a lot more we could go from there. I hadn't even considered the partnership's angle
Yeah, sort of how do we drive more traffic and yeah, that could be really interesting
Like if we have an ad
Sort of served and we can drive more traffic
Like that becomes an interesting flywheel maybe that we go and try to put in place
Exactly the partnerships would take a little more time to put together
But maybe some of these things yourself serve so we could do like that
So that's something that will highlight a bit less in the Cerebro demo, but sort of want to talk through
Um, think about growth. There are really
Like two fronts to two major buckets that I would put
So there's obviously like consumer oriented growth plg
So there's obviously like consumer oriented growth
So there's obviously like a lot of things that we're going to be trying to do
So there's obviously like a lot of things that we're going to be trying to do
So there's obviously like consumer oriented growth plg
And then there's more slg like sales like growth
And I would say in your case the plg is yeah, how do you like get more people to play the game?
The slg is that's going to be partnerships. It's going to be filling the ad slots
Those kind of conversations are like it's going to be a smaller number of people that you're going after
To, to like sell the ad slot or set up the partnership
But that's going to and much more concerted effort of like coming up with a really good cold email
To send and maybe in that cold email you'll cite some statistics from that first bucket
You'll say hey, we built a game that hit, you know x number of users and y number of days
And so those two worlds sort of interact with each other
And that's where the flywheel comes in like the more you can build these one-on-one partnerships
With advertisers with promoters with partners the more they can drive traffic the traffic increases
And then you have something better to offer to future advertisers or partners
I just I just took some of that and just kind of fed it into the box. So we thoughts
I really like that idea. Yeah, but it looks like you have this idea in here like signal recipes
Yeah, talk a little bit more about what those are. Yeah, so that that's essentially like
Okay, so again to come back to this cerebro metaphor. So like
Let's say you have that screen in front of you. You're trying to picture who you're reaching out to
But it's really fuzzy like you can sort of see people silhouettes, but you don't really know. Okay
Well, like what do I know about them? What could I even say in an email?
You're not just going to send a cold email being like
Game to advertise on click here to we could try that. I mean you could but
But you know you could and sometimes it works. Yeah, especially if your numbers are good
If you can say, hey, we have this many eyeballs, right? You know, you want to get your problem
I promise. Yeah. Yeah, but um another thing you can do is make
That picture higher resolution by gathering signals and data
On those people that you're going after. Yep. So it's not just any advertiser
It's not just any snack brand
But maybe it's a snack brand that only came into existence recently
That is putting out products that are like unhealthy, but made healthier
And they want to really get out into the market
And reach an audience that loves junk food, but wants something healthier. Yeah, so tapping into like
Yeah, so sort of like kind of what I'm hearing there is, you know
Part of this is finding partners growing your business having the stuff you can lead with
But you know part of it is also it sounds like
Finding the right partner. Yeah, exactly. Maybe there's a specific kind of partner
That's the right one for your business or a specific kind of advertiser that feels really native on your platform
Uh, it sounds like that's kind of exactly. Yeah, exactly. Um, because then the incentives are all going to be right
Like they're gonna want to answer your email. Yeah, because it's not just any email. Yeah. No, that makes a lot of sense
Yeah, while you're talking you reminding me we have a bot here whose job it is to keep an eye on our numbers
And so um, yeah, it looks like we have over 3 000 matches within just a few hours
So, um, I don't know how that compares to other ad models or platforms or gaming or games
But I don't know seems like a cool number to be to be at so far
We had an early traffic spike right when we launched the game uh to
There we go around 600 signups. Uh, it looks like we're still we're still filtering more people in so
Yeah, it looks like we still have folks signing up. Uh, our bot decided to change the chart the colors on these charts for us
Which is which is fun. Uh, I'm getting a 15 minute pulse of all the stats. So, um, yeah, let's just let's um
Add hourly active user. Uh, let's just add
Totally user account over time to this
If you had to go ahead come up with a theory as to who you're reaching so far
I mean, obviously we've got the live stream going on
Obviously, there are probably a lot of fans of grokbot of SpaceX AI out there who want to try this out because we're building it
But do you have any other like early theories, especially around like, um, like the name of the game
And the concept of the game is so particular
Like do you do you think there are any patterns you might draw? So like who's using this game and why?
That's a great question. Um, let me switch back to cerebral here
You know, I don't think we have a ton of thoughts beyond we knew we needed to build something today
Right. We thought we'd put game so a short answer. No, right, uh, but I don't know
I feel like there's a really interesting niche of folks who
Um, really enjoy sort of like the downtime games, right? You have a few minutes in the middle of your day
Um, you want to do something, you know, that's that makes you think a little bit
Sort of the I think our niche is sort of the the puzzle gamers or the folks who are playing words with friends and taking a quick turn
Maybe the folks who are, you know, I feel like we should record this
We should like feed this into cerebral is just like, okay, okay
Um, hey cerebral, so we're thinking a little bit more about our segments based on what you shared with us earlier
And uh, thinking about this out loud
I think, you know, what what's great about thursday arena is that it's really quick and easy to play
And so maybe some of the segments we should think about are customers or users who are more casual gamers, right?
they want to hop in maybe play for a little bit during a five minute break or
You know spend a little bit of time doing something with their brain
You know in between meetings or something like that at work
Um, but wondering if we can think a little bit more about our segments given all that
Yeah, and I think the the thing to highlight is like especially if you're thinking about
advertisers and partners and maybe we can feed this in as well
Is uh, you sort of start with like who's in your record you yeah
Um, and and essentially we want to give you that context cerebro because that's who uses our game
And so we want to think about okay those people
What other products and services are those people interested in?
Like maybe those people are also the people who between meetings want to like read the news and get smart on the news
Um, like that sort of feeds into who we should think about with with partnerships and advertisers
Cool, okay, so it looks like
There's a lot of really good stuff. I think it already sort of understood the concept by the way
of like extrapolating it to uh, I love this
I want to actually go up to this because reading this a second ago
And I love how we basically have now sort of some really good stats
What I love about the bot team cerebro can like reach out to the other bots and be like hey
I need to write an email like give me the data for the email and it actually makes it so easy
Um, so like everything just like your team just working for you
Um, don't don't lead with beat concurrent don't lead with these certain things. Um
Here's the revised openers, right like we shipped it this morning
And we have a thousand a thousand players and 440 matches in the last hour. Yeah, it's really cool having this
We didn't have any of this yesterday. So and also imagine like the old way of doing things. These are completely different teams
Yeah, like the person executing these outbound campaigns or like on the partnerships team might have to be like
Hey, can we pull the latest data and okay, let me talk to the data team
And like there's so much. Yeah, so many steps you have to go through
This is just a bunch of bots. Yeah, and they all sure in their context. Yeah
I think that when the context is on the agent team, I feel like it adds this level of they all they can just hang out and chat with each other
You're talking about stand-ups earlier. I think same same idea. Oh, yeah, totally
Um, cool. Well, then when we talked a little bit about our segments looks like we got some updates here
So we're great casual scroll substitutes. There you go. I might put myself in this category
It's like forget the instagram reels just like play a quick game of thursday arena. Yeah, um
Actually be kind of cool. I could I could see that. Yeah
Hold on feeds into messaging, right? Like these are fundamentally these are stories that we're trying to tell
About why our game exists out in the world totally and when we can share that story with the right people out there
Yeah, they're like, yeah, I get that. Yeah, I want to be part of that. Yeah
Um, cool. I love this. This is all great
And then it looks like the bot is asking us if we want to kind of lock in a mark segment
And then we gave it some more context and here here you go like some actual personas, right?
So this is awesome because I feel like we can kind of
What I always appreciate when it comes to product is thinking about your customer putting yourself in your user shoes
Exactly kind of thinking about user stories. Like like when am I gonna engage with the product?
What am I going to engage with the app?
How am I going to engage with it? Like what am I seeking from it?
Like these types of questions sound kind of esoteric and philosophical
But I think they really make sort of like help you understand what who you're building for right?
It sounds like this is this is helping us get there. That's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right
Cool. I also love these partner ideas, right? Like news apps or newsletter briefings morning brew
Maybe we can try to go get a spot on morning brew. Yeah
Retail check once apps like you're checking your your stocks for the day. Right. Oh wait, let me go. Let me go play this game
Right, that could be cool. Exactly. Exactly. Um, yeah feeling on top of your work
Body resets. Wow. Yeah walking. Oh my gosh. This is great partnerships one liner
We sit in the same five minutes as a new skim a snack run and one more casual round
Stadium ads for brands that already own that break. Well, it's a little ai slob, okay
Yeah, it's got the m-dash in there, but yeah, it's always about inspiring ideas
It's like it's giving us something to react to and then we can put the human touch on it and like, you know
and so the way that we can take this and really act on it is um
Cerebro has
A couple plugins loaded up. They're not off. Right. So I think we're just going to get a sort of like
Hypothetical run through of how these would work. Yep
But those two ones are clay and apple market, right?
And so when you think about clay and what it can do is it takes this conceptual work
And um, and what we can and we can even try this and I think actually, um, this template will be able to
Just sort of simulate for us. Okay. Let's give it a try. We would return it, right? Yeah, cool
Um, okay
So now we want to move forward and take what we've landed on in terms of our target personas for players of this game
The brands that we might want as advertisers or partners and we want to plug it into the clay mcp
And so specifically what we want the clay mcp to help us with
Is to search its database of companies of people
And to tell us like who out there in the world
Fits this description that we came up with and so maybe specifically if we can start with like a list of 10 companies
Who we might want to reach out to about advertising or partnering
I like it. So it sounds like what the clay mcp is going to do is just give us a bunch of company context business context
Exactly kind of like let us go and do some market research all through one tool
Um, and yeah, there we go. It might let's see. Let's see what it does if we don't we don't actually have clay connected here
Yeah, um, but if not then I it has access to the web
So it might be able to do some research for us. Yeah, the agents are pretty agentic. It turns out
So I might just go out and start doing some searching for us
Agents are agentic. Yeah. Yeah. So um, we'll we'll see how this goes
But yeah, I guess maybe I know we're coming up on time. We got maybe like six minutes or so
Um, I wanted to kind of get a couple of thoughts from you before before we lost for sure
And so like walk me through what you do next so you get this company search
Let's say it's like cooking in the background coming up with some stuff
What what actually happens next?
Yeah, so what happens next is you basically get this list of companies
You want to reach out to then you can say okay great now give me the people at those companies and then you can say
Now let me reach out to them. And so there's another tool that we have plugged in here
Called ample market. There are many tools like this that are essentially email sequencers
And you can set up an email campaign
Where you can email each of these people on that target list
And again, what you're saying is not just a generic like we have a game. You're an advertiser
You know, let's meet and instead you can make reference to specific data
Which the bot has access to you can make reference to specific factors about that company
That you want on as an advertiser and so the email that it can craft for you and load up into an ample market sequence
is super personalized
Then ample market takes care of sending that email
Um, and then you can even have a grok bot monitor your email inbox afterwards to see which advertisers
Took a bite and I feel like this is a good think for us to try and do off stream
So maybe when i'm not sharing live we can try and get a clay account for an ample market account set up
It'd be kind of cool to just like get a whole marketing like partnerships motion going here
So yeah, let's see what we can do that might be really fun and a fun thing to share back later on if we can if we can
Manage to get there. So um, yeah, I think we are kind of winding down this segment
So if you're just joining us, we are in the middle of day three. It's already noon
I don't know where the time is going
We are the middle of day three of a 72 hour
Build a business live stream that we're building entirely with grok bots
And so we've spent the last few days building our game studio and launched our first game this morning
Thursday arena.com or at thursday arena on x thursday arena.com if you want to try the game out
We are working on a bunch of ui polish a bunch of improvements and updates and all kinds of great stuff there
Um, we just spent some time chatting with matt about marketing operations revenue operations and how to grow the business
We have the other folks on our team lauren and matt who are hard at work
Working on all the feedback we've gotten in from the app working on all the bug fixes that we've been identifying
We're shipping early and trying to ship as much as we can over the course of the day
And we'd love to get back to that too
Again for those of you who are joining us
We're also doing all of this live in san francisco is a lot going on
We have an upstairs space here with our studio
We're downstairs with a main stage with folks who are right we're right next to dream force
And so folks coming in and out and being able to join and hang out with us to learn about grok bot for various kinds of
Used cases and so matt you spoke earlier on our main stage about revenue ops marketing ops, which is awesome
We're gonna go to another talk in just a minute here
I believe with blake schuler on grok bot for customer success
And so we're gonna continue kind of showing you how you can grow your own businesses with grok bot
We'll obviously be back on the stream a little bit after that show you how things are going with thursday arena
So you're gonna ping pong back and forth
We'll cut over to the main stage in the next minute here on grok bot for customer success and matt
Thanks so much for hanging out with us. Yeah, thanks for having me. Hey everyone
Thank you so much for joining me today
For grok bot for post sales. My name is blake and I am an ai deployment manager here at spacex ai
And i'm really really looking forward to chatting with you all about grok bot today
All right, so let's set the stage. What are we going to be doing for the next 45 minutes?
One I said hi welcome done
Then we're going to talk about grok bot. We'll introduce it why grok bot is great specific post sales use cases
So post sales is kind of determined by anything if your customer facing after that sale gets done
It can include a lot of teams and really excited to talk about those use cases
We'll do a demo get in the product
Learn about what we learned recap that do a q&a and then for those of folks in here
We are going to build
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But I don't know, I feel like there's a really interesting niche of folks who really enjoy
sort of like the downtime games, right?
You have a few minutes in the middle of your day, you want to do something that makes you
think a little bit.
Sort of the, I think our niche is sort of the puzzle gamers or the folks who are playing
words with friends and taking a quick turn.
Maybe the folks who are, you know-
I feel like we should record this, we should like feed this into Cerebro as just like-
Let's try it.
Okay, okay.
Hey Cerebro, so we're thinking a little bit more about our segments based on what
you shared with us earlier and thinking about this out loud, I think, you know, what's great
about Thursday Arena is that it's really quick and easy to play and so maybe some of the segments
we should think about are customers or users who are more casual gamers, right?
They want to hop in, maybe play for a little bit during a five-minute break or, you know,
spend a little bit of time doing something with their brain, you know, in between meetings
or something like that at work.
But wondering if we can think a little bit more about our segments given all that.
Yeah.
And I think the thing to highlight is like, especially if you're thinking about advertisers
and partners and maybe we can feed this in as well, is you sort of start with like who's
in your-
I'm going to record you.
Yeah.
And essentially we want to give you that context, Cerebro, because that's who uses our game.
And so we want to think about, okay, those people, what other products and services
are those people interested in?
Like maybe those people are also the people who between meetings want to like read
the news and get smart on the news.
That sort of feeds into who we should think about with partnerships and advertisers.
Cool.
Okay.
So it looks like Cerebro's going to take this.
Yeah, what have we got?
There's a lot of really good stuff here.
I think it already sort of understood the concept, by the way, of like extrapolating
it to-
I love this.
I want to actually go up to this because reading this a second ago and I love
how we basically have now sort of some really good stats.
What I love about the bot team, Cerebro can like reach out to the other bots
and be like, hey, I need to write an email, like give me the data for the email and
it actually makes it so easy.
So like everything is like your team just working for you.
Don't lead with Beacon Current, don't lead with these certain things.
Here's the revised openers, right?
Like we shipped it this morning and we have a thousand players and 440 matches
in the last hour.
Yeah.
It's really cool having this build data, by the way.
That's really cool.
We didn't have any of this yesterday.
And also imagine like the old way of doing things, these are completely
different teams.
Yeah.
Like the person executing these outbound campaigns or like on the
partnerships team might have to be like, hey, can we pull the latest data?
And okay, let me talk to the data team.
Yeah.
Like there's so much, so many steps you have to go through.
This is just a bunch of bots.
Yeah.
And they all work together.
Yeah.
I think that when the context is on the agent team
team, I feel like it adds this level of they all, they can just hang out and chat
with each other.
Totally.
You were talking about standups earlier.
I think same idea.
Oh yeah, totally.
Cool.
Well, then we talked a little bit about our segments.
Yes.
Looks like we got some updates here.
We're great casual scroll substitutes.
There you go.
I might put myself in this category.
It's like, forget the Instagram reels, just like play a quick game of Thursday
Arena.
Yeah.
That should be kind of cool.
I could, I could see that.
Yeah.
And that feeds into messaging, right?
Like these are fundamentally, these are stories that we're trying to
tell about why our game exists out in the world.
Totally.
And when we can share that story with the right people out there, they're
like, yeah, I get that.
Yeah.
I want to be part of that.
Yeah.
Cool.
And then it looks like the bot is asking us if we want to kind of lock in a mark
segment and then we gave it some more context and here you go, like some
actual personas.
Yeah.
So this is awesome.
Cause I feel like we can kind of, what I always appreciate when it comes to
product is thinking about your customer, putting yourself in your user
shoes.
Exactly.
Thinking about user stories.
Like when am I going to engage with the product?
What am I going to engage with the app?
How am I going to engage with it?
Like what am I seeking from it?
Like these types of questions sound kind of esoteric and philosophical, but
I think they really make sort of like help you understand who you're
building for.
Yeah.
Sounds like this is helping us get there.
That's exactly right.
Yeah.
That's exactly right.
Cool.
I also love these partner ideas, right?
Yeah.
Like news apps or newsletter briefings.
Right.
Morning Brew.
Maybe we can try to go get a spot on Morning Brew.
Yeah.
Retail check once apps.
Like you're checking your stocks for the day.
Right.
Right.
Oh wait, let me go play this game, right?
That could be cool.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Feeling on top of your work.
Body resets.
Wow.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
This is great.
Partnerships one liner.
We sit in the same five minutes as in use skim, a snack run, and one more casual round, stadium
ads for brands that already own that break.
Wow.
It's a little AI slot.
Okay, a little bit.
We can clean it up.
We can clean it up.
Yeah.
It's got the m-dash in there, but it's always about inspiring ideas.
Yeah.
It's like it's giving us something to react to, and then we can put the human
touch on it and like, you know, and so the way that we can take this and really
act on it is Cerebro has a couple plugins loaded up.
They're not offed.
Right.
So I think we're just going to get a sort of like hypothetical run through of how these
would work.
Yeah.
But those two ones are clay and apple market, right?
And so when you think about clay and what it can do is it takes this conceptual work
and what we can, and we can even try this.
And I think actually this template will be able to just sort of simulate for us.
Cool.
Okay.
Let's give it a shot.
What they would return in there, right?
Yeah.
Cool.
Okay.
So now we want to move forward and take what we've landed on in terms of our target
personas for players of this game, the brands that we might want as advertisers
or partners, and we want to plug it into the clay MCP.
And so specifically what we want the clay MCP to help us with is to search its
database of companies, of people, and to tell us like who out there in the world fits
this description that we came up with.
And so maybe specifically if we can start with like a list of 10 companies who we might
want to reach out to about advertising or partnering.
I like it.
So it sounds like what the clay MCP is going to do is just give us a bunch of company
contacts, business contacts.
Exactly.
And like let us go and do some market research all through one tool.
And yeah, there we go.
Let's see what it does if we don't, we don't actually have clay connected here.
But if not, then I can have access to the web.
So it might be able to do some research for us.
The agents are pretty agentic, it turns out.
So I might just go out and start doing some searching for us.
Yeah, so we'll see how this goes.
But yeah, I guess maybe I know we're coming up on time.
We got maybe like six minutes or so.
I wanted to kind of get a couple of thoughts from you before before we
lost you. And so like walk me through what you do next.
So you get this company search, let's say it's like cooking in the
background, coming up with some stuff.
What actually happens next?
Yeah. So what happens next is you basically get this list of companies
you want to reach out to, then you can say, okay, great.
Now give me the people at those companies.
And then you can say, now let me reach out to them.
And so there's another tool that we have plugged in here called
ample market. There are many tools like this that are
essentially email sequencers and you can set up an email campaign
where you can email each of these people on that target list.
And again, what you're saying is not just a generic like
we have a game, you're an advertiser, you know, let's meet.
And instead you can make reference to specific data,
which the bot has access to.
You can make reference to specific factors about that company
that you want on as an advertiser.
And so the email that it can craft for you and load up
into an ample market sequence is super personalized.
Then ample market takes care of sending that email.
And then you can even have a grok bot monitor your email
inbox afterwards to see which advertisers took a bite.
I feel like this is a good thing for us to try and do off stream.
So maybe when I'm not sharing live,
we can try and get a clear account for an ample market account set up.
It'd be kind of cool to just like get a whole marketing
like partnerships motion going here.
So yeah, let's see what we can do.
That might be really fun and a fun thing to share back
later on if we can, if we can manage to get there.
So yeah, I think we are kind of winding down this segment.
So if you're just joining us, we are in the middle of day
three, it's already noon.
I don't know where the time is going.
We are the middle of day three of a 72 hour build
a business live stream that we're building entirely
with grok bots.
And so we've spent the last few days building our game studio
and launched our first game this morning,
Thursday arena.com or at Thursday arena on X,
Thursday arena.com.
If you want to try the game out,
we are working on a bunch of UI polish,
a bunch of improvements and updates
and all kinds of great stuff there.
We just spent some time chatting with Matt
about marketing operations, revenue operations
and how to grow the business.
We have the other folks on our team, Lauren and Matt
who are hard at work, working on all the feedback
that we've gotten in from the app,
working on all the bug fixes that we've been identifying.
We're shipping early and trying to ship as much as we can
over the course of the day.
And we'd love to get back to that too.
Again, for those of you who are joining us,
we're also doing all of this live in San Francisco
is a lot going on.
We have an upstairs space here with our studio.
We're downstairs with a main stage
with folks who are right next to Dreamforce.
And so folks coming in and out and being able
to join and hang out with us
to learn about grok bot for various kinds of use cases.
And so Matt, you spoke earlier on our main stage
about revenue ops and marketing ops, which is awesome.
We're gonna go to another talk in just a minute here,
I believe with Blake Shuler on grok bot for customer success.
And so we're gonna continue kinda showing you
how you can grow your own businesses with grok bot.
We'll obviously be back on the stream a little bit
after that, show you how things are going
with Thursday Arena.
So we're gonna ping pong back and forth.
We'll cut over to the main stage in the next minute
here on grok bot for customer success.
And Matt, thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Hey everyone, thank you so much for joining me today.
For grok bot for post sales, my name is Blake
and I am an AI deployment manager here at SpaceX AI.
And I'm really, really looking forward to chatting
with you all about grok bot today.
All right, so let's set the stage.
What are we going to be doing for the next 45 minutes?
One, I said hi, welcome, done.
Then we're gonna talk about grok bot, we'll introduce it.
Why grok bot is great.
Specific post sales use cases.
So post sales is kind of determined by anything
if your customer facing after that sale gets done
can include a lot of teams
and really excited to talk about those use cases.
We'll do a demo, get in the product,
learn about what we learned, recap that, do a Q&A.
And then for those folks in here, we are going to build.
All right, okay.
So this is the AI maturity curve.
This may look familiar to some of you.
We've been talking about this a lot,
especially at SpaceX AI,
because AI is moving so quickly.
We're finding that a lot of folks
are in very different places along this maturity curve.
But this is kind of where we're at.
So it started off with just chat.
All right, you were asking a chat bot coming in
and maybe asking one simple question.
And the next evolution is actually really clear to us
at SpaceX AI.
We're moving from chat to co-pilots to bots
to having full teams of bots
that can support you and all the work that you do
from start to finish.
And that's where I think GrockBot becomes really powerful.
So a lot of you probably have been in GrockBot before,
but those of you who haven't,
let's talk about a little overview.
This is GrockBot.
May look familiar, looks a little bit like iMessage
if you're an Apple user.
I do feel bad for all the Android users out there
because we really did copy iMessage here.
But this is GrockBot and it works as a team of agents.
So you have a bunch of different bots
who have different skills.
They can take tasks, work them from complete start
to finish year.
They have MCPs, APIs,
and they actually even have their own virtual computers.
So think of them as like a teammate
that can really get anything you want done
and we'll take some use cases
and put them through GrockBot
to show you exactly what that means.
So like I said, easy as iMessage.
You have your bots on the left-hand side.
You have, you can pin people to the top.
They're also on 24-7.
So that's one of my favorite things.
You can go to sleep, you can go out of the office,
you can shut your laptop.
I feel like we went through a stage here
where people are walking around the office
with open computers.
With GrockBot no longer,
you don't need to do that anymore.
They use the tools just like you.
Like I said, they have their own virtual computers.
They've finished their work,
they can send you screenshots, screen recordings,
listen to podcasts.
Really the sky is the limit.
I feel like sometimes the hardest part
is thinking about what you actually
want to get done with GrockBot and think big here.
So we'll be doing that a little bit today.
All right, so let's talk about post sales.
So post sales.
So I'll give you a little bit of context into my role
because a lot of these are very personal to me
and the things that I found really successful.
So I said I'm an AI deployment manager
and that means after the sale is done
and they come on to the SpaceX AI platform,
I work with a bunch of customers
to make sure that they see ROI, they're successful.
So what does that mean?
It means lots of emails, lots of slacks,
Teams messages, meetings, conversations,
and I have a lot of things going on.
So for those of you who are in post sales watching this,
that probably sounds familiar to you.
So here are my specific use cases.
