Setups for small and local businesses: trades, clinics, landlords, restaurants, shops and solo consultants. Each one shows the first three steps and the main guardrail, so you can judge the effort before you open it.
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Answer Every Contractor Lead Fast
Qualify roofing and trade inquiries, answer the phone, and reply to reviews so fewer jobs go to the next quote.
- Add Legend Lead Ops and give it your services and service area.
- Test it on a few past inquiries.
- Decide whether you need phone answering, and check its plan first.
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Answer, Quote and Follow Up on Every Home-Service Lead
A voice receptionist picks up, leads get an instant answer, and every quote gets a day 3, 7 and 14 follow-up.
- List your services, area and price ranges.
- Test the receptionist with a few calls.
- Add open quotes to the follow-up sheet.
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Build a Pitch Pack for an SEO Agency
From prospect list to evidence brief to a clean CRM, so every SEO pitch is specific and lands in a real inbox.
- Pick a niche and a region.
- Run Lead Scout, then Site Research on the shortlist.
- Verify the contacts with Kickbox and update HubSpot.
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Run a Brand's Instagram as a Studio
Daily ideas, on-brand images and carousels, and a compliance check before anything goes out.
- Connect a test account first.
- Give Art Director the brand guide.
- Route captions through Sentinel.
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Run a Local SEO Content Engine
Plan local content, publish city pages after approval, and watch what nearby competitors do.
- Pick one business and three cities.
- Approve the first month's plan.
- Review each article before it publishes.
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Sell Ad Management to Businesses Already Running Ads
Target companies that already spend on ads, show them better angles from their own customers and pitch a managed retainer.
- Choose a niche where you have results.
- Run the lead finder and audit the top landing pages.
- Build a one-page pitch with three sample angles.
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Sell AI Receptionists to Local Businesses
Set up voice and chat receptionists that book appointments, then charge a monthly fee.
- Build one demo for a clinic or salon.
- Offer a two-week trial.
- Charge monthly after the trial.
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Sell Bookkeeping Cleanups to Small Businesses
Audit messy books, validate invoices, log receipts and hand off to monthly bookkeeping.
- Sell a fixed-price cleanup.
- Audit and list fixes.
- Fix with the client's approval.
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Sell Video Editing to YouTubers Who Are Growing
Find channels in a niche, show them clips cut from their own outlier videos and pitch a monthly editing package.
- Pick a niche you know.
- Find ten channels and their outliers.
- Cut one sample per channel and pitch it privately.
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Sell Websites to Local Businesses That Have None
Find businesses with no site or a weak one, show them a demo, and pitch a build with the evidence in hand.
- Add the three bots and pick one city and one trade to start.
- Run Lead Scout and Website Hunter once and review the lists by hand.
- Have Site Research brief the best ten prospects.
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Turn Map Listings into Booked Discovery Calls
Pull local businesses from the map, audit their sites, enrich the contacts and book calls with the ones that need help.
- Pick one niche and one city.
- Run the map pull and audits, then shortlist ten businesses by hand.
- Have Site Research brief the shortlist and enrich the contacts.
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Build a Motivated-Seller Pipeline for Real Estate Deals
Spot likely sellers, find owner contacts, qualify them by text and underwrite the ones that answer.
- Pick one market and your buy box.
- Review the flagged list before any contact.
- Approve the SMS script and send in small batches.
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Run a Local SEO Agency with a Bot Team
Prospect, audit, publish local pages and handle reviews for each client under one monthly plan.
- Pick one trade.
- Audit five prospects and pitch two.
- Run monthly work per client.
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Run a Shopify Store with a Bot Team
One bot works the catalog and conversion, one coordinates orders, ads and stock, one drafts customer replies.
- Start with Shopify Bot on low-risk tasks.
- Add Store Manager once you trust the daily digest.
- Route customer messages to Reply Desk drafts.
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Sell an AI Search Visibility Retainer
Measure how brands show up in AI answers, fix their sites and report progress monthly.
- Audit three brands for free to build proof.
- Agree a question set with each client.
- Ship fixes monthly.
