I'm paying $300 a month just so I could

use Grok bots new viral app. This is

through XAI and now I'm on the super

heavy Grok plan. I'm a big agent user.

I've been using Hermes for a long time.

Before that I was using open claw right

when it came out. My AI agent runs my

entire business. It posts to all of my

social accounts, runs all of my ads and

is my executive assistant. So I wanted

to see how Grok bot stacked up against

Hermes. So I signed up for the $300 per

month super heavy Grok so I could use

this new feature. So today I want to

bring to you exactly what my experience

was with Grok bot and whether it's worth

it for you to set this up and how to

save a bunch of money so you don't end

up wasting money like I did. Now what I

did pretty much as soon as I signed up

for Grok bot is started playing with it

but mostly I wanted to port all of my

existing bot configurations into Grok

bot. So I'll show you how that really

worked as well. And if you stick around,

there's actually a surprise lesson that

I learned through all of this and I

actually ended up changing my entire

Claude code workflow based off of what I

learned from signing up for Grok bot and

it has nothing to do with Grok bot. This

is probably the biggest finding from

this video that you're going to get. So

stick around till the end so I can share

that with you. Now some quick context

just so you know why my answer means

anything. I run several eight-figure

marketing agencies. They're Inc. 5000

companies. I've [music] got thousands of

people inside of my AI automation

insiders community. So I teach this. I

travel the country speaking about AI and

I'm actually using AI to build and run

my [music] business, not just creating

content about it. All right. Now Grok

bot came out August 11th and it's gone

ultra viral. All kinds of creators have

been doing crazy videos about it being a

complete game changer. [music]

And I found some of that to be true,

some of it to be not true. So let's

actually talk about Grok bot and what it

is and then we'll go into actual

implementation and lessons and findings.

So you can sign up for Grok bot on

x.ai/bot

and you'll be able to get some

information about Grok bot. Now the

standout information here, what makes it

really unique, is it's not free. You

need to be on one of either Grok's heavy

paid plans or Cursor's heavy paid plans.

If you'll recall, XAI actually bought

Cursor for like $60 billion pretty

recently and they acquired all of their

coding models, too. So, their coding

models have gotten a lot better. That's

very important for Grok Bot because Grok

Bot runs on these new advanced coding

models. [music] So, here's the site for

Grok Bot. As you can see, this is what

it looks like. Here's my actual Grok

Bot, so you can see it in practice. I'll

be walking through that in just a

minute. It is a app that sits on your

computer. So, I actually have a little

Grok Bot icon down here and when I open

it up, it's just a desktop app. However,

unlike most agents that you've used in

the past where you either need to spin

up a VPS, a virtual server, or run it on

a Mac Mini, with Grok Bot, each one gets

its own dedicated virtual server

immediately. That's why they have to

charge money for it cuz there's server

costs. And here's what they advertise.

It works where you work, so it actually

gets its own browser. It can sign in to

things and take action. You can show

Grok Bot how to do things just like how

you train a Claude skill. You can

actually click around and teach it what

to do. Connecting is really easy and

apparently they get smarter over time. I

have not seen that yet, but I'm sure

it's true. Now, Grok Bot's theory is

that one agent shouldn't do every job.

And this is the theory that I think made

it viral. If you remember Paperclip went

viral, you know, 6 to 12 months ago, all

the agents talking to each other and

coordinating work. Kind of the same

theory. You don't want one agent doing

everything because then it has all of

these crazy prompts and it gets [music]

confused and there's context rot. So,

they advertise you can give each bot a

job and you can have one master agent

that coordinates with all of the other

agents. Now, a couple important points

about Grok Bot. This is my Hermes agent

and I'm texting with it every day. It's

sending me text messages with updates

and status reports. With Grok Bot, you

can only communicate with it through the

app, which actually is really seamless

and easy and fast. So, I actually don't

mind it at all. Whether it's on your

phone or on the computer and it's always

on because it lives in its own server.

Now, the big drawback for most people is

going to be price. So, a lot of you, if

you're using agents, you know, you can

spin up Open Claw or Hermes on a $5 a

per in server or $600 for a Mac Mini one

time and then you never have to pay a

monthly fee again. However, with Grok

Bot, there is a pretty large barrier to

entry that you need to pay in order

>> [music]

>> to use it. Now, they actually just

dropped the pricing. When I signed up,

you could not get Grok Bot for $100 per

month. You needed to be on, I think, at

least their two or $300 per month plan,

but it seems that they've brought that

down since the virality maybe has slowed

down. Now, a couple important things to

note here, you do get access with Cursor

if you want it. However, the big

difference that you're going to see is

this. Significantly higher usage across

chat, imagine, voice, and build. So, you

can either get it through paying Cursor

or paying for Grok. Either one will give

you access to Grok Bot. I recommend

paying through Grok. That way you also

get access to the next thing that I'm

going to share with you a little bit

later in this video, the big

transformational piece for my cloud code

workflow. So, I actually have their

heavy plan, which is $300 per month. I

wanted the full usage of Grok's latest

model. I wanted to fully test it. So,

this is the one that I selected.

