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Email sorting, manual rewrites and quote drafts handed off to Grok Bot in 3 hours

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

Result

self-reported

3 hours after setting up, Grok Bot was sorting and summarizing email, drafting replies, rewriting product manuals, finding customers and drafting sales emails, drafting quotes for the team to approve and checking inventory against the build schedule. One technical setup took the bot 10 minutes versus about an hour for the team.

Poseidon Robotics makes remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and subsea systems. Three hours after setup, the team had Grok Bot sorting email and drafting replies, rewriting product manuals and annotating photos, researching potential customers and drafting tailored sales emails, turning datasheets into brochures, and drafting quotes that the team approves and sends. Where a parts list is incomplete, it looks at product photos, asks the team to confirm what's missing, checks inventory and suggests order quantities against lead times. A simulation software setup took it 10 minutes after 5 minutes of questions, versus about an hour for the team.

Who did it

Poseidon Robotics (@PoseidonROV)Poseidon Robotics (ROV and subsea systems manufacturer)Poseidon Robotics on X · Oct 22, 2026

Try it now

  1. Start with email: have the bot sort, summarize and draft replies, and you send them.
  2. Give it one product manual and your style rules, and review the rewrite before it replaces the old one.
  3. Have it draft quotes from your price list. Nothing goes out without a person approving and sending it.
  4. Give it your parts list and inventory, and have it flag shortages against the build schedule.
  5. Add one job at a time, and check its work for a week before adding the next.
Copy-paste prompt
You help run our small manufacturing company. Each morning, sort my inbox into: needs me today, customer questions you can draft a reply to, quotes requested, and everything else. Summarize each in one line and draft replies for the second and third groups. Don't send anything. I'll review and send.

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, posted the night they set it up, so the results are early. Their "$100k a year role" and "30+ virtual assistants" lines are their own estimates. Safer version: they gave the bot access to a Linux workstation. Give it its own limited user account with no access to customer files or company finances, and keep quotes approve-and-send only, as they do. Build it with Page: a product page per ROV model that the bot keeps up to date from the manuals.

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