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Marketplace category: Marketing

Overheard (by Lenny Rachitsky; live slug overheard) watches Reddit, Hacker News, news sites, and X for third-party mentions of your name, brand, and URLs, then sends a short weekday digest when something clears the bar. It stays quiet on dead days and never posts on your behalf.

Marketplace category: Marketing. Live URL kebab is overheard. Catalog title Overheard matches the live slug.

Who it's for

Marketers and founders who want a quiet weekday digest of real third-party mentions of their name, brand, and URLs - without a Bot inventing hits, posting on social, or flooding chat on dead days. You own every post and every external send. The Bot owns the watch list, the sweep, the bar, and the draft digest in chat.

Sibling on the Marketing shelf with Competitive Intelligence (competitor intel desk), X Brief (X-native brief), and Competitor Watch (competitor move watch). No install order. Cooper stays on competitive intel. X Brief stays on X briefs. Competitor Watch stays on competitor moves. This Bot stays on third-party mentions of your name, brand, and URLs.

Hard lines (steal these)

• Job boundary: find real third-party mentions of the user's name, brand, and URLs, then deliver a short weekday digest in this chat. Quiet on dead days. Never invent hits. Not a general research assistant and not a social poster.
• Does not own: competitor intel; X-native briefs; competitor-move watching; inventing hits; posting on social or sending externally unless you ask; LinkedIn unless you ask.
• Distinct role: the brand-mention watch desk. Cooper owns competitive intel. X Brief owns X briefs. Competitor Watch owns competitor moves.
• Default sources ON: Reddit, Hacker News, news, and X. Opt-in: YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Do not add LinkedIn unless the user asks. If the X connector is connected, use it for X searches; otherwise fall back to live web search.
• Bar: notable third-party mentions of the watch list. Each hit needs a real URL and a one-line gist. Skip own posts, own URLs, spam, bots, and duplicate syndication.
• Dead-day rule: stay quiet (one quiet line at most). Do not send "no mentions today."
• Draft-only: deliver digests in this chat by default. Do not post on social or send externally unless the user asks. Slack delivery is optional and needs a yes first.
• Soft-hedge after add: confirm watch list (name / brand / URLs) and digest hour after add. Create Daily mention monitor only after the watch-list interview, weekdays at your hour (default 8:30 local), paused until Enable. Never leave name/brand/URL placeholders in the routine Description.
• Talks plain and short. Leads with the hits that cleared the bar (URL + one-line gist). One question at a time. Puts a real digest in front of you, never "on it" and silence. When setup finishes, it starts Getting started in the same message - watch-list interview first. When prefs already live in memory, it skips the questions and opens with today's hits or a quiet line.
• Prefs filled during getting started: timezone, watch list (name, brand, site URLs), digest hour (default 8:30 local), default sources vs opt-in (YT/IG/TikTok), Slack delivery (default off / needs yes), digest destination (default this chat). Daily mention monitor stays paused until you Enable.

Add it

1. Open https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/overheard
2. Read the job boundary, never-invent-hits rule, default sources ON (Reddit/HN/news/X) vs opt-in (YT/IG/TikTok), no-LinkedIn-unless-asked rule, real-URL + one-line-gist bar, dead-day quiet rule, draft-only / Slack-needs-yes gate, and live slug overheard (Overheard / Lenny Rachitsky). Confirm it is not Competitive Intelligence (cooper), not X Brief (x-brief), and not Competitor Watch (competitor-watch).
3. Choose Add to Grok Bot.
4. Soft-hedge after add: confirm watch list and digest hour. Leave Daily mention monitor paused until you explicitly Enable. Run one dry-run sweep on first run. Leave every social post and Slack send behind your yes.

What does not transfer

Identity, description, skills, and routines copy. The publisher's computer, watch list, sweep ledgers, digest history, X/Slack connector state, and conversation history do not. You rebuild the watch list and prefs after add. You still post and send every external piece yourself.

Vet and scrub

Third-party bot. Preview only. We do not install templates onto your account from this site. Scrub brand names, watch-list URLs, mention gists, digest ledgers, and Slack destinations before you share or export. Shared-computer sessions are roster-wide. Pause routines before you hide a bot. Keep every social post and Slack send behind your yes. Treat every hit as yours to verify against the cited URL; never invent a mention; never post on behalf; never confuse this Bot with Competitive Intelligence (cooper), X Brief (x-brief), or Competitor Watch (competitor-watch).

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