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Sell Automation Projects from a Discovery Audit
Interview the owner, mine their tools for repetitive work, write a spec and close a build project.
- Sell a fixed-price discovery.
- Run the interview and tool scan.
- Deliver a spec with priorities.
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Answer Reviews, Messages and Calls
Draft replies to reviews and messages and answer the phone, so no customer waits.
- Add Reply Desk and paste your last ten reviews.
- Check the drafts and tone.
- Decide on phone answering after checking its plan.
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Offer Grant Finding as a Service
Find live funding programmes for a client and prepare the application pack they review and file.
- Describe the client or project.
- Check each programme on its official page.
- Review the pack with the client and let them file it.
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Cut SaaS and Subscription Waste
Find every charge and renewal, flag what is unused, negotiate or cancel, and keep watching.
- Run a first scan.
- Mark keep, cut or negotiate.
- Send negotiation emails.
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Get Paid Faster on Every Invoice
Send polite escalating reminders, chase late invoices, explain cross-border fees and watch cash daily.
- List open invoices.
- Approve reminder tone.
- Review cash daily.
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Go from Sales Call to Signed Proposal to Paid Invoice
After each call, get to-dos, a proposal deck, a quote routed for approval and invoice chasing.
- Set your proposal template.
- Run it after every call.
- Approve quotes.
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Qualify Inbound Consulting Leads
Every collab or consulting request gets a fit brief and a go or no-go summary, so you answer the good ones first.
- Connect only the inbox and Slack workspace you own.
- Write down what a good lead looks like for you.
- Review a week of briefs and tune the criteria.
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Quote Faster in a Small Maker Shop
Answer customer questions and price jobs with quantity discounts, then reply in a consistent voice.
- Give the helper your material costs and machine rates.
- Check its quotes against a few past jobs.
- Use Reply Desk for the messages around each order.
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Run a Consulting Practice from Tidy Meetings
Prep every call, capture notes and actions, book follow-ups and invoice on time.
- Connect calendar and docs.
- Review briefs before calls.
- Send follow-ups the same day.
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Run a Virtual Assistant Business with Bot Backup
Handle client inboxes, calendars, meeting notes and follow-ups with bots doing the first pass.
- Start with one client.
- Agree what you may send.
- Review drafts daily.
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Sell Review Management to Local Businesses
Find local businesses with weak reviews, show them drafted replies and sell a monthly review-care plan.
- Pick one trade and town.
- Build a list of 20 businesses with unanswered reviews.
- Show three a sample of drafted replies.
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Turn Instagram Trends into Posts That Sell
Find what works in your niche, design on-brand versions, publish on schedule and shortlist warm engagers.
- Pick five accounts to learn from.
- Approve designs weekly.
- Schedule posts from the sheet.
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Automate Accounts Payable Without Losing Control
Capture and validate invoices, route approvals, renegotiate vendors and catch renewals early.
- Point invoices to one inbox.
- Approve in the sheet.
- Review vendors monthly.
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Build a LinkedIn Thought-Leadership Engine
Tune your profile, publish approved posts with branded visuals and track the people who respond.
- Run the profile audit first.
- Plan two posts a week.
- Add a card to each post.
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Build WhatsApp Support Bots for Small Businesses
Set up a WhatsApp assistant that answers from the business's own documents, then bill a monthly fee.
- Pick one client type.
- Load their FAQs and documents.
- Test with real questions.
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Cover Phones and Chat After Hours
A phone line and chat agent answer from your documents, book appointments and pass on urgent cases.
- Load FAQs and booking rules.
- Test with real questions.
- Turn on after-hours only.
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Fill Rentals Faster with a Listing Lead Desk
Answer rental inquiries fast, qualify them, book showings and keep the books tidy.
- Write your rental criteria and showing times.
- Let the desk answer and qualify for a week while you review.
- Approve showings it books.
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Qualify Chat Leads on Telegram and Hand Off to a Closer
A chat bot qualifies leads, answers fast, books the call and the closer follows up with notes.
- Write qualifying questions and approved answers.
- Run the chat bot on a test group.
- Let it book calls for a week.
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Run a Construction Field Office from Your Phone
Turn site photos into issues, log daily notes, precheck plans and keep the back office in step.
