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Grok Bot vs Runner

Grok Bot gives you AI teammates you set up by message and hand work across apps and websites. Runner proposes a whole growth team for your business, from your code or your POS sales report.

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Grok Bot

AI teammates with names, jobs and context that builds over time, working on a persistent cloud computer. Team Bots are shared teammates a whole team can talk to, each person in a private chat.

Runner

An AI team built around your business. Channel leads draft the work; leadership keeps it tied to the goal you set.

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How Grok Bot and Runner help with business work
Your question	Grok Bot	Runner
How do I start?	Create a Bot, describe its job and give it context and access to your tools.	Give it your website or product catalogue link, and Runner builds your Growth DNA: what you sell and who it's for. Your code or your point-of-sale sales report adds more. Connect a model, and Runner proposes the team.
What work does it take on?	Bots you create can research, draft outreach and work together across apps.	A scout finds leads, channel leads draft outreach, and leadership reviews progress against your goal.
What stays in my hands?	It comes back when a task needs your approval.	The target, budget and limits. Switch on email sending inside those limits; exceptions come to you.
How do I follow progress?	Updates and drafts in the conversation.	Recorded counts against the target you set, plus a weekly review.
Who sets up the team?	You create each Bot and describe its job. Bots can message each other and pass work along.	Runner proposes the whole team from your business: leadership, a scout, channel leads and two advisors. You review it before it starts.
Which AI model?	Model selection is managed by Cursor.	You pick one for the chief executive and each lead, and how hard it thinks, on the AI credits your plan includes or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama.
What does an approval cover?	Allow once, Always allow or Deny. Approvals cover the proposed action only, not work already completed.	Runner's agent server will not start unless every write tool declares who approves it and how it is undone. A sent email stays sent.
How does scheduled work run?	A routine tells one Bot when to run a workflow, on a schedule or, where supported, after an event. A test run performs real work.	Each teammate's page lists its jobs and when each runs next. Nothing goes out until you switch the team on.

How do I start?: Grok Bot
Create a Bot, describe its job and give it context and access to your tools.
Runner
Give it your website or product catalogue link, and Runner builds your Growth DNA: what you sell and who it's for. Your code or your point-of-sale sales report adds more. Connect a model, and Runner proposes the team.
What work does it take on?: Grok Bot
Bots you create can research, draft outreach and work together across apps.
Runner
A scout finds leads, channel leads draft outreach, and leadership reviews progress against your goal.
What stays in my hands?: Grok Bot
It comes back when a task needs your approval.
Runner
The target, budget and limits. Switch on email sending inside those limits; exceptions come to you.
How do I follow progress?: Grok Bot
Updates and drafts in the conversation.
Runner
Recorded counts against the target you set, plus a weekly review.
Who sets up the team?: Grok Bot
You create each Bot and describe its job. Bots can message each other and pass work along.
Runner
Runner proposes the whole team from your business: leadership, a scout, channel leads and two advisors. You review it before it starts.
Which AI model?: Grok Bot
Model selection is managed by Cursor.
Runner
You pick one for the chief executive and each lead, and how hard it thinks, on the AI credits your plan includes or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama.
What does an approval cover?: Grok Bot
Allow once, Always allow or Deny. Approvals cover the proposed action only, not work already completed.
Runner
Runner's agent server will not start unless every write tool declares who approves it and how it is undone. A sent email stays sent.
How does scheduled work run?: Grok Bot
A routine tells one Bot when to run a workflow, on a schedule or, where supported, after an event. A test run performs real work.
Runner
Each teammate's page lists its jobs and when each runs next. Nothing goes out until you switch the team on.

Who each is for

Grok Bot: Anyone who wants to hand off multi-step work across apps and websites, from research to drafted outreach.
Runner: A business that wants a whole team on growth: a scout finds leads, channel leads draft the outreach, and leadership scores the work against the goal you set, on the model you pick.

Already using Grok Bot?

Keep your Bots on the workflows they rerun on a schedule, and a Team Bot in your team's Slack. Add Runner for growth.

Runner's team can run on Grok too: pick xAI as a member's model, on your own key.

What Runner adds

Built around your businessStart from your code or your POS. Runner proposes a team to match what you sell.
A team, one job eachA scout finds leads and channel leads draft outreach. Leadership holds the team to your goal; two advisors argue both sides.
Your model, paid your wayPick the model your chief executive and each lead run on. It runs on the AI credits your plan includes, or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama.
Their own phone numberGive the team members that need one a phone number you already hold on your Twilio account.
Limits you setDaily limits start at zero. Anything that fails a check comes to you as an approval, with the reason.
A goal you setYou pick what counts and the date. Runner counts only what was recorded, never what an agent says it did.
Your books, read liveConnect QuickBooks Online or Xero, and Runner reads your paid and open invoices, your top paying customers and a 90-day profit and loss straight from your books.

Questions about Grok Bot and Runner

Should I use Grok Bot or Runner?

Use both if you like. Grok Bot takes on tasks you hand it across apps and websites. Runner gives growth a team of its own, working toward a goal you set.

Do I set up each agent myself?

No. Describe your business and connect a model, and Runner proposes the whole team. You review it before it starts.

Does Runner work for a shop or a café?

Yes. Connect Square, Lightspeed Retail, Toss Place or Toast, or drop in the sales report your POS already makes. Shopify POS works through its orders CSV, and Clover follows once Clover approves Runner. Runner keeps totals and trends, never customer names, emails or card numbers.

Which AI model does Runner run on?

The one you pick for your chief executive and each lead. It runs on the AI credits your plan includes, or on your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI or Ollama, where your vendor agreement and your rate limits apply.

Will anything go out without me?

Not until you switch the team on. Then it works inside the limits you set, and anything outside them comes to you first, with the reason. Every email also checks the contact's recorded consent and your suppression list.

How do I get Runner?

Create your account and pick a plan. You pay upfront when you start; the plans are on the pricing page.

Your business. Your goal. Your growth team.

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What this page says about Grok Bot was read from its maker's pages on 19 October 2026: Grok Bot overview (opens in a new tab), Grok Bot use cases (opens in a new tab), Grok Bot security (opens in a new tab), Skills, routines, and automations (opens in a new tab), Team Bots (opens in a new tab), Team Bots announcement (opens in a new tab).

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