Grok Bot explained: what it is, how to get access and what it does for your business

Grok Bot is a paid beta from SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), launched on 11 August 2026. You get "Bots": AI agents with their own Linux computer that log in to your apps and keep working while you're away. Access comes with SuperGrok, with Cursor or with Teams plans, and free Cursor accounts get a one-time trial. Updated on 15 October 2026.

I'm Joshua Slot, founder of Make it Matter, and I use it myself, from the Netherlands, through Cursor Pro+. I have four little bots. One searches for companies, one digs into the matches, one estimates the odds, and one hands me the list that's worth my time. This article is how that works, what you should know before you try it, and two routines you can copy.

Grok Bot at a glance

The facts here come from SpaceXAI and Cursor documentation and from press coverage. Where sources contradict each other, I say so.

What do you actually buy with an agent that has its own computer?

Picture a colleague who sits at a computer you can't see. You give them a task, they log in to your tools, click around, and come back when they need a decision. That's the idea. An agent is an AI that does a task instead of only answering a question. It opens a website, reads a mailbox, fills in a form.

SpaceXAI calls these agents "always-on", and the launch post on x.ai calls them Bots. The company history helps you judge how much to trust it. SpaceX took over xAI on 2 February 2026, according to Wikipedia's overview of SpaceXAI, which cites the New York Times and Reuters. Then SpaceX bought Cursor, the maker of an AI coding tool, and that deal closed on 14 August. Grok Bot runs on Cursor's infrastructure. Cursor hosts the computers and picks the models. You sign in with a Cursor or SuperGrok account.

How does it work? One computer, a team that shares it

Every user gets one computer

One persistent Linux computer, with a browser and a terminal. All your Bots share it, including files, browser sessions and logins. The marketing says each Bot has its own computer. The documentation says separate Bots are no security boundary. Believe the documentation.

Apps without an API

An API is the official connection through which software talks to other software. Plenty of small-business tools don't have a good one. A Bot then uses the screen, like you would: it logs in, clicks and types. Where a connector exists, it uses that first. Reviews mention connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive, Outlook and Salesforce, and Google Docs and Sheets arrived on 22 September. No source mentions connectors for Dutch accounting packages like Moneybird or Exact Online, so that work would run through the browser.

Routines, skills and teams

You let a Bot watch while you do a task, or you show it. It saves what it learned as a routine, with a schedule and triggers, and it adjusts when you correct it. You can also put two to six Bots in one group chat, with a "Chief of Staff" Bot coordinating the specialists.

Who decides what

Risky actions go through an approval: Allow once, Always allow or Deny. For background work the approval expires after about 10 minutes, so if you're away, the Bot waits. An optional Auto Review has a second model screen the risky stuff, and "Ask first" beats "Allow automatically". Logins and CAPTCHAs you take over yourself, and so do payments. The documentation calls that takeover.

Which AI models sit inside?

At launch SpaceXAI didn't name them, and you can't pick one yourself. On 6 or 7 October 2026 Elon Musk wrote on X that SpaceX would use "the best back end model for any given task" and named Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney, Suno and "other leading APIs". The Next Web and Gizmodo call this model routing: simple questions go to small models, complex ones to large ones. Some press coverage names Grok 4.7 too, which I can't confirm.

What does it cost, and can I try it for free?

I'm not going to put amounts in this article. The price story has changed since launch and a lot of articles are out of date. In August the press quoted a price tied to a Cursor team seat, and that was no entry price. Since then SpaceXAI has put Grok Bot into more plans. Look at Cursor's pricing page for the Cursor plans and at the page for The X Subscription for SuperGrok and the X bundle.

What I can tell you: on 26 August 2026 SpaceXAI announced that Grok Bot is part of all SuperGrok, Cursor Pro and Teams plans, with its own usage pool that refreshes weekly. On 12 October it introduced "The X Subscription", a bundle of Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor and X Premium. The announcement doesn't say which tier includes Grok Bot. Cursor's pricing page, which I read on 15 October, lists it from the Premium tier upward. The Free tier doesn't have it.

The free trial

There's no permanent free tier. There is a one-time trial, and Cursor describes it on its Grok Bot plans page:

• It's a block of usage credit with a seven-day window, not a number of days. The credit goes to agent steps and tokens, not to messages.
• Accounts on a free Cursor plan qualify. How much credit you get isn't published.
• Used credit doesn't come back, and the trial never turns into a paid plan by itself. When the credit is gone, Grok Bot stops until you upgrade.

Free Grok in the Grok app or through @grok on X doesn't include Grok Bot. AI Builder Club dates the trial to 21 August. Plenty of blogs say there's no trial, but the Cursor page wins. Limits per plan aren't published.

Can I use it from the Netherlands?

SpaceXAI publishes no list of supported regions. I found no primary source that blocks the Netherlands or the EU, and none that supports them explicitly. The Dutch site ai.nl wrote on 14 September that Grok Bot is available in the Netherlands with a paid subscription. I pay for it through Cursor Pro+ and use it from the Netherlands, so it works for me today. That's one account on one date, not a guarantee for your business.