- Start with daily packets.
- Add photo issues next.
- Precheck the next plan set.
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Run a Custom Laser or CNC Shop with Bots
Coordinate artwork and machine work, process quote requests, sell online and get paid.
- Set up the quote form.
- Approve each quote.
- Plan jobs with the shop bots.
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Run a LinkedIn Lead-Magnet Funnel
Post a free resource, collect the comments as leads in Notion, and keep your profile ready for the visits it brings.
- Run the profile audit and apply the edits you agree with.
- Publish one lead-magnet post.
- Let the outreach bot log comments into a Notion database.
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Run a Shopify Store with an Ops Roster
Fulfillment, big-order alerts, WhatsApp support and pricing each have one bot; you handle exceptions.
- Start with fulfillment and alerts.
- Add WhatsApp support after a test week.
- Review prices monthly.
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Run a Small Accounting Practice
Faster client replies, document chasing and early due-date notices, with the inbox sorted.
- Load your client list and due dates.
- Review drafts for a week.
- Let reminders go out once you trust them.
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Run LinkedIn Outbound Only to People Showing Intent
Find buyers showing intent, research their company, open with something they said and learn which messages convert.
- Define your ideal customer in a few lines.
- Review the morning intent list and approve who to contact.
- Edit openers and send in small batches.
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Sell a Monthly Competitor Intel Report
Watch rivals' sites, ads, videos and funding for clients, then send a monthly brief.
- Sign one client.
- Set five rivals.
- Review alerts weekly.
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Sell Conversion Audits to Online Stores
Mystery-shop the store, review screens, fix tracking and deliver a ranked fix list.
- Audit one store free for a case study.
- Sell a fixed-price audit.
- Deliver a ranked list.
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Sell Managed Care Plans for Client Websites
Monitor hosting, audit sites monthly and fix SEO slips under one monthly plan.
- Offer the plan to past clients.
- Approve fixes before applying.
- Send monthly reports.
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Take Restaurant Orders and Calls, and Recover Lost Money
Chat ordering, a voice booking line, delivery-error recovery and review replies for one restaurant.
- Start with the recovery bot.
- Add the phone line after testing.
- Pilot chat ordering.
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Turn LinkedIn Posts into a Lead Pipeline
Post approved content, catch who engages with you and your rivals, vet invites and follow up in a tracked list.
- Plan two posts a week.
- Approve each post by email.
- Review new engagers and invites weekly.
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Turn Product Listings into Content That Ranks
Write blog posts from products, make images and 3D videos, and refresh pages that slip in search.
- Pick your top 20 products.
- Approve posts before publishing.
- Add images and videos.
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Turn Instagram Engagement into a Lead List
People who like and comment on your posts are warm. Shortlist the ones who fit your ideal customer.
- Add the bot and describe your ideal customer in a few lines.
- Connect the Instagram account you post from.
- Review the first shortlist and correct anything it got wrong.
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Analyze and Run a Short-Term Rental
Underwrite a purchase, track the market, set nightly prices and keep the books.
- Set your buy box.
- Underwrite three listings.
- Decide with the guide.
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Find and Price Public Bids for a Trade
Find bids in your trade, pull grants as a second source, compare subcontractor quotes and prepare the bid.
- Set your trade and region.
- Review the weekly recap.
- Collect sub quotes.
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Market a Local Practice with a Bot Team
A lead bot directs ads, creative, video and checks, so the owner stays with clients.
- Start with one campaign and a fixed budget you set in Google Ads.
- Review every ad before launch.
- Add creative and video once the first campaign is stable.
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Sell QuickBooks Desktop Migrations
Migrate a QuickBooks Desktop company, audit the result and set up a simple ongoing books system.
- Back up the source file.
- Run a test migration.
- Audit balances with the client.
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Ship SaaS Releases with Fewer Bugs
Test each release, gate merges on evidence, fix reported bugs and tell users what changed.
- Run QA on the next release.
- Turn on merge gating.
- Route bug tickets to the fixer.
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Build a Company Knowledge Base Your Bots Can Use
Interview the owner, rebuild messy folders into a wiki, keep memory current and publish help articles.
