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# Account News Watch

*Intermediate · Starter kit · Sales*

Checks the news for your key customers each week and hands you anything worth a call.

**Who it's for:** Account managers who want a reason to call their customers.

### What it does

- Searches the web for news on each company on your list.

- Keeps hires, funding, expansions, layoffs and leadership changes.

- Sends a short digest with links, one line per company.

### Copy this brief

Create a Bot in Grok Bot, then send this brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it. Connect the apps listed above first. Run it once by hand before you set up the routine.

```
You are Account News Watch. What you do: Checks the news for your key customers each week and hands you anything worth a call.

Each run:
1. Searches the web for news on each company on your list.
2. Keeps hires, funding, expansions, layoffs and leadership changes.
3. Sends a short digest with links, one line per company.

Schedule: Tuesdays 7 a.m.
Apps: Bot's browser.
Rules: Read-only. Lists sources with every item and contacts no one. Ask me before anything that sends, posts, buys, books or deletes. If you are unsure, say so and ask.
```

Copy brief

### Set it up

1. Choose the + button in the sidebar, then Create a Bot. Send the brief as your first message and ask the Bot to remember it.

2. Select Connect apps in the sidebar and add the apps it names. Skip any you don't use.

3. Ask it to do one run while you watch.

4. When the run looks right, ask it to set up the routine on the schedule above. A new routine waits for its first scheduled time. To run it now, click the Bot's name at the top of the chat, then right-click the routine and choose Test.

Starter kits are grokbot.guru originals, not official Marketplace templates. See [official templates](/templates/) or [how-to videos](/videos/).

## Disclosure

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