A Startup's Grok Bot Signed Up for Competitors' Products and Found Where Users Would Drop Off
A startup founder says Grok Bot's "stalk bot" template signed up for competitors' products, went through their onboarding, compared it with his product's and pointed to where users would drop off.
Who this is about: Crypto AI-agent startup (MinChi; his X bio: building CoinFello)
What it takes
- Cost
- From $30/monthGrok Bot: Premium is $30 a month, Super $100 and Ultra $200, each billed monthly. Grok Bot is included with an eligible Premium, Super, Ultra, Teams or Enterprise plan.Price checked Oct 24, 2026 on x.ai. Prices change; check before you buy.
- Setup time
- Under an hourOur estimate from the source, for one business.
- Skill needed
- No codeApps and settings only.
Explain it simply
A founder wanted to know how rivals welcome new users. He set an AI assistant that has its own computer to find competitors, sign up for their products and report back. It walked through each sign-up process, compared it with his own and showed where people might give up.
What was done
He first built a competitive-intel agent with Claude's managed agents, fed with product context and a compare-and-contrast brief, which posted its report to a Slack channel. He had to start each run himself.
He then tried the Grok Bot "stalk bot" template, which finds competitors, signs up for their products on its own and reports back.
It reported what competitors shipped, posted on X, hired for and seemed to prioritise, and walked their onboarding on its own computer.
How it went
It went through competitors' onboarding, compared it with his product's and pointed to likely drop-off points, which he says came as his team was revamping onboarding. No figures were shared.
- It offered to record the login, connect and first-automation screens next and mark exact drop-off steps.
- Signing up for rivals' products may break their terms of service; check before you run it.
- Short post after a few days of testing.
Prompt
Find our top [5] competitors for [product] and for each one:
1. Sign up for a free account using [test email]. Don't enter payment details or accept paid trials.
2. Go through onboarding up to the first useful result, noting every screen, field and wait.
3. Compare each step with our onboarding: [link or notes].
4. List the steps where a new user is most likely to give up, and why.
Report only. Don't contact anyone at the competitors.Setup notes
- Give the Bot a separate test email address for sign-ups.
- Tell it never to enter payment details, and check each competitor's terms first.
Business fit
Who this helps, and how:
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