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Have a Grok Bot turn your site walk into a priced bid and a proposal ready to send

Picked and checked by Olga Pearson, host of The Practical AI Show · Published

Result

self-reported

A multifamily construction project manager says a $30 a month Grok Bot subscription cut his workload in half. Writing bids alone saved him hours per day of computer work, and nearly all his screen time is gone.

Travis Cardwell is a project manager in multifamily construction. When a request for proposal comes in, he tells Grok Bot to send the property and client to his Podio bot, which creates the project and issues a PO. He spins up a dedicated bot for the job, walks the site, and gives it details and photos. While he drives, it builds a cost breakdown: workers needed, timeframe, rental equipment, satellite images to plan access (boom, swing stage or scaffolding) and a material list, with pricing requests already emailed to vendors. When he approves, it types the proposal, saves the cost analysis for any other PM, updates the job tracker with the bid and budget, and drafts the client email with the attachments.

Who did it

Travis Cardwell (@txghost91)Multifamily construction project managerTravis Cardwell on X · Oct 22, 2026

Try it now

  1. Train Grok Bot on a few of your past bids so it learns your format and pricing logic.
  2. For each new request for proposal, have it create the project in your job tracking app and start a dedicated bot for that job.
  3. Walk the site and send it notes and photos as you go.
  4. Have it build the cost breakdown: crew, timeframe, rental equipment, access from satellite images, materials, and emails to vendors asking for prices.
  5. Review it, approve, and let it write the proposal, update the job tracker and draft the client email with attachments.
Copy-paste prompt
You are my bid estimator for [company]. For this job at [property address] for [client], use my site walk notes and photos plus satellite images of the property. Give me a detailed cost analysis: crew size and trades, timeframe, rental equipment, access plan (boom, swing stage or scaffolding and why), and a full material list. Draft pricing request emails to [vendors] but don’t send them until I say so. When I approve, write the proposal in my usual format, update [job tracker] with the bid and budget, and draft the client email with the proposal, schedule and specs attached.

Make it run every week

A play works once. Turn it into a routine in three small steps:

  1. Run it once and check the result yourself.
  2. Give your AI a schedule. Tell it when to run this play (every week, or every month) and to message you with what it found before you act.
  3. Keep a log. One line per run: what was checked, anything flagged, what you did.

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What to watch out for

Self-reported from his own post, about a month in. Check every number before a bid goes out, since one wrong quantity can eat the margin on a job. Keep the vendor and client emails as drafts you approve. Build it with Page: a simple page where property managers can request a bid.

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