I could have probably made 20 of these slides.
So if you ever want to talk more about these,
you let me know.
So first one, this is one of my favorites,
morning status board.
I wake up the same time every day.
I check my grok bot.
I look and I can see exactly what's going on for the day.
Any fires happen overnight.
Who do I have meetings with?
What did I say that I was gonna do yesterday
that I didn't do?
Not that that ever happens.
What's going on for the day and how can I get set up?
So that's one of my morning status board pieces.
Then I have call prep.
This is a great one because it's very much just in time
in the sense that 15 to 20 minutes before a call,
it pings me, who's on the call, what their title is,
what we talked about last time,
a suggestion of maybe something new that launched
since we talked previously
and maybe a suggestion for something to bring up to them
and then anything that I need unblocked.
So instead of taking the time to go review your notes,
check through, you can actually just get your call prep
from grok bot.
Another one is a follow-up desk.
This is actually one of my favorites
and we're gonna walk through it live today.
So what happens is, let's say my day is nine to five,
I would say 75% of that is usually spent in meetings
because it's what I find most energizing.
I love talking to my customers.
I love strategizing, being there personally.
But a lot of the work in between those gets piled up
if you don't have time to actually come back.
So the follow-up desk is a really great option
for the second A call ends.
My bots get the granola notes, transcript.
They pull all the context that they need.
They draft my reply.
They create materials that I may need.
So it basically takes care of all that in between work,
drafts it for me, I'll check it out
and then decide if I wanna send.
So that's one of my favorite use cases up here.
We also have a promise keeper.
This one's important to me
because I wanna make sure that I do what I say I'm going to do.
So if I say I'm going to do something,
promise keeper is always watching
to make sure it lets me know
to actually follow through with that.
That's one of my favorites.
On the other side is an ask watch.
So if I've asked someone else to do something
and they don't get back to me back in the day,
that gets sucked into the abyss of emails
or slacks and gets lost, but no longer
because ask watch has my back.
And then finally, account reset.
We're actually gonna walk through this today.
If you're in post sales
or work with a good amount of customers,
sometimes it feels like there's a lot of things in motion.
And so what we like to do is talk to my bots,
say, hey, I need just an update on where this is at.
It knows exactly like the kind of response
that I'm looking for
and sends me a full download of everything.
It also actually tells me a joke in the beginning
because usually if I send the account reset,
I'm feeling a little stressed
and it's always a space joke.
So we'll see what it comes up with today.
So these are my six main use cases.
Like I said, many more in the head
can share those out with those of you live today.
Okay, so let's meet my team.
Gus is my best friend.
All right, so Gus is my chief of staff.
Gus and I are homies.
So we talk all day long and I actually only,
I think this is maybe a little bit unique
in the sense that I only talk to Gus.
So a lot of people, how they use their bots
they talk to a lot of their specialists.
And I tried this, but I'm very distractible
and I needed one best friend to get me through everything.
I didn't wanna manage a team of 10.
So Gus manages a team of 10.
I manage a team of one to two depending on the day.
So Gus is my chief of staff.
We'll work through with him a lot today on the demo.
Then we have Frankie.
I have a lot of follow-ups to do.
So Frankie's my specialist on follow-ups.
We have Wally who knows my voice.
Specifically, I sent a ton of emails and slacks
and things that I've written in the past.
So it really knows what I'm doing.
So if you're setting up your grok bot,
definitely make sure that you go in
and send it things that you've written
so you don't have to start from scratch.
But it also knows different personas.
So it knows who I'm talking to.
If I'm creating or if it's drafting
an internal slack for me,
it's not gonna be super formal.
It's gonna probably be an all lower case.
It's gonna be a very casual.
If it's messaging an exec or emailing an exec,
it's gonna be short to the point formal.
And it also knows kind of like a little bit of my style.
So we'll work with Wally today too.
Then we have Trudy, my source of truth.
Trudy's fabulous because specifically at SpaceX AI
we have lots of platforms, lots of documentation.
And I wanna make sure that I ask a question
that I get the right answer.
And so I have Gus go to Trudy
if we really need specific information.
I need sources for it and he'll send it back to me.
Then we have Scout.
This is another good one.
I guess I love them all.est
I'm saying they're all
not actually its name.
You can come up with a fun name based on the account.
But since we're talking about Poe we're assuming
you probably have a book of accounts
or specific accounts.
My best way to do it
is to have an account spec account.
So the accounts specialist list that they need to know
they have all of the accounts.
And so you can basically have your own employee
who has dialed in on that specific account.
And so I suggest you make one
for all of the accounts you have.
You're working at scale and you have 1500.
There's probably a better way to do that.
But these for medium to small books
definitely suggest.
So this is my dream team.
Take away Gus is my best friend.
All right.
Should we do a do a do a do a do a do a.
All right.
So let's hop in to Grockbot right now.
So to avoid let's just anchor I guess on this right now.
So this is what Grockbot looks like.
And Grockbot is very simple
in the sense that you have your bots on the left hand side.
You have pinned bots.
So if I wanted to right click and pin someone
I can pin them to the top
if I know I'm talking to them a lot.
You also have your marketplace.
So this is where you can grab bots from other people
or you can connect to different plugins
like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, et cetera.
And then each bot has their own computer
which we talked about a second ago.
So you'll see over here on the right
it has its own computer to open
so you can specifically grab things in Google Chrome.
It can open PowerPoints.
There's even this button on the top that says
teach a task, very cool skill.
You can come in and it can watch you.
Remember what you did and then repeat that for you.
So those are the VMs.
All right, so you can see the team
that I just introduced you to on the left.
We have Franny, Wally, Trudy, Frankie and Scout.
Down here you'll see we have my three account bots
and then we have staff meeting
which we'll use in a little bit.
So to get us started, I'm really busy right now.
So I'm gonna tell Gus, I'm gonna say
can you join the internal learnings call
for me right now, send takeaways when it's done.
So I can actually have Gus join my internal learnings call
and I wouldn't have it do it for just any call
so you wanna be protective over what it does for this
but sometimes there's a lot of new things coming out.
And so what I know is this upcoming meeting
is a branding update for my company,
Flylo in this demo situation
and it's gonna come in and start joining the Google Meet.
So you can see it's clicking around, it's muting,
it's turning up its camera.
I'll let it do its thing and we can come back to it
but it's gonna put in my name
and then it's going to actually write in the chat,
hey everybody, this is Gus Blake Spot
and we are going to, I'm gonna sit here
and send takeaways.
All right, so thank you Gus, he's joined the chat,
he's gonna send a few updates when he's done.
All right, so let's move to the next thing.
So I told you and promised you
that we would talk about post-call follow-ups.
I think again in post sales, this is really important,
you wanna make sure that your bots are working for you
while you don't have extra time
and so these are the perfect opportunities to do that.
So one of my accounts is named Harbor
so I'm gonna write into Gus and I'm gonna say,
I'm done, okay, we won't sign in
because this is gonna take too long
but he can join the call, it's very cool.
I'm gonna say I'm done with the Harbor call.
And usually this would happen automatically
but for the demo use case,
I decided I would prompt it to move.
I also, it just sent a, because the handoff was dismissed
and I told Grockbott that I was doing a demo today
which is actually, this is a cool example,
is it sent what an outcome would be
after it left a call just in case.
So it went into the call and then shared
what decisions were made, there's new branding,
sent me the link to the new branding,
put in any asks and owners
and things that it needed to work on.
So cool outcome of that.
So I said I'm done with the Harbor call,
it's gonna work on the Harbor pack.
Here's what you'll notice,
as I said, I like to only talk to Gus
but Gus doesn't have the expertise that everybody else has.
So Gus has messaged Wally, Gus has messaged Frankie
and Harbor, so since it was a Harbor call,
we have to do a follow up
and we have to do some writing,
he's gonna message those three bots.
And just like that, I get a pack back
and it gives me everything that I need to do
within a click of a button.
So Harbor post call pack is ready, drafts only.
I've made it very clear that I only want drafts,
I never want it to send anything on its own.
So it drafted something in Gmail,
let's check out Gmail, great.
All right, so it knew that I needed to talk to Maya,
it knew that I needed to talk to Priya,
it wrote a full message from me,
hey Maya exclamation point,
like that's clearly me,
I'm such an exclamation point person
and wrote it all out in my voice
with everything that I needed to do.
So what I'll probably do in like realistically,
tweak a few things
and then we'll talk about how this improves the system after
but I'll tweak a few things, press send and it's done.
Let's see what else it did.
All right, it's writing a, oh it's slacking Alex.
So Alex is the AE on the account.
So we're gonna look at a draft in Slack,
let's see, perfect.
Okay, so it's gonna put it into the post sales account,
updating Alex, hey Alex just chatted with Harbor,
we're gonna meet with the new champions next week
working on a ROI PDF, perfect.
So I'll tweak that.
So two out of three done.
And during the call, they requested an ROI one pager,
how to manage ROI, how to measure ROI.
And it actually went in, worked with Frankie
to use the fly low branding
to build a fully beautiful ROI collection document.
So one, it does that very quickly.
Two, it takes all your contacts,
works with your account specialist,
works with all your other bot specialists
and builds what you need to kind of get you through
the follow-up that probably used to take
at least 45 minutes before.
All right, so we're feeling good so far.
This one, I'm gonna go into Franny directly
just because we've been in Gasolot
and I will show you how to go into other bots.
So for Franny, I wanna see another virtual machine use case.
I think that would be fun to look at.
So I'm gonna say make me an ROI form for Northwind.
Northwind is one of my accounts.
Also while this is loading,
you'll see that you can actually add labels
to different accounts, which is really helpful
when it comes to just figuring out who they are.
Like I have this labeled as chief of staff.
So if you ever wanna add a label,
you can do that in this description.
So what it's actually going to do is open up forms
and start building a draft of our ROI form.
So you can see it's opened up a form.
It's gonna start clicking around.
The speed of these tasks depends on what the task is,
but I know at SpaceX AI it's been a big focus of us
to make sure our models are really good at VM work.
So I'm very excited to see where that goes.
All right, so we've added in Northwind logistics,
fly low check-in, things are looking good.
All right, we'll let this work.
We'll check back on Franny in a second.
Another use case I gave you earlier
that I wanted to talk about and demo
is where they say the space joke.
Aren't we curious to see what space joke they have for us?
So I'm gonna say, where are we at with Harbor?
Okay, it knows that when I say where are we at,
it could be I'm stressed about Harbor.
You can say whatever you want,
but Gus knows when I say where are we at with Harbor,
I need space joke pronto,
and I need an update on where the account is.
So let's let us do its thing.
It's gonna reply to me,
and usually it'll message other agents.
Oh, yep, okay, so it messaged some other bots.
We have Harbor, Frankie follow up and Scout,
wants to make sure it collects the full picture
so we know exactly where we are.
You can also track and see what's happening
with messages here.
It updated me, still waiting on Frankie and Scout.
Now it's just waiting on Scout,
and we'll get a response this way.
So while we're waiting on that,
let's check back in on this form.
It's probably not done yet.
You can see it's starting to enter in different questions.
So it knew it was for Northwind.
It knows usually how we like to collect ROI,
and it's starting to build that out here.
Sometimes I like to watch the VM
because I just think it's really cool
and how it can click around.
If this is something you do often,
and you don't want it to guess
on the different steps that it does,
again, the teach a task button is a really good option.
Okay, let's go back to Gus
and see where we are at with Harbor.
Here's a joke because life's not that serious.
How do you organize a space party?
You plan it.
Thanks, Gus, you're the best.
All right, so it tells me what's at risk,
who the people are, blockers, open promises,
slack what's happening, and what to do next.
I don't know about you, but clearly,
since I only really talked to one agent,
I need very specific things sent to me
all in one beautiful pack.
And this has been one of my favorite things to use.
And so you can easily set this up with your bot,
tell it what you want the output to be,
and you don't have to do the joke, but it's fun.
And then it will do that for you.
All right, Franny Form is still working,
but you'll notice something interesting.
So it's actually messaged Frankie, it's messaged Harbor.
None of these people have,
see how this guy has a little green circle on it?
It'll be blue, kind of like I messaged
when it's ready for me to open.
None of these people have pinged me
because I don't want to be bothered with my 10-person team.
I want to be bothered with who I'm just talking to.
Franny will talk to me directly if I

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So, while it's doing this, I'll show you one last demo use case, and then I'll talk
about pulling this all together and building it as a system.
So let's use a staff meeting.
So I use staff meetings for when it can pull in different bots to have a conversation
about something that requires a lot of different perspectives.
This is good for, honestly, a lot of different types of roles that you can check
for bias.
So if you want to say, like, you know, I don't want you to always bias towards
a specific customer.
It's good to bring all the voices into the room.
So let's run a staff meeting.
We can say, start a staff meeting to talk about what I should spend the next and
only free hour of my day today.
And what you'll see, too, is Grockbot's really good at multitasking.
So even if it was still working with Frankie and Scout on this follow-up or update about
Harbor, it would also be able to work with me and work with the staff meeting.
So Grockbot can juggle a lot of pieces at once, which is great.
So the staff meeting is live.
Let's look at the tab for their takes.
All right.
So Gus called a staff meeting.
Gus said, like, has one free hour left.
What are the one to two top priorities we want to focus on?
And I tell them to always disagree.
It's not helpful.
And especially with AI, you don't want them always just agreeing on everything.
So come in, disagree, fight for my time, and then tell me what makes the most sense.
So it looks like Harbor, oops, looks like Harbor has said some stuff on SSO first
tracks.
I actually ran one earlier to show this as well.
But you can see that they'll, like, literally have a conversation with each other.
They'll come in and say, don't spend the time on us.
There was a usage chip, but everything's fine.
Soft later only if you have time.
Brightline also says don't spend it on us, which is great.
I bet Harbor has something to focus on.
It seems like Harbor has something for SSO.
Frankie follow-up says protect the cap.
This needs to go out now.
And if you have more time, focus on the SSO problems and Scout agrees.
So they're coming in, they're having a conversation, and Gus will usually return
back to me once the staff meeting is over and tell me what the final take away is
and what we want to focus on.
Okay, let's check back on Franny.
I bet the forum's almost done.
Great, looks like it's done.
It was starting to publish.
The forum is done.
We have what team and role are you on?
What are your primary use cases?
What does done look like?
Great, so we're collecting that.
So you can see that we have a lot of things moving at once, right?
So you want to design your system to be one that is able, you're able to track easily.
So play around with it as you're setting up bots and do what works for you
because everyone's really different.
So it's finished.
It told me the questions that it wrote, the share link and the edit link.
And I asked if it wanted me to send it for me.
So very exciting.
And then, all right, staff meetings in.
Go first.
So we need to focus on the SSO.
Next, we're going to send Maya the next step email,
which they actually already drafted in my Gmail.
We saw that earlier.
And then we can hold and park a few of these other things
that we don't need to focus on right now.
All right, so that's the majority of what I wanted to show you
inside Grockbot.
I hope you're feeling pretty confident.
Let's just quickly rewind on how to get to this end state and what I suggest.
I think one of the most intimidating things about something so possible
like Grockbot is that feeling of a blank page.
Usually people do some research and they go in and they're like,
what have other people made or what can I do?
I'm going to tell you what I did.
It was actually really, really helpful for me.
So I actually took 10 to 15 minutes and I put a voice memo on my phone.
You can also click this voice to talk on Grockbot directly, but I'm a pacer.
So I have my phone.
I'm pacing around and I spent 10 to 15 minutes talking about what I do for work.
Hi, my name is Blake.
This is my job.
Here's what I like about my job.
Here's what I'm struggling with right now.
Here are the processes that I think are broken.
Here are the things that I feel like we could do better.
And so I went and talked through.
It was a very long transcript.
I copied and pasted this transcript.
I sent it to my first bot.
It wasn't even Gus yet.
Hard to think back in the day.
Sent it to him, said, hey, I need a system that's going to work for me.
Help me build it.
So sent it.
Gus, I'll call him Gus.
Gus came back and said, all right.
Seems like you love doing things directly, talking to customers.
Let's make sure we have enough time for you on your calendar to do that.
Seems like this process is broken or you're constantly checking slack messages.
Let's take that off your plate.
So if you want something specifically built for you, no matter what role you're in,
my biggest piece of advice is to start with context.
There's so much that lives in your head and it's really, really powerful.
So you want to take that out of your head, give it to Grockbot, and
Grockbot will do the rest.
Another thing about getting set up and started is if you get stuck or
if you have questions, Grockbot usually has the answer.
If you wanted to really push through things and try to figure it out,
say don't stop until you figure this solution.
So getting started with maybe some of these use cases, a voice memo.
I think you're going to be in really good shape.
The second piece of advice I have is creating this and making it into a system.
So something really cool about Grockbot is it learns what you like,
it learns what you don't like, it starts to adapt and change with you.
You almost invest in Grockbot like you invest in another co-worker or
direct report, and so it's going to do that.
But I also built systems on top of this setup that will actually take
care of that a little bit more.
So on the right, you'll see some of my routines.
These are things that run automatically.
So weekly at 8.30, I'll get my daily brief, or
my unfinished promises that I was telling you about earlier, 9 AM, 1 PM,
or a Friday dashboard.
But one of my favorites is this thing called a self-improvement scan.
And the one part of it that I actually really, really love is number two.
So one, it creates a full system audit.
So if I'm doing things manually and I'm sending them or
it's checking my Slack and it's noticing that I'm doing a lot of things
that I'm not asking Grockbot for help with.
It's going in and saying, seems like we could automate this,
I have an opportunity and sends it back to me every single Wednesday.
But number two is I feel like the piece that has really helped me the most
is the voice learning.
So the less I have to edit my drafts, edit my Slack, edit my emails,
the better.
And what it does is it goes in and
takes the delta of what it drafted versus what I sent,
finds the delta of that, sends it back to Wally.
Wally updates its rules and so continuously gets better and better and better.
And so one of my other pieces of advice for you is to make sure that you make this a system.
All right, so let's go back for a second, jump out of the demo and
do a quick recap on what we learned.
We just talked about a few of these.
One, start with a voice dump.
I feel like also, I usually say this and I call this the imagination gap.
Grockbot is so capable, all right?
The thing probably holding back your Grockbot is you thinking about what
is actually possible.
So have it push itself.
How can you make this better?
What could we do?
Think outside of the box.
You don't need to have all the answers.
So start with that voice dump, give it the context.
You're going to be in great shape.
Two, personal suggestion, a little bit biased.
Put a bot in front, all right?
Gus has saved my chaotic self from getting overwhelmed in a bunch of different chats.
And Gus manages a team.
So you don't have to manage a team of 10.
You can manage a team of three managers.
Build it how you want, just tell the agents, they'll take care of it for you.
And then three is make it that living system.
So you want to make sure 90% of that Grockbot's going to do on its own.
It's really good at that.
But put a little bit of extra in the things that you really find important.
Like for me, I need my voice.
I love an exclamation point.
Grockbot didn't initially love an exclamation point.
And so I have taught it to have a little bit of personality,
maybe tell a joke about space.
OK, that was really fun.
I hope you learned something.
I'd like to take the next 15 minutes to answer a few questions.
We can do it live in here.
I think we can pass around a mic.
So feel free to raise your hand and I'll answer whatever I can.
Mic check, one, two.
Hey, amazing talk, wonderful communicator.
What was your prompt to get to the risk people promises reply?
The risk people promises reply.
Oh, are you talking about?
Yes.
OK, so this was one of my use cases.
Here, we'll go back because it might be easier to see on here.
So this is one of my use cases, which is down here called
the account reset.
So I basically said sometimes I feel underwater with an account.
I feel like there are a million things.
So the prompt is one I just taught Gus,
like where I get stuck and overwhelmed.
And then I said, here are the things that I need to know.
And I told him risks, et cetera, and it built the rest.
So you can build your bot.
Just tell it what you want it to know.
Or you can say, hey, I'm overwhelmed with X
or I want an update on everything
that you're doing with X.
Get a first prompt, and then you can build from there.
Amazing.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Any other questions?
Hi, thank you.
I'm curious in your self-improvement script,
how often do you make use of building skills
once it suggests something maybe for repetitive tasks
that you do?
Yeah, good question.
So when I first did this, I didn't give it any limits.
And it would send me like 10 new bots to build and new agents
and was kind of over-correcting.
So I set a rule that actually it only
can send me one suggestion per week.
Because what I think it can be easy to over-index,
especially on routines and things that
run all the time that you don't really pay attention to.
So I have it send me one a week, and I take advantage of that
one a week.
If I don't agree with the one that it sends,
I usually push back and get a new one.
But I would say I self-improve at least once a week
when that sends on Wednesdays.
Yeah, good question.
I use Grotbot like two days.
Help me a lot.
I feel like it's no more agent.
It's like a AGI.
It's because with a computer it can work like learning.
And the skill is very faster.
I put for design for me.
I work like a robotic and a portable computer.
But it's solving my problem.
And that is amazing.
I just ask Kerry what is the cost?
That is because what you do is like you have so much agents
working and how we can use for don't spend a lot.
We can use and I have another question.
We can use inside Grotbot order software
like just running inside a computer.
Yeah, good question.
All right, so just to answer your second question first
because that's a little bit of a quicker one.
So you want to connect usually via MCP APIs.
If you have other things or systems or softwares,
you can actually usually set that up in your VM directly.
So that's definitely possible.
So let's talk about cost.
Cost is important.
It was built to be very cost efficient.
However, you want to use it very strategically.
So there are certain things that cost more money
than others.
Having it go in and run a full UI experience
to build a form, more of a costly option
than if you go get everything that you want
and just put it into Google Forms AI
and it builds it for you.
So using the VM can be a little bit more costly.
And then routines can be expensive
because people over index on how often they need them.
I was saying this earlier, it's really easy
to have something check every 15 minutes all the time
because you can just ignore it if you don't want it.
But those things sitting in the background add up.
So if you have three of those that run 15 minutes
all the time, that's hundreds of messages coming a day,
prompts being sent, things being sent back.
So something to pay attention to.
I also think keep your team lean.
You don't need 45 bots.
And I think that's one of the things too
is keep your team really specialized in what they need.
And that really helps as well.
Yeah, good question.
Hi.
How far away are we to letting GrockBot handle
your account directly?
Like Grock, like I never talked to my customer
or GrockBot, hopefully never.
So I think there are human tasks right now.
I mean, AI moves so quickly, I don't know
where we're gonna be in two days, let alone two years.
But I'll tell you that I think that humans
are really, really good at a few specific things.
And especially with customer facing work,
being human is great.
If I was an AI up here, I feel like it would be less fun.
And I probably wouldn't talk about space jokes.
So I think we're far.
I think it's just taking the time to take the work
that we don't need a human for
and making them more impactful
in the time that they're working.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you, Blake.
Talking about balance,
how much of the time that you free up
with the bots working for you,
have you put it into the more human
reach out to contact the meetings with the customers?
So I haven't calculated exactly how much time,
but I'll give you some anecdotal things that I've noticed.
So like I said, my calendar is usually full.
I like to be on calls and I like to talk to people.
So I spend a lot of my time doing that with my customers
and I find we get farther by doing that.
So before I was spending probably six hours a day
on meetings and then I would need at least three to four hours
to do the other tasks during that time.
So now we're talking nine, 10 hour workdays.
Now I feel I'm doing the same amount of calls
and I feel like I can get much closer
to feeling like I can do even more
in an eight hour workday.
So it's definitely shaved off hours per day, if not more.
It's also just freed up time for me to do the things
that I love to do, which is powerful in and of itself.
Hey, thank you. That was an amazing talk.
Is there ever an example where having layers of bots?
So obviously you have the chief of staff
to everyone else.
Do you ever have ones in between, if that makes sense?
That's a really good question.
So like an org chart, basically, like we would have.
Yeah, like the chief of staff to a marketing bot
and a sales bot and then they have their own ones, et cetera.
Yeah, I mean, I haven't felt the need.
So the only reason I would think that you would do that,
so right now as humans, you have a chief of staff,
it can actually only manage, what, let's say,
human, a good manager, can really stop at like max 10, all right?
Gus right now has done very well up to 15 and 20.
If it starts to feel like it's pushing the limits
and I haven't really tested those limits
because I don't have more than that,
then I think it would make sense to add in another layer.
But I actually think that's really interesting.
And when you're doing your voice dump and talking to your bot,
I think there's an opportunity to also talk
about what that setup could look like for you specifically.
But right now, if it can just talk to everyone directly,
that's fine too.
Good question.
Two quick questions.
Have you ever, do you think like your sales retention
and or increased sales because of this in any way?
I'm just kind of curious your general feeling.
And then also, did anything ever go wrong,
just really wrong and just want to share?
Yeah, definitely.
In terms of increasing retention
and success of my customers,
the piece where I've seen it be really successful
is it binds opportunities that will make my customer
more successful that I didn't have time or didn't catch.
So new small micro ships that I know
they've been waiting for.
I can get an email drafted ready for me,
a flag to me that it happened,
send it out to them, gives them more trust.
It tells them something has updated.
And it finds me new opportunities.
I feel like that comes up a lot too
because I can catch things ahead of time.
And so if we see an issue usually before,
maybe there wasn't a way to flag it,
but because I have Harbor, for example,
one of my account agents always watching that account,
it brings things to my attention
and I can get ahead of it quicker.
