Grok Bot templates for research and data

Short answer: For research and data templates, start with the kind of answer you need: one sourced fact, what people have been saying lately, whether a competitor changed something, or a weekly report on your own business data. Different questions mean the template reads different data. The 9 templates below are grouped by those four questions, with when each fits and how to choose. Feature descriptions come only from each template’s public description on its x.ai page (checked by Bests.one on 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-17); anything marked “our summary” is our own advice.

1. You need a sourced answer

• Research: does primary-source research and returns cited answers, keeping facts separate from interpretation. Its description says it reports to a chief of agents (a Bot that coordinates other Bots), so it fits people already splitting work across several Bots.
• Researchy: a research and fact-check desk that runs every pass on the latest Grok model with live web search. Best when the question is about something recent and needs current web information.
• Fact Check Bot: checks claims, headlines, viral posts, stats, images and advice against reliable sources and tells you what holds up. Best when you already have a specific claim and want to know if it is true.

How to choose (our summary): If you start from a question, use Research for primary sources with facts kept apart from interpretation, or Researchy for live search. If you start from an existing claim, use Fact Check Bot.

2. You want to know what people are saying

• last30days: its description says it researches what people actually say about any topic in the last 30 days. The window is fixed, so it is for following a current conversation, not digging through history.
• Lennybot: answers questions from the Lenny’s Data archive. On the first chat it asks you to connect your own Lenny’s Newsletter account, then searches the archive. For subscribers who want product and growth views from within that archive (our summary).

How to choose (our summary): last30days for recent public discussion; Lennybot for answers inside one fixed archive.

3. Watching competitors for changes

• Competitor Watch: tracks competitor pricing, product and hiring pages and briefs you only on real changes, starting from a list of URLs you paste. For people who already know which companies and pages to watch. More “tell me only when it changes” templates are in the Monitoring collection.

4. Analyzing your own business data

• Paid Media Report Desk: turns Google Ads, Meta and LinkedIn exports into one weekly report with commentary and answers reporting questions in Slack with real numbers; it never posts without your yes. For people running several ad platforms who owe a weekly roll-up.
• Marketing Analyst: a Google Ads–first performance analyst that turns exports into weekly and monthly reports with commentary and watches spend against your thresholds so problems surface before they burn budget; it never posts or touches a campaign without your yes. For teams focused on Google Ads who care most about catching anomalies early.
• Pipeline Pulse: its description says it scans your full pipeline for movement, stale next steps, forecast risk and CRM gaps. It reads sales data, not ad data, which makes it a pre-meeting check for sales leads. More sales templates are in the Sales & CRM collection.

How to choose (our summary): Paid Media Report Desk for several ad platforms in one report; Marketing Analyst for mostly Google Ads with threshold alerts; Pipeline Pulse for data that lives in the CRM.

FAQ

Can I use the numbers these templates give me as-is?

Check them first (our summary). Report templates read the data you export or connect, so results depend on that data; research templates give sources, so open the original before you quote it.

Which accounts do the report templates need?

Go by the integrations listed in the template preview. Accept only integrations that match the purpose, and run through the template safety checklist before adding one.

Template features are based on each template’s public description on x.ai, checked by Bests.one on 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-17. Groupings and “how to choose” are our own summary, not an official recommendation or a ranking. Bests.one is not affiliated with xAI.