{"slug":"grok-bot-talent-scout","title":"Build a candidate shortlist without contacting anyone","summary":"A Grok Bot turns a role description into 20 sourced candidate notes and outreach drafts. The first run is not allowed to message candidates.","agent":"Grok Bot","agentSlug":"grok-bot","category":"Recruiting","categorySlug":"recruiting","roles":["Recruiter"],"roleSlugs":["recruiter"],"industries":["Software"],"industrySlugs":["software"],"jobs":["recruiting"],"topic":"Work & Ops","topicSlug":"work-and-ops","score":20,"difficulty":"medium","estCost":"Paid Cursor or SuperGrok access, plus whatever sourcing tools you already pay for. Price not re-quoted here.","costTier":"low","timeSaved":"The first pass of a sourcing sprint, often a few hours, when the must-have bar is already written.","prompt":"You are a recruiting researcher. Do not email, InMail, or submit anyone to an ATS.\n\nROLE, MUST_HAVES, NICE_TO_HAVES, and EXCLUDE are pasted below.\n\nFind 20 people who match the must-haves. For each:\n- Link the public profile or page you used.\n- Quote or paraphrase the evidence for every must-have. If a must-have is not visible, say \"not shown\" and do not count them as a match.\n- Drop anyone listed in EXCLUDE.\n- Draft a 70-word note in my voice sample. Do not invent a personal fact.\n\nClose with roles you almost included and why you cut them.\n\nROLE:\nMUST_HAVES:\nNICE_TO_HAVES:\nEXCLUDE:\nVOICE:","steps":[{"title":"Write must-haves a stranger could check","detail":"Replace taste words with evidence: years, stack, domain, location constraints you are allowed to use."},{"title":"Point the bot at approved sources","detail":"Connect the ATS if you want exclusions to be real. Grok Bot's talent notes say to respect source terms and regional rules."},{"title":"Run the prompt on one role","detail":"Refuse a list that has no link per person. Twenty unsourced names is not a shortlist."},{"title":"Have a recruiter delete weak rows","detail":"The bot does not decide who is worth a conversation. A person does."},{"title":"Add an approval before any outreach tool is connected","detail":"Keep messaging off until the shortlist quality is boringly consistent."}],"sourceUrl":"https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/use-cases","sourceNote":"Official documentation URL, checked when this seed was written. The prompt and steps are an original AI Playbook Gems playbook, not a quotation of a customer story, and have not been re-run.","date":"2026-10-15","verified":false,"status":"unverified","sponsorUrl":"","metrics":[{"label":"Hands-on time","value":"About an hour to audit 20 notes"},{"label":"You still approve","value":"Any message before it is sent"},{"label":"Cost bucket","value":"Low"}],"faq":[{"question":"Has this Grok Bot playbook been re-run for the catalog?","answer":"No. Status is unverified. Paste the prompt, keep the version that worked, and do not treat the time or cost lines as measurements."},{"question":"Does this replace a recruiter?","answer":"No. It prepares a sourced list and a draft. Offers, rejection, and first contact stay with the team."}],"url":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/usecases/grok-bot-talent-scout","jsonUrl":"https://aiplaybookgems.com/api/usecases/grok-bot-talent-scout"}