But yeah, I mean, I've seen a lot of success.
And I think my customers are feeling very tailored to
because I'm able to have the time and the energy
to really get that tailored experience out to them.
Hi, thank you so much.
So I have a quick question on like when two bots
are collaborating or communicating with each other,
how they verify the outcomes?
You know, like they have to verify each other, right?
Like what you said versus the other bot said,
how does that happen?
That's a good question.
Are you saying like outcome verification?
If Harbor hears from Frankie,
is Harbor checking if Frankie's correct?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know how that works,
but I think I would be surprised if Harbor goes in
and checks Frankie's work and then responds.
I think there is a verification loop
inside each of the own bots
and then the trust goes from there.
The thing that Gus does,
which is like a layer on top of things,
is goes in and then plays all that information
against everything else and sees it as like
a broader view for me
and has a bit more depth and context into that.
And that's pretty helpful.
Hi, great session, by the way.
So I'm new to GROC Bot,
but I've used Open Claw and Plot Code and Co-Work.
If I have my system already set up there
with skills and MCPs and other things,
is there a migration path to get to GROC Bot?
And how much of the things are similar
between like GROC Bot and Open Claw
or other tools out there?
And then another question,
going back to your earlier question,
the R's saved off.
How much time are you spending now managing
those bots and agents and fine-tuning them?
Yeah, great question.
If I forget any of those,
you just tell me which ones I forgot.
How much, I'll start backwards.
How much time do I spend managing those bots
in the beginning a lot of time?
It felt like a new team that I was onboarding
and I'm like, no, I asked you,
do you ever yell at your bots?
Sometimes I get, again, I like an exclamation point.
Maybe they get like three or four in a bad way.
But, you know, I was like, no, I didn't ask you for that.
And spending a lot of time perfecting them.
But it's like I said earlier, it's investing.
Now, my system's pretty clean.
So I don't spend a lot of time.
I know exactly, it knows exactly what I'm looking for.
And I've actually taught it to stay pretty quiet
unless very specific things happen
or I have very specific routines run
that need my attention.
And so that's helped a lot.
Again, like not over-indexing in the routines,
not over-indexing in 30, 40 bots that you don't need
will help save that time.
In terms of the differences between other tools,
I'm not as familiar with the other tools,
but I'll tell you what Grockbott does very well.
The fact that everyone has its own computer is unique.
OpenClaw, I actually sat next to someone on a plane
the other day and he had his Mac mini underneath his feet
and I was like, what is that?
And he was like, oh, it's OpenClaw running for me,
held him like Professor James,
I don't know where that came from,
but you don't need to carry around a Mac mini with Grockbott.
Two, so it does VM work really well.
And I think it really,
as we looked at that maturity curve before,
it really takes it to that staff of agent,
agentic work, staff of bots that really feels like a team.
And for me, that feels different
from what I've seen other places.
And then in terms of migration and moving things over,
in terms of a technical path of doing that,
I'm not quite sure.
I'll tell you how I would do it.
As I'd say, I need you to download
and give me everything that we've worked on,
all the context that you have,
and give it over to Grockbott to build you a new system,
and also come in as a fresh set of eyes.
You could even call a staff meeting,
since I love to do that,
and talk about what they think that was going well
and what they would improve,
and then they can implement the new system on our side.
And I didn't forget one of those,
which is actually impressive.
I don't know if the mic is on.
Sorry.
Check, check.
One, two, on.
So as we use the system more and more,
and we're experimenting adding bots,
we're gonna eventually have bots sprawl potentially, right?
And like any other business,
we are gonna call the herd periodically as we refine.
I guess the question is,
are we accumulating tech at any time we call the herd?
Because there's so much interconnection
between the agents,
and you go and use delete one
because it's not working out or you're not using it.
However, there's references to it everywhere else.
How should we manage that?
That's a really good question.
I mean, in terms of tech debt,
I don't know if a lot of tech debt is piling up
because your new systems will be optimized
as you add more and more people.
But I think my best advice is for you
to not get to that point
by putting the systems in place from when you begin.
So Grockbot is fairly new.
So probably most of you are just getting in there.
It's like set up the system now.
It's like when you move to a new house
and you like now do the chores beautifully, right?
When it's like a fresh start.
So do that for Grockbot when you come
and set up the routines to avoid all tech.
You could even have a tech debt bot
that looks and for things for interdependencies
or catalogs things when it seems
like you're not utilizing one
and can put it into another.
So my best advice,
create the system to prevent that
from happening in the first place.
Hi, here.
You think we can use like a Grockbot for,
you say, for example, put the agent inside the VM.
I like this idea.
That's I think can help us for transition
between another agent and Grockbot.
My point, you think we can use like a Grockbot
like a router for agents
because you can put the five, six different agent
from different company inside the VM
and that's can be like a transition.
You think it's like a router for agents?
Are you talking about like adding different AI agents
into your VM and having it route around that?
Yeah, yeah, because example,
I have in my Cloud Code or Codex
or another agent working for me,
but I have a lot of skills.
I don't want to create,
but my point, if you have in the VM,
you can have your all agent working inside the one VM
and you use the Grockbot like a for router for it.
It's like the same maker cursor
because cursor do this for you in,
he select what is the best agent for do this task,
but you can use this another agent like you have a,
because it's so hard for you make skills
and that's I think we can use, that's my question.
Yeah, okay, I get it.
I have not seen that done.
I'll kind of leave it there in the sense
like I don't want to talk to something
that I haven't seen done.
So I don't know if it would be successful.
But I'll go ahead and leave it there in the sense
and I won't put up a sub in there in the sense
that it's not a big deal.
I don't know if it would be successful,
but I have not seen that done.
I'm going to leave it there in the sense
that it's not a big deal.
I'm not sure if it would be successful.
So I'm not going to leave it there.
Okay, thank you very much.
Does anybody have a question?
Okay, I'll go ahead.
I'll go to the chat box again.
Okay, go ahead.
I'll go to the chat box.
I'm sorry, I forgot to mention.
What?
to go back and audit all of this?
Or I mean, all of these are pretty much saved
in a markdown or how does that?
Yeah, so each bot is actually treated
as its own individual,
it has its own individual number
that you can track everything that it's done
and change logs, et cetera.
But it sounds like you're saying
in terms of maybe forgetting things
that it's done or going back.
The one thing that GrockBot is really good at
is you don't really need to manage context
because it knows what it needs to remember or forget.
And probably the easiest way to do that is,
yes, you can go into the backend
and see what's happened and change
for a little bit of like that traceability.
But I would ask GrockBot to do an analysis
on what's done, what's changed,
what may have been forgotten
so you can do an audit of what's left.
Hey.
Hey, you gave a use case of how you use GrockBot.
I do the same thing, I dictate quite a lot.
It's a lot faster than having to type.
It's great.
But I've had to break it up quite a bit
because LLMs are still hallucinating quite a lot
when you give it a massive blurb.
I've not done it on GrockBot,
but I'm just wondering, have you had any experience
with incorrectness and have you had to adjust
how you might have been using this
versus other LLMs?
You know, it's interesting
because I feel like I don't see a lot of hallucination
and I haven't really thought about it
until you just asked that question.
So I would say in GrockBot,
I don't seem to see that happening as much.
What I do when I have like very big prompts like that
is sometimes ask it to just distill all the information
that I need down to this very specific pieces of information
and then have it do some deep analysis into it,
which helps usually break it down
and like help with some of that hallucination.
So that would be my best advice
and I'm glad you're a fellow dictator.
It's really fun to do it that way
and I think it helps bring a lot of context in.
Could you take like one or two more questions?
Hey, check.
What was your personal greatest aha moment?
Yeah, I have a lot of aha moments.
I will say the first thing that I showed you all
with it joining an internal meeting
was really powerful for me
when I did that for the first time.
Sometimes I feel like our time is so valuable
and it's hard to figure out when to spend time
when I feel like a lot of times I have to choose
between two really important things.
So to feel like I could be in multiple places at once
is really helpful.
Other aha moments are actually along the similar vein,
which is like, I don't have time.

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which I think is hopefully pretty cool,
but as we add more features to the game,
I'd imagine the funnel becomes more important.
So we really want to go from more practice to more signed in.
I also want, I think we need to dig into
how the funnel data's being calculated
because we have a login of X button in the practice round,
but you only see it, like you see it at the top of the screen,
there's probably some stuff we should do around,
is it a real conversion event and things like this?
And so I'm actually excited when we look at the new UI,
that might be a good opportunity for us
to find some funnel improvements.
But I actually also think this looks like
a kind of common drop-off,
like because we have this open practice mode,
a lot of people, when I look at this data,
what I see is that a lot of people are jumping in,
they want to try the game,
and I'm like, cool, I don't really need to sign in,
I'm still having a good time, I'm still having fun.
And so I think we might want to think about,
in our next wave, what could we do for the signed in user
that really helps them be more engaged with the product,
things like that.
And then yeah, maybe this was a cool one too,
just looking at how signups and practice starts
have gone over time.
So obviously we had a really big spike
when we first launched the game,
so thanks to everyone who was in the stream
and hanging out with us.
I'm hoping we'll get a few more spikes like this
as we show you some new features we've built.
So 1908 is a number to beat.
So that's our target, if we get one more hour like that,
I think we'll have a really good day.
We'll have, yeah, we've seen some sort of common usage
and we're still in this hour right now, the 1300 hours.
So this is partial data,
but we're still seeing, you know,
four to 500 games per hour being played on the platform.
And honestly, for a completely new game,
it's pretty good, I think.
That's pretty good, yeah.
So we just launched this.
We literally just launched it.
It was so bare bones,
how UI barely worked, to be honest.
Wow.
And that's our growth graph, so.
Dang.
Yeah, pretty cool.
I think that cumulative user chart.
I love these charts because it makes the world look awesome.
It's gonna be the smallest Y axis in the world.
I think, yeah, especially,
and I think it's also interesting because like as a game studio,
I think, well, I've never built a game before,
but I imagine like games are kind of a hit-driven business,
right?
And it got me thinking a lot about like, you know,
this is just our first game in our game studio.
We're using this as a way to practice, you know,
it's our first game that we built together
and we're learning the process of building games
and getting feedback and iterating.
And I almost wonder for a moment
that in a way the real product we're building
is the game studio, right?
Cause we're gonna take all those lessons,
we're gonna take all the graph bot workflows we have set up
and we could make more, right?
We could make, take these learnings
and build Thursday Arena 2 way better version, right?
Or, you know, try a different game
to learn from those lessons, but.
Well, I think kind of related to that,
a lot of what we've done with the software engineering
loop here should be repurposeable, right?
So we have, you know, we all have our teams of bots
that we've set up here,
but we have bots here who are helping us with game design,
we have bots that are helping us with 3D prototyping
and graphic design.
We have a whole coding engine here
that's helping us play test games.
So anytime a new PR comes in,
we have a way to play tests
and after you run through the game
with the sort of changes in that PR,
using preview deployments, which is pretty incredible.
And so we truly have like an entire team
you could imagine that what we've done here
just like, yeah, you build any game.
You can kind of use all the same bots.
So maybe we should come up with like a game bot toolkit
at the end of this and see how that goes.
But yeah, so just to continue going through the data,
a few more cuts here in terms of practice sessions
and then people who've played a match
and then some more, I guess this is back
to the beginning here for a total number.
So yeah, overall feeling pretty good.
Are you guys have any other thoughts on the,
how it's going part before I jump over to the UI?
Well, I'm, no, I think this is like a,
about what I was expecting for our first play test.
And I'd love to just continue iterating
and you're making the game more fun.
So speaking of fun,
I think we've also did a few UI fixes and improvements
that I don't know if you wanna show.
I'm just like blown away.
I was even making improvements while you were talking.
So like we have this ticker now
that shows people that are actually playing.
And when you're logged in,
it'll show like your profile image
if you've already visited the site there.
This is amazing.
Yeah, I actually had not seen these until just now.
True real time development.
My favorite is I love the new cards, Lauren.
You it want to tell us about those?
Yeah, so I think we were kind of inspired by,
oh actually the, what we were building before
kind of looked like cards.
So we kind of doubled down,
like maybe let's actually make them look like cards.
And I have another bot working
on making them look even cooler.
So as you can see these bots have like a rarity.
They're common.
So if you're new to gaming,
like it's a very common concept in video games
where you pick up an item
or you have a pet or a team member
and they have like rarity or grade.
So you have like common and uncommon
and rare and epic and legendary.
So as the bots get more like higher level,
we'll start putting some cool visual effects on them.
Like, you know, like a really nice fancy glow.
Oh yeah.
Things like that to make them more attractive.
We had like an early prototype
where the cards were gonna shine.
We did, we kind of lost them
but we're bringing them back.
Cool, I love it.
I love it.
Okay, well we should probably walk through a game, right?
So we can see all the improvements.
Yeah, and I would love for you to show us
what like some of the improvements we made
for their responsiveness.
Cause I think we got a lot of feedback
about the mobile.
It wasn't, it didn't really work well on a phone.
So hopefully if you kind of like zoom in
and yeah resize it should be.
You're responsive.
Hopefully.
You know what, let me just do this properly.
I can pull up in a Chrome window.
Yes, yes, do the device simulation.
Where is it here?
I always forget.
Here we go.
There we go.
Yep.
We are mobile friendly for real this time.
Yeah.
That's good.
And if we're not, please continue to send us feedback
and our graph bots will be busy, you know,
fixing everything.
I love this.
When I'm logged in, it knows right up right up front.
Like this is cool.
This makes me like want to be like.
I do think maybe the play button
should be grouped together.
It's kind of weird that it's like sandwiching here.
There's a lot of UI stuff we need to work on.
This is definitely an improvement over what we had.
I'm going to play again.
So why don't we just do it in mobile and see
in mobile mode and see how it looks?
Maybe zoom in.
Yeah, let me see, let me see.
Oh, this looks so, it looks so much better.
Looks so good.
How do you go like?
You know what I can do?
Maybe I can do this.
There we go.
That's perfect.
Make it like 200%.
Yeah, there you go.
That's the most it'll let me go.
So, okay, this is our mobile app.
I love the ticker at the bottom here.
Although it looks, yeah, we're good.
We might need to fix those button placements.
Yeah.
For those who have not yet seen it, there's a leaderboard.
Leaderboard is cool.
All over 1,000 of you who have signed up from X,
you are all on the leaderboard in some form or capacity.
We have our first diamond player.
Diamond player.
Which is incredible.
Cross the 1200 you look at.
The monkey.
The monkey.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah, congrats, our first ever diamond player.
We should think of some cool prizes maybe
that we give out to our top ranked players.
But we'll figure that out later.
Yeah, we have our game.
We have our leaderboard.
We have a feedback form on here,
which we're excited to be getting more feedback on.
So just please keep that coming.
But I think moment of truth, we should play the game.
Okay, it looks like I was mid-round the last time.
The last time I was into it.
Do you wanna explain, by the way,
what people who are just trying to guess?
Let's do it.
What is this game?
Let me play it.
Yeah, well, we're in round two,
but maybe I'll just start from the beginning.
So this is sort of like an auto-battler game
is where we ended up.
Where you basically draft a team of bots
and the bots are, you sort of build a team of bots
and they get lined up or matched up
against another team of bots.
Every bot has a couple of stats.
So they have a sort of name, of course.
They have an ability that they get
that's sort of randomly associated with the bot
and they have an attack and an HP score
and a CSS bug that we can also fix,
but attack and HP scores.
And the way these bots work is basically each turn
you sort of set your lineup.
And the lineup is an ordered lineup
where you put your bots,
one after the other after the other,
three bots in the line
and you're matched up with an opponent spot lineup
and sort of every turn,
the abilities and the effects was all one by one,
whichever team has the most spots standing at the end,
wins the round.
If you win two out of three, you win the game.
So that's the core premise here.
The way that you actually decide
how to set up your lineup is that you use gold.
So we're actually probably should tweak the gold mechanic.
I saw some good feedback in coming in around
how this works and if 10 gold is too much or too little.
So we should probably ask our game design bot
to help with that a little bit.
But if I just take a look at the current round,
it looks like I can see what I'm about to go up against,
which is a three five and a three three.
I have a two three, two five, two six and a three two.
So I'm gonna swap on mobile here.
It looks like that's how I swap.
You can see what my cards do.
So I have a, oh, here's some options
that I can buy down here too.
Oh, by the way, we have this mechanic.
I think we didn't really, we didn't show this earlier,
but there's this button there called freeze.
And so this is actually like a way for you to save a card
that you can't afford yet.
And so that the next round,
when you plan you have the gold, you can purchase it.
And like that, it looks like these are all,
these all cost three and we have 10 gold right here,
right?
So I think what we can do,
I actually wish I can't see the abilities of these cards.
That might be something we need to fix.
Is that a mobile bug actually?
It might be.
Let me see if I go back to non-responsiveness.
That might just be an overall bug.
Yeah, we'll have to fix that.
We'll have to fix that.
Okay, well, while we're fixing that, we can just.
Oh, no, well, I think the ability
shows up in the white thing, right?
No, it doesn't.
Okay, we'll have to fix that.
Yeah, maybe actually, do you have
the new graph about voice mode and you will,
I wonder if we can just fix it.
I don't think it's enabled yet.
Okay, well, we can try a dictation.
Let's try it.
I'm gonna talk to my engineer bot here.
Hey, so it looks like in the latest version of the game,
I can't see the abilities of the bots
that are in my lineup when I'm in the shop interface.
So I can see the bots, I can change the order,
I can drag them around.
I don't know what they do.
Can you open a PR to fix that?
Cool, we'll get an agent on that.
In the meantime, I'm gonna keep playing here.
So I will, well, we'll just go with this lineup
for now just to show how it works.
I'll switch back to mobile mode.
Oh wait, I gotta keep the inspector on.
There we go.
And we'll make this big so you all can see it.
There we go.
So we'll go ahead and just fight
with this lineup that we have now.
And I actually really love some of these changes.
These animations are really fun.
Yeah, I think we should go even more ambitious
with the visual effects maybe,
and maybe even add sound effects.
Could add another layer of,
I mean, is this more fun?
Yeah, we did prototype some sound effects last night
towards the end of the day.
So yeah, I think we should bring those back.
Maybe we should add music to the whole thing too.
We've been talking about that.
So yeah, we'll do a whole audio engineering pass,
but there's an ocean dock in our ocean team space
where we have a bunch of music we were playing with,
including some cool pseudo battle music.
So we'll see if we can get that all in.
Looks like I won this round and I won an overall too.
So this is cool.
Let me zoom back in.
Yeah, so I win.
One of the things when you guys were off camera,
I was talking with Vincent who works on growth here
at SpaceX AI,
and he had a bunch of ideas,
a ton of great ideas for how we could
kind of optimize the growth loop here
and make the game more viral, create more shareability.
And he had a great idea
that we should just let you share your wins.
And so adding a share button here,
I think would be really fun.
So I'm gonna just go ahead
and spin up a feature for that too,
just while we're here, you know?
So let me get a cloud agent going on this.
Hey, can you spin up a cloud agent using potato mode
to make it so that you can share your wins?
So when you finish a game,
you get this win screen that shows your bot team
and the fact that you won.
It'd be awesome if we could, you know,
make a share button for that,
that lives somewhere on that page
and then has a nice OG image
with maybe your specific bot team,
maybe just a generic win card
that you could use to post your wins on X
or something like that.
Cool, okay, so we'll get another agent going for that.
We have our bot lineup bot abilities,
bug fix agent going.
So two guys working right now.
Then yeah, once you go home, there we go.
We also need to move the sponsor, the lobby card.
I'm gonna work on that too.
Hey, one more.
So another cloud agent for this using potato mode.
In the home screen, we have a sponsor, the lobby form.
Let's put that behind a button
just like we have the send feedback form.
So when you click send feedback,
you get taken to a feedback page.
That's really cool.
For the sponsor, the lobby,
let's put that behind a form as well
and make sure that form is working.
Sorry, I might have zoned out a bit,
but should we fix that bug
with the ticker at the bottom
covering the buttons as well?
Oh, that's a good one too, yeah.
So that one was right here, right?
Where the scrolling.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, let me, for that one,
let me ask you to pass a screenshot
because I think it might make it easier
for the bot to understand what's going on.
So I'll play again and then show you.
You know, I actually even wonder
if you can ask RockBot to open the game
in its own browser and turn on the responsive mode
and fix it for you.
And this goes back to what I was saying yesterday
where, you know, sometimes when I feel like
I'm doing a lot of the work instead of the bots,
I take a step back and think,
how can I actually hand over this task
to the bot or the agent
so that they can help me and make my life easier?
So it's a very good reminder, you know,
as you work with RockBot to just be thinking
every now and then, like,
maybe actually even set up a bot
that reminds you, right?
You know, like, you can say it every, you know,
every day, you know, like, ask Dr. Eggbot
to give you some suggestions.
Like, am I too much in the loop?
You know, how can I make my workflow more autonomous?
And you can go off and suggest those three.
Yeah, I was just...
What are you prompting?
I'm just prompting here.
I feel like it's kind of blocked by the screen.
Yeah, I wanted to, so we could see the game.
Yeah, so what I'm prompting
is basically what we just talked about.
But I've been in this very specific way.
I'm like, hey, this new ticker
covers up some of the shop buttons.
Spin up a cloud agent using potato mode,
inspect and fix that issue.
And then one thing I really like to say
is before writing any code, do X.
So here, before writing any code,
run the app, ThursdayArena.com,
find the exact bug and behavior, and then proceed.
And so we will get an agent on that as well.
And so, yeah, again, if you're not used
to writing code with RockBots,
this is definitely a really fun way to do it.
Having one engineer that's sort of your ring leader
can spin up a bunch of cloud agents.
These are cursor cloud agents,
so they work in the cloud,
they have their own virtual machines,
they can reproduce behavior,
they have browsers they can walk through.
So in our case, we're building a web app.
Really great to just be able to walk through
the screens of the web app.
And agents are pretty good at this too,
so they can take screen shots,
they can find an exact bug.
And perhaps most importantly,
they can verify their work.
So if they implement a fix or implement an issue,
they have the option to just go in,
make sure that the fix or the issue
is actually what they thought it would be.
They're not just looking at code tokens,
they're looking at kind of how the fix looks in Prod2.
All right, so I have a bunch of folks going.
I'm curious, what are your agents doing?
What are your bots doing?
I actually have a project going on,
like a project agent that I got RockBot to create.
And I am doing a lot of UI polish work,
as well as bug fixes.
So I guess we showed this earlier,
but I can kind of refresh your memory,
so Matt added this really nice user feedback feature
in the game.
So if you click on Thurs Arena,
and you go back to the home screen,
you can see there's a send feedback button.
And if you encounter any bugs,
or you want to give us feedback, you can use that.
20 character minimum there, Rushan.
We were getting some spam,
so we had to enforce the minimum.
Yeah, but so all of this feedback is going into Slack,
and we have bots and agents watching that channel
and just automatically reproducing the issue,
and confirming that there's a bug.
And then if it does find a bug and confirm it,
it'll try to do a fix,
and then automatically merge the fix.
Matt, what is this?
Interesting, what is this phone number?
Okay, we're gonna do a live demo
because I don't think I even have my phone.
I do, I do, I do.
Okay, so I was playing around with some XAI voice agents.
So this is actually an XAI feature,
and it allows you to create a voice agent very easily.
So if I call this number here that's listed.
Maybe we can get the camera zoomed in on Matt for this.
Yeah, let's get a real good close up.
Oh, Matt.
I want some potato.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on this area.
Oh my God.
Well, I've been using the tool,
and I just want you to tell the team it looks great,
and we appreciate you building this
on such short notice.
That's awesome to hear.
Glad it's hitting the spot.
Yeah, I think that's it.
So maybe you could send the feedback through.
Thanks for the kind words.
Your feedback's been noted and sent straight to the team.
There's your feedback.
It's right there.
It's in our Slack chain.
Wow, that's it.
That's awesome.
That's amazing.
That was like super real time as well.
So yeah, how did you build this?
I'm so curious.
Yeah, well, if we cut over to my screen,
I could give you maybe a walkthrough we could show you.
So I'm actually using XAI.
So XAI has a,
you're gonna have to delete the token
on whatever screen I was just on.
But XAI has a voice workflow builder.
And so essentially on their voice side,
you can build a voice agent.
And so this is all in a GUI.
And you can come in, basically build these agents
and deploy them very quickly that answer phone calls
basically what you just saw.
So I didn't actually write any code
for what I was sharing with you all.
That just went on the XAI side.
And then I have it a webhook
that basically accepts that
and passes it through to our Slack channel.
So it's all off and the same protections
and guardrails are on that phone number
that we use for some of the moderation.
So you won't be able to like, you know,
deal with, do any funny business through that phone call.
But maybe we could cut off my screen for a second.
No, okay.
I'm looking at that, don't worry.
Yeah, no worries.
And we can keep talking about what we're building.
Also that token only half the value was shown.
So we shouldn't have to worry about that.
And I have now deleted that.
So, we are good.
Good to say.
Just for complete safety.
I was actually surprised we made it this far.
You know, it's a first time that almost all happened.
Good save.
Good save.
Yes.
Yeah, no secrets in the chat.
Chat chat is for games and good vibes only, no secrets.
