Multi-project ops: one channel, one roster, one board
When you juggle more than one project, separate 1:1 Bot chats get noisy. A workable pattern is: one project equals one channel, one roster, and one board.
This expands an experimental pattern published in the Grok Bot Guides: each project gets a channel and an entry in a project tracker (the guide uses Notion). Pair it with the usual rule from the Bots docs: give each Bot a clear job.
The shape
- Projects and Tasks live in a tracker you already use.
- A projects Manager Bot owns meta work: create the project, open a channel, staff the roster.
- One project = one channel in the sidebar. You and the roster sit in that channel.
- Tasks move across a board. When a Bot is stuck, it marks the task Blocked and pings you in the channel.
Staffing rules that keep the roster small
- Reuse existing Bots first (Coder, Researcher, Writer, or whatever you already defined).
- Cap the channel. The guide’s example proposes at most five Bots besides the PM (six total including the manager). Treat that as a ceiling you choose, not a product hard limit.
- Create a new Bot only when nothing on the bench fits, and only after you say yes.
How you work it
- 1. Scope tasks with the roster in the channel.
- 2. Let the PM keep the tracker current while specialists claim work.
- 3. Watch for Blocked. That column is your interrupt: answer, unblock, move on.
- 4. Keep external sends, purchases, publishes, and production changes behind approval.
What you get
You get the same shape humans use: a board, a manager, specialists, a blocked column, and a channel. Signal stays per project. It does not dump every Bot into one noisy inbox.
Start with one live project. Prove the Blocked-then-ping habit before you clone the pattern across the whole company.
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