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Paying 150 water bills by hand replaced: about 6 hours of work now takes about 1 hour

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

Result

self-reported

He has over 150 water bill accounts to pay for his property management company. That used to be about a 6-hour job for a human. With Grok Bot it takes about 1 hour: the bot signs in, pays each bill, generates an email with the PDF, and hands it to Hermes, which uploads to tenant ledgers and creates the bill.

Ray (@sharecashBTC) runs property management and spends 10 to 11 hours a day with Hermes agents on company ops. Hermes cannot do physical UI clicks on water-department sites without an API, so paying 150-plus water bills used to need a second person for about 6 hours. He uses Grok Bot for the browser login and payment step, then Hermes files the PDF to each tenant ledger. He says Grok Bot shines where the Buildium API falls short.

Who did it

Ray (@sharecashBTC)Property managementRay (@sharecashBTC) on X · Nov 4, 2026

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  1. List every utility portal you pay, with login rules and which tenant ledger each bill hits.
  2. Have Grok Bot open one water portal, pay one test bill, and email you the PDF receipt.
  3. If that works, batch the rest: sign in, pay, attach PDF, hand off to your ledger tool or agent.
  4. Keep a human approval step before any payment over a set amount.
  5. Time one full cycle before and after so you know the real hours saved.
Copy-paste prompt
You are my property-management ops helper. For each water account in this list [paste], sign in to the portal, pay the current bill if it is under $[limit], download the PDF receipt, and email it to me with the account name and amount. Do not pay anything over $[limit] without my OK. Do not change autopay settings.

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What to watch out for

Self-reported in a reply on X. Giving a bot portal logins and payment ability is high risk: start with one account, keep a dollar cap, and revoke access if anything looks off. He pairs Grok Bot with Hermes for ledger upload. Build it with Page: a tenant portal page that shows paid utilities so renters stop emailing for receipts.

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