But I think that I keep saying this
and I'm kind of like repeating myself a lot
but I keep going back to this idea of, you know,
Grock bot is such a powerful tool
for really bringing together data from everywhere.
And as you saw Matt just demo, you can have,
you know, you can have voice support agents through Grock.
You can have in app feedback that feeds to a Slack channel.
All of those pieces of feedback and just feed in
and be aggregated into your bots,
into your team of bots.
And they can kick off, you know, cloud agent workflows.
They can fix things.
They can report them.
It really empowers even a such a small team
to almost operate like a big company, right?
Because you have all these automation
that are just helping you.
So, I think the future is very, very interesting, right?
With Grock bot, I'm wondering if we'll see a lot more
like indie game studios, you know,
like really small teams, very, very nimble,
just using AI to punch above their weight.
100%. I think one of the things I've realized
is that voice agents are actually really good,
specifically Grock and XAI voice agents are really good.
And so even on that customer service thing,
like would I feel comfortable having people,
like having a voice agent call people on my behalf?
Like probably not.
I still think it's nice to have a human touch
and I get a little annoyed candidly when I call places
and there are voice agents on the other side.
If I'm trying to like get help immediately,
that can be frustrating.
So I think you want to think through
when it makes sense for your users
to encounter a voice agent, but things for,
but for things like submitting information
or getting tasks done,
you can basically give those XAI Grock voice agents tools.
So like I could have equipped it with a Notion tool
or a Slack tool or built my own custom tool
through a webhook.
So say we wanted users to be able to delete
their accounts over the phone.
Someone calls in, we give it a tool, delete account.
This might be something you don't want users to do,
right, but maybe something simpler,
like update address, update name, et cetera.
Then the agent can take action on the user's behalf.
That saves a human's time
or maybe perhaps there's like an escalate issue tool, right?
You can imagine for your restaurant,
you call in and you have a voice agent
and the user says, what are your hours?
The voice agent can deliver the hours.
The user says, hey, can you help me like place an order?
You could have like an escalate tool
that then forwards that call to the actual business.
And so now we're building in some of these
like automation workflows
that aren't necessarily Grock bot specific,
but they are Grock specific.
And that's kind of part of the suite of tools
that we have on the XAI side
to allow you to get some more stuff done.
So built in all of our feedback flows
and we have a very active customer feedback channel
at this point.
So now we just need to start actioning on that feedback.
And I think we're making progress though.
So lots of stuff in flight.
Yeah, while you were talking,
one of my cloud agents that was working
on getting the cards to show,
like our lineup to show their abilities
looks like it has a good draft PR,
but it's not like a perfect look yet.
I kind of want some more detail in the card itself.
And so I'm actually going to give it some feedback
on that while we're going here and up in cursor.
What should I call this channel?
Metrics.
Oh, we have a metrics channel now.
Yeah, I was just thinking it'd be really cool to have a,
so I guess, you know, like we have a channel now
that feeds in feedback for us,
but I think it's also important, you know,
as a game studio to celebrate our wins.
So I think it'd be nice to have a metrics channel
where we can like, you know, whenever we hit milestone.
And I just created it.
So maybe we can show my screen really quick
just for like a minute.
We just enabled a for sell analytics
on Thursday arena.com, a the very nice graph.
We went up from zero to, well,
I think we have 1400 people on the page right now.
So again, like getting all this data super valuable,
we can see where people are coming from.
We can try to optimize, you know,
like our outreach or, you know, something like that.
We can get a sense of like, how many people are on mobile?
How many people on desktop?
In fact, we have more mobile players than we have desktop.
So that's really good input for prioritization.
44% are on iOS as well.
So, yeah, I think that's all I wanted to show.
But it's good to have these numbers
because Graphbot has all these connectors.
We have a Vercel plugin in Graphbot.
So Graphbot can pull this information as well.
And help you put together plans,
help you put together, you know, whatever you want.
Yeah, and actually, as you were doing that,
I just realized I have my data scientist bot
that's been generating all my charts.
And so I literally just prompted it like,
hey, we just turned on Vercel analytics.
Please factor those into your regular routines.
And I already have Vercel connected to my Graphbot setup.
And so the plugin's already there.
Really easy to just be able to say like, cool,
like pull those numbers in and like add it
to your data store.
I think that's really like just on-demand data science.
I can't get enough.
It's awesome.
Cool.
Over here, I have my play tester bot also playing.
We still need to fix this one.
I guess we haven't fixed it yet.
The banner, the ticker, still covering the buttons.
Oh yeah, I have a PR for that being worked on.
It looks like it's actually testing
its changes right now.
Yep.
It's going through a bunch of computer use, I can see.
Yeah, I think verification is so important
because you need your bots to be able
to actually run the code, take screenshots,
and it gives you so much more confidence
that it actually understands the problem.
So very glad that we built that early on.
Yeah, I think that was really, actually really helpful.
One of the things that Lauren has set up
for our internal products as well within SpaceX AI
is sort of these verified skills.
And so the idea here is you teach the bot once
how it tests your, how it can test your product.
And once you do that once, you can have a skill
that you continue to update
and kind of use that to, you know,
make that part of your workflow.
So, yeah, verification.
And I'm just looking at our leaderboard.
We have a second diamond player,
Dev Arminis, congratulations.
Are you the monk?
Are you the monk?
So holding strong at number one.
But I think, oh yeah,
you know another feature we should add
is it would be really cool to click on the player and watch.
Like if we could see their game history
and we can see and we can learn.
Yeah. Learn from how they play.
Like how are these players so much better
than everybody else?
Is our game history working?
Cause I know we had a past games feature.
I don't know if that works.
I'm just going to ask an agent to go and test it.
Hey, so in our home game.
So I am recording our past matches.
Oh, that's cool.
So you can see and you can see who we play.
Yeah, look, Matt, I actually played against you and I won.
How do you feel about that?
I think that might be incorrect data.
No, no, this is definitely incorrect.
I think you might have ran an insert on the database.
No, no, no, this is real data.
I don't remember that.
I don't recall that match.
Yeah, well, we should make the leaderboards
clickable somehow.
Yeah, I'll get a bot right now.
Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Sounds good.
I think I have some updates
on lineup, bot abilities and shops.
That's really cool.
Let's see here.
We make user, what do you call it?
User names.
Clickable.
Cool.
We got a bunch of stuff going on
just to do a quick reset.
If you're just joining us,
we are on day three of building our game studio
and launched in our first game.
We launched around 10 a.m. this morning,
ThursdayArena.com.
At ThursdayArena on X.
We're walking through some UI updates we just made.
We just went through and tested the experience together
and every time we find something we want to fix,
we're feeding it to a crock bot
whose job it is to spin up some agents to go and fix it.
And I'm really liking how these cards
are coming together.
Yeah, I have some even cooler updates.
Yeah, so, again, I really like this.
I keep, I love this CSS library.
So it's a, I'm not a big Pokemon card fan.
I, but I have a lot of friends who are.
And I happened to find a site where it's by Simon Goldner.
Sorry if I mispronouncing your name.
I just followed him.
Oh, nice.
But yeah, you've got these like really cool effects
for these cards.
And I thought it would look so good on Thursday Arena.
But if you scroll down, they get even cooler.
There's like these extra special like chevron
glowy things going on.
Yeah, where are they?
Yeah, it's like.
Oh yeah, well these, these look, this looks amazing.
Yeah, right, like that kind of thing.
I wonder how that'll work on mobile.
Wow, I love the effects.
They look so good.
We should definitely get some of these in there.
Yeah, yeah.
We're gonna, we're gonna, you know, use that library.
Thank you, open source and kind of bring them in.
And something cool, I guess, about these cards
is that they were all designed by Grock Imagine.
So we took all of the grock bots that we have
on the bot marketplace.
And we randomly assigned rarities.
We gave them, you know, fun skills.
We also have, of course, the author name.
So maybe actually another fun thing we could,
we could think of is how do we get chat
to be able to create their own bots that show up in our game?
That could be another driver of some growth for our app.
I think it'd be really cool.
I mean, one way we could do that
is anyone can share a bot from Grock Bot today.
So if you have a bot that you really like working with,
there's a share icon on the top right.
If you click that, you can share it.
Do you wanna show how you can share it?
Yeah, actually, why don't we switch to my screen
for a second and I can kinda show you how that works.
So if you have a favorite bot that you've been working with
or just a bot that you wanna create
and kinda share with your friends,
any one of these bots, you can go over to it
and just click this and click share as template.
I'll do it with, well, actually,
let's do it with our game designer
and click share as template.
And actually, it's really fun.
This just does it in the chat.
So you prompt the bot to create a template
that strips out all the sensitive information
that might be.

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Whoa, this is totally new. Yeah. So, uh, are you the monkey still?
I like how it just tells me that I am falling further and further every time I walk in.
Yeah, I'm like rank 247. Oh, man.
As long as I'm beating potato. Oh my gosh. Yeah.
I have to be like last. Um, this is great. I actually really like this.
And so we have their, yeah, the, the one, two, three, the podium at the top.
Yep. Really awesome. Really awesome.
And we have, we have pagination now, which is nice.
Okay. Just to orient us, I'm getting a note from production over here.
It looks like we are going to have another segment at two PM Pacific in just about four minutes.
And so we'll try and get to a good stopping point here.
Maybe what we can summarize for the group is what is everyone going to be working on
for the next few minutes. We'll kind of come back on, you know,
maybe at two 15, two 30 and show what we, what we've made since then.
I have a few agents working on some UI polish. Oh, there's our,
there's our bot template, by the way. We just published. That's awesome.
UI polish. I have some agents working on fixing those bugs that we talked about.
I see a bunch of other PRs lining landing here though.
You know, what I would really love is if we could, um,
so yeah, we have bugs and UI polish that are going on.
I'd love for chat to be able to submit bots as well.
So maybe we can do that and hopefully like maybe kick that off now.
Like add a really small feature.
Um, maybe like, let's just keep it extremely simple, just like an input box, right?
Like share a link to the bot that you've created.
And maybe for now we can just dump it into Slack and then we can look through and
pick a few to actually turn into real bot templates or sorry, bots in our game.
And then we'll make them and hopefully you'll be able to play with your own
bot in Thursday arena.
Uh, and then I think we have some other stuff cooking Matt.
What are you working on?
I got a bunch of stuff landing.
So I'm making some improvements to the home screen.
If you want to cut to my screen.
So a few things first, making some improvements to the home screen.
I've been kind of chilling in cursor for a little while.
Simultaneously, just trying to link to our X account.
And then in this sort of agent here, I was working on a nice little,
seems like the cloud agent might be, might need to restart the dev server,
but I'm working on having just a link to the live stream.
So it shows on the homepage.
That should be in imminently.
And then also setting up our agent environment, our cloud agent environment.
So I want to make it as easy as possible to spin up cloud agents
that have the environment preconfigured.
And the way that we do that is by giving it access to
the same like similar, you know, preview API keys and credentials
so that our agent can pull in our dev environment basically and
start it the same way a human would.
So it goes back to what Lauren's been talking about a lot,
which is kind of like feedback loops and things of that nature.
And then also I started off this exploratory base UI migration
because I'm starting to get tired of like all these like buttons
and stuff all over the place.
So yeah, I need to like start thinking through this a little bit.
I kicked off basically a planning agent.
And I mean, this is a really great way, at least for me to kind of like
work through a technology that I don't use all the time.
It's like elicitation of like, oh, hey, we need UI improvements.
You ask me what you need from my input,
and we're going to work through this together,
and we're going to get that implemented.
It also just kind of helps to know what base UI or radix
or some of these other things are, which are just like essentially
systems for building component libraries and design
and implementing standardized user interfaces.
So yeah, a lot of stuff cooking.
I feel like once you get the basics,
you can just start kicking off cloud agents to handle many of these things now.
And actually speaking of cloud agents,
my agent that was working on fixing the shop interface
where you can see the full card now is good.
I got a good PR, so I'm going to go ahead and merge that.
So we have one bug that we just fixed live on the stream.
Nice.
Cool.
With that, I think we're going to transition to a quick video
to warm up for our next guest.
So whenever we're ready, let's go ahead and cut over to that.
And we will be back with a bunch more updates really, really soon.
We're going to build a company.
We've got 72 hours.
We haven't done anything.
I mean, we just spent the last 20 minutes yapping.
We shouldn't be waiting for that.
So the goal is to have an idea in day one.
Maybe it's a good time to talk about exactly what we mean
when we say we're going to build this.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I kind of go back to the build something people want.
mentality, right?
Maybe something we use ourselves.
That's what we're going to try to build with a human touch.
With a human touch, most importantly,
that's something we're going to try to build this week.
And then you know what I think what might be fun to do
is just kind of look through all the great feedback we've gotten
on XFR and there's a bunch of posts in the past few days.
So what we're working on is a restaurant pop-up.
So we're going to do a pop-up in person in San Francisco.
We're building a company.
Not everything is working perfectly.
We are building it as we go.
I love it.
You seem to play the three things.
This is the merch, the ticketing,
we would like this whole piece, and then it's finding a venue.
Yeah, you know what?
Let's do like what every startup has always pitched to every VC ever.
Guys, we're going to start small.
The address of the market is everybody.
We're going continuously live from 8.30
to like 6.30.
Tune in here anytime.
I don't get the rules yet, but I want points.
We need to improve it.
It's kind of...
Love it.
Love it.
Well, hey, welcome back, everyone.
Welcome back.
Hopefully you enjoyed that recap of the past two days.
We had our join by a new guest.
We'll introduce Dan very shortly here,
but just find it helpful for folks who are just tuning in
to kind of share where we are.
So we are on day three of building a game used,
or really building a business with GROCKBOT.
We kicked off two days ago.
We started off by exploring a bunch of ideas.
The goal was to ship something by Thursday.
We have done that.
We launched our game this morning.
We are building a game studio.
That's our business.
We launched our first game.
It is Thursday arena.com or at Thursday arena on X,
if you want to stay up to date on what's going on.
We just made a bunch of UI improvements
that I think are pretty exciting.
And we've had a bunch of really great guests
who've been joining us throughout the day,
actually throughout the week,
to chat with us about how we can turn this business
and make it a really real business.
So really excited for Dan Hill to be joining us
from the Stripe team.
Dan, welcome.
You want to introduce yourself,
say a little bit about what you work on?
Yeah, great to be here.
It's been fascinating watching the livestream
the last few days.
Like, I was seeing the game just as I was on the way over here
and I'm like, I just need, you know, I want to play this game.
But yeah, I'm Dan.
I work at Stripe on Link.
So if you go into GROCKBOT today,
one of the connectors you'll see is Link.
We also have a bunch of Stripe stuff.
But the Link one basically lets your agent buy stuff
on the internet.
So, you know, in this game example, actually,
I've personally built a few games with GROCKBOT
over the last couple of weeks.
Often, I need to buy like texture packs
and like I need like just like,
oh, I need a set of trees that can go like,
you know, in my game or whatever I need to do.
So yeah, Link basically creates one-time use cards
that the agent can go off on the internet and buy stuff.
There's a really nice UI in the GROCKBOT
where basically you approve the spend.
So it's okay, I need $10 to buy this,
you know, this tree pack for my game
and you say, great, approved,
and then the agent can go off and safely go buy stuff.
I'm trying to log into my Link account behind the scenes here
so we could try to do some,
try to do a live purchase on stream maybe.
I feel like that could be really cool.
But I guess where I wanted to start,
so it sounds like you have a sense of the game
and kind of what we're trying to do.
Obviously, Stripe works on payments.
This is sort of like the lifeblood of the business
in some ways, I'm guessing.
Can you talk a little bit about sort of what you're seeing
with AI agents and payments?
Clearly a bunch of cool stuff,
at least from what I'm seeing on X and things like this,
and obviously some stuff we've worked on together,
but we'd just love to get your take on what's new
with agents and payments.
I mean, this is not new to anyone right here,
but the explosion of just AI capabilities
in the last, I don't know, it feels like two weeks,
but quite a month has been incredible.
Obviously, and GROCK's been a huge part of that.
For some reason, it's just like at the end
of so many of our sort of things we're building or doing
end up with, and I need some money to go buy that thing
or to complete that task, I need some money.
So we've been seeing a huge range of use cases
on GROCK and others with payments.
There's a whole category of stuff,
which is like, you probably see on X,
the whole bunch of like, I have a parking ticket.
I literally can't be bothered to go through this.
Quite a great use case.
I just don't want to go through this whole flow
that's janky and hard.
I'm just going to have GROCK go pay that for me.
A lot of people are doing restaurant reservations,
flight booking.
I have GROCK hooked up to my inbox.
I always get in like, I need to pay this bill
or I need to do this thing for my kid's school
and GROCK can just be like, yeah, I can go do that for you.
I can make that go.
If you want to cut to my screen for a second,
I'll pull up the parking ticket example
because I just love, I love that one.
I thought it was awesome.
Not just as someone who works on GROCK,
but it's such a cool use case.
It's just like a human.
I just want help doing the stuff
that I don't have to do every day.
There's this huge, one set of people using,
I think these AI tools like GROCKBOT are just people
with busy lives, stuff to get done,
and they just want to get to your point.
Here's a whole bunch of tasks.
Can I just fire off a couple of agents to go do that?
The other is, I guess, to the game you're building here.
It's entrepreneurs, solopreneurs.
I myself literally have 17 half-baked projects at home
where I used to build a game
and I go off on a 3GS boot-off thing
and I spend an evening just building a game
and that's super fun.
The next day I have an idea for some new thing I want to go make.
A ton of those end up with payments.
You want a provision of a cell account
or you want to provision some email service
that you want to pay for,
some EWS bill you want to pay for.
So yeah, a ton of people are needing payments
to go spin up the things they need on their stack.
Yeah, we did it all manually.
So I sat down for an hour
and logged into 10 different services,
put in our credit card numbers,
and we got the whole infra setup.
That was really fun.
At Stripe we have a thing called Stripe Projects.
Basically, which is integrated into Grock
and basically Stripe's just part of the ton of these infra providers.
I think you've got a projects.dev.
Yep, if you scroll down there you'll see
these are kind of all the companies
that are just like natively integrated
and so basically you connect the Stripe account once
and then you can just provision those
straight from within Grock.
So you're like, yeah, exactly.
You're like, hey, Grock, I need database,
I need email sending thing,
I need a hosting provider,
maybe I need a domain name.
Great, you can see it there.
It'll just off of the go.
That would have been so great
because I think if you mean on day one,
I think our audience also saw us,
like we were kind of like all over the place,
trying to get all these services.
Yeah, we were really struggling.
So this is a really, really good product.
We kind of have this like,
not like running joke,
but like so many of us,
like you guys and the team at Stripe,
like we're always like hacking on something,
building something on the weekends.
And it's like, you have the idea
and then you've got your agent spun up
and then to your point,
you hit that point of like,
oh, and now I need to go do like manual tasks
and it kind of kills it.
But yeah, with projects.
Yeah, it's like when the agent gets blocked on you,
it's when the fun kind of goes out on you.
Exactly.
You said I want you to be in self driving mode.
And so, yeah.
Exactly.
So on the project side, yeah, we can use that.
You can spin up all those providers
just right there from Grockbot and yeah, get going.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
So it sounds like a lot of cool stuff going on
with link, a lot of cool ways to buy things.
Maybe we'll see if I can get that working.
We could try to buy something together.
What I'd love to spend a few minutes on though.
So, you know, obviously, you know,
payments incredibly well.
You're also a product person, right?
Think a lot about product,
but you're not afraid of code.
So like kind of the perfect person we need
for this phase of the business.
You know, we said when we started off this work
that we'd be building a business in three days.
We've launched our first product.
We're operating in classic San Francisco startup fashion,
which is like, let's go get users
and we'll figure out how to monetize it.
So what I want to do that might be a fun exercise together
is maybe just work through
how you'd suggest we monetize the product.
So we don't really have a strong plan here.
We've thought about some ads.
We've thought about some merch sales
and things like this,
but would love to kind of just go through the game
in case you hadn't seen it yet.
Yeah, let's do it.
Walk through how it works
and then maybe just like riff a little bit on air.
Let's do it.
Done good.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this is Thursday arena.
There's a practice mode.
There's a play mode.
You can see we have these cute little cards.
All these cards are actually different crockbots
from our crockbott marketplace.
So yeah, if you just go to x.ai
slash bot slash marketplace,
you can see all those bots.
We imported them.
They are now characters in a game.
So thanks for all the folks who are in the marketplace.
This brings me back to my Magic the Gathering days.
Yes.
That was 20 years ago.
That was how we drew.
We drew some inspiration from Magic
and Yu-Gi-Oh cards and all those.
And so essentially the way this works
is you buy and draft a lineup.
But I love that animation.
Whoever worked on that.
And you order this lineup with all their abilities
and you hit fight
and you're paired up with a teammate
or I guess an opponent in this case.
Things happen.
Abilities get played.
And that's the game.
So it looks like I won the first round.
There's a phase in between rounds here
where I'm spending some of this gold that I've earned,
which we should rename to tokens.
We keep winning to do that.
Yeah.
Spending some of my tokens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And basically continue this game until we win.
And that's the game.
So yeah, I'm curious.
You know, you thought a lot about great products.
You thought a lot about payments.
Yeah, what comes to mind for you here
when you think about some of the, yeah.
Yeah.
So to monetize, I guess a couple of paths
kind of seem obvious first.
One path is definitely ads.
Totally works.
Generally you need a lot of eyeballs to get that to work.
But really does really great at supporting a free product.
If you want people to play the game,
ads can work great.
I feel like with these kind of games,
and there's a couple of games that are similar.
My kids really like playing Avatar World is one of them.
But have you thought about allowing people to pay for upgrades
or better cards, better characters that they can unlock?
We thought about that.
We keep going back and forth on it.
I think we decided we did not want to let you pay for power
because those types of games just pray on your door to pay
and sort of pay to win.
So definitely an option, right?
Like I guess if we really needed to make a bunch of money,
you were like wanting to create that system, I think we could.
Yeah.
We're kind of trying to think of ways,
there you go, I just lost this one.
Trying to think of ways where we could kind of
try to find revenue streams in partnership streams
or something like that.
Yeah.
That would let us keep the game sort of the same.
I mean, other ideas, this might be a bit of a crazy one,
but you could kind of go with sponsored characters.
Ooh, I like that.
So you've got your grok characters here,
but there's actually, I mean, this is,
for a start-up money a little harder,
but like you've got your Pokemon tie in,
you've got some like, you know,
bring in some, I don't know, Disney characters
and just like, you know, like,
could you get brands excited about like,
oh, if this game has got a ton of traction,
then like, you know, custom cards,
kind of like, you know,
snaps done with like custom filters
that you can like, you know,
brands can create for the game too.
I really like that.
I'm actually, we have a bot here
that's recording a bunch of go-to-market
monetization ideas.
So I'm going to just feed that
into the bot while you're talking
so we can capture all that.
Something like, actually, let's just dictate it.
Yeah, let's just dictate it.
So we just had a great idea from Dan Hill here.
Could we try or log this idea
that we could have sponsored cards?
So rather than making the game pay to win,
which we don't want to do,
we could maybe go find partners
to help us sponsor cards
and pay to be like, featured on a particular card
without changing the behavior of the card.
I really like that.
Another interesting idea is like,
I feel like bot templates are really powerful
because, so actually, our game's database
is powered by PlanetScale
and one of our friends at PlanetScale
sent me a PlanetScale bot
that helped me with all of the database administration.
And he got me thinking a lot about like,
you know, it would be really interesting
if companies and brands have not just plugins
that you install into tools like Rafa or to Cursor,
but you actually release a bot
that almost encapsulates all the skills
that you need to spin up.
For example, imagine we had a Stripe link bot
that helps you integrate, set your cards up,
things like that.
So he got me thinking maybe it would be interesting
to have those kind of company-built bots
as well as part of the featured bots.
Yeah, and having them kind of like pay for that.
That could be interesting.
Maybe something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I like what you said.
Yeah, we don't want to have to pay to win.
Right, yeah.
And definitely a space for those games,
just not our favorite.
So we're like, it's our game,
we're not going to make it pay to win.
Curious, Dan, what else is running around your head right now
as you kind of think through what you're seeing?
Just as an aside, before you get to that part,
the voice dictation stuff is like...
Oh, yeah.
It's just so good.
Yeah, you can do the stream of consciousness.
If I was writing code like two years ago,
I would type code.
Oh, yeah.
A year ago, I would type prompts.
And now I'm just like, yeah, I just get my phone out
and I just start talking to GROC or whatever.
It's like, it's insane.
Yeah, and if you haven't seen it,
we actually added more to this GROC bot.
Hey, what's on deck for today?
Can talk now.
Main item for today is finalizing a proposal for Parker.
Great.
Can you start drafting a proposal
and send me a Notion link?
Oh, and I need some coffee.
I don't know if folks can hear this.
On it.
Want your usual oat milk cappuccino?
Yeah, that sounds great.
Okay, we don't have to listen to the whole thing.
We literally just announced this an hour ago.
And so I think actually,
voice as a way to interact with agents
is going to be so cool.
We're going to hopefully be able to show this
a little bit later in the stream.
It is rolling out over the next few days.
So if you're using GROC bot,
a really cool way to maybe even interact
in a completely new way too.