However, it looks like now you can get

it through their $100 per month plan.

So, awesome. Once you upgrade and

install Grok Bot, you're going to see

something like this. It looks like a

really simple interface and you're only

going to have this one agent here that

you're talking to. The first thing that

you're probably going to want to do is

connect all of your things. So, down

here you'll see plugins and just like

maybe you've seen my Victor videos in

the past, you can just come through and

connect all of the things that you

normally use in your day-to-day

workflows, all of your marketing tools,

your your operational tools, your Gmail.

And if you want to see the ones that

I've connected, here they are. We've got

Appify, we've got X, we've got Super

base, you've got Higgs Field. So,

they've got a lot of these connectors

already built in. And, of course, you

can bring outside connectors in. So, if

you're like, "Hey, I want to integrate

Hyros." It'll actually collect your key

securely and it'll build an integration

for Hyros for you. So, connections,

really easy, really seamless. Of course,

that's what we expected. However, that's

not a huge advantage over Hermes because

if you are in my programs or you've

watched my videos, you'll know that we

use something called Compozio, which

makes it really easy to connect all of

your apps for free and you can just give

this to your Hermes. So, integrating

plugins and apps isn't such a

differentiator, but it was in the past.

So, they do make it really easy. Then

it's going to walk you through a little

bit of an interview process and Grok

bot, the initial agent that you have set

up, can actually spin up these

sub-agents based on what tasks and

scheduled tasks and tools that you're

using day-to-day. So, as you can see,

it's spun up all of these additional

little bots. I've got my cold email ops,

my long-form desk, my graphic design. It

actually built these itself, built the

descriptions for them, come up with the

the names for them. And if I click into

any one of these, I haven't actually

interacted with this one yet. It's just

a new bot that was created by my master

Grok bot. But each of these, if I click

into it, should have a description and I

should get notifications when it

finishes. So, this is like the system

prompt for what this thing actually

does. Now, in terms of integrations, you

might think that different sub-agents

have their own sets of integrations.

That's not true. They all share the

integrations. So, you don't have to

worry about connecting one integration

to multiple things. Now, what's really

cool is this master agent, if you do

have a master agent like I have here and

I've pinned it. So, as you can see, I

can unpin, I can edit the profile. And

this is really cool. You can actually

see one agent communicating with the

others and you get push notifications

when it's done after it's done talking

to it and getting information from that

other agent. And it's pretty cool to

watch them interacting, see it messaging

back, see a task getting done over here.

But the big question remains, is it

really worth it? Do these sub-agents

actually have a big change in the

results that you're getting compared to

using something like Hermes, which

manages all of my tasks, all of my

scheduled tasks, all of my tools, all

from a single agent. So, I had Grok bot

do a couple of things for me. It built a

presentation, it did some cold email

work, it did some N8N work, it did some

review work, it wrote and posted to some

Reddit threads. All of the things that

my Hermes agent was doing, I had it

temporarily paused while Grok bot took

over. Now, you might be saying, "Jay,

how did you get it trained on all of

these different sub-agents already.

Like, didn't that take a long time? Not

really. And what I recommend that you

guys do once you start using this is

actually have your Claude code. So,

let's go ahead and open up my Claude

code here. I've got my LGJ operating

system. And the first thing that I did

was say, "Hey, I just started using Grok

bot. I would like you to go over my

entire knowledge base, my scheduled

tasks, everything that my Hermes agent

does, and give me a zip folder to train

Grok bot on all of these tasks and set

up sub-agents." And it actually did some

research and it put together a zip

folder. I gave that zip file over to

this master agent and it built

everything for me. Here's kind of how

that initial conversation went. And

also, here's all of the routines that I

had running. And right now, I have all

of them paused. And I'll tell you why in

just a second. I said, "You're going to

be my master agent, coordinate with all

of the sub-agents. You are the one I

will talk to directly and delegate

tasks. I'll be sharing a zip folder that

has all the information and skills and

integrations and tooling for what we

will need. You're going to be taking

over for my Hermes bot." I just told it

I configured a bunch of plugins. How do

I sign into them? And then it prompted

me one at a time to actually initiate

the the login cuz some of them use OAuth

and some of them use API. So, we just

spent some time configuring plugins.

