Alexworks

if you have a team of grok bots, here's something you need to try i gave my chief of staff bot an assignment: help every other bot on my team get better at its job the instructions were pretty simple for each bot, i asked it to: 1. find 3 books related to its role 2. research the ideas from those books 3. save the useful knowledge as a skill 4. decide how it could apply that knowledge to its work 5. report back to the chief of staff with what it learned and what it plans to do differently so instead of me researching books for every role and writing instructions for every bot myself i gave the job to the person... well, bot, that already coordinates the team haha the part i find interesting is saving the knowledge as a skill i don't just want a summary sitting in a chat that gets forgotten. i want the bot to have something it can refer back to when it's actually doing its job for example, if a bot helps me write video scripts, it could research storytelling and hooks, save the useful principles, and use them the next time i ask for a script then the chief of staff gets a report on what each bot found and how it plans to use it i'm still testing this, so i'm not going to pretend my bots suddenly became experts or that every book was read cover to cover. i'll have to check the sources and see if their work actually gets better but as an experiment, i like the idea of giving each bot a way to improve its own playbook instead of starting from scratch every time basically sent my entire bot team back to school haha if you try it, i'd be curious what books your bots pick

the job takes a day and getting paid for it takes 3 weeks feels like a lot of guys in the trades do the work twice, once on site and once chasing the invoice

starting to think every automation should start as a boring google sheet haha if nobody opens the sheet, nobody's opening the fancy dashboard either

nothing kills trust faster than a surprise on the bill even $20 extra feels huge when nobody mentioned it first the businesses that send a quick heads up before adding something get a pass from me every time

first remembrance day as a dad hits different holding my son and thinking about the ones who never got to come home to theirs lest we forget

a lot of people only get time to message a business at night, after their own job same time the owner finally puts the phone down by the time the reply comes the next afternoon, they already booked someone else

my worst habit as a builder is solving problems nobody has yet haha small businesses don't need 14 edge cases handled they need the one text that goes out every single time

a quick "running 20 min late, sorry" text from a tradesperson builds more trust than showing up on time with no word it's the silence that makes people nervous most small businesses lose trust in the quiet parts, not the work

army taught me to stay calm when things go sideways then i met a 4am diaper blowout with a newborn haha calm is a strong word for what happened

"we'll call you back" is where a lot of jobs quietly die not because owners don't care, they're just slammed and the callback list lives in their head that's the stuff i want off their plate

most of what i build for small businesses is boring on purpose haha someone asks for a price, they get a reply in a minute, two quick questions, then a booking link the owner just reads a summary when they're off the job

the businesses i keep going back to aren't the cheapest ones they're the ones that answer the same day and remember me from last time feels small, but man that's most of it

ONE quiet week on here opened analytics to few to none impressions, a bunch of unfollows and red everywhere i was gone for a week damn 😂

the army drilled one thing into me: prep your gear before you need it turns out that's the whole newborn game too haha. bag packed and everything laid out the night before, because 3am me can't be trusted to make decisions

real question for guys running a service business when's the last time you messaged an old customer just to see if they need you again ?

thought army shifts had me used to running on no sleep then my son showed up haha

started writing my posts the night before and scheduling them this week turns out the hardest part of building in public as a new dad was just finding a free hand at the right time haha

owners, honest question do you actually ask customers for a review after the job, or just hope they leave one ?

no such thing as sleeping in on sunday anymore haha 5am and my son's wide awake like he's got somewhere to be

be honest, how much of sunday night is just catching up on the week not the actual work the admin that waited curious what yours looks like

saturday with a newborn and the laptop keeps looking at me part of me wants family day part of me wants one more alexworks tweak before monday still figuring out which voice wins haha