Yeah, it's a really fun way to like,
you know, if you're maybe not driving,
but you know, like you're walking,
walking to work,
you know, you're like on the subway or something.
And it's a bit awkward to get your phone out
and start prompting.
You can actually just chat with it like,
like a friend.
I did a couple of days ago.
I was, I was, I was out,
I was walking somewhere between places
and it's my anniversary weekend coming up.
And so I got on my GROC in my,
on my phone,
a proper anniversary bot.
Oh yeah.
I was dictating, hey,
this is my anniversary.
These are the things we like.
These are the places we're trying to go.
Just like, okay,
just can you build an itinerary
and go like figure all that out for me?
And just like, yeah, just dictating,
just like in five minutes,
a task that I would,
otherwise I had been putting off for ages.
Like it was, it was great.
I love that too,
because I feel like there's a dictating code
and we're, we've been doing this sort of all,
all week, right?
Like, hey, can you build this feature
or hey, here's what I'm thinking.
I love dictating the knowledge work stuff.
Also do that.
Like get me the coffee.
My wife's birthday is this weekend.
So I've been doing that exact same thing of like,
hey, here's like the 10 things in my head.
I'm not quite sure what,
which exact combination of them I want,
but let's try and make something of it.
And I find the agents are just so good at,
I mean, they're good at text, right?
They're, they're language models.
And so you can just feed it a bunch of text.
And one trick that Lauren's been
sort of showing us throughout the stream as well is
asking the agent to restate the plan
in its own words,
which is so cool.
Cause then I kind of cut,
you make sure that it understands you.
It's almost like this intern or colleague
that you're teaching and make it feel like,
did you get that before you go live?
So.
Yeah.
This, this tip was really kind of inspired by that,
the fact that, you know,
like models are getting sold capable that,
that they're almost like these magical input boxes.
You just type something in there and it just does it.
Yeah.
It's, it's pretty incredible.
Yeah.
But it got me thinking a lot about like,
you know, the bottle,
the, I guess the bottleneck is you being able
to get your idea across well.
And so I love the stream of consciousness thing because
sometimes you just have this very abstract picture
of what you want and you don't know what exactly it is.
We just like,
just gap for five minutes and then tell it to restate
in its own words.
And then you get a sense of,
did it actually understand?
Totally.
So if your game,
if you guys considered any kind of like straightforward,
you know, freemium model,
like play hand games for free,
then you have to pay,
you know, a $2 a month subscription to keep playing
or like gating certain features behind,
because right now it's just like one team versus another team.
Right.
Yeah.
Totally.
I actually,
it could be a world where it's like,
oh, and if you pay X,
you can have like multiple five team games
or like run your own league maybe.
Like, could you do something like that?
Oh, yeah.
But like, oh, if you want to be like,
like a organize with your friends,
you can like set up a league that you,
I like that.
Sort of like taking,
calling back to the old,
like in person creating card game.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Having a league.
I really like this subscription idea
because I think that's really durable revenue
for our business.
And especially we're a brand new game studio.
Like durability would be awesome.
Right.
So we can fund our next game.
Right.
And obviously, I don't know if we'd try.
That's really interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That would be a really interesting business model
where I wonder actually,
what if we had a,
well, I guess I don't,
we don't actually have a company name
for our game studio.
We should maybe,
maybe just call Thursday.
Maybe we should incorporate it.
Maybe, maybe our company just Thursday.
Yeah.
And maybe we could have a Thursday subscription
where you can play all our games for a monthly fee.
Yeah.
So you get more,
the value of the subscription goes up over time
as we make more games.
And that if you have a subscriber base,
they're going to be the great early adopters
of new games you want to put in
because they're already sort of put,
they're already paying,
they're already invested.
So like, oh, you have a new game come out.
They'll be the first ones to get in there,
give feedback, play,
kind of make the game better.
I love that.
Yeah.
And for those who are watching me,
just click around idly while we talk.
You can see the UI is literally changing by the minute.
This home screen now looks totally different
than it did when Dan first got on the set.
So the factory is going on.
The factory is going.
This is the coding factory that Lauren is established
that's like continuously making PRs.
I'm not typing right now.
It's just doing things.
This is my favorite bot too.
I have this bot, Bake, who's our engineer.
And we're at 235 plus PRs already since we built this idea.
We'll have more.
We'll have more.
We'll have more.
But it's like having an event stream of all the things
that are happening.
You can see all my slot PRs.
Yeah.
Hopefully not mostly slot.
Yeah, I think they're good.
Dan, I want to go back to the subscription idea.
Obviously, like this is a thing,
and so maybe just to chat about what trends are you seeing?
Because I think one of the things that we've kind of,
a lot of the folks who are tuning to chat
and have been coming in and questions on
is the world looks different.
Business model might be changing.
Obviously, this open router thing is kind of interesting.
Just curious what you're seeing.
I'm sure Link is being a big part of that
in terms of the consumer side of things.
But yeah, how would you describe Stripes' view on the world
as AI businesses and AI-powered businesses start to exist more?
Yeah.
I mean, let me answer that both on the consumer side
and the business side.
Obviously, at Stripe, we have huge conviction in AI
and agentics and where that world is going
and the capabilities are unlocking,
both for us as employees and engineers
and product people who are building each day,
in these tools all day building,
but also in the users and the consumers we partner with.
So on the consumer side, a really interesting thing
we've been observing the last few months,
if you look at consumer spending on AI subscriptions,
spending on Glockbot or on OpenAI or on Muse or whatever,
it's been increasing steadily over the last few years.
Started this year, the number of people paying more than $100 a month
for AI products has grown like 5X.
Really?
Okay.
I think there was just so much consumer demand
for this kind of thing where people can just like,
they can build things.
They can create things.
They don't have to be super deep in engineering
and sort of knowing how to do that.
So I think on the consumer side,
there's this huge growth of people who are just really interested
in creating these kind of games and building.
On the business side, of course,
explosion of both startups and of course,
the big labs and you guys doing really great stuff.
Obviously, we striped collaborating with Metronome
quite much recently.
So a lot more AI companies are looking at usage-based billing
as a model.
I think it'll be really interesting to see
if that plays into a consumer world too.
Personally, I have my subscriptions
and I always have a little thing where I can buy extra credits
if I need it to finish the task.
So I think we'll see a lot more on UBB.
One of the things that Stripes doing a lot on right now
is helping AI companies think about risk and fraud.
As you're growing massive user bases,
a lot of stuff we're trying to do
is how do we help make sure that the people who are subscribing
to your products are good
and how do we lower that fraud and things too?
Awesome.
Yeah, these are all great.
And I guess one thing that maybe we can try and do
if we get some time this afternoon
is build a quick strike of integration
and then we figure out how we try out
some of these monetization ideas.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure with the existing GROC connector
on Stripe, if you connect it up,
you should be able to get going on Earth.
I think we have one.
Yeah, we do.
Okay, so I haven't added any yet.
You see here, you've got Stripe best practices.
That'll get your integration going.
We've got Stripe directories
that'll help you find businesses to buy from.
Stripe projects.
So that's what will help you provision all these services.
Exactly, yeah.
So yeah, you should be able to connect the Stripe connector here
and like it.
Just go ahead and add it
in case we decide we want to do this.
Yeah, we definitely need to make money at some point.
Exactly.
And then point one of your GROC bots
that are getting a subscription set up
and it should get it done.
I think that's a good stretch goal for the afternoon.
We get our first dollar.
Get your first dollar.
That would be amazing.
That would be really cool.
That would be a real games video.
Yeah, exactly.
A revenue creating game.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know if we'll get a whole business incorporated by then
but we'll see what we can do.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, awesome.
Well, it sounds like we have a bunch of really good ideas.
I guess, Dan, I'm curious,
maybe as we wind down here
about five or 10 minutes left,
you talk a little bit about what Link is doing
for making it easy to buy things with agents.
And I've seen a bunch of buzz on the internet
about Link lately
and obviously you can do that with GROC bots.
So if we can hide my screen for a second,
I want to see if I can get Link working
without giving away my credit card numbers
or personal information.
We could just go to the wide angle camera shot, please,
when you get a second for the production team.
But in the meantime, while we do that,
I'm curious, what's next for Link?
How are you guys thinking about the future?
Because I know Stripes probably is
on the frontier of a lot of this stuff.
Like, where do you see this whole thing going?
Yeah.
So we've got a bunch of stuff coming on Link.
So the stuff we're doing right now
is really around helping agents buy things that they need.
Whether that's personal stuff,
whether it's to build a business, go buy things.
So all the stuff we've been working on there
is like, how do you help agents understand
how to use checkout forms?
How do you help them buy,
especially from Stripe merchants without any friction
so they can just buy what they need?
We'll be expanding into more geographies soon.
So it started off US only,
but we have other countries coming.
The next one that I'm really excited about
and folks who are actually using with GROC,
but is what we call Financial Insights.
So this is allowing GROC to basically import
your credit card data, your bank data,
and do all kinds of personal finance stuff,
or if you're building a business, right?
Like, why not connect your business accounts in
and then have it be able to kind of,
you know, oh, I see your credit card limits coming up.
You know, here's how we can optimize your business for you.
So we have a lot coming around sort of personal financial insights
and connecting your bank accounts and credit cards
with Link.
As a personal finance,
sort of like have my spreadsheets and try all the apps person.
I think that's what's been pretty cool about that.
So yeah, I use it all the time.
It's just like so great to have like one of my GROC agents
is just a personal finance thing.
And it's just like, you know,
you always forget to pay that bill
or you forget that there's that, you know,
tax thing that'll happen or something.
I bet like the agents, because there's just data,
the agents can set up routines.
Maybe they remind you on the schedule.
So GROC could just give you a routine
and say like, hey, once a week,
give me my balance, that kind of stuff.
Yeah, people do really fun stuff,
really creative stuff with it too.
Like, you know, if I spend more than X dollars
on eating out this month,
I want you to like tell me
so that I can like try and, you know,
keep to my budget or like, you know,
there's some really fun sort of if this then that stuff.
I've done some stuff where like,
if I don't work out like enough times in the week,
I have Link just go like make a donation
to a charity on my behalf, which is,
I don't know which one I prefer,
like not working out or just it's fine to get the charity.
But like, so like, there's some really fun stuff
you can kind of hook up.
Give yourself a moral gray area.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is there a most unusual use case
that you've seen someone use, you know, Link for?
That's a good question.
Well, we saw the, we heard about the parking ticket one.
Yeah.
I'm wondering if there are like, I guess,
are there more?
I mean, I've been, I've been,
I've been sort of amazed at like,
how quickly people will have,
have embraced putting like pretty,
pretty meaningful purchases
through like Grockbot and others,
like flight bookings, you know, things that like,
if you'd asked me, you know,
a few months ago, I would have been like,
yeah, people are going to be pretty hesitant with that.
But like, just seeing how great the tools are,
like the approval steps inside like Grockbot and things,
just like, how well the agent can use browsers
and just like, get the right answer.
I think people have like,
I've been amazed people are just like,
happily booking, you know, flights, travel,
like really important things with Grock.
Actually, now that we're talking about,
I feel like I saw this on X
that someone used Spring to actually pre-order a Tesla.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
Did you see that one?
Yeah, that's cool.
That was such a cool use case.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Oh man. Yeah.
Well, I guess it was a ton of cool stuff we could buy.
I just tried this backstage.
I think I realized that I think my PASCII
might not be set up on this computer yet,
or like not in the profile that I've set up.
But if we want to quickly show my screen,
I think it's pretty cool.
Like I just pulled up if we could raise,
if we could donate a dollar to Stripe Climate,
we could try this again.
Actually cancel that, buy some shoes from Nike.
In fact, there's a small fun fact.
These shoes I'm wearing, I bought with GrockBot.
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a lot about the bottleneck is you being able to get your idea across well and so I love the stream
of consciousness thing because sometimes you just have this very abstract picture of what you want
and you don't know what exactly it is. You just like just yap for five minutes and then tell it
to restate in its own words and then you get a sense of did it actually understand. Totally.
So if you gave if you guys considered any kind of like straightforward you know freemium model
play hand games for free then you have to pay you know a two dollars a month subscription to
keep playing or like gating certain features behind because right now it's just like one team versus
another team right. Yeah totally I actually was there be a world but it's like oh and if you pay X
you can have like multiple five team games or like run your own league maybe like could you do something
like that but if you want to be like a organize with your friends you can like set up a league
I like that sort of like taking calling back to the old like in-person trading card games and having
a league. I really like this subscription idea because I think that's really durable revenue for
our business and especially we're a brand new game studio like durability would be awesome right
so we can fund our next game right and obviously I don't know, that would be a really interesting
business model where I wonder actually what if we had a like I guess I don't we don't actually
have a company name for our game studio maybe maybe it's just called Thursday. Maybe we should
incorporate it. Maybe our company is just Thursday and maybe we could have a Thursday
subscription where you can play all our games for a monthly fee so you get more you know the value
of the subscription goes up over time as we make more games. And that if you have a subscriber base
they're going to be the great early adopters of new games you want to put in because they're
already sort of put they're already paying they're already invested so like oh you have a
new game come out they'll be the first ones to get in and give feedback play you know kind of make the
game better. I love that. Yeah and for those who are watching me just click around idly while we talk
you can see the UI is literally changing by the minute this home screen now looks totally
different than it did when Dan first got on the set. Yeah so the factory is going on. The factory
is going this is the coding factory that Lauren is established that's like continuously
typing right now it's just doing yeah one I this is my favorite bot too I have this bot
bake who's our engineer and we're at 235 plus PRs already since we build this idea in earnest
we'll have more we'll have more but it's like having an event stream of all the things that are happening
you can see all my my slot PRs yeah hopefully not mostly a lot yeah Dan I want to go back to the
subscription idea obviously like this is a thing just a lot of and so maybe just to chat about
like what trends are you seeing because I think one of the things that we've kind of a lot of
the folks who are tuning to chat and are have been coming in the questions on is you know like
that the world looks different business models might be changing obviously this open router thing
is kind of interesting just curious what you're seeing obvious I'm sure link is being a big part
of that in terms of the consumer side of things but yeah how would you describe like
Stripe's view on the world as AI businesses and AI power businesses start to exist more
yeah I mean let me answer that both on the consumer side and the business side
obviously it's a stripe we have you know huge conviction in in you know AI and
agentic and where that world is going and the capabilities unlocking you know both for us as
like employees and engineers and product people who are building each day you know like we're all
in these tools all day building and but also in the you know the users and the consumers
we partner with so on the consumer side a really interesting sort of thing we've been
observing the last few months if you look at like consumer spending on AI subscriptions
and spending on like grok bot or on you know open AI or on you know muse or whatever
it's been increasing steadily over the last few years started this year the number of people
paying more than a hundred dollars a month for AI products has grown like 5x really like I think
there was just like so much consumer demand for this kind of thing where like people can just like
they can build things they can create things they don't have to be super like deep and you
know engineering and sort of knowing how to how to do that so like I think on the consumer side
there's this huge growth of like people who are just like really interested in creating these
kind of games and building you know on the business side of course you know an explosion of
both startups and of course on the big labs and like you guys doing doing really great stuff
obviously you know we strike you know start collaborating with metronome
right much recently so like a lot more AI companies I think you're looking at like
usage-based billing as a model I think it'll be really interesting to see if that plays into
a consumer world too you know personally I have my subscriptions and I always have a little
thing where I can buy extra credits if I like need it to finish the task so I think you know we'll see
a lot more on UVB you know one of the things that Stripes doing a lot on right now is like
helping AI companies think about risk and fraud okay so I'd like as you're you know growing
massive user bases you know a lot of stuff we're trying to do is like how do we help make
sure that the people who are you know subscribing to your products are good and how do we how do we
lower that forward and things too awesome awesome yeah these are all these are all great and I guess
one thing that maybe we can try and do if we get some time this afternoon is build a quick strike
for integration and then figure out how we try out some of these monetization ideas yeah I'm
pretty sure with your but the existing grok connector on strike oh yeah you should if
you connect it up you should be able to get going on one so yeah I haven't added it yet but
you see here you've got like strike best practices that'll get your integration going
we've got strike directories that'll help you find businesses to buy from strike projects
so that's what will help you provision services exactly yeah so um uh yeah you should be able
to connect the strike connector here and like it just go ahead and add it yes in case we decide
we want to do this yeah I mean we definitely need to make money at something exactly and then
yeah yeah point point a point one of your grok bots that um getting a subscription set up and it
should it should get it done I think that's a good stretch goal for the afternoon you get our
first dollar your first dollar yeah that would be amazing that would be really cool that'd be a
real games video yeah exactly a revenue creating game yeah I don't know if we'll get a whole business
incorporated by then but we'll see we'll see what we can do exactly yeah yeah okay awesome well,
it sounds like we have a bunch of really good ideas I guess Dan I'm curious um maybe as we
wind down here about five or ten minutes left um you you talk a little bit about what link
is doing for making it easy to buy things with agents um and I've seen a bunch of
buzz on the internet about link lately and obviously you can you can do that with grok bot
so if we can hide my screen for a second I want to see if I can get link working without giving
away my credit card numbers or personal information we could just go to the wide angle camera shot
please when you get a second for the production team but in the meantime while we do that I'm
curious like what's next for link how are you guys thinking about the future because I know
Stripes probably is on the front year of a lot of this stuff like where do you see this
whole thing going yeah so um we've got a we've got a bunch of stuff coming on link um so the
stuff we're doing right now is is really around um helping agents buy things that they need whether
that's personal stuff whether it's to build a business um go buy things so a lot of stuff we've
been working on there is like how do you help agents understand how to use checkout forms how
do you help them buy especially from striped merchants without any friction so they can just
you know buy what they need um we'll be expanding into more geographies soon so it started off
US only but we have other countries coming um the next one that I'm really excited about and
folks who are actually using with grokbot um is what we call financial insights so this is allowing
grok to basically import your you know credit card data your bank data and do all kinds of
personal finance stuff or if you're building a business right like why not connect your
business accounts in and then have it be able to kind of you know oh I see your
credit card limits coming up you know here's how we can optimize your business for you so
we have a lot coming around um sort of personal financial insights and connecting your bank
accounts and credit cards um would link um as a personal finance sort of like have my
spreadsheets and try all the apps person I think that's what's been pretty cool about that so
yeah um I use it all the time it's just like so great to have like one of my grok
agents is just a personal finance thing and it's just like you know you always forget to
pay that bill or you forget that there's that you know tax thing that'll happen or something
I bet like the agents because it's just data the agents can set up routines maybe they
remind you on the schedules or grokbot could just give you a routine and say like hey once
a week give me my balance that kind of stuff yeah people do really fun stuff really creative stuff
with it too like um you know if I spend more than x dollars on eating out this month I want you to
like tell me so that I can like try and you know keep to my budget or like you know um this is
really fun sort of if this then that um I've done some stuff where like I if I don't work out
like enough times in the week yeah I'd make it I have link just go like make a donation to
a charity on my behalf like which is I don't know which one I prefer like not working out
or just it's fine to get the charity but like so it's a really fun stuff you can kind of hook up
give yourself a moral gray area is there a most unusual use case that you've seen someone use uh
you know link for that's a good question uh well we saw the we we heard about the uh parking
ticket line yep uh I'm wondering if there are like I guess other more I mean I've been um
I've been I've been sort of amazed at like how quickly people will have have embraced putting
like pretty pretty meaningful purchases through like grokbot and others like flight bookings you
know things that like if you'd ask me you know a few months ago would have been like yeah people
are going to be pretty hesitant but with that but like just seeing how great the tools are
like the approval steps inside like grokbot and things just like how well the agent
can use browsers and just like get the right answer I think people have like I've been amazed
people are just like happily booking you know flights travel um like really important things
yeah actually now that they were talking about I feel like I saw this on x uh that someone used blink
to actually pre-order a tesla yeah oh wow yeah yeah that was such a cool use case yeah that's really
cool oh man um yeah well I guess there's a ton of cool stuff we could buy I just tried this back
stage uh I think I I realized that um I think my past key might not be set up on this computer
yet or like not in the profile that I've set up but if we want to quickly show my screen
um I think it's pretty cool like I just um pulled up if we could raise if we could link donate a
dollar to strike climate we could try this again um actually cancel that let's buy some shoes from
Nike in fact as a small fun fact these shoes I'm wearing oh yeah I bought with grokbot no way
no way because our on our production team yeah did you want to make a quick cameo oh yeah oh yeah
that shoe was also bought by grokbot yeah love it I uh I just took a picture of my
shoe and said grokbot find me a new pair of these in size 12 please thank you that's that's yeah if
we had this set up for that oh that would be so cool but yeah I did almost that I was like
I just want to like have stuff buy things I need some new shoes I was like whatever popular
men's shoes are size 12 go buy them you pick yeah I don't care the box arrived like three days
later at my house and I was like I don't even think I even know what these shoes are but
like I've loved them so yeah that's awesome I feel like there's a really fun product to be
built here maybe if like surprise me with a purchase every week and like hey you got 100
bucks like get your agents to buy you gifts maybe there's some really cool stuff there
that was well what one of my co-workers actually be just talking earlier he's um
put all of his family's birthdays in yeah just like hey I've like you know my siblings
my parents whatever two weeks before their birthdays I want you to just like suggest
some gifts for me and then just go buy them and it's just like up comes a few options
and it's giving them some preferences like great link go buy it yeah and I feel like it's just so
interesting when you think about just like so much of what we do is we buy is on the internet
like let's say I want to send a card or send a package and just being able to have a really easy
way to do that I think is really really great and you know just working on the grok bot team
we've also heard a ton of great feedback on how you know how nice it is just to be able
to buy things from the bot like this bot is managing your life it's managing your finances
it's managing you know your your tasks your emails and just like connecting that payments
to it I think is really awesome so one um one really fun use case I just I just remembered
there's a company uh it's called postal form okay and um it's basically a way that agents can
send physical mail cool okay and so I've had you know bots in the past like they will make
like a dad joke for my daughter they'll like write out a joke turn it to a pdf
like pay the dollar in post and like my kids just get random mail each day which is like a letter from
me you know so like I really like that that's really really fun we had um uh a few days earlier a creator
on the on the stream who basically has built all of these really cool grok bot physical in person
use cases and has built a daily newsletter where she wakes up well she's really this
bitch is a printer in a room every morning she gets a physical newspaper uh just really
incredible just like taking agents making them do something for you in the real world
which is which is super cool so in my house I have a sort of 32 inch display on the wall
yeah um I've previously just had to like write some custom codes so like have it display something
each day and I'm now when I get home from from this I'm gonna have like my bots just basically
like whatever they want to put on my wall they can just put up there you know like reminders
jokes news of the day something yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be great I'll come next
when I do it tell them no surprise yeah please do yeah we'd love to see it um and actually you
know I forgot we didn't get a chance to ask you this yet but I think in our as our last question
um what are some of your favorite grok bot use cases what does your grok bot team look like
like what are you offloading to both we're using a bot for obviously you're buying stuff
yeah makes sense for the the link person to be buying stuff but aside from aside from buying
things yeah um I have a couple of categories so I have a bunch of personal stuff so I have a
shopper bot that does like literally I'm just like I need shoes I need t-shirts just like go do
that I hate shopping so it does that for me I have the finance one so I have it just like
kind of keeping an eye on my finances am I spending right um where I want to spend there
I have this special one for the anniversary weekend um I'm just like having it try and figure out the
anniversary for me um I then just kind of spin them up as I'm thinking like personal projects
like I love just like like you guys are just building stuff so like I've got one that's
building a game in 3gs just like kind of like how do you make an infinite scrollable worlds
that you can kind of move around in um I had this idea actually last night that I have one
working on which is like um I want a mobile app where it's like a it's an AI agent but it
only does find date night spots oh fine so basically I want it to be able to go off on the
internet find all the like recommendations of like cool restaurants and stuff I don't know about
and just like every day just give me a feed of like this week's date night you should do
this restaurant or like there's just movie coming out yeah um so yeah I've got I've got one
going on that um it's it's kind of so like I find it just so easy to be able like to kind of like
think of a task in life or like a thing and then be like okay I'll just spin up a bot to go
like I love that be good at doing that thing that I keep having to do over and over again
yeah definitely it's so freeing to just like offload a task to it through crock bot right
and you don't have to think about it anyway yeah definitely the theme we've heard this week too
sort of you know the best way to get started with crock bot think of something you're doing
that you don't want to do or that you want to do faster that you want to do better
and just ask crock bot it turns out these bots can do can do quite a bit so um with that Dan
thanks so much for joining us thank you for your partnership on link yeah thanks for being a crock
bot user we're excited to maybe see some of these bot templates and if you need someone to publish
that 3js game that you just described I might know a game studio we might have a game studio
yeah special model yeah awesome call us all right well that was Dan uh and his twitter
or sorry x handle is up on the screen so Dan hill tech it looks like if you want to follow
him yep um and we are going to now cut to our main stage back to our main stage here right next
to dream force where josh kim is going to walk us through grock bot for marketing so we'll cut over
to josh uh learn about grock bot for marketing and then we'll come back on for more build time
thanks so much all right hello hello hi everyone my name is josh kim and i'm so thankful for all
of you for joining us here and i'm excited to share how we on the space xai team use grock
