These four official Marketplace templates cover different research jobs: watching mentions of your name, summarizing what people said about a topic, tearing down named competitors, and checking whether AI assistants recommend you. Choose by the output you need, then review source access, research identities, and any sending destinations before connecting accounts.
Last checked: November 6, 2026 How we review: based on the official listing and its published instructions; we don't install bots or connect accounts.
Overheard — Lenny Rachitsky
What it does: watches Reddit, Hacker News, news sites, and X for third-party mentions of your name, brand, and URLs, then delivers a short weekday digest when something clears its bar. It stays quiet on dead days and is not a general research assistant or a social poster.
Who it is for: founders and operators who want notable third-party mentions collected in chat, rather than a full competitive teardown or a 30-day topic brief.
Integrations: X and Slack are optional. The X connection improves X coverage over live web search; Slack can deliver the digest after you approve a channel. YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok are opt-in sources. LinkedIn is added only if you ask.
Routines: one routine, Daily mention monitor, is created after the watch-list interview as a paused weekday-morning sweep (default 8:30 local). The listing says to enable it only when you say so.
Safety: Overheard searches public sources for the names, brands, and URLs you put on its watch list and may send digests to Slack if you approve that destination; it says it never posts on your behalf and stays draft-only in chat unless you ask, so check sources, the optional X and Slack connections, and the paused Daily mention monitor in the Add preview.
Setup time: not given in the listing.
Read our Overheard by Lenny Rachitsky guide or its official listing.
last30days — Matt Van Horn
What it does: researches what people actually said about a topic in the last 30 days and writes a grounded brief. The listing says it installs the latest last30days skill from GitHub, walks first-run setup, then draws from Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web.
Who it is for: researchers and operators who want a recent, source-backed read on a topic rather than a brand-mention digest or a competitor signup workflow.
Integrations: none are named as Marketplace connectors. Setup is described through the GitHub skill, ScrapeCreators via GitHub for credits, and optional X, YouTube, and free CLIs. Reddit is built in via keyless RSS and shreddit, with ScrapeCreators as backup.
Routines: none shown on the public listing. The page does say to check GitHub every 30 days for a newer skill version.
Safety: last30days installs a GitHub skill and may need source credentials or an X sign-in on the computer it runs on; its instructions say not to use a Marketplace X plugin, not to silently read browser cookies, never to overwrite the existing env file, and never to print secrets, so review those setup steps, stored keys, and source access before a run.
Setup time: not given in the listing. Skill installation and first-run source setup are extra steps beyond adding the template.
Read our last30days review and setup guide or its official listing.
Stalk Bot — Shub Gaur
What it does: watches named competitors across mail, product, site, pricing, changelog, X, and jobs, reports what changed against your baseline, and ends each substantive pass with counterpositioning. It signs up for competitor newsletters and products under its own research email, walks onboarding on video, and can run an opt-in churn and winback handoff.
Who it is for: product and marketing teams that want a recurring competitor brief with evidence, rather than a mention digest or an AI-answer scoreboard.
Integrations: AgentMail is preferred for research inboxes. X is used read-only for radar and complaint mining. Gmail is a fallback that puts newsletters and trials on your address. Slack can deliver the pulse. Salesforce and Google Sheets are optional and read-only for the churn module.
Routines: three routines ship disabled: Competitor pulse (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9am in your timezone unless you pick another cadence), Weekly deep dive (Friday 10am, one competitor in rotation, report only), and Competitor churn watch (weekdays at 10am, only useful once you name a churn source, and it never sends).
Safety: Stalk Bot creates research identities, signs up for competitor newsletters and products, walks onboarding, reads that research mail, and can watch X, jobs, and site changes; it says it never posts publicly, never contacts competitor staff or customers, never uses your personal login, and never sends winback messages, so inspect identities, AgentMail or Gmail access, X, optional Slack and CRM connections, module scope, and the three disabled routines in the Add preview.
Setup time: not given in the listing.
Read our Stalk Bot review and setup guide or its official listing.
AI Search Visibility — Adam Tanguay
What it does: runs a fixed list of buyer prompts against AI answer surfaces and search results it can reach, plus answers you paste from assistants you are signed into, then scores where you and each rival land as recommended, cited, mentioned, or absent. Movement becomes a weekly brief with one named action.
Who it is for: marketers and founders who need to know whether assistants and Google name them for buyer questions, rather than monitoring public mentions or walking a competitor product.
Integrations: Slack can post the weekly brief; Notion can keep the prompt list, briefs, and fix list; Linear can turn fixes into issues; Hex can chart the scoreboard; Profound can widen AI-answer capture; Google Sheets can read and write sheets.
Routines: Weekly visibility brief runs the whole prompt list and reports what moved. Top prompt spot check re-runs the top five prompts twice a week and speaks up when you drop out of an answer or a new name appears. Both stay off until you turn them on and run in your timezone.
Safety: AI Search Visibility stores prompt lists, captured answers, and scoreboards, and it can post briefs or create issues if Slack, Notion, Linear, Hex, Profound, or Google Sheets are connected; it says it drafts by default and never posts, sends, runs ads, or publishes without your yes, so check those destinations and both disabled routines in the Add preview.
Setup time: not given in the listing. An instruction to show a first result quickly describes response behavior, not account setup.
Read our AI Search Visibility review and setup guide or its official listing.
How to add a research template
- Open the official listing and verify the creator and intended job.
- Choose Add on a Marketplace card or Import Bot on its page. The official guide describes Add to Grok Bot.
- Review the preview's context and integrations, including skills, research identities, source access, and any routines.
- Choose Add Bot after reviewing access. You receive a separate bot copy, not a clone of the creator's environment.
- Reinstall any plugins or skills your copy needs, including the last30days GitHub skill if you chose that template.
- Start with one non-sensitive query or competitor. Leave routines off until you have reviewed a manual result.
Build your own
Start with a single output: a mention digest, a 30-day topic brief, a competitor pulse, or a visibility scoreboard. Write down the sources it may read, what it must not invent, and which actions stop for your review.
Then try the workflow on a small example. Keep useful steps, remove unnecessary access, and document setup requirements before sharing the template.
FAQ
Which research template should I start with?
Pick the narrowest job: Overheard for third-party mentions of your name or brand, last30days for what people said about a topic, Stalk Bot for named-competitor teardowns, or AI Search Visibility for whether assistants recommend you.
Which of these templates can sign up or send on my behalf?
Stalk Bot signs up for competitor newsletters and products under a research identity it creates, and it says it never posts or contacts staff or customers. Overheard and AI Search Visibility say they draft in chat and need your yes before sending or posting. last30days is described as research and setup, not outbound sending.
How long does setup take?
None of the four public listings gives an installation-time estimate. last30days also requires installing its GitHub skill and completing first-run source setup before a brief.
Return to the Grok Bot templates hub.