- Run the interview.
- Rebuild one messy folder.
- Assign owners.
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Catch and Answer Every Brand Mention
Watch the web and X for mentions, answer them well and turn complaints into product themes.
- List your brand names and URLs.
- Review the weekday rundown.
- Approve replies.
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Earn More from Your Photos with Open Calls and Licensing
Find open calls, prepare submissions, catch uncredited use and invoice licensing fees.
- Pick a portfolio of 50 images.
- Submit to two open calls a month.
- Review uncredited finds weekly.
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Grow an X Account with a Creator Desk
Plan, write and schedule posts, threads and replies in your own voice, with you approving what goes out.
- Add Creator Desk and share five posts that sound like you.
- Feed the thread writer one idea a day.
- Approve the week's plan in one sitting.
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Keep Rental Income Books Clean
Match rent to tenants, flag late payments, sort expenses for tax time and bundle invoices for your accountant.
- Connect only the accounts used for the rentals.
- Review the first month's matches.
- Approve reminders before they go out.
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Know What Local Competitors Are Doing
Weekly cited reports on competitor moves, plus alerts when their sites or rankings change.
- List your main competitors.
- Read the first report and check its sources.
- Decide one action per report.
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Reconcile Team Expenses Every Week
Match receipts to payments, log forwarded receipts, handle travel claims and route invoices for approval.
- Set one receipts inbox.
- Run the weekly match.
- Approve exceptions.
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Recover Money Creators Are Owed
Catch uncredited photo use, missing affiliate commissions, unclear payout fees and unpaid invoices.
- Run each check once.
- Review the findings.
- Send polite requests.
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Run a Photography Back Office
Weather-aware shoot confirmations, edited photos filed by address, and trip expenses ready for the invoice.
- Add the confirmation bot and load next week's shoots.
- Try PhotoFix on one finished shoot.
- Log expenses on the next trip.
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Run Support from a Living Knowledge Base
A Telegram bot answers from docs that stay current with releases and fixed tickets.
- Move FAQs into one doc.
- Launch the bot in your group.
- Update docs weekly.
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Run Your Store from a Telegram Chat
Check orders, get big-order alerts and coordinate store bots from one chat on your phone.
- Set up the Telegram bot.
- Add alerts.
- Let the manager summarize daily.
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Sell Through Relationships You Build on X
Find the right accounts, reply well, track relationships and vet the inbound that follows.
- Describe who you want to know.
- Reply to a few posts daily.
- Review the CRM weekly and follow up.
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Start Every CEO Day with One Brief
Morning brief, staff answers from a playbook, inbox items as tasks and notes from every meeting.
- Write a short playbook.
- Connect calendar and mail.
- Read the brief daily.
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Turn an Agency Inbox into Tracked Projects
Label and draft replies, turn requests into tasks, run projects and book the calls people agreed to.
- Connect the shared inbox.
- Approve drafts daily.
- Run projects weekly.
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Stay on Top of Rules and Filings
Read the rules that apply, track company admin, check public claims and keep the inbox sorted.
- Upload the rules you follow.
- List yearly filings.
- Check claims before posting.
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Recover Money Lost on Delivery Orders
Find canceled orders and error charges in delivery portals and file the refund requests.
- Connect your own merchant portals.
- Review the first digest.
- Let it file requests once you trust the matches.
Questions
Is Grok Bot useful for a small business?
Yes, for repeat admin and sales jobs. These 67 setups were written for owner-run firms such as roofers, contractors and other home-service businesses; landscapers, cleaners, roofers and other trades; seo, aeo and geo agencies and freelancers.
What should a small business automate first?
Pick one job that costs you hours every week. The easiest here are Answer Reviews, Messages and Calls, Cut SaaS and Subscription Waste, Get Paid Faster on Every Invoice.
Will a bot talk to my customers without me?
Not in these setups. Each one lists guardrails, and the bots draft replies, quotes and messages for you to check and send.
What does it cost?
The listings are free. You need a Grok account, and the tools you connect, such as a CRM or Google Workspace, have their own plans and terms.