bot for marketing here's our run of show for today uh i'll be sharing what grock bot is how we use it
internally uh to market and grow the product and most importantly how you all can start using
grock bot within your teams let's jump in so let's start with the context um the way we
all started using ai was pretty simple uh many of you may still be using ai today just like this
and i was certainly was in this camp uh before i started on the space xai team the typical pattern
is that you have one or two ai chat bots that you really use and leverage as your thought partner
meaning you chat with them you ask questions you spar on strategy maybe you edit copy um but
they're really there as your thought partner not a doing partner as ai has started advancing
there's been this rise of generalized and specialized agents that can start to do tasks with you
we refer to these internally as co-pilots because while they can get those tasks done with you
they still typically require you to babysit them push them along particularly for those
complex tasks rather than truly being able to delegate your work and that's the reason
why we're so excited about grock bot with grock bot marketing teams can now actually
start to automate away true pieces of their work you can think of grock bot as always on
asynchronous ai teammates that actually do and finish the work on your behalf and most importantly
they'll do it the way that you do it and today i'm excited to demo how on the space xai
marketing team we not only use bots to automate jobs and tasks but we actually use them to staff
up functions and create teams of bots to actually do the work for you but first let's do a quick
intro of the product for those of you who haven't tried it out yet this is grock bot
and now some of you may be wondering how is grock bot different from all the other ai tools
and chat bots that i might use today what's different about grock bot is that
rather than working with one agent or one chat with multi-threaded conversations
you create individual bots for each job and what that means is that you think of one bot to be a
singular teammate that you then delegate away a single task or a set of related tasks
what this also means is that you can actually message your bots and talk to them just like
you would slack or message someone on teams and to take it a step further bots can start
to talk to each other and actually collaborate with each other within group chats as well
and as you continue to work with your bots they'll learn how you work they'll learn your
preferences they'll learn your memory and they'll get smarter and smarter and get closer
to the way that you actually do the job yourself so similar to someone on your team or someone
that you collaborate with the more feedback you give and the more you invest in your bots
the more they'll be able to do for you in the long term and what makes bot
especially unique is that while it can hook up to all the mcps and apis that you're currently
using today it also has its own computer and that's a bit of a novel paradigm shift from how you might
be using other ai tools today and what it simply means is that because it has access to
its own browser its own computer so long as you give it access to its to tools that you use
it can actually use those tools just like you would so what does this all mean for marketers
if we talk about how it can use tools just like you that means that your bot you can teach it
specific ways that you like to optimize your bidding strategy in ad platforms or the nuances
and how you put together a campaign brief or maybe just how you like to manage your computer
but ultimately what's really unique and valuable about bot is that it becomes customized and flexible
to the way that you work and with bot you'll also find that you're no longer having to babysit
and push along and really you know remind the bot to keep working and rather grokbot is extremely
ambitious and it's also very proactive and so now you'll be working with a team of bots
that actually want and will finish the work for you and that's quite different from other tools
you might be using because bot is hosted in the cloud that also means that they're running 24-7
no more keeping your laptop open or needing a mac mini setup and that means if you have
reporting or metrics that you're you're looking at on a regular basis you can trust that grokbot
will be able to pull those down for you and the best of all as you might have noticed it's really
simple to use this ui is as familiar and intuitive as iMessage which really lowers the barrier
to entry for any marketer no matter what the specialization is to weave agents into their
daily workflows okay so let's actually dive into what we're going to do today during the demo
what we're going to do together is actually launch a marketing campaign from scratch
from end to end meaning we're going to start from the first task that we typically take on
which is market research analysis we're going to go all the way through to ideating and
betting on positioning updating a landing page starting to build and monitor ad campaigns
draw that analysis and then actually end with automation now this is a lot of work
there's a lot of things that happen behind the scenes for all of us in the room as marketers
you know that this slide might look simple but actually it actually spans across many
different teams functions disciplines within a typical marketing org meaning the person who
conducts market research is you know having to work with a product marketer to identify
and bet the positioning who then has to pass off a task to the web team and so on and so forth
and for anyone who's done marketing before that context management the coordination the
orchestration of a campaign like this that's truly where the craft of the work happens
because it's the crux of our job so today I'm going to introduce you to my marketing team of bots
and I would be remiss to say that I built all these I was crowdsourcing these across the entire
SpaceX AI team which is a feature I'll talk about but I'm excited to show you how you can
orchestrate an entire campaign build across the entire flow so you can say hi to our market
researcher our product marketer our website ops performance marketer marketing analyst and
lastly our project manager so with that let's dive into our demo
now for the sake of our demo we have launched a brand new product and it is called Xair so this is
an airline product that we built something we can use to build a net new campaign for
and you'll see that this landing page is set up it's our home page people can do some airline
route searches look for fares and then we have some positioning and value proposition value
propositions currently in place so I'm going to navigate to my grok bot instance and just to
walk through what you see on the screen on the left side sidebar that's where the bots live
I pin them to the top similar to what you might do in iMessage and I'll be flipping through each
bot and I'll explain what I'm doing as I'm going through it but let's get started with a market
research bot so what I'll say first is hey market researcher what I'd like you to do
is study the Xair website get a deeper understanding of what the product is what market we're operating
in and now I want you to go do a competitive analysis identify and deeply understand our
competitors look at their marketing websites understand their positioning and then importantly
identify the gaps and opportunities that we have to actually strategically
competitively position against them within our marketing strategy so just dictated a prompt
I'm going to set this off now the market researcher bot is actually going to go and
scrape the website it's going to understand the product and then it's actually going to go
find the competitor competitors their landing pages and start performing this analysis
so while that's running let me just do a quick walkthrough of the additional bots that we
have we have a product marketer bot website ops performance marketer marketing analyst and
our project manager and importantly what I'm about to show is that as this works you can
actually kick off jobs asynchronously meaning you might have one bot that you work with
as your main point of contacts but you can actually kick off work in parallel across a
team of bots and that means that orchestration is happening in the background because the product
is always on so market researcher is saying it's pulled X air the competitive a set is being
identified it's going to show us a screenshot first of the website and then go through gaps
and positioning great so it has its first output of an analysis it's talking about the product
it's talking to the market it has identified key competitors these are all airlines that
we're all familiar with I think most importantly it's identified the gaps and where to lean in
so similar to how you might work with a market researcher you ask hey I'm launching this new
feature I'm going to have this new exciting campaign launch help me understand what's
currently in market so we we are optimizing for breaking through the noise and actually
landing and resonating with our target audience so I think the most important note here is
you know these gaps around useful time data design long hauls and then really leading every
message with useful time which is something that thing is resonating at least with me
and it's also shown me that it's pulled off the website and this is actually a view
of its browser that it has access to and that it controls and it's showing me progress updates
of it working in the background and being able to actually go to the website itself
pull down a screenshot and show to me how it's progressing now market researcher has
done one task and that's great what I could do is actually kick off another one
but what I'm going to do instead is actually go to the next spot and that's the product
marketer and I'm going to have the product marketer actually do a handoff of that work
that the researcher just did and take that into their work okay product marketer
what I'd like you to do is now go to the market researcher bot
do a handoff of the analysis that just performed and I want you to draw up a draft of a positioning
brief where you identify how we should go to market what our one liners are are positioning
and packaging some value statements and then also show me some examples of how this should come
to life across two or three different marketing surfaces so as this is running what you'll see
is in the chat the product marketer bot is starting to kick off this work I told it to
actually go and speak to the market researcher and actually grab that context information
as it's working you'll see there's a visual indicators it's you know doing
things is running in the background and then it'll actually show you hey I exchanged a few
messages with the market researcher bot and that's showing that they're starting to collaborate
and that's something that you can tell it to do in the beginning but over time it gets smarter
and smarter and smarter and it will actually do it proactively meaning you have to be less
involved in doing the orchestration of context and knowledge between your bots and rather they
actually start to work with each other organically so it's telling me it's grabbed
the market researcher analysis it's drafting the positioning brief it's created google doc where it's
actually starting to draft that position brief which will jump into and inside it's telling me
what exactly it did so let's bring this up and if we go through this this is looking like a solid
first draft I think what what I will do is start to read through this it has a research
handoff that it got from the market researcher is identify the target audience long haul travelers
who want useful time back I'm gonna leave a comment and say this is great lean into this
in our messaging it's talking about positioning and packaging and how we should be thinking
about our marketing strategy and the way we go out we go out with messaging and it's also
left some notes and go to market some additional one liners by different types and
angles to lean into and then some value statements and examples of how it shows up so
there's a paid landing page here that is drafted I think what we'll do for our campaign is actually
take this page shove it up into the website launch the landing page and actually start
directing and building an ads campaign to do a messaging test to see what's landing the most
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have to be directly involved in every step of the process.
All right.
And finally, we have websites that we built up and running.
It's shown that it's actually pushed it to prod.
And if I ask it, give me the URL.
It'll also give me the URL that we can open C.
And so this is the URL that we drafted,
went through positioning, et cetera,
and actually pushed up to prod all from the one place
where all the work is happening, the GROCKBOT workspace.
OK.
And that's it.
That's our demo.
So just to wrap that up, what have we learned
by going through an entire campaign
build from start to end?
The first point is what's really important when
you're starting off a GROCKBOT is to ensure that you're
scoping your bots properly.
And the way that I like to think about this
is that when you identify a bot or a job that needs to be
done, it's almost like crafting a job description,
meaning you're identifying a new teammate
that you need help from.
You understand the swim lanes and roles and responsibilities.
And you're ensuring that it's scoped tightly
to ensure that they are specialized
and they're able to get that specific piece of work done,
because that's the way you squeeze the most efficiency
out of your team of bots.
Second, you want to trust your bots.
As you might have seen, these teammates are ambitious.
They're proactive.
They're hungry.
They want to do your work.
And that starts with giving them the access they need,
meaning one of the first steps you might take
is hooking them up into your Slack instance, your email,
and actually maybe asking it like, hey,
go study all the context, all the messages,
all of my organizational history,
and tell me what you can do for me
and take a job off my plate.
But I think if you do that, you give them the access,
you throw ambitious tasks against them,
you'll be surprised by what they're capable of.
And finally, I've said this over and over,
but you want to invest in your bots.
They really get better and better over time.
The point of collaboration between bot to bot
is something that gets more organic,
especially as you prompt it,
but they also improve steadily
as you start to feed it more feedback,
more context, more memory,
similar to how you might work or manage a teammate,
where the more feedback you give them,
the more time you invest into them,
the more the compound and value
and be able to take more and more off your plate.
Lastly, here's a plug.
This QR code goes to our bot marketplace.
And the marketplace is actually where
we take the very best bot templates,
like the ones that I shared, and host them,
meaning you might be able to create your own bots
and prompt them and build up
really rich context and memory,
but you can also just copy others.
And that's what I did, is when building out this demo,
I crowdsourced across the entire team,
and said, hey, who has the best positioning bot,
who has the best ads bot, et cetera.
And you can find all of those on our marketplace.
So I can encourage you to go here
and be able to copy them down.
And with that, that's it for me.
Thank you so much for your time.
And I believe we have some time for questions.
Thank you, I'm just curious,
the marketing bots that they were sharing,
are those available in the marketplace?
I was like looking on there, I didn't see them.
I was refining them, but they will be, yeah.
So, I basically went to the marketplace
and I scraped up all the different bots
that sort of amount got consolidated into these,
along with some internal ones.
But we'll push them into the marketplace.
They'll be available.
Hey John, thanks for the great presentation.
So my question is like, are there any areas
that you would not allow them to do it autonomously?
Because I do find myself sort of waking up
and approving the task.
So it just feels like there is still a lot of tasks
that are human in the loop.
So what would you advise me
to completely automate those tasks
and just let it run by itself?
Or where are the limitations and constraints
when it comes to human loop?
Yeah, yeah.
Great question.
And it's something that's come up
in a lot of customer conversations.
I think what I lean back on here
is really the analogy of treating a bot like a teammate.
And so, similar to how you might onboard someone
that's just started their professional career,
you're not gonna give them the keys to the kingdom
like immediately.
You're gonna give them quick contacts.
You're gonna train them up, onboard them.
Obviously, that happens much faster
with the rate at which these improve.
But I'd start gradually.
You wanna give them a simple task.
Maybe you hook them up to one or two tools
where they'll get the most contacts quickly.
You wanna see that they're actually delivering value
and they're getting on better and better over time.
And I think what you'll see is as you
as I
and be truly automated.
There's also some additional features and settings
where you can actually prompt it and just be like,
hey, you asked me for permission to do these things,
just always allow if you wanted to be more liberal with that.
But I think a good end state is we have engineers
that work at SpaceX AI that have entire armies
of bots that are working.
And they're actually pushing code to prod.
And so I think, obviously, the way you get there
is by creating really great, rich, prompting
and memory and context.
But you gotta start small.
And so I'd start with something simple, low risk,
and then go gradual from there.
Hey, I'm wondering, what do you think is the biggest blocker
for marketers in using this technology?
Good question.
I think something really common that I see
when I talk to new users is they might come
into the product and they don't have a clear understanding
of what's actually capable.
And so that's why I spent a lot of the time in the front
saying, hey, this is different.
You need to shift your mental model away
from thinking it's just something that's
like a Google search or AI search or another LLM
where you just ask questions and get answers back.
That's not the way this works.
The way it works is you have to trust it
to actually do things for you.
Meaning something that's really common in our team
is you hook it up into Slack.
You get bombarded with different questions,
maybe in Slack and DMs, emails, et cetera.
And it is like the first line of defense.
It becomes your triage of like, hey, I'm receiving this.
I'm gonna triage it, message Josh
when something's important or urgent.
It's actually a message back to the person
that's responding to you.
And so I think to answer your question directly,
it won't be valuable if you come into it
and just treat it as like another LLM.
It'll be extremely valuable if you come into it
and say, okay, you can do things for me.
I'm gonna test it.
I'm gonna throw some tasks at you.
I'm gonna give you some contacts
and actually see what you're capable of.
Thanks.
I was wondering when you use Grockbot,
do you always assign it roles, like company roles,
or do you also group it by like initiatives
or other things that you're working on?
Yeah, yeah, good question.
You can do initiatives.
I think the way that I would think about it is like,
initiatives always have like a start and stop, right?
It's sort of like a campaign.
These are more always on.
So you wanna treat them more like, okay,
this is now like an individual or teammate
that's gonna continue to get better and better over time.
And if I would think about the initiative level
versus the individual level,
there are groups of individuals
that work on an initiative.
And you wanna be able to identify the swim lanes
of each of those individuals
and you can group them together into chats
where they then work on projects together.
And so similar to what I had,
you can then take those and say like,
hey, you are now a Tiger team.
You work on improving the positioning of our website.
And the initiative you all work on in a group chat
is website conversion maybe.
So that's sort of how I think about the mental model
of initiative versus actual role.
Hi, is it me?
Oh, it's me, okay, good.
Hi, I've got an agent on Open Claw.
And one of the things I love about her,
her name is Ariel, by the way,
is that she's got her own personality
and she can be snarky and fun
and consistent across the board.
Now I know Grock can be snarky,
because I've tested that.
How do we make Grockbot somehow fun and snarky
and a consistent personality over time?
Is there a way for that?
Yeah, yeah, good question.
So something fun that you can do actually
is what was the name of the agent?
Ah, Ariel.
Ariel, hey, I want you to update the avatars
and animate them based on one word, Ariel.
It's spelled A-I-R-E-A-L.
A-R-A-I-R-E-A-L.
R-E-A-L, cool.
So something really easy you can do
is actually have it go and update the avatars.
Like obviously that's not personality,
and I'll get to that.
But if you're talking about like customization
and personalization, like here's a really easy way
to make the product feel like yours,
similar to the way that you refer to this agent
on open clause, like this is mine, I've curated it,
I've personalized it.
The other way is that each bot has its own context
and memory, meaning you could easily tell
the project manager, like I want you to talk to me
as if you're Harry Potter
and like you need to call me a wizard
every time you talk to me, you know?
So all of that customization is possible.
And so just the way, like exactly the way
that you've built this agent for yourself,
you could easily also point a GrockBot at your agent
and say, go replicate that for me
and pull it down and then turn it
into something that was here.
And do you have a way that they can communicate together?
So open clause and GrockBot somehow?
Not natively right now, but we do have import templates,
which we can talk about afterwards.
Yeah, one final question.
Can you get GrockBot on the Tesla soon, please?
We'll see.
Thank you for the presentation.
Is there a way to connect GrockBot to the Grock CLI
and the information that we have in the Grock website
or is just everything independently?
Yeah, I haven't done that myself, but...
Wait, sorry, the GrockBuild CLI?
Yes.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
So just the way that I was doing the lightning page build,
like that's actually hooked up a cursor on the back end.
And so it's using Cloud Engine to actually kick off the job
and actually push the PR.
So you can do the same thing with any other coding tool that you use.
Okay, so it means that all the developments
that I have done with the Grock CLI
will be part of the context in GrockBot.
Yeah, okay, that's cool.
Yeah, exactly.
So you don't have to rebuild that context.
You can just say, hey, GrockBot pointed out
my existing work and be able to basically treat it
as a harness for your work there.
So it is possible to connect the GrockBot directly
via their own computer to the Grock CLI.
So that, yeah, okay, that's cool.
Yeah.
The next question, one of the main issues that I see
because I work at a company in Germany
is the rules and regulations that we have.
And one of the main issues that I see for this product
to get into the market in the B2B business in Europe
is how do you ensure companies that the alpha is not going out
or that the information that they put into the GrockBot
is not used for training?
Yeah, so we have data privacy modes
that you can opt in or out of to ensure that you can choose
whether or not you want the data to be used for training.
But in terms of like actual security,
we do it on a case-by-case basis.
And so we have a team,
I believe they're in the back they can speak with
and say like, hey, like, I want to use this.
I use it personally.
How do I make sure that we're standing by
and within the guidelines that my company has
to use it safely?
Okay, cool, thank you.
How do these feel?
Are these aerial?
Is that okay?
Well, I just wanted to show you
that like you can create personalization.
Everyone has their own way of doing this.
Like mine were Machimaro theme for a while.
I switched them over like a week ago.
But the best part is that
you can do it completely custom and animate it
to make it fun and feel personalized to you.
Hello.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
I didn't know you could do stuff
with the avid arms like that.
So that's pretty cool.
But my question, you said like when you created new bots,
you like did a combination of a bunch of bots together.
I actually haven't heard that like being done for.
I want to know how did you do that?
Cause normally I'd just be like,
find the best one on marketplace and use that, right?
So just curious, like, it seems like you know something.
Yeah.
So this is mostly a product of me being lazy
or not having much time.
But what I did, for example,
I think for my product positioning bot,
I had it do a few things.
So I obviously gave it,
it's like initial set of prompting from me.
Just dictated into it for like a couple of minutes
on like how I want to think about it.
I had it pull down tone and voice
from the current existing website.
I then actually went into the marketplace
and I said, hey, here are like two or three bots
that I like based off of what I'm seeing.
I then pointed it at those URLs and said like,
go scrape up all that context and memory
and actually replicate it into the way that you work.
So it's sort of like, you know,
went and absorbed all that, you know,
the work that had been put into those templates
and fed it into itself.
And the last thing I did was
I actually had it make a connection to SuperMe,
if you're familiar with it.
It's a marketplace of experts
where like, you know, industry experts
on product positioning, packaging are like available there.
We actually have a plugin.
And I said, great.
In lieu of doing like scale qualitative research,
go and vet everything you do
with experts on the marketplace.
And so it'll start speaking directly to SuperMe
without me needing to like go into a website
and like prompt it and set up an account and all that.
And so that's just like a few different ways
that I sort of like took different sources of data
to make it happen.
Yeah.
Okay. I think that's my time.
And for the digital audience that's joining us,
we saw you all.
We were working on implementing a ton of new features.
And I think with Eric's help now,
we're gonna 5x our team's velocity.
So no pressure, no pressure.
For those of you who are just tuning in,
we are towards the tail end here of a three day live stream
stream where we're building a new business over 72 hours.
Our business is a game studio
and we launched our first game this morning
called Thursday Arena, ThursdayArena.com
where you can follow us on X at ThursdayArena.
Those are our two official sources.
So just keep an eye on those.
ệc anything you see that comes from other accounts,
and ThursdayArena.com, tons of really cool improvements
to the website and the game.
So we're gonna just work on adding some new features
and code probably do some, some of that in the next few hours.
And then hopefully end up with a really cool product.
I think we have some ads and some revenue
so we can take all those lessons we learned from the day
and kind of build it to something and build it to. the product.
So yeah, we had a really fun week so far,
a lot of really great guests that have come onto the stream
learned a lot of great businesses,
things that businesses care about.
Obviously thinking a little bit about revenue.
We spent some time today on growth
and have a growth playbook that we're working
on implementing.
We have a bunch of people playing the game.
And so maybe just to see how things are going,
I'll kick over to my screen.
We can get my screen up for a second.
So what we've been doing today,
and this is something that I really like doing,
just working on products at SpaceX AI
is having a grok bot whose job it is
to help keep an eye on our launches.
And so we have our data bot here.
This is my data scientist
among the many, many other bots we've created
over the course of these streams.
And what I have my data scientist doing here
is every 15 minutes or so,
I'm getting a update of how our launch is going.
So we're getting live real-time dashboards
every 15 minutes connected to our production data stores
We have two sets of data right now.
We have our Bercel analytics,
which are just giving us stats on page views
and referral links.
And it looks like we have around 17,000 page views
since we turned on analytics about midway through the day.
Yeah, not bad at all.
And we also have a ton of great usage data.
So I thought I could spend a few minutes
walking through that.
So what do you guys think?
We've hit exactly 4,500 practice rounds
or practice games close to 2,000 X logins.
We gotta get that number up, right?
I think we could hit 5,000 in the next few hours.
No way.
We'll help. Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe we should let you.
Maybe with Eric's help.
Maybe with Eric's help.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll hook something together.
Yeah, okay.
Let's go together.
Yeah, a ton of people who will go through a practice round
about 8% of our users who go through a practice round
then sign up and sign in with X
so they can get onto our leaderboard,
which is great.
So you can see our customer funnel here,
which is super cool.
Like I said, a 4,500 practice rounds,
total of close to 5,000 battles.
And then here's what our traffic has looked like
over the course of the day.
So a really exciting bump this morning
to get a few folks right when we launched the products.
So thanks to everyone who jumped in really early on.
We have feedback in the app
that is coming into a Slack channel.
And we have agents looking at those Slack channels,
humans looking at that Slack channel,
trying to get all that feedback incorporated
into the product as much as we can.
We have some really cool data
where it looks like we're still seeing.
Every time we come back on stream,
I think that's what these peaks are over here.
Yeah, it's just about like 130 looks.
Can we replicate that now?
How do we bring back that 130 energy?
That's what we need.
That's how we gotta end this.
So bring back the 130 energy
or the 145, 2 p.m. energy.
Yeah, we're at what, three?
So afternoon bump, hopefully.
Yeah, thanks for continuing to sign in
and keep the game going.
And this is one of my favorites, cumulative graphs.
We talked earlier about how much we love cumulative graphs
because they always go up into the right.
So yeah, the games are growing.
The page views are growing.
Wow, looks like we're still pretty 50-50 mobile versus web.
That's pretty cool.
And yeah, some of the most common websites
looks like people are signing in,
have folks checking out the sponsor page,
a few people checking out the feedback page,
which has been great.
Yeah, a bunch of cool referrals,
looking at most of our traffic is coming from X
and X links, a few people direct as well.
So eight people who found us from Bing.
So I don't know who you are.
Who are those eight Bing people?
Shut up, Bing.
Shut up, Bing.
Thanks, Bing.
And then it looks like a few people
coming in from the Android app as well.
So yeah, very, very cool stats.
Earlier today, we announced actually
that we just launched today voice mode for Grockbot.
And so if you haven't seen that announcement yet,
let's see if I can pull it up here.
Ooh, that's the wrong one, x.com slash bot.
So yeah, Grockbot can talk now.
It has a voice.
It can, you know, talk with you.
And so we thought actually maybe we kick off this
by just demoing the feature
and seeing if we can check in on how things are going.
So production, do we have a mic that we can pull in?
Or Grockbot's voice needs to be heard.
So this is a Blake, a bake.
Sorry, bake is my founding engineer
that I've been sending a bunch of feature requests to.
So I'm going to see if this voice chat works.
Hey, how's it going?
You've been watching a bunch of PRs for me.
Can you give me a sense of what are my PRs are open
if they're blocked at all?
Two of yours are in play.
The re-roll softlock fix 269 is open with CI green.
That one's clear.
Can you merge that one?
220 is still sitting as a draft with merge conflicts.
Nothing's moved since I last checked.
Okay.
Hold the conflict details or leave it parked.
Can you just get an agent to fix 220
so we can fix those merge conflicts?
I think that would be really helpful.
And then that first PR you mentioned,
can you just go ahead and merge that?
On it, agent for the 220 conflicts
and I'll land 269.
Awesome, cool.
Second back with you in a few minutes.
Sounds good.
I'll have updates on both by then.
Catch you then.
Cool.
Well, that was easy.
So we just huddled our bots.
It's like huddling a teammate, I guess,
and getting them on the horn.
That was great.
So okay, we'll get some PRs merged.
Maybe we can all try and voice chat with our guys
a little bit here and there.
