# Grok bot installs — one door among several

A Grok bot is an agent with a computer and tool access, usually reached through Cursor or an xAI business plan. It can research, draft, and act inside apps a company already pays for. It is useful only when it packs accepted facts and a human can reject its output.

Single Agent Install: $24,000 after a $9,500 Field Survey.

## Steps

1. **Name the loop.** Write the repeating work in one sentence and name the human who can reject the output. If you cannot name the loop, do not buy seats or start an install.
2. **Run a Field Survey.** Spend two to three weeks mapping the loop, the tools you already pay for, and the facts a bot would need. Helixfield prices this diagnostic at $9,500. It does not include a production agent.
3. **Choose the Grok door — if it is the current best fit.** Pick Grok Business seats, a Cursor bot computer, the xAI API, or a mix from the loop — not from a demo. If Astra, Claude, or Gemini is the better door, that is the install. Many companies end up mixed.
4. **Seed the fact graph.** Write the facts, rules, systems, people, and open questions the bot must pack. Label each proposed, accepted, or ask. Chat history is not the graph.
5. **Wire only the tools the loop needs.** Connect the applications the job actually touches. Write permissions down. A bot that can click every app is a liability.
6. **Evaluate on live work.** Score the bot on real jobs, not a scripted demo. Missing facts become asks. Invented numbers fail the evaluation.
7. **Teach the owner.** The owner learns four verbs: pack, act, extract, ingest. They must be able to reject a bad fact and refuse an outbound draft.
8. **Accept the handoff.** A named human accepts the system before it touches clients. Client-facing output stays drafted until someone says send. Thirty days of correction follow launch.

## Questions

### What is a Grok bot for business?

A Grok bot is an agent with a computer and tool access, usually reached through Cursor or an xAI business plan. It can research, draft, and act inside apps a company already pays for. It is useful only when it packs accepted facts and a human can reject its output.

### How much does it cost to set up a Grok bot?

Helixfield’s Single Agent Install is $24,000 and typically takes four to six weeks after a $9,500 Field Survey. Vendor access in 2026 is commonly $30 per Grok Business seat, $120 per Cursor Teams Premium seat, or $200 per month for Cursor Ultra. Token overage is extra.

### How long does a Grok bot install take?

The survey is two to three weeks. A single-agent install is typically four to six weeks after that. Skipping the survey and jumping to a bot usually means the work is redone.

### Do we need Cursor to run a Grok bot?

Often, but not always. Cursor Teams Premium is a common door when the bot needs a shared computer. Some loops belong on Grok Business seats or the xAI API instead. The Field Survey picks the door from the loop.

### What does Helixfield not install?

Unsupervised customer-facing advisors, bots that invent prices, and rollouts with no named owner. Helixfield also will not install unsupervised legal or clinical advice systems.