The computers run in the United States. SpaceXAI's security documentation says contractual data residency goes through the account team.

Is it safe, and what about my customers' data?

Bots act as you, logged in. Grok Bot needs data storage, so it doesn't work with Cursor's Privacy Mode (Legacy). Anysphere holds ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001 certificates, and Grok Bot is in scope, according to the documentation.

Now the part that matters if you have customers. Computers in the United States mean that a Dutch company transfers personal data to a third country. You need a data processing agreement and, depending on what the Bot touches, a data protection impact assessment. I found no legal GDPR analysis of Grok Bot, so ask a lawyer or your data protection officer before a Bot sees customer data.

Then prompt injection: text hidden in an email or on a web page that tries to give your Bot new orders. The documentation admits its defences don't remove that risk, and it puts heavy work behind approval. Network policy and audit logs exist only for Enterprise.

What do early testers say?

Not much that's solid. There are no published benchmarks for agent tasks and no independent tests. Sudheer Paturi's one-week review says a weekly "AEO Tracker" routine ran reliably every Friday. Reviewer eesel, a competitor, rated work in tools without an API 8 out of 10 and a support queue 4. On 20 and 21 August all Bots on one account stopped because a computer hung, which a Cursor employee confirmed, according to CellCog.

And OpenAI Dots?

OpenAI announced Dots on 29 September 2026 with the same basic idea: an always-on agent with its own cloud computer. OpenAI's help pages exclude the European Economic Area for the Pro plan, while Business Premium works in all supported regions. Grok Bot has no official regional list. I explain Dots in OpenAI Dots explained for business and put the two side by side in OpenAI Dots vs Grok Bot compared.

Tutorial A: a team of four Bots that filters leads for you

Here's what I do with the little bots. I ask them for specific leads, with very specific requirements. If a company matches, the stalker picks it up and finds out everything about it. The analyst then estimates the chance, and the head of desk gives me the filtered list of potential customers that are worth approaching. Their role names are scout and stalker, then analyst and head of desk.

Let me make it concrete with a made-up owner, Femke, who runs a small web studio. That's an example, not a customer of mine. She wants a short list of companies worth calling, without reading through hundreds of websites. This is how she'd set it up. Numbers and results for your market you have to measure yourself.

What you need

A paid plan that includes Grok Bot (I pay for it through Cursor Pro+), or a free Cursor account with trial credit. Also a Google Sheet or Doc for the shortlist and a written list of your requirements.

Step 1: write down what you're looking for

The scout is only as good as your requirements. Be picky. Femke fills in her own version of this list:

• Sector, region and size, for example "furniture retailers with an online shop in Gelderland, 10 to 50 employees".
• A signal that suggests a need, such as an open vacancy, a new website or a new location.
• Exclusions: sectors, chains, competitors and companies you already know.

Step 2: create four Bots

Give each Bot a name, a title and a description, then paste its role. A good role states the result, the permitted sources, the format and when to ask for approval, says the documentation.

The scout goes out and looks. It only passes on companies that match everything.

You are the scout. Search for companies that meet all of these requirements: [your requirements and exclusions]. Use only public sources. For each match, give the company name, website and the signal that made it match, with the page where you saw it. Skip companies that miss a requirement. Do not contact anyone.

The stalker takes a match and collects everything that's publicly available about the company.

You are the stalker. For each match from the scout, collect public information about the company: what it does, size, recent news, vacancies, how its website and communication look, and who the likely decision maker is according to public sources. Write one profile per company with a source for every statement, and mark what you could not find as "unknown". Do not contact anyone.

The analyst reads the profile and estimates the odds that approaching this company pays off.

You are the analyst. Read each profile from the stalker and estimate how likely this company is to need what I offer: [one sentence about your offer]. Give a rating of high, medium or low with two reasons taken from the profile. If the profile lacks information for a judgment, say so instead of guessing.

The head of desk collects what's worth it and hands you the filtered list.

You are the head of desk. Collect the rated profiles from the analyst. Put only the companies rated high or medium in the Google Sheet "Leads to approach", with company, website, signal, rating, reasons and a link to the profile. Sort by rating, and tell me in one line per company what you left out and why. Never send a message to a company. I decide who gets approached.

Step 3: let them hand over to each other

The documentation describes group chats of two to six Bots, with a Chief of Staff Bot that coordinates specialists. That fits a team like this one, but I'm describing the documentation here, not my own set-up. Start with the scout and the stalker in one group chat and look at what they hand over before you add the other two.

Step 4: watch once, save, schedule, test

Let the scout run on your requirements and watch what comes back. Tighten the requirements where the matches miss. Save the corrected roles as skills and give the scout a routine with a schedule and time zone (Europe/Amsterdam), for example every Monday at 7:00. Before you rely on it, check ten returned companies by hand: do they fit, and does the profile say what's true?

Keep an eye on

• The computer is shared, so all four Bots see the same files and sessions. Approval for background work expires after about 10 minutes, so the Bots wait when they need you.
• CAPTCHAs and logins are yours to take over. Browser work is fragile, and a profile can contain a wrong statement, so check the source behind anything you act on.
• Four Bots use trial credit quickly.