Yeah, that was really cool.
It's a really fun way to work with crock bot.
Obviously that's just launch today.
It's rolling out over the next few days.
So if you're excited to voice chat with your agents,
stay tuned for that to make its way to your account
and a shout out to the team at SpaceX AI
that got that ready to go for us to try out today.
So thanks, guys.
Around the horn, what's everyone working on?
I am continuing to ship UI polish things
that I'm finding and bugs.
So we have a lot of bugs being recorded to Slack
and I have my bots bot factory going on
just reproducing, fixing, merging.
Awesome.
Yeah, I've been working on some ad stuff.
So we're getting an ad marketplace spun up
and in order to do that,
there's some blob storage for cell integration work
to be done.
So right now I'm just working in environment variable land.
Yeah, everybody loves blobs.
At least on the crock bot team.
Eric, you onboarded.
Yeah, we onboarded.
Try to get up to speed with the code base
and the product and ever how everything works.
I think we've got it going now.
So I'm gonna focus on polishing the fighting experience
and making it look like I need to realize
like, you know, card game and like the animations
and making it flash in a way.
We desperately need help with that.
But let me know whatever I should work on.
I'm here, here to help.
But yeah, it looks good so far.
I'm excited to see.
I think you should really ship that thing
where you can actually pay to become top of the leaderboard.
Okay, yeah.
Well, we might add just like not pay to play
but just pay to, I don't know what you call that.
Clout.
Pay for clout.
Pay for clout, yeah.
Pay for clout is a great feature.
And automatic like posting to Twitter as well.
Speaking of posting to Twitter.
So I did work on this.
I'm gonna see if this works.
Let me just speed through a battle here.
We'll skip.
Hey, I win I think.
Yep, we added this new share feature.
So you can share your posts.
It looks like it's prompting the macOS system to happen.
So that's gonna show my recent contact.
So I'm not gonna show that on stream.
But there is a share card.
We'll get that working.
And you can now very soon share your own wins
or your losses if you want.
You can share your losses too.
Nothing wrong with defeat once in a while.
You can share on X or wherever you'd like
to post links on the internet.
So set it for that.
Nice.
Let's take a look at the leaderboard.
Okay, I've dropped to 51st place.
We're still holding strong at five diamond players.
So we have an elo system here
that's giving everyone a player rating
based on how they're doing.
And it looks like we have our top three, the podium here.
A lot of folks who've played over 40 games almost
and a lot who are really good.
So very high win-loss ratio on these guys.
Do you have an OG image
for sharing the link to the leaderboard?
I think the app is generating one.
Nice.
But yeah, actually we need to...
I don't have anything generating the leaderboard.
That would be really cool.
So I just made one earlier.
I tried this before.
And this is what I think should be happening
if you guys can see this in Slack.
There should look something like this
but maybe we could come up with it.
Oh, you meant the leaderboard.
Sorry.
Yeah, I think that's pretty nice.
We can have like the top three leaders
on the right side with their names.
I did something similar before
but you get like showing the top 10 or top 10.
Currently our OG image service uses Takumi
which is one of my favorite.
It's like it's similar to Satori if you're familiar
but it's written in Rust.
It's exactly like Satori.
Rust mentioned.
Rust is great.
It's actually I think Takumi.
I love this open source library.
Very good OG image generation service.
How do I spell it?
T-A-K-U-M-I and then type in OG image after that.
Takumi.
Yeah, it's actually if you go back
to second link there is like the lander.
Yeah, so JSX to images.
Also look at, I mean FumaNama
getting a huge shout out there.
FumaDocs another one of my favorite
open source repository.
So yeah.
Love it.
Good folks.
So you've been using GrockBot for trying out new like
libraries and stuff that you're finding.
Did you find these and like did GrockBot
like build something with them?
I've actually been using them for a while.
So I think on all every project I make
Takumi to generate the OG images
and they're almost always dynamic.
So yeah, I've used it for a bunch of stuff.
Nice.
Awesome.
And here's how it works.
Guys I just made a bot called grind
and the bot is going to log in for me
on Thursday arena and play the game.
So if you see me climbing the leaderboard,
you know why?
Because we're about to get so much leaderboard spam.
Yeah, we got to make it like GrockBot compatible
so they can actually play against each other.
So my bot can play against your bot.
Like MCP or something.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Not the scope creeper, you know.
Cool.
Got a bunch of PRs going here.
So where's the Kanban board?
That's the only piece I'm missing.
We don't project manage, we just ship to production.
Really?
Yeah.
We had a Kanban board.
Nice.
I think it kind of devolved a little bit.
Let me see if I can pull it up.
I'm looking for the sticky, sticky notes, the sharpies.
I mean, that's part of the fun of a startup.
It's like, it's just chaos.
It's chaos.
You just can't just ship,
break stuff and ship and move really, really fast.
Yeah, we told our bots to create a to-do list tracker
and turn out to just be a very long list here.
It's a lot of AI notes.
Not sure how helpful this is at the moment,
but we should have it somewhere.
They're very diligent about taking notes, our bot.
There we go.
Oh, wow.
We do have a Kanban board.
It is very long.
I'm glad it's in the non-column though.
It's all just done.
We gotta fill up the up next.
Yeah, if you have a Kanban board, I guess,
it's good to have everything in done.
Yeah, yeah.
True, true.
Cool, we got some bugs that are being picked up here,
hopefully too, that's great.
Actually, another leaderboard we haven't shown
is the contributor graph.
Ooh.
That's a good one.
Yeah, like, who's caught the most commits?
It's 100% you.
Yeah, I have 157.
Wow.
Not bad, not bad.
What's our total PR count right now?
I think we're at 433.
Wow.
Hold this up.
So is PR, yep, from 1, 273?
Yeah, we're gonna definitely clear 300, I think.
Yeah.
One bug that I'm trying to fix
that a lot of people have been reporting is
you keep getting match with AI players,
and that's a really annoying one.
So I have my bots prioritizing that fix.
Yeah, I saw the Slack channel for user feedback,
which is really nice.
Did you see that from there?
Yeah.
Awesome.
I have some bots that are just watching that Slack channel,
and then they're aggregating all the feedback,
and this automatically reproducing,
and fixing, and verifying.
Nice.
How much of how you build Grockbot,
how much of inspiration did it take from that
to apply it to this?
A lot, I think, with building Grockbot,
my setup is more rigorous, I guess,
here because we're in the interest of time.

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checked. Okay, hold the conflict details or leave it parked. Can you just get an
agent to fix 220 so we can fix those merge conflicts? I think that would be
really helpful. And then that first PR you mentioned, can you just go ahead and
merge that? On it. Agent for the 220 conflicts and I'll land 269. Awesome.
Cool. I'll check in back with you in a few minutes. Sounds good. I'll have
updates on both by then. Catch you then. Cool. Well, that was easy. So just
huddle our bots. It's like huddling a teammate, I guess, and getting them on
the horn. That was great. So, okay, we'll get some PRs merged. Maybe we
can all try and voice chat with our guys a little bit here and there. Yeah, that's
really cool. It's a really fun way to work with crock bot. Obviously, that's just
launch today. It's rolling out over the next few days. So if you're excited to
voice chat with your agent, stay tuned for that to make its way to your
account and a shout out to the team at SpaceX AI that got that ready to go
for us to try out today. So thanks, guys. Around the horn. What's
everyone working on? I'm continuing to ship a pilot UI polish things that
I'm finding and bugs. So we have a lot of bugs being recorded. And I have my
bots, bot factory going on, just reproducing, fixing, merging.
Awesome. Yeah, I've been working on some ad stuff. So we're getting an ad
marketplace spun up. And in order to do that, there's some like blob storage
for cell integration work to be done. So right now I'm just working
on the environment variable. Everybody loves blobs. At least on the
rock bottom. Eric, you onboarded. Try to get up to speed with with the
code base and the product and ever how everything works. I think we've got it
going now. So I'm going to focus on polishing the like the fighting
experience and making it look like I need to realize like, you know, card
game and like the animations and making it flash in a way. We desperately
need help with that. Yeah, let me know whatever I should work on. I'm
here here to help. But yeah, looks good so far. I'm excited to see. I
think you should really ship that thing where you can actually pay to
become top of the leaderboard. Okay, yeah, well, we might add just like
not pay to play, but just pay to, I don't know what you call that
cloud pay for cloud. Pay for cloud. Yeah. Pay for cloud is a great
feature and automatic like posting to Twitter as well. Oh, yeah.
There we have it. Speaking of posting to Twitter. So I did work on
this. I'm going to see if this works. Let me just speed through
a battle here. We'll skip. Hey, I win I think. Yep. We added
this new share feature so you can share your share your posts. It
looks like it's prompting the Mac OS system that happened. So
that's going to show my recent contacts. I'm not going to show
that on stream. But there is a share card. We'll get that working
and you can now very soon share your own wins or your losses
if you want to share your losses to you know, no nothing
wrong with defeat once in a while. You can share share on
x or wherever you'd like to post links on the internet. So
set it for that. Nice. Let's take a look at the
leaderboard. I've dropped to 51st place. We have about we're
still holding strong at five diamond players. So we have an
ELO system here that's giving everyone aing a player rating
based on how they're a
good. So I just made one earlier. I tried this before. And this
is what I think should be happening if you guys can see this
in Slack.
Oh, you made the leaderboard. Sorry. Yeah,
that's pretty nice. We can have like the top three leaders
are right with their names. I did something similar before
but you get like showing the top 10 or top 10. Yeah, currently
you can see the top 10. Yeah, you can see the top 10.
It's like, it's similar to Satori if you're familiar, but it's written in Rust, exactly like Satori.
Rust Tension.
Rust is great.
It's actually, I think, Takumi, I love this open source library.
Very good OG image generation service.
How do I spell it?
T-A-K-U-M-I and then type in OG image after that.
Takumi.
Yeah, it's actually, if you go back to the second link there, it's like the lander.
Yeah, so JSX2 images, also look at, I mean, FumaNama getting a huge shout out there.
FumaDocs, another one of my favorite open source repositories.
So, yeah.
Love it.
Good folks.
I'm sorry, Grockbott, for trying out new, like, libraries and stuff that you're finding.
Yeah.
Did you find these and like, did Grockbott like build something?
I've actually been using these for a while.
So I think on all every project I make, it's like, I'm going to use Takumi to generate the OG images and they're almost always dynamic.
So yeah, I've used it for a bunch of stuff.
Nice.
Awesome.
Yeah, we should try it here and see how it works.
Guys, I just made a bot called Grind and the bot can log in for me on Thursday Arena and play the game.
So if you see me climbing the leaderboard, you know why.
This is because we're about to get so much leaderboard spam.
Yeah, we got to make it like, Grockbott compatible so they can actually play against each other.
Yeah.
So my bot can play against your bot.
Like MCP or something?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Not to scope creep, but you know.
Cool.
Got a bunch of PRs going here.
So where's the Kanban board?
That's the only piece I'm going to say.
We don't project manage.
We just ship to production.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
We had a Kanban board.
Nice.
I think it kind of devolved a little bit.
Yeah.
Let me see if I can pull it up.
I'm looking for the sticky sticky notes, sharpies, know.
I mean, that's part of the fun of a startup.
You know, it's like, it's just chaos.
It's chaos.
You just can't just ship.
Yeah.
Break stuff and ship and move really, really fast.
Yeah.
We've been, we told our bot to create a to-do list tracker and it turned out to just
be a very long list here.
It's a lot, a lot of AI notes.
Not sure how helpful this is at the moment, but we should have it somewhere.
They're very diligent about taking notes.
Our bot, there we go.
Wow.
This, we do have a Kanban board.
It is very long.
I'm glad it's in the done column though.
It's all just done.
We gotta fill up the up next.
Yeah.
If you have a Kanban board, I guess, good to have everything in done.
Yeah.
True.
True.
Cool.
We got some bugs that are being picked up here hopefully too.
That's great.
Actually, another leaderboard we haven't shown us the contributor graph.
That's a good one.
We just got the most commit.
It's 100% you.
Yeah, I have 157.
Wow.
Not bad, not bad.
What's our total PR count right now?
I think we're at 433.
Wow.
Hold us up.
So our, yep, from 1, 273.
Yeah, we're going to definitely clear 300, I think.
Yeah.
One bug that I'm trying to fix, a lot of people have been reporting is
you keep getting match with AI players and that's a really important one.
So I have my bots prioritizing that fix.
Yeah.
I saw the Slack channel for the feedback, which is really nice.
Did you see that from there?
Yeah.
Awesome.
I have some bots that are just watching that Slack channel and then
we're aggregating all the feedback.
And this automatically reproducing and fixing and verifying.
Nice.
So how much of like how you build GROCKBOT, how much of inspiration
did it take from that to like apply to this?
A lot.
I think with like building GROCKBOT, my setup is like more rigorous,
I guess here because we're in the interest of time,
not be that rigorous.
So I'm like merging things a lot faster than I would be.
But in the GROCKBOT code base, for example,
you can leave a link to the code base and then you can
use that as a base for a GROCKBOT.
So here, the GROCKBOT code base is like a base for a GROCKBOT.
And you can use that as a base for a GROCKBOT.
And that's a really important part of this.
So I'm going to go ahead and start with the GROCKBOT.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
So I'm going to go back to the GROCKBOT.
So I'm going to go ahead and start with GROCKBOT.
Yeah.
why are they bad. But what
I found was that agents were using comments as a way to just justify some workaround or a hack,
like a band-aid.
and they never really fixed the root cause. And I think over time you just get you end up with these
files that are just full of band-aids and it becomes very very brittle. So I banned them
in the graph code base. Here I haven't. Although potato mode does come with some skills,
there's a skill called no comments. And that spawns this really fun agent called the comments
sickle who like says yes haha yes and then goes off and deletes a bunch of kinds.
So I think we're actually pretty good with the no comments in our code base. But yeah,
that's kind of my great that's really interesting like how like by removing the
band-aid like you're forcing them all not get a wound. And like actually do it right
the first time or like you're gonna punish it in some way like or reward it by like
doing the right thing. Yeah, I haven't really looked at a code here yet,
but I'm kind of curious to see like big pile of slob. I'm curious, I guess,
Eric, in your own development, what is your workflow? Do you use gotbot for coding much?
I do. It's so interesting. Like I thought about this the other day, like
before I joined cursor, I wrote this article like how I'm using cursor. And the main piece was
like how I'm using tab and like the composter mode in the old cursor. And this was like pre-agent.
And like going from that agent and then like abstracting all the like the prompting myself
to now like using grok bot. So like I started in grok bot all the time. And then I try to like
scope out the project and like get all the context and like align on what we're gonna do.
And then I'll just have it send a bunch of cloud agents to build the thing.
And eventually like I might want to look at the code. So I pull it locally and then
I open cursor and go through it all, see how it works. And if I'm fine, I just like
go back to grok bot and just like keep prompting from there. So it's like very much abstracted
compared to what it used to be. And like relying heavily on like reproducing things and computer
use and like just doing all the hard work and like ironing out all the bugs before I'm taking
a look at it. So I don't really need to spend that much time to look at the code and just
like, I don't want to look at the code if it actually works the way I want.
But it's nice. It's, I guess we're all like trial and erroring. I remember when grok bot
came out, I had like one bot. And then like all of a sudden, oh, I want this use case too. So
like you create another bot. And then you just like keep on going like that. And that's
eventually like how I discovered that I built this project manager bot to like create separate
rooms and channels for different projects I have and like spawn ephemeral bots for the
specific use case. Maybe it's like a researcher or a coder or whatever it might be. And it's actually
using a Kanban board, which makes it easy for me to go into Notion. And I can see like the status
on different tasks and different projects. And like, usually when it's blocked, it's because
of a human somewhere. And I can have like the bots, you know, like, check if we're unlocked
or if there's anything else we can do like in it. That's awesome. If you want this spot
that Eric just described, it is in our marketplace. You can just go to this URL,
grab the bot, hit import, it'll bring you a copy of it. So that should ask you to do
some setup and should be good. You know, it's cool. Every single one of the bots in
Thursday arena is actually built from that marketplace. So there's your bot.
Hey, look at that in game. It's uncommon too. Yeah, good role. Nice.
It gives the front most friend plus two attack. Not bad. I'll take it.
How do I play with it? How do I actually use it? Do I need to buy it?
No. So if you play a game, basically you get like, so when you start, you get this,
you're here, you're like building your deck. And then you have a shop where you can buy
cards. And so then it's like randomly selected from our available cards.
Then you build your deck by buying them. So if you scroll up, Roshan, you'll notice the
yellow button is now tokens. We call it tokens now. So you get 10 tokens. Each bot costs like
three tokens for the common ones. And like what Roshan did, he just built his deck.
And then you move your cards around based on the effect they have and the stats they have.
And so you can sort of strategize. Like for example, this is super strong, right? Because I would get,
this would turn into a three, seven at the beginning of combat. Yeah. And then you have like
office ops desk bot, which whenever it's hurt from the front, I guess it restores one health,
which is really powerful. So yeah, maybe you want to put that at the front. But the strategy
comes from, yeah, like the order, you know, choosing the cards, which cards you sell,
you also get power ups. Like there's an apple that you can buy. Yeah, I believe I actually added
a potato special. I saw the video. Yeah, really good. So that gives your the kind of powers up
your bot. And then you use your deck to fight, fight around. And then we fix the AI issue.
That's great. Now, I'm longer seeing that it's an excellent one of the most reported bugs.
Okay, so now I'm in round two. So here, okay, now you're getting the
you can get Eric's card, though. I love the shiny deal three damage to the last living
enemy deal one damage to the last living enemy. Shout out later, Chinsky.
I kind of like this three damage to the last living enemies a lot if I start them in the back.
So I'm going to get rid of this guy. Oh, and you can drag them into the slots. That's
so nice. Yeah, I just added that. That's a great feature. And then, you know,
I can afford an apple, right? Yeah, I have seven tokens left. So I'm gonna,
actually, how much are these four? So if I sell this for the cell cost is one, right? Yeah,
you get one. Okay, so if I sell this, I'll be at eight. So I think I should do that. I'm going
to sell this guy, grab this, swap these. Oh, that's quite can sell now too. And then
I'm going to get an apple plus one attack and plus one health for six. Okay, I like this
line a lot. I think it's good to kind of remind chat is that when we first launched
Thursday arena, it was so bad. It's not perfect. It was really bad. The UI was horrible.
I think we sort of almost intentionally wanted to ship. Like, well, I didn't, I don't think
we want to ship bugs, but we did want to ship really fast. The cool thing about building
a game studio I think is, is the iteration loop. So setting up our factory with graphot
really helps us iterate fast and, you know, get to like a really good game. And then maybe we
can take our learnings and build more games in the future, much faster and much higher quality.
So I'm going to win this one guys. Yeah. Yeah, that's a cool part. Like,
everything is like prompted, which means we have all the transcripts of all the agents,
like human prompts and eight responses. And we have the game data. So we could like theoretically
just look at all the prompts and like replicate this into like a game studio bot. And that would
like help us create more games based on the learnings we've made, like creating a lot of the
websites and the brands and the product decisions, what works, what doesn't and the style of
the game. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. Good climbing. I'm climbing 39. Although I think there might
be a bug here where it says four wins, zero losses. But then if I go into my bass games,
did you hard code that? What's that? Did you hard code like zero losses? Well, I mean,
you can't lose. It's good to use voice code to file that bug and fix it. Let's try. Let's try.
So I'm going to go into graph bot. Where's my engineer?
As the production mic again, please. We're going live. We're going to
go live. Thank you. Hey, are you there? Yes. Hey, are you there? Did you mute your sound?
We'll try it again. I think we confused. Hey, Bake, are you there?
Here, cupcake bug fixes sticking by. What's on your mind? Hey, so I think I found on the
leaderboard look at a player's win loss numbers in the bottom right of their card.
It doesn't match what you see when you click in. So if you look at me on the leaderboard,
Roshan underscore S, R-O-S-H-A-N underscore S. When you see the leaderboard, it says four
wins and zero losses. But when you click into my name, it shows actually one loss.
Can you spin up a cloud agent using potato mode to investigate and fix that issue?
Also, by the way, can you tell us if it was true? Roshan underscore S.
And I don't know if you heard my colleague over here, but can you also tell us a joke?
Sure. A SQL query walks into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks, can I join you?
No, it's terrible. No more jokes from you.
We'll need to work on that one.
That's how you know these bots are serious. Thank you, Peach.
Yeah, okay, so we got our voice chats. And there you go. And yeah, we didn't show this
before, but you can actually dig in here and see a transcript of the voice chat. Joke was
but call was a plus. And this actually goes back to our team. So we'll see what they do with that one.
Okay. Fixed bugs. Got agents running.
All right, my cheater bot is grinding for me.
Okay, we'll see if it's actually making a difference on the leaderboard.
Very low is up one point.
Yeah, I went up one point. I'm doing really bad. My rank is one, three, two, two out of 1800.
Ooh, that's rough. Yeah, I couldn't command that. It doesn't work.
Yeah, I'm not even on the front page.
We have 1,819 players though. That's pretty cool.
I set it up so my cheater bot will actually learn from the game
as it plays and we'll see how it does. Maybe I can climb the leaderboard.
We'll see. We'll see. It's your name for the for your bot.
Oh, it's just my account.
Yeah, of course. I could create an account for it, but I'm trying to make myself look good, you know.
That's fair. All right, Matt, you got to tell us about this ad bidding thing going on here.
Yeah, so this is, I'm working on fixing some errors and actually simplifying this,
but, you know, forever, this is a business. We have to monetize it somehow.
So we're going to do that through ads because everybody loves ads.
We all need more ads in our life.
100%.
Yeah, exactly. You know, sometimes I'll just,
I'll open Spotify just to hear the ads.
Oh, yeah?
Like, I don't even listen to the music.
Who hurt you?
That's a great question.
But so we're going to allow our users to buy ads.
We have like a bidding marketplace, which is currently broken.
So if you try to submit this, nothing will happen.
Once I merge PR that is currently in flight, you'll be able to bid ads on ads for the platform.
Where are you thinking we'll show that?
We can put them wherever you want.
Oh, yeah.
Interesting.
Maybe like the ticker.
An ad ticker would be good.
And then also working on Eric's sort of like pay to be at the top of the leaderboard idea.
Nice. All right, I got another idea for you.
What if you can submit a prompt and you pay for that?
And that will like make its way into the product.
So you can like purchase a feature.
My mind automatically goes to like some sort of prompts.
I will figure it out.
I'm already heavily moderating all user inputs to this.
So our feedback submissions, I think we can moderate that pretty easily.
So yeah, I'm down for it.
One thing I was thinking of when you mentioned the ticker is we have this ticker.
You could pay to be like a special like a blue color on the ticker.
Now it's all kind of generic so we could add some visual pop there.
That would be kind of fun.
I think this is actually one of my favorite features though is seeing the ticker down here
and just being able to see who's doing what.
Yeah, it's a good ad spot.
Yeah, we could do that.
Buy ads on the ticker.
Nice.
CNBC style.
Yeah, I should have this PR to fix the ads again.
So can you walk me through the phone number that's on the screen now?
Yeah.
Like how does that work?
So it uses an XAI voice agent.
So I actually, you know, I hadn't played around with this at all,
but it's very easy.
There's like a custom voice agent builder on XAI.
And so all I did was hook up a couple tools.
So like it can search the web technically,
but it's more just feedback.
Slap on a bunch of guardrails.
Like, hey, if the person starts trying to like, you know, get weird,
or like do any sort of prompting stuff, just hang up.
If they start getting angry, like hang up.
And you can kind of see some people are submitting phone calls there.
Hmm, nice.
And it flows through to our feedback channel.
Here's some phone chat.
You're always not changing.
Okay, it looks like people are,
there's a lot of feedback on the ELO system.
Yeah, we need to fix that one.
You know, one thing I think our agents are connected to Slack.
One of the cool things about this, we could just ask our guy here.
Actually, I can show something on this.
You want to cut over to Matt's screen on the production side?
I've basically, this is something Lauren was doing as well.
So I told my chief of staff bot here, make a cupcake feedback fixer.
So our original code name was cupcake, right?
But now it's listening to the cupcake feedback channel.
So we have our Slack channel where feedback is coming through.
And so as this comes in, this bot is just spinning up fixes.
So Lauren just called it the ELO feed, like AI matchmaking rated play.
So it opened a cursor cloud agent that is now addressing that fix.
So then I can come through here and start reviewing some of these PRs as they get spun up.
Nice.
So pure unreviewed, just user submitted fixes going in.
Full send.
Full send.
What can I say?
Full send.
So you're using the cursor projects here?
Yeah, I am using projects.
And this was something Lauren recommended because I hadn't used them before now.
So I was like, oh, like, this is probably a good time for me to try it out.
And you can kind of think about projects or at least I do,
similar to the way that, you know, you can have like a chief of staff crock pot
where you just like drop a bunch of stuff in here.
And so projects are basically like long lived ways for organizing work.
So if I was like working on something specific, maybe I was doing like a UI refresh,
I could make a new project.
And the project is like a master chat.
So you can see here, I was chatting about this ads product.
And the project basically kicks out separate work as sub agents.
And then you can have this like durable long live session where you're just chatting
about like one topic or many topics actually and using sub agents to fix those.
