Can Grok Bot take over the weekly numbers?
Hand it over and walk away. You stay out of it.
- Costs you
- An hour every Monday, pulling the same four numbers
- Who runs it
- The bot
- Category
- Analytics
Someone opens Stripe, opens analytics, copies four numbers into a message, and does it again next week. It is the most mechanical thing in most people's week and it is almost always done by a person, because setting up a dashboard is a bigger job than just doing it again. A bot doesn't need the dashboard · it can read the same screens you read and write the same message you write. Where it beats you is consistency: it does it at the same time every week, so the numbers become a trend rather than a snapshot.
The prompt
Written for a bot that already has a browser, a terminal and your logins · paste it in whole.
Send me the weekly numbers every Monday at 9. Use my Stripe and analytics logins. Ask me which four numbers I actually care about before you start · don't assume. The message: - Each number, this week's value, last week's, and the change as a percentage. - Month to date against the same point last month. - Nothing else. No commentary, no emoji, no 'great work team'. Be honest about the numbers: - If a number is down, say it's down. Never bury it or reframe it. - If a source didn't load, say which one and leave that line blank. Never carry last week's figure forward and never estimate. - Round the way I'd round: money to the nearest pound, percentages to one decimal. Keep every week in a Google Sheet so the trend builds up, one row per week. Once a quarter, send me the twelve-week trend as a simple chart. Still no commentary · I can read a line going down.
The bot will need to sign into: stripe · googleanalytics · google-sheets
What you lose
- the incidental poking around you do while you're in there
- a sense of the numbers that comes from typing them yourself
What it costs you now
An hour every Monday, pulling the same four numbers