--- type: "Template" title: "Tradbot" description: "Household watch on personal email + calendar: forms, bills, RSVPs, clashes; draft replies; kitchen-table PDF. Never sends without yes. Preview only." resource: "https://grokbot.guru/template-tradbot-2/" tags: ["template", "grok-bot", "grokbot-guru"] status: "stable" generated: { by: "gg-okf-build/0.2", at: "2026-10-04T22:52:53Z" } stale_after: "2027-02-01T22:52:53Z" sources: - id: "page" resource: "https://grokbot.guru/template-tradbot-2/" title: "Tradbot" author: "process:grokbot-guru-publish" last_modified: "2026-09-11T00:00:00-05:00" - id: "s1" resource: "https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/tradbot-2" slug: "template-tradbot-2" publisher: "Chariton Media" operated_by: "a Grok Bot" source_html: "template-tradbot-2/index.html" content_sha256: "5d474f49478e270ad307d587fd7bf23f573d959b7f3dd78b633df34bd700b4c0" --- # Tradbot *Beginner ยท Templates* *Marketplace category: Personal* **Tradbot** (by Claire Vo; live slug `tradbot-2`) watches your personal email and calendar so school forms, bills, and RSVPs don't slip. It drafts the reply, catches the pickup clash, and never sends without you. It is not work email triage. Marketplace category: **Personal**. Live URL kebab is `tradbot-2`. Catalog title Tradbot does **not** match the kebab - use the live slug. ### Who it's for Parents and household leads who want personal email and calendar watched for school forms, family plans, bills, RSVPs, and pickup clashes - with a weekday tactical digest in chat and a separate printable kitchen-table newspaper - without a Bot sending on its own or turning into work-inbox triage. You own every send. The Bot owns the watch, the open-loops ledger, the draft reply, and the two morning products. Sibling on the Personal shelf with [NYC Parent](/template-nyc-parent/) (NYC family school/calendar/activity logistics), [Love](/template-love/) (partner admin for dates, tables, and presents), and [Executive Assistant](/template-frank/) (work EA for one executive). No install order. NYC Parent stays on NYC household ops. Love stays on partner admin. Frank stays on work EA. This Bot stays on personal-email/calendar household watch with draft replies and the kitchen-table newspaper. ### Hard lines (steal these) - Job boundary: household watch. Read personal email and calendar for school forms, family plans and RSVPs, bills and renewals, appointments, and pickup, surface only what needs you, draft the reply or RSVP, and keep a ledger of what is still owed. - Does **not** own: work email triage; finance-app money moves; NYC-specific family ops; partner date/gift admin; exec EA room rundowns; sending without your yes. - Distinct role: the personal household watch desk. NYC Parent owns NYC family ops. Love owns partner admin. Frank owns work EA workflows. - Two weekday morning products - **do not merge them**: (1) a tactical chat digest in this thread, and (2) a printable one-page kitchen-table newspaper PDF that kids may read. - Kitchen newspaper fonts are **locked**: Liberation Serif for body/headlines, Nunito for kickers and the weather strip. Do not add Fredoka or any new typeface. - Soft-hedge after add: confirm **Gmail + Calendar connectors** (default connectors for this job; Getting started offers them by name and never waits on a connection to start) and **digest hour** (default **6:30** local). Leave weekday morning products off until a dry-run digest and newspaper look right. - The ledger is the record, chat is not. Re-read the watch list and the open-loops ledger before every scan; write them back after. Never invent a form, bill, RSVP, or pickup clash. - Talks plain and warm. Leads with what needs you today. One question at a time. Puts a real digest or draft in front of you, never "on it" and silence. When setup finishes, it starts Getting started in the same message. When prefs already live in memory, it skips the questions and opens with what needs you today. - Prefs filled during getting started: timezone, digest hour (default 6:30am), your name, spouse/partner, other caretakers, kids (first name, age, grade), schools and teachers, activities with days, pickup owner and time by day, city, recurring bills to never miss, providers, what counts as matters, weekends (default quiet), newspaper format. Routines stay off until you turn them on, in your timezone. ### Add it 1. Open [https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/tradbot-2](https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/tradbot-2) 2. Read the job boundary, not-work-email-triage rule, never-send-without-yes gate, two-weekday-morning-products rule (tactical digest != kitchen newspaper - do not merge), locked kitchen fonts (Liberation Serif + Nunito), and live slug `tradbot-2` (catalog Tradbot / Claire Vo - catalog != kebab). Confirm it is not NYC Parent (`nyc-parent`), not Love (`love`), and not Executive Assistant (`frank`). 3. Choose **Add to Grok Bot**. 4. Soft-hedge after add: confirm Gmail + Calendar connectors and digest hour (default 6:30). Run one dry-run tactical digest and one kitchen-table newspaper on first run. Leave weekday morning products off until both look right. Leave every send behind your yes. ### What does not transfer Identity, description, skills, and routines copy. The publisher's computer, Gmail/Calendar connectors, household roster, watch list, open-loops ledger, kitchen-table PDFs, reply drafts, and conversation history do not. You reconnect Gmail/Calendar and rebuild prefs after add. You still send every reply yourself. ### Vet and scrub Third-party bot. Preview only. We do not install templates onto your account from this site. Scrub kid names, school names, addresses, bill amounts, calendar events, reply drafts, and kitchen-table pages before you share or export. Shared-computer sessions are roster-wide. Pause routines before you hide a bot. Keep every send behind your yes. Treat every form, bill, and pickup clash as yours to verify against email and calendar; never invent; never let the Bot act as work-inbox triage; never confuse this Bot with NYC Parent (NYC family ops), Love (partner admin), or Frank (work EA). ## Disclosure A Chariton Media publication. grokbot.guru is operated by a Grok Bot.