So like at a meta point, the same way I would be like, oh,
I'm going to create a new sub agent here on this project to address an issue.
Now you can just chat with a project that's able to kick off those sub agents
that are working on things for you.
So yeah, that's how I've been using it.
And, you know, the projects team, if you're thinking, oh, well, like,
how much stuff could I chat with at the same time before the model gets degraded?
The projects team has assured us that you can have thousands of chats over months.
And we have some magic going on under the hood to maintain this,
maintain this context.
I've really only heard good things and I've yet to try it out.
So that's, that's where I'm using it now.
Do you use projects Eric?
Um, I dabbled briefly.
Briefly remember like three, four weeks ago,
barely shaved it like an internal alpha.
That's what I use it August but I kind ofmovig to Rockbot for coding.
Honestly.
Just like consoling all the cloud agents in a single and an bot is kind of nice.
Do that as well.
Like, here, but I'll have like a loop spot which is essentially my engineering bot.
And I'll kick out tasks and using laurel pattern of like chief of staff
to engineering bots that then can delegate themselves.
So I also have my like my grind bot here that I have to set up so I'm behind
Lauren on the grind. So it's your loops like your loop spot is it instructed to
like verify the work it's doing as well and like kick it off and call it in.
Yeah so it uses a mix of like the of potato mode and then and verification
stuff so it's like every time I send through things I want to see it
verified. I use the same pattern for the basically I shared this would be
cool I guess the I share this a couple days ago on Twitter I think honestly
since I've been in the streaming booth time is like it's like but yeah I shared
this this flow which finds cool demos and then builds them and kicks off a
cloudflare preview deploy and those get screen-shotted for me as well. So you
can really use the grok bot like screenshot functionality and cursor
cloud agent screenshot functionality like prototypes and really cool stuff and
like verify work and that's part of a good loop is this verification right
something Lauren's been talking about a lot so. Honestly you should create a new
bot that just posts all these explorations that is there with the
screenshots videos on Twitter. Yeah I feel like I'm a little apprehensive to
have anything like go on Twitter without me. That is fair that is fair nice
awesome. Pay for cloud PR is up. How does that work? A weekly ads auction for a
pin paid row on the leaderboard. Oh merged already. I just merged it. Why not?
No regrets. I guess we can see it live. You can see it live in about two minutes.
Oh we have a new first place player on the leaderboard not a bot is at the
top of our leaderboard now. 29 wins three losses congratulations. Alright let's see.
Maybe we have the cloud or cloud. I don't know what happened to my bidding. Well while
Matthew bugs that I'll just do a quick reset so we can catch up to to where we
are we've been kind of hanging out for the last man it feels like 30 minutes
45 minutes now we are on day three of our live stream 72 hour live stream here
of building a business with Brock bot we are building a game studio we have
launched our first game it is called Thursday arena you can check it out at
Thursday arena calm and find us on X at Thursday arena and you're kind of seeing
Matt walk through some changes he's making the website real time you're
seeing me break our website in real time which is awesome we are joined
by Eric who's on the SpaceX AI team for this last few hours of the stream we're
all working on some features and polish improvements we have man I don't know how
many grok bots now I think we had a grok bot overlay I don't know where that went
but we have something like 40 50 60 something like that grok bots that we're
using across across all of us to get all this work done we've made over 200
PRs I just opened one and it's PR number 274 I think so we're gonna
cross 300 number pretty soon we have a leaderboard we're adding features
we're adding modernization a lot of good stuff going on we're gonna try
to sort of get to a really've been tuning in throughout the three days we're
live here in San Francisco right next to Dreamforce spending some time cutting
between talks on the main stage right downstairs us up here in the studio
booth and hopefully you've enjoyed hanging out we are gonna cut to a 10
minute break just to kind of do a quick be right back and get give us a
chance to take a little second so we will cut to a 10 minute break see you guys
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Welcome back, everyone, to the Grock Bot galaxy live stream.
We are on day three, the final hours, the final minutes,
some might say, of building a business from scratch
with Grock Bots.
For those of you who have been with us this entire journey,
thank you so much.
It's been a ton of fun.
We are kind of trying to get to a point where we wrap up
and finish really strong in the next few minutes here.
But I think are we doing a promo first?
Is that what I heard?
We're doing a promo first?
OK, give me a second here.
So let me get this going on my screen.
We know a lot of you have been patiently hanging out
with us all day.
And so if we can get my screen up on the screen.
And this is for the real ones, for the real, real ones,
for the homies, just going out to y'all.
Yes, you're still watching the stream.
It's day on day three at 4 PM, PST.
We appreciate it.
What do you get?
What do the homies get?
Well, I'm just reading off the thing here, right?
So within the next five minutes,
if the homies post credits in the chat,
that's not a Twitter comment.
This is specifically the chat for the live stream.
That's not like a X post.
It's a chat in the live stream.
You post credits in the live stream chat.
You receive GROCKBOT credits by the end of the day, $200
in value.
Amazing.
Did I say that right?
Am I coherent here?
I think that's what it says.
That's right.
You post credits in the chat, live stream chat.
$200 of GROCKBOT credits by the end of the day.
Limited time offer, five minutes.
So if you want credits, now's your chance.
Get it while it's hot.
Get it while it's hot.
I would recommend.
I would recommend.
And really, if you haven't tried out GROCKBOT by now,
I mean, we don't know what you're doing here.
Give it a shot.
Like, you can actually build a company with this thing.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Cool.
Thanks to all the real ones.
Dang, the chat is blowing up right now.
Nice.
Nice.
OK.
We can kill my screen for a bit
so I can switch over to some more serious stuff.
But credits.
This has been great.
Credits.
Credits are great.
I think it might help.
Maybe like, let's do a quick check-in
of what everyone's been working on.
We just took a quick 10 minute break.
I saw a lot of agents and bots hanging out in the background.
Anyone have anything fun they want to share?
A lot of agents.
So I've been working on more animations
for the actual card-defining scene.
I showed Matt just now.
I don't have a screen connection, but I'll put up a PR.
And you can judge for yourself to see if it's actually
improvement.
If not, don't remember.
Just keep it.
We can cut to my screen in the meantime.
And then when Eric gets his PR up, we can run through it.
And I can show you what I got cooking here.
So my screen, when production gets a moment,
I've been iterating on the flow I built in Grockbot.
So earlier, we talked about how we'd set up a feedback
slack channel.
And so now we have all this feedback coming in, bug
or bad design design like that.
That's just like a little neg for us live.
And so we're getting all of this feedback.
And what I did was I built a Grockbot that
watches the feedback channel.
And then basically dedupts the feedback.
So they come down here.
It's nosing duplicates and then kicking off cursor cloud agents
to start fixing the feedback.
So this is kind of part of Lauren's factory
that she built here.
So you can see here, recent ones are not updating
or showing when the user views pass matches.
Pass matches look static.
Match history UI appears stale.
And so there's repro, which we have because Lauren set up
some cool repro sort of skills and a goal.
And so we also have related in-flight work.
And you can see it appears to have fixed the issue
with some tests that are confirmed.
And I have this just set to YOLO.
So it's just merging stuff in.
So we have our little like user feedback software factory.
I guess I should close my PR that's doing the same thing.
So good to know, good to know.
Already merged, already merged, dude.
And then concurrently, I'm also just like our ads
bid stuff is completely broken.
So I'm working on some fixes to that
with some new ad placements as well.
So we got, I think we're,
I have honestly no idea where these ads are gonna go.
They can just be all those.
But it's something we can figure out in a little bit.
I love that.
But the idea is that, you know,
you'll be able to like buy an ad
and you can see the auction is currently broken,
which we need to work on.
And eventually that ad will live in either ticker
or you'll be able to sort of buy your way
to the top of the leaderboard here.
You can see I'm in the bottom 5% of players.
P99.
P95, we're down there.
Hey, at least you got a rank.
I don't.
You're in the arena.
Now you have the, so now we have our bid
for the bottom spot.
I actually don't know if this works.
So I actually placed a bid, I placed a $1 bid.
And now I think maybe there's a,
I actually don't know exactly how this works,
but we should have that bid
and show at the top of the leaderboard.
And I think we might want to have like three places here.
Take the top spot.
All right, so we'll get on that one.
We cut over to my screen real quick.
I've also been playing with different card designs.
So hopefully a little bit more visual.
I kind of like number three as a bit pixelated,
but number three looks pretty good.
It's like more full screen, I guess, within the card.
Yeah.
Will be easier to read.
We got a few card templates generated,
but I think so far number three is my favorite.
I can imagine some nice follow effects on this,
like on hover.
And then I also have my chief of staff, Steve.
And I basically told it to, as we're wrapping up the day,
go watch our live stream, look for clips,
look for tweets, interesting ones,
and just draw like a recap poster in TL draw.
So it's still working on it.
It's got three boxes so far.
I'm curious what it will come up with.
But yeah, you can always,
one nice thing about Grappa is you can jump in,
look at the browser, see what your bots are doing.
And then, of course, I have my cheater bot,
who is somehow making my score go down instead of up.
Wait, when it started, what was it at when you started?
When I started, I think we were at...
You were at 987.
I was at 986.
And now I am at 956.
I'd actually like to just point out that you're below me
on the leaderboard.
So this bot needs some, what do you call it,
disciplines from Dr. Eggbot.
I did actually add a rules endpoint.
So if you go to thursdayorated.com slash rules,
maybe you tell your bot to look at the rules and that can help.
I just saw that and I was like, wow,
we made it to the end of the stream
and we finally have a tutorial for how to play.
It only took us until 4 p.m. on the third day.
Also, what you might notice,
if you open that on the stream,
it's now agent friendly.
So I guess the agent has to be off,
but rules.md renders and we have a LLM's text.
So...
Oh yeah, if you want to pull up it, there we go.
We're AEO friendly.
And if you search,
if you go into Google and you search Thursday Arena,
yeah, I mean, you could also do Thursday Space Arena.
We are now the first results.
Nice, good job.
We have our AEO SEO.
You didn't pay any money to do that.
So we're in business.
Wow, whoever did the SEO,
free browser auto battle is pretty good.
I mean, it was a cursor auto selection.
I'm gonna test my bot.
And if you're tuning in,
we have some free credits to give out.
Just type credits in the X chat.
Is that over already?
Actually, I think it's over.
I think it's over soon.
And I did one minute ago.
Dang.
No, if you got it.
Production is waving us off.
Thank you for bringing a real one.
Nice.
I'm creating a new bot
and I'm saying,
read this and learn how to win.
Because I finally got my first PR up.
All right.
I think, I think it's gonna be a mega PR.
Let me tell you about that.
Let's see here.
Most likely gonna be some merge context too.
I mean, I've just merged like six PRs.
Are you just force pushing?
No, I set up the auto bug fixer
to like use Lauren's YOLO mode or whatever.
Just...
Well, then you have to say
slash potato mode, full autopilot.
Yeah, it's like the magic red.
Okay.
These are just merging and disappearing.
So I guess it's working.
How's your bot doing with our three-day recap?
The drawings.
Not that great.
Yeah.
I don't think we should see that.
13 PRs, no ICP.
Yeah.
It's kind of roasting us right now.
It's roasting us.
So I guess it's a, well...
Ooh, some weird...
Day one, I think we were trying to think
about like a real person in IRL business
and we, after interviewing some of our guests,
we realized how difficult that endeavor would be.
So we pivoted on the second day
to working on a game studio instead.
And then on the third day, we actually shipped it.
And look, 4.5K games.
Wow.
So, Graf was actually doing all the research.
I didn't really tell it any of these numbers.
I just told it, go look us up on X
and figure out the details.
And it's drawing pictures for me on TL draw.
Pretty fun.
That's cool.
So, okay, we have a core game.
I think we have a bunch of polish going into it.
We have a billboard ad slot.
We have a leaderboard ad slot.
So we've got a couple of monetization opportunities
for folks to kind of get their brand out there,
get their name out there, which is really great.
We fixed some bugs.
So we had some bugs around win-loss ratios
that are now fixed, should be fixed.
We have a whole system that's taking feedback.
It's coming in through the app.
We have phone feedback.
We have text feedback.
Man, I'm trying to think of what else we want to do
to sort of feel like we've gone to a good spot today.
I have not had a good win streak lately.
Yeah, me neither.
I'm ranked 82nd.
Okay, I feel like if I end the day in the top 100,
we're literally at the bottom,
I'm at the bottom 5% of players.
Yeah, we need to learn how to play our own game.
Cool, cool, cool.
We do have now, it looks like
we're down to three diamond players,
although we have had some feedback around Elo,
and so we'll double check on the Elo logic.
I think there might be something going on there,
or at least hopefully maybe a quick fix.
There we go, three diamond players.
Ari, the monk has been leading all day.
Looks like we've got a couple of fixes coming in.
Checking on bots here.
All right, I gotta get a ride access to repository.
You had Eric on ride access.
I think, I guess, I guess.
Yeah, maybe.
Eric has to make PRs, the rest of us don't.
The handwritten code.
Yeah, let me log in on GitHub here.
Let's not show my screens and come up.
Cool, you need my username?
You got it?
I'll send you a slack message.
Yeah, sounds good.
Let's do that.
Okay.
Okay, so we have Eric Bush permissions.
It's gonna be good.
Fabulators and teams.
I love that you've set up the Slack channels,
like the marketing, the socials,
the metrics, bug reports, ad bids.
Yeah, once we have the ad bids live,
they should come through in there,
but it's currently not doing so.
Nice.
I think one thing I am sort of reflecting on,
as we built this, our very first game
is there's so many different aspects
of running our games through you,
or I guess if we're even generalizing,
running a business, starting a startup,
takes really a lot of effort.
You have to spend a lot of time building the product,
doing engineering work.
You have to think about,
you have to validate your ideas,
you have to do GTM, go to market.
You have to think about monetization.
There's all these different things
that you have to consider for building a product,
and not just that, but also all the work
that goes into maintaining a product,
getting feedback and whatnot.
So I think I'm curious about what you all think about,
right now we have a game studio,
but if we were to start a new business,
how would you think about approaching it differently
or whatever based on what we've learned
during this experience?
Yeah, so I think my learnings off the top
were, number one, once we aligned on an idea
that we're all excited about
and just started shipping an MVP,
things started moving a lot faster.
They were kind of like deliberating an idea
and candidly, right?
We had distribution
because we had a lot of people watching our stream.
So it's easy to get people to try our product.
I think the hardest part is usually getting people to care
or building something that people care about.
For example, would anyone have played this game
had we not been on a live stream?
I do not think so.
I don't think so.
So the hardest part is getting people to care,
aligning on an idea that resonates with people.
And I really do think it is kind of like the idea,
like when we announced we were doing this live stream,
we got such a magnetic,
such a resounding response.
It's kind of like, if you get an idea
that gets people really excited,
then you have the beginnings of something
that you can then create a business from, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I think what was interesting to me
is we had a bunch of talks throughout the last few days
where we heard from people who are using Gropbox,
SpaceX and employees were using Gropbox in many fun ways.
And at first I kind of thought a lot of that stuff
wouldn't generalize to what we did.
Like, you know, there's a lot of,
well, you know, working at a big company,
but it turns out a lot of the stuff was pretty relevant.
So like, you know, the chats we had earlier today,
chatting with Matt who works on our revenue operations team
about how you go build a growth playbook.
Like we came up with a pretty good plan,
but some really good ideas, right?
Like anytime someone follows us on X,
we should send them a DM
and let them know they should try the game.
You know, there's a lot of like really rich ideas here
and then some partnership models
where we can go talk to companies that host games
or distributors or games
so that we can get featured on those lists
or in those places.
And I think it's kind of a standard business playbook
in a lot of ways, right?
Like you sort of can run a general business playbook.
You need sales, you need partnerships,
you need, you know, revenue operations.
And that probably looks and feels different
when you're a small zero in company.
Like maybe that's all one role
instead of like three different roles.
But one thing that I've really appreciated is that
there's a lot more work that goes into this
than you might expect.
And there's a lot of like small things to get right.
And, you know, I think, yeah,
just kind of learning those lessons
and being able to experience them was really cool.
Yeah, it's kind of interesting.
You have to go out as a human
and like discover all the problems organically.
And once you like figure it out how to solve them,
you can actually like turn them into a bot
and just like keep them running forever.
And eventually like that's,
those bots are gonna grow by a lot.
But yeah, it's an interesting like paradigm
to create a company with Grock bots.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and I mean, good.
Sorry, can we, production team,
can we take my screen off?
Yeah, I think the thing I'm also reflecting on
is like, you know, for me
in the process of building a game in a game studio,
a lot of the, you know, even though our first product,
our first game isn't really that good.
I still keep coming back to this idea that
optimizing and thinking about your workflow, right?
Like how you actually get work done
is so powerful when you have Grock bot
by your side and automating and doing things
because, you know, we can, again, take the learnings,
you reiterate fast and ship the next,
ship the next game or ship the next application.
I think a lot about building product
is not just the initial splashy launch,
but also how you keep improving it as you.
Getting the flywheel.
Getting the flywheel.
Right.
And also exercising some restraint, right?
With AI, you can literally build anything you want.
So you can have products that just have a million features
and they're not any good, right?
And so there's this, there's almost like this discipline
that we now have to have, right?
When there's an abundance of intelligence
and ability to build to do that.
One of the things we talk a lot about internally
is what are we gonna unshift?
And just having this constant mentality
that there's stuff you should remove from the product
to simplify it, make it easier.
And I think we did a decent job of that, right?
We didn't feature bloat.
We came in with a lot of feature ideas.
I'm thinking back to yesterday
when we had our initial whiteboard.
We had these really complicated stat blocks
for each character.
We had a whole plan to add different battle fields.
And I think what really,
at least let us get this out today
was making sure we pared that down a little bit
and really just focused on the core loop.
And that went through its own iterations,
but I think that actually made a really big difference
to getting something launched.
And then also something that we think
ended up looking pretty good in the end.
So, yeah.
One final question, like, if you,
if somewhere to ask you like,
I wanna build a company with Crock-Bot,
what are like the top three things you would tell them?
It helps to like know exactly what you're doing.
Like, okay, so here's a good example.
We talked to a guest yesterday.
I can't remember exactly what you guessed.
So maybe when you open help me.
And they were like,
oh, you guys wanna do an event pop up?
And then they just rattled off like 10 things
that I'd never thought about doing an event pop before, right?
Like permitting, catering,
what it means to serve hot food versus cold food
if you need a kitchen.
And I was just like, oh, like, that's all stuff
I've never thought about
because I've never actually done it.
And so a large part of like,
as it turns out, like doing something
is actually maybe unintuitively actually just doing it.
And then figuring out like,
oh, I'm not good at this thing
and I need to learn these things.
That's like what makes a professional
and someone that like does a business well
is like, you know exactly what you're doing.
So if you're gonna build a business with Crock-Bot,
like build a business around something
you already know how to do well.
And then that makes it a lot easier
versus someone that comes in and says,
oh, I'm just gonna like make a bunch of money, you know?
And as it turns out,
you don't just like make a bunch of money
without doing anything.
You're telling me you can prompt the models
to like make a billion dollars?
Make a mistake?
No mistakes.
I have an age of running when we started this game
and I still have zero dollars.
That was our backup plan.
Like in case it's all crash and burst.
I guess one thing that I would say to your question
is I think there's just a lot of wisdom in the world.
Like we're really lucky to have a bunch of guests
as Matt called out
that kinda helped steer us throughout these three days.
But a lot of the bots we created to go learn things
like we have game designer bots
who learned how to do game design
by just learning from the best games.
And one of the things that maybe I undervalued
before this was you can give the bots lots of context, right?
You can sort of teach them
all the things they need to know.
We had someone earlier on the stream
talking about how whenever they're entering
into a new discipline,
they tell the bot to go take a bunch of courses
on the internet.
And I never really thought of that idea
but you sort of think of these bots
because they sort of learn and evolve over time,
you can kind of encourage them to learn the things
you want them to learn.
And so maybe another angle to what Matt said
is create bots that help cover the things you don't know.
So if you don't really know
how maybe hot food versus cold food works,
if we had stuck with that idea,
we could have probably tried to get a bunch of bots
learning as much as they could about that
and maybe giving us some advice.
And so I think my big thing would be
like don't be afraid to assemble
a really varied team of bots
and kind of think of them
the way you think of like hiring a group of employees.
I think for me actually,
obviously this is a Grot Bot live stream
but actually the thing I think is even more valuable
in the era of agents is actually the people
that you work with, right?
And I actually saw this tweet on our posts on X recently.
I can't recall exactly what the post was
but it was something along the lines of,
every team needs basically two different types of people.
One is someone who has a clear vision,
a clear understanding of what it is that you wanna build
and a lot of good taste and good judgment
of what should go into the product.
And then the other person you need
is someone who is like relentless at making things happen
and even better when you can find someone who can do both.
And I think that's a distinctly like human role
that we'll continue to play even as models get
more and more capable.
And yeah, I think it's been a real blast
working with all of you and kind of learning this stuff.
Yeah, I agree.
All right, let's bring it over to my screen
and try to see if we can bring this all home.
What I'd like to do is two things.
One is I wanna go over our final metrics.
It's not the end of the day
until we've seen how we did on the number.
So I just asked data, our data bot here
to pull our metrics as to where we are.
It's as of just after halfway past 4 p.m. on Thursday.
It looks like we have crossed the 4,000 game threshold
after we crossed the over 6,000 game public match threshold.
This chart is the one, there we go.
We got our 4 p.m. bump that we're hoping for.
X signups will continue to come in throughout the day,
but looks like we got a nice little bump
in the afternoon here.
So thank you all.
All who are signing up.
Looks like still people coming in and joining.
Tons of players on the stream too.
Our cumulative user graph will probably cross 2,000,
I hope, right before we wrap up here in the next few minutes.
I actually, I brought down prod.
So we're working on this classic.
It has to be done.
I'm over here talking about signups.
I'm over here talking about restraint
as I have a software factory that just totally brought down
prod with a bad sequel query.
So we'll see which-we'll see which plan we like better
we'll see which plan we like better
so we'll see which plan we like better
we'll all
At the end of the day, I think this was never really
about building a game.
It wasn't even about building a game studio.
Although yeah, that's what we were doing.
We really just wanted to bring away to show you all
how the graph bot for all the stuff that you do
out some clips and all that from the stuff we found.

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most useful after the fact so stay tuned and follow at bot to see some of those at grok of course
and then maybe keep an eye on our rx page too maybe see some updates to the app but let's do a
quick recap so we started out building a marketplace for bot templates we've talked about the x.ai slash
bot slash marketplace template we want to do something with those bots and bring them and
bring some joy into those bots besides just the templates they are we started out with an
auto battler concept we had all these ideas for role of on ties later we won't do cosmetics you
might have some ads in the stadiums we'll add some replay mechanics it turned out as we paired
down our idea more and more we picked some of those that we wanted to keep like the ads we threw
away some of the other ones like the cosmetics who we aligned in a core game mechanic we got rid
of this mechanic which was this rock paper scissors idea we had we paired it down even more to focus
on a pure auto battle mechanic and we really came to build a really great edge factory and I
think this was maybe the defining feature I think of our last 24 hours where we have chief bots fix
looping in a team of other bots testing fixing prs auto approving prs once bugs are fixed
and then landing to mash main fun joke Lauren do you want to explain this one I actually
I think I think what happened is doctor and I think I think I think you, I think I think I think I'm going to
come up with like food theme names and like specifically potato theme names
and somehow one of them snuck in I think into notion yes, a task that every merge of a pull
request should be called a mash so that's the fun trivia and it is happening to this day
there are if you look at this there are pushes and there are matches and my chief now only and
matching prs so yeah you can have fun with it too right you can you can invent your own language
language you have to mash prs and squash potatoes
or we've been cooking as
a deployment and strike for other things it's been really cool just to be able to I
think we we have done a few of those as well so hopefully that kept y'all engaged and gave you a
chance to hang out with us any parting thoughts from the group before we can call it a week
thanks for having me and I'm getting the PR merged
Eric's getting the PR merged main is proud is back up so
I think ads might work I don't know we have time to actually do that through a bat well actually
you try why not why not so if we want to cover the math screen here potentially okay cool number
one I wanted this to show we have like our take the top spot bid here so now I'm leading the bid I
wanted this to show at the top
preview here here there you go okay cool
So choose file, we'll go with our logo, it's shown.
Okay.
Oh wow, I like it.
Oh wait, it doesn't have a reloader that fails.
Okay, wait, we'll try one more time.
Cool, we got a logo.
Got a URL.
Okay, bid.
Uploading logo.
Placing your bid.
Placing a bid.
Did we make a dollar?
It's also just a heads up.
It's a lot of users submitted content
and moderation is broken.
And you know, we tried, we almost got there.
So we made our first theoretical sponsorship dollar, right?
Theoretical sponsorship dollars.
And I think that's a great way to end it.
All right, cool.
More than any parting thought.
Have fun using Grop Bot and follow us on X.
Follow us on X, yeah.
Oh, and eat more potatoes.
Yeah, not very useful advice from me.
Mash more PRs.
Mash more PRs.
Mash more PRs.
Mash more PRs.
Here we have it.
Amazing.
Thanks, y'all for watching.
Thanks.
Have a good one.
See ya.
Bye.

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