GDPR with business leads

With business leads you process data about contact persons, even if it's only a name and a role. According to the documentation the Bots run on computers in the United States, so that's a transfer to a third country. Stick to public business information, leave out private details, and decide yourself whether you approach someone. A Bot sends nothing without your approval, so keep that rule on. This is no legal advice. Ask a lawyer or your data protection officer before you process lead data at scale.

My experience with Grok Bot

I use Grok Bot from the Netherlands and I pay for it through Cursor Pro+. The scout searches for companies with very specific requirements. When it finds a match, the stalker takes over and digs up all the information about that company. The analyst estimates how likely it is to become a customer, and the head of desk gives me the filtered list of potential customers that are worth approaching.

For me that comes down to one thing: the little bots do the preselection and I only see the list that's left. Who I approach is still my call. I don't have numbers for you, like how many leads it delivers, how much time it saves or how many become customers, so I won't claim any. If you try this yourself, check three things: whether the matches fit your requirements, whether the profiles hold up against their sources, and how fast the credit goes on your plan.

Tutorial B: a weekly check on how AI sees your business

This one isn't my own set-up. It's an example based on the "AEO Tracker" routine that Sudheer Paturi described and on the documentation. AEO means answer engine optimization: making sure AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity name and cite your business. GEO, generative engine optimization, means about the same.

Say Pieter, a made-up bookkeeper in Veenendaal, wants to know every Friday whether AI assistants and Google mention him.

What you need

A paid plan with Grok Bot, or the trial credit, a Google Sheet or Doc for the log (the Docs and Sheets connectors exist since 22 September), and 10 fixed questions a potential customer would ask. Keep them identical every week, otherwise you can't compare. Pieter writes them in a customer's words, like "which accountant in Veenendaal is good for freelancers".

Step 1: app, Bot and role

Install the app via x.ai/bot, sign in with your Cursor or SuperGrok account and create a Bot named "Visibility Bot" with a short description. Paste this as the role:

You are my visibility monitor for [company name], website [domain]. Every Friday, run these 10 questions in Google and in the AI assistants you can reach without an account: [list the 10 questions]. For each question, record in the Google Sheet "AI visibility log", with today's date: whether [company name] is mentioned, at what position, which sources are cited, which competitors are mentioned and whether our website is linked. Do not change the wording of the questions. After the table, write three concrete actions for next week, each tied to one question and one finding. Compare with last week's rows and note what changed. If a service asks for a login, CAPTCHA or payment, skip that service and say so in the log.

Step 2: watch once, save and schedule

Let the Bot run the first round while you watch, fix the table layout, and tell it to search if it answers from memory. Save the skill, then create a routine for every Friday at 9:00 with the time zone Europe/Amsterdam.

Step 3: test

Run it once by hand and check three answers yourself. AI answers vary, so call a result a trend only after four or five weeks.

Keep an eye on

• The computer is shared with your other Bots, so leave no sensitive logins in the browser.
• AI services show login walls and CAPTCHAs to automated browsers, so a skipped service leaves gaps in your log. Ten questions across several services also use more credit than a chat message.

Judge the three proposed actions yourself. A new page on your site only helps if it has something new to say.

What Dutch business owners need to know now

If you only read one section, make it this one.

• Trial credit. It's usage, not days. Used credit doesn't come back and nothing is charged automatically.
• Data in the United States. The computers run there, which is a transfer to a third country. Arrange a data processing agreement, assess whether you need a data protection impact assessment and keep personal data off the Bot until that's settled.
• Trust. On 26 January 2026 the European Commission opened a Digital Services Act investigation into Grok on X, and in February 2026 the Irish Data Protection Commission opened a GDPR inquiry into Grok's image processing. Both concern the X platform, not Grok Bot, and I found no final fine. They're context for trust.
• Liability. According to Benzinga's reading of the terms, liability is capped at the larger of the fees you paid or a small fixed minimum. On 26 August Musk wrote on X to a user who wanted to connect a Bot to his bank: "If Grok Bot messes up, we will make you whole." That sentence isn't in the terms.

Frequently asked questions

Where to go from here

If you wonder whether a Bot fits one of your routines, start with one small task and check the results yourself. I'm happy to think along, and you can reach us through our contact page.

Sources

• SpaceXAI, Introducing Grok Bot (11 August 2026)
• SpaceXAI documentation, Grok Bot security (read 15 October 2026)
• Cursor, Grok Bot plans and free trial (read 15 October 2026)
• SpaceXAI, Grok Bot in more plans (26 August 2026)
• SpaceXAI, The X Subscription (12 October 2026)
• Cursor, pricing (read 15 October 2026)
• The Next Web, Grok Bot, Claude Opus, Midjourney and Suno (October 2026)
• Gizmodo, Grok Bot is now a model router (October 2026)
• Sudheer Paturi, One week with Grok Bot (2026)
• European Commission, investigation into Grok and X under the DSA (26 January 2026)
• Law Society Gazette, DPC launches probe into X's Grok images (February 2026)