Before it was added, it either prompted

me to sign in like this, authorize, or

asked me for an API key. So, we just

went through, configured everything. I

removed one of the plugins. As you can

see when it needs to do a sign in or I

need to do something in the computer,

this is its screen. And I can actually

click into a screen and see what it's

doing at any given time. This is its

computer that it always has access to.

I'm going to go ahead and minimize that

now so we can keep going. And here is

that zip folder that I dropped to it.

Unpacking now, it's a 12-bot provision

pack, not an import. So, it went ahead

and built all of the sub-agents based

off of this zip folder that I gave it.

From there, we configured all of those

little sub-agents and specialized bots.

And it did it. And we turned on all of

the scheduled tasks and Grok bot started

running. So, all in all, in theory,

sounds really cool. But what I noticed

was it wasn't quite doing as good of a

job as my Hermes agent was. Now, maybe

that is because I didn't spend nearly as

much time training it and refining it as

I did with my Hermes agent. But, from

what I can tell, Hermes is still the

better agent harness. Now, yes, you're

going to need to either deploy it on a

virtual server or get a Mac mini like I

have so I can iMessage it. So, there is

that kind of additional steps, kind of

additional cost whereas Grok bot you can

kind of just launch it, it already has

access to servers, you don't have to

worry about it. You don't have to worry

about integrating an LLM cuz it just

works on Grok. However, I've still found

my Hermes model to be better than Grok

bot. So, this is Bob, I text it, this is

my Hermes agent. He lives on my Mac

mini. We also can deploy these really

easily using a VPS. In fact, if you're

in my AI Automation Insiders community,

we literally deploy these for you in one

click. So, this does everything. It's

connected to all of my tools through

Compozio. It sends comments and DMs

across all of the social channels,

monitors all of my ads. If I tell it to

do anything, it's able to pretty much

power through and figure it out. It uses

my Codex subscription, which I have a

$200 per month subscription, but you can

run Hermes on a $20 per month chat GPT

subscription. And that's pretty much it.

Or you can get really frugal and get

like open router or an open source model

and run it on something cheaper. But, it

does a great job running on Codex. I

also really prefer the way that Hermes

handles context windows, auto

compaction, scheduled tasks. It just

does a really nice job and manages

everything really well. But, the

question remains, is that one agent

responsible for all of those tasks done

it going to do as good of a job at all

of those different tasks as Grok bot

will since it had it can delegate all of

those tasks to sub agents. Now, I am

somebody who does a lot of tasks.

There's a lot of different scheduled

tasks, there's a lot of tools, there's a

lot of different things that I ask it to

do. So, I feel like I would be a pretty

good use case of determining if it was

capable of it or not. And I'm here to

tell you, yes, Hermes agent is just as

capable as Grok bot at executing

multiple tasks, doing multiple things,

all without having to delegate to a

thousand different sub agents. And most

of you aren't doing things that are that

complex. You don't have a million

different tools or businesses that

you're overlooking. You're just using it

for pretty simple use cases, social

media automation, executive assistant

stuff. This is my Hermes agent running

on my Mac mini. This is the user

interface. If you ever want to log in

and see it, they do have one. And Hermes

actually does have the ability to

delegate tasks to subagents through

[music] Kanban and through agent

orchestration. They have this built in.

So, it's essentially the same thing that

Grokbot is doing just behind the scenes.

All right. Now, before I go into what

actually really works and what I

actually implemented, and it's not

Grokbox, I'm probably not going to be

using that long term. I'm going to stick

to Hermes. It's a great solution. And I

still think it's the best possible

solution for most of you that want to

train a bot over time. Now, if you don't

want to worry about setting up a VPS or

getting a Mac mini, we can actually

deploy them for you and just fill out

this form and within a minute you'll

have a Hermes agent that you can message

back and forth that just works for you.

It also comes preloaded with all agent

skills. Or if you don't want us to host

your Hermes agent for you, that's fine,

too. You can go to legionai.com/bob.

Bob is the name of my Hermes agent, it's

what I call it, as you can see from my

text messages. I'm messaging back and

forth with Bob. This way you can just

copy our configuration into your own

Hermes agent so that you can host it

yourself on whatever platform that you

want. And for those complete

do-it-yourselfers, just know Hermes is

free. It's at this GitHub repo, Hermes

agent. It's updated all of the time.

