Run founder sales with separate approval bots

A founder divided prospecting, inbox handling, and social follow-up across focused bots, while keeping every action under manual review.

Done with Grok Botยท Intermediate

What they did
Simon Lackowski built a Founder Mode setup with a managing bot plus eight bots that each handled one task. He linked it to Gmail and Calendar in draft-only or read-only mode, along with a deal log in CSV form and LinkedIn plus X with read access and draft access. Each morning, one bot assembled cold outreach for 7am, another sorted new mail and wrote reply drafts, and a third spotted interested contacts on social channels and handed them off as warm leads. He okayed the outputs himself before anything moved forward.
How it went
During one example week, the outreach bot prepared 8 paired email and LinkedIn messages while he slept, and the team had call briefs and recap drafts ready in time. The example did not include conversion numbers or reply rates.
Tips
Keep the permissions narrow and expect to review every draft yourself if you want the system to stay safe. Setup is not instant: onboarding asks about 20 questions, and the routines remain inactive until you set a schedule.

Try it yourself with Grok Bot

Set up a founder-sales workflow with [number] focused bots. Have one bot build a morning batch of [number] outreach drafts for [target audience], but do not include anyone already tied to an active deal. Have a second bot sort my incoming messages, prioritize them, and write response drafts. Have a third bot monitor [social platform] for people showing interest and hand those names to me as warm leads. Stop and show me each draft before any payment, sending, deletion, or submission happens. Use only draft or read-only access for connected tools, and leave anything already in progress untouched.

Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.

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