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Coaches and creatorsGrok Bot

Ignoring cold sales pitches replaced: auto replies that offer promo spots brought a $1,000 sale

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

Result

self-reported

His Grok Bot replies to cold emails from SaaS and AI companies by offering them promotion in his newsletter and channels, and it got its first $1,000 sale.

Darius Gaynor, founder of SumoGrowth Labs in Tampa, gets a steady stream of cold emails from SaaS and AI companies trying to sell to him. He connected Grok Bot to his Google business email and flipped it: the bot auto replies to those pitches offering to promote them in his AI insights Substack newsletter, with promotion on his Instagram pages, his subreddit and his directory inside SumoLevel. He says it got its first $1,000 sale.

Who did it

Darius Gaynor (@dariusgaynor)SumoGrowth Labs and his AI insights Substack newsletterDarius Gaynor on X · Oct 30, 2026

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  1. Write down what you can sell to a company: a newsletter mention, a social post, a directory listing, with prices.
  2. Connect the bot to your business email and have it spot cold sales pitches from companies selling to your audience.
  3. Have it draft a short, friendly reply offering your promo package with one link to book or pay.
  4. Approve the replies yourself at first, then let it send the ones that match a template you've approved.
  5. Log every reply and sale so you can see which pitches turn into sponsors.
Copy-paste prompt
Find cold sales emails in my inbox from SaaS and AI companies. For each, draft a short reply offering a promo package in my newsletter (audience, price, link). Don't send anything until I approve it.

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Self-reported in a short X post: one $1,000 sale. He also sells AI systems and automation, so this is his own audience business. Only offer promotion you'd stand behind, label sponsored posts, and keep replies polite so you don't get flagged as spam. Build it with Page: a simple sponsor page with your audience numbers and prices, so the bot can link one place.

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