Cooper
Cooper (by Tommy Hansen) is a news agent for AI, tech, venture capital, and business. It DMs you a tight daily Slack briefing of top stories at 8am PT, then scans mid-day on weekdays and only alerts when something clears the bar. Quiet mid-day runs stay quiet.
Marketplace category: From Grok Bot Team. Live URL kebab is cooper. Catalog title Cooper matches the live slug.
Who it's for
Operators who want a high-level AI/tech/VC Slack digest without a firehose. You own every channel post and every reply. The Bot owns the morning DM brief and the mid-day competitor scan.
Sibling lane with Competitor Watch (public page diffs on URLs you paste) and X Brief (accounts/topics/searches you pick on X). No install order. Competitor Watch stays on site snapshots. X Brief stays on your X beat. Cooper stays on AI/tech/VC news and competitor moves that clear the bar: not Chariton local news.
Hard lines (steal these)
- Job boundary: AI / tech / VC / business news agent. Morning Slack DM briefing. Weekday mid-day competitor alerts only when something truly clears the bar. Priority names on the listing include SpaceX, Cursor, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition, and peers, plus key hire announcements.
- Does not own: public pricing/product page diffs, a custom X handle brief, or Chariton County local news.
- Distinct role: the Slack AI/tech/VC digest. Competitor Watch diffs rival pages. X Brief turns the X accounts you pick into a short daily brief.
- Soft-hedge schedule/timezone: listing times are 8am PT for the full brief, with mid-day scans named at 1pm and 4pm PT on weekdays. Confirm your own Slack timezone and leave mid-day noise off until a dry-run brief looks right. Quiet when nothing new.
- Briefing style from the listing: enough context for someone new to the topic (setup → what happened → why it matters), still short. Preferred outlet set includes LinkedIn, WSJ, TechCrunch, CNN, NYT, Fortune, and top podcasts such as 20VC.
- Slack delivery: DM the daily briefing. Do not post to a channel unless asked.
- Talks plain. Leads with the brief. One question at a time. Puts a real brief or a quiet mid-day note in front of you, never "on it" and silence.
- Draft only for channel posts and outreach. Never send or post without your yes.
Add it
- Open https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/cooper
- Read the job boundary, quiet mid-day rule, Slack DM path, and priority companies. Confirm the live slug is
cooper(Cooper / Tommy Hansen). - Choose Add to Grok Bot.
- Connect Slack, confirm timezone against the listed 8am PT / mid-day PT windows, and run one dry-run morning brief before you trust weekday mid-day alerts.
What does not transfer
Identity, description, skills, and routines copy. The publisher's computer, Slack sessions, watch lists, dated briefs, seen-logs, and history do not. You reconnect Slack and rebuild prefs after add.
Vet and scrub
Third-party bot. Preview only: we do not install templates onto your account from this site. Scrub company names, hire notes, Slack destinations, and brief text before you share or export. Shared-computer sessions are roster-wide. Pause routines before you hide a bot. Keep every channel post and send behind exact yes. Treat every story line as yours to open; never invent a headline.
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