# Grok bot setups — one option among several

A Grok bot is a software helper with a computer and access to your apps, usually reached through Cursor or an xAI business plan. It can research, draft, and act. It is useful only when it reads agreed facts first, and a person can reject its output.

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

## Steps

1. **Name the job.** Write the repeating work in one sentence. Name the person who can reject a sloppy draft. If you cannot name the job, do not buy extra seats or start a setup.
2. **Run a Field Survey.** Spend two to three weeks looking at the job, the tools you already pay for, and the facts a helper would need. Helixfield prices this at $9,500. It does not include a live helper.
3. **Pick Grok only if it fits.** Choose Grok Business seats, a Cursor computer, the xAI API, or a mix from the job — not from a demo. If OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini is the better fit, that is the setup. Many companies end up mixed.
4. **Write down the facts.** List the facts, rules, systems, people, and open questions the helper must follow. Mark each one proposed, accepted, or ask. Chat history is not memory.
5. **Connect only the tools the job needs.** Hook up the software the work already lives in. Write permissions down. A helper that can click every app is a liability.
6. **Score it on real work.** Test the helper on live jobs, not a scripted demo. Missing facts become questions. Invented numbers fail the test.
7. **Teach the owner.** The owner learns four simple steps: gather facts, do the job, write down what changed, save it. They must be able to reject a bad fact and refuse an outbound draft.
8. **Accept the handoff.** A named person accepts the setup before it touches clients. Anything that leaves the company stays a draft until someone says send. Thirty days of fixes follow launch.

## Questions

### What is a Grok bot for business?

A Grok bot is a software helper with a computer and access to your apps, usually reached through Cursor or an xAI business plan. It can research, draft, and act. It is useful only when it reads agreed facts first, and a person 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. Usage overages are extra.

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

The survey is two to three weeks. A single-helper setup 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 is common when the helper needs a shared computer. Some jobs belong on Grok Business seats or the xAI API instead. The Field Survey picks from the job.

### What does Helixfield not install?

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