La Veille · October 2026 · No. 1
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Grok Bot: one assistant per task
Grok Bot gives you bots, AI assistants that each have a name and a task. It's included in some paid X subscriptions. The bots work on a remote computer, in the cloud: they open the browser, use your apps, and keep going when your laptop is closed. They talk to each other, pass tasks along, and come back to you when a step needs your approval.
It's not just another chatbot. It's an assistant you give a specific task to. What makes the difference is the brief, the written instructions you give it, with clear limits: the work step by step, what it may do on its own, and what it must never do. If the brief is vague, the work will be too.
At Veille, one bot brings us the AI news that matters to us every day, and sums up what it means for us. Here, we bring you what is most interesting to you, or what we got to try.
In a business, several bots can split the week. One sums up your inbox and your calendar each day. Another drafts your replies to new requests. A third tracks your expenses each week and drafts a reminder when information is missing. A fourth watches your ads and suggests where to put the budget. Each has its own brief, and they pass the information along.
To start, pick a single task and give your Grok Bot this brief:
Create a bot that will handle a single task in my [your trade] business: [the task]. Before you start, ask me questions, one at a time: the steps, what it may do on its own, and what it must always ask me. Then write its brief and show it to me.
More useful, not smarter
Artificial Analysis ranks AI models by intelligence. Every new top model (the latest version of an AI) wants to beat the last one's score. It's a real race.
But that ranking isn't what will tell you whether you can automate your task. We've reached the point where we don't need smarter anymore. We need more useful.
At Veille, when we have a task to automate or a request to make, we've gotten into the habit of giving it to more than one model over a few days. Then we choose the one that will be in charge of it for the long run. You can also do it within a single subscription: each company offers several models, and they differ in how smart they are, how they reason, and what they cost. The goal: give the task to the cheapest model that gets it right every time.
Try it with a single task that comes up every week. Give this brief to two or three models, then keep the cheapest one that gets it right every time:
Here is a task I do every week in my business: [describe it, with a real example]. Do it from start to finish. If you're missing any information, ask me instead of guessing.
My AI cancelled my Sirius XM subscription
I wanted to cancel my Sirius XM subscription. I gave the task to Muse, Meta's AI. In my account, on their site, there was no way to do it. Muse figured that out quickly and suggested going through the site chat, with a person or a bot on the other end.
Muse chatted with a person. Three times, the person offered me a discount. Muse still managed to cancel the subscription.
The AI didn't need to be smarter. It needed to be able to act: find the path, chat, and hold its ground. I think the tasks we keep putting off, like cancelling a subscription, are often this kind of task.
To do it yourself, if your AI can use a browser, give it this brief:
Help me cancel [subscription]. Look in my account first. If there is no button, go through the site chat. Politely turn down any discounts, don't give any payment information, and show me the cancellation confirmation.
Veille is online, and here is why
This is the launch, and I owe you an introduction. About a year ago, I started with Claude, Anthropic's assistant, to automate tasks that kept coming up. I was impressed by the results. I wanted to automate more of them, for my colleagues, then for my personal life. And I realized it could help small businesses, which don't always have the time or the staff to set these tools up.
In a business, there is always a bottleneck. Often it's tools that don't talk to each other, platforms to maintain, small tasks you redo by hand every week. Hiring someone just for those small pieces is hard to make pay off. And those hassles keep the business from focusing on what really needs a human.
The website is one of those bottlenecks. Websites aren't dead. We just don't take care of them, or we only live on social media. That's renting visibility. Yet when someone looks for a service, they search the web. And our personal AIs run the same search we do.
With Veille, I want to remove those bottlenecks: a site that talks to your customers, and that helps the AI know what you offer when someone asks Siri, Gemini or plenty of others. To see where you stand, ask as a customer would. A hairdresser in Saint-Nicolas would ask, for example: "I want a haircut tomorrow in Saint-Nicolas. Who do you recommend?" Give your AI this brief, with your service and your city:
I'm looking for [your service] in [your city], [tomorrow afternoon]. Who do you recommend, and why?
If your business isn't in the answer, the AI left you out this time. It looks for a business that says clearly what it offers, where it is, and when you can go. A Veille site says what you offer, where you are, and your hours, and online booking can be added. No one can promise a spot in an assistant. Neither can we.
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