It's got 235,000 stars. It is probably

the most popular and most powerful AI

agent harness at this time. And in my

humble opinion, after trying multiple

different agent harnesses, open claw,

paper claw, Hermes by far my favorite,

by far the best. However, [music] if you

do plan on subscribing to one of Grok's

heavier plans, which you might, then you

might not need Hermes agent. And now I

might just talk you into subscribing to

one of Grok's paid [music] plans,

anyways. Now, here's why I recommend

subscribing to Grok, whether or not you

decide to use Grokbot. If you already

have a Hermes agent and it's working

great, awesome. If not, you might want

to sign up for Grokbot anyways because

of this. Grok's latest model 4.6 just

came out and it's significantly better

than GPT Soul in most use cases. If you

just click through most of the

benchmarks, you'll see that it's pretty

much just crushing them and I think

they're going to continue to crush them.

They're also extremely generous with

credits just like ChatGPT is. Why is

this important? Since you're probably

using Claude code, I'm using Claude code

as my primary agent driver. So, let's go

ahead and open up my Claude code. So,

now that we're in my terminal, this is

running on tmux, but what's important is

this is all running Claude code. All of

these sessions are Claude code. These

are actual real sessions that I'm

running right now. Now, before signing

up for Grok, I had these two skills that

I would use pretty frequently. They were

{slash} codex review where I would

actually have GPT 5.6 Soul where it

would actually go back and forth [music]

with Claude to do an adversarial review

and make sure that the plan that we're

coming up with and reviewing is actually

good. And it was a game-changer. It

absolutely caught way more bugs than

Claude did on its own and really

improved my developing process. However,

GPT 5.6 took a long time to go back and

forth and review with Claude. It would

miss things all the time and then it

would catch things and it just wasn't

the best possible co-pilot. I thought it

was at the time and then I would

actually use another command called

codex execute to actually write the

code. Since it's much cheaper than using

Fable to write code, it would use GPT

5.6 Soul to actually write the code and

make the fewest mistakes. And this ran

on my $200 per month ChatGPT

subscription. So, it saved me a ton of

money in Claude code and stopped me from

hitting my limits. And by the way, guys,

if you want access to any of my Claude

code skills, you can go to

leadgenjay.com/skills

and I put all of my most important ones

here so you can come in here at any time

and kind of see what I'm actually using

in my day-to-day and install them for

yourself. So, if any of these commands

look interesting, they're all in here.

Anyways, now that I had this $300 per

month super generous Grok subscription

with all of these new Grok credits. I

needed to see how well this could

perform, how good it was at coding. So,

what I did is I ran a head-to-head and I

just posted about this in my AI

automation insiders community. It is

free if anyone wants to join. This is

where I give the latest updates, all of

my tactics, all of my skills, you can

download them all within here. But, I

posted this a while ago and actually

showed the benchmarks. Here we go. So,

let's actually review these now. Grok

did the same task in 12 minutes 53

seconds compared to about 30 minutes

with Codex. And that's with 45 test

passes compared to Codex's 33 test

passes. So, it was more than two times

faster and more accurate and ran more

tests. Now, in order to use this inside

of your Claude code, you need to install

the bridge. And this bridge is actually

a free GitHub repo that you can just

install. It's from Grok. So, it's this

Grok build plugin CC. And this is the

Grok build Claude code bridge. So,

you'll give Claude this GitHub repo and

it'll install all of those skills and

commands that I use inside of my actual

Claude code terminal. So, now when I'm

doing anything new, I'm actually going

to type {slash} Grok and it will call

Grok on my paid subscription to review

and write the code. So, now instead of

just using Fable for everything, cuz

yeah, if you look at the benchmarks,

Fable still crushes everything, but it's

a token consumer. So, now I can use Opus

5 and have it review and write code with

Grok's latest model, which is

significantly better than Opus. And I'll

get a much better and more accurate

result. So, that was my big takeaway

from this whole Grok experiment. Now,

I'm probably not going to continue to

use Grok bot. However, I probably am

going to keep my Grok subscription. I

don't know whether I keep the $300 or

downgrade to the $200, but it is proving

so far to be worth it. Mostly as a

Claude code copilot. So, I hope this

video was helpful. Hopefully, it saves

some of you some time, some money, some

experimentation. And if you want us to

deploy a Hermes agent for you,

pre-trained, ready to go, you can join

our AI automation insiders community.

The link is going to be down below. It's

also got live coaching with me, tons of

lessons, tons of modules. We go really

into the weeds about specific topics.

Hope to see some of you in there. If

not, I've got a free community that you

can join as well. I'll also link all of

the resources that I talked about in

this video down below in the

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