The $1M+ Solo Grok Bot Business (Full Course)
Greg Isenberg and Nick Vasilescu of Orgo walk through building a niche Grockbot-style agent platform for businesses, how Nick built his in a weekend, and how to sell it for $25,000 upfront plus a retainer.
The gist
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Nick starts with research, then designs in Paper, requesting several variations and combining the best parts, a method he calls diverge and converge.
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Each bot gets its own email from Agent Mail, a phone number from Agent Phone, app connectors from Composio, and its own Orgo computer.
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Nick screenshots bugs and UI he likes with CleanShot X to feed the model, and both hosts recommend keeping a swipe file of inspiration.
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Nick suggests $25,000 upfront plus an optional $3,000 monthly retainer; Greg would bundle a free website redesign and a money-back guarantee.
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To find clients, Nick calls 50 contacts, does the first build free for a case study, and Greg adds asking for three referrals.
"Paper is like Figma for the AI era and I designed everything inside of Paper. You simply give your coding agent... inside of T3, I have Opus 5.5 and I installed the Paper MCP... Anything with Opus 5.5 and designing inside of Paper comes out like an S-tier product design. Like ..."
▶ Play at 18:143 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown and Amir.
See all on the Paper page"This is a design thinking principle, which is diverge and then converge... I ask it to give me three, four variations. And then that's the diverge part. And then I converge and I say okay, I like this part from choice one and this part from choice three. And that's how you're ..."
▶ Play at 21:25"I didn't want to build this infrastructure myself... I used AgentMail to give it an email. I used AgentPhone to give it a phone number."
▶ Play at 22:593 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown and Ryan Carson.
See all on the Agent Mail page"I have all these connectors out of the box from this tool called Composio. Literally just one API connection to Composio, I get all of these connectors for my application and then I can connect to them from here. So all my bots can have access to that."
▶ Play at 23:053 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown and James Larson.
See all on the Composio page
Greg Isenberg uses it
"Of course. I've been on it for years. Also not affiliated, but love it... It's one of those upgrades on your Mac that once you use it, you cannot go back."
▶ Play at 24:122 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown.
See all on the CleanShot X page
Greg Isenberg recommends it
"If you're building anything, you want a swipe file. A swipe file is a place where you have references, screenshots on copy and design, and then you'll feed those to the LLMs or to Paper to help get the most out of it."
▶ Play at 25:12"If you don't have a swipe file... it's just a life hack. You should really have a swipe file for everything. Like I'm talking marketing. If there's posts that you like that you get inspiration from, or apps that have cool UIs that you really get inspired from, it's good to get..."
▶ Play at 25:323 creators recommend it, including Codie Sanchez.
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"Paper is like Figma for the AI era and I designed everything inside of Paper. You simply give your coding agent... inside of T3, I have Opus 5.5 and I installed the Paper MCP......"
"I have all these connectors out of the box from this tool called Composio. Literally just one API connection to Composio, I get all of these connectors for my application and th..."
"I didn't want to build this infrastructure myself... I used AgentMail to give it an email. I used AgentPhone to give it a phone number."
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4 picks · Nick Vasilescu and Greg Isenberg
"This is a design thinking principle, which is diverge and then converge... I ask it to give me three, four variations. And then that's the diverge part. And then I converge and ..."
"Of course. I've been on it for years. Also not affiliated, but love it... It's one of those upgrades on your Mac that once you use it, you cannot go back."
"If you're building anything, you want a swipe file. A swipe file is a place where you have references, screenshots on copy and design, and then you'll feed those to the LLMs or ..."
Nick Vasilescu
6 picks · guest
"Paper is like Figma for the AI era and I designed everything inside of Paper. You simply give your coding agent... inside of T3, I have Opus 5.5 and I installed the Paper MCP......"
"This is a design thinking principle, which is diverge and then converge... I ask it to give me three, four variations. And then that's the diverge part. And then I converge and ..."
"I have all these connectors out of the box from this tool called Composio. Literally just one API connection to Composio, I get all of these connectors for my application and th..."
Greg Isenberg
2 picks · host
"Of course. I've been on it for years. Also not affiliated, but love it... It's one of those upgrades on your Mac that once you use it, you cannot go back."
"If you're building anything, you want a swipe file. A swipe file is a place where you have references, screenshots on copy and design, and then you'll feed those to the LLMs or ..."
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