For Civic journalist · 9 Grok Bots

Cover every meeting on your beat — even the four you couldn't attend

9 Grok Bots for a local-government reporter: scan every civic meeting for the one that is a story, draft and track your open-records requests, cross-check every claim against a primary source, and draft in your house style — all as leads and drafts you report out and file under your own byline.

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● Drafts only — nothing sends without your approval · Uses only your own data
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9 bots·3 domain specialists·Success metric: Beat coverage and records-request follow-through·Category: Creators & media
The problem it targets

Covering a beat you cannot physically be everywhere on — reading every council, school-board, and commission meeting to find the one that is a story, chasing agendas and packets, drafting and re-drafting open-records requests to the right custodian, tracking which requests are overdue, and cross-checking every fact against a primary source before filing — so meetings go uncovered, records requests stall, and a story is only as fast as one reporter can read.

What you get

From day one

1

A daily ranked list of story leads from Citizen Portal — each with the clip or transcript link, a two-sentence why-this-might-be-a-story, and a what-to-verify checklist — so no meeting on your beat goes unread.

2

Open-records requests drafted to the right custodian in the right statutory language, plus a tracker that flags stonewalling and blown statutory deadlines before they cost you a story.

3

Every claim in a draft cross-checked against a primary source and flagged confirmed or unconfirmed, then a house-style story draft you report out, verify, and file under your own byline.

Meet the team

9 bots, each with one job and clear approval points

Read-only bots watch and prepare; drafting bots write but never send. You approve everything that leaves.

1

Chief of Staff

coach
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Your morning brief, meeting prep, fleet roundup, and after-meeting coaching.
Approves: none — nothing leaves without you
2

Agenda & Tip Intake

intake
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
A running lead log of tips, press releases, and agenda packets, tagged by body, date, and beat keyword
Approves: none (nothing leaves; the list is internal)
3

Citizen Portal Story-Finder

researcher
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
A daily ranked list of story leads from Citizen Portal — each a clip/transcript link, a why-this-might-be-a-story, and a what-to-verify checklist
Approves: none (leads and source material only; never a finished article)
4

Beat Researcher

researcher
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
People, entities, votes, campaign-finance and property records for a lead, fact separate from hypothesis, each linked
Approves: none (nothing leaves; research is internal)
5

Records-Request Draft & Tracker

tracker
specialist
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Drafted open-records requests to the right custodian, and the statutory-clock tracker that flags stonewalling and blown deadlines
Approves: every request before it is sent
6

Fact-Check & Verification Reviewer

specialist
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
A claim-by-claim cross-check of every draft against primary sources, each flagged confirmed / unconfirmed / contradicted
Approves: none (flags only; never rewrites or files)
7

Story Drafter

drafter
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
A house-style, AP-style story draft with confirmed and unconfirmed facts separated and every claim sourced
Approves: every draft; the reporter reports out, verifies, and files under their byline
8

Beat Desk Digest

reporter
read-only
Watches & prepares — never sends
The daily beat digest — tonight's agendas, records due or overdue, and what changed on open leads
Approves: none (nothing leaves; the reporter acts on it)
9

Social & Audience

growth
Drafts for your review — you approve before anything leaves
Draft posts and outreach to your own audience, credited and approved by you.
Approves: sends
The handoff — one shared chat
Intake→Story-Finder→Researcher→Tracker→Reviewer→Drafter→Digest
What the fleet does in week one

All read-and-prepare — you check its work before anything is trusted

What it does not do

The guardrails are the product

  • ×It surfaces leads and drafts; it does not publish. Every story, post, and records request waits for your review and files under your byline, not the bot's.
  • ×It never invents a quote, a fact, or a source, and it never stores or routes a confidential tip or a source's identity through a third-party service.
  • ×It uses only official public data portals and published APIs and respects each portal's terms; if a site blocks it, it treats that as a no and hands the step to you.
Beat
coverage and records-request follow-through
How you'll know it's working

One number, measured over time

Share of the beat's public meetings surfaced as a reviewed story lead, and the share of open-records requests tracked to a response or a flagged missed deadline

Before day one

What you fill in — the bots never guess these

lead-list
the header contract for the running lead list every bot reads and writes.
beat-profile
your bodies, geography, and beat keywords; the Story-Finder scans Citizen Portal against exactly this.
records-request
your jurisdiction's statutory language and the custodian list; records requests are drafted only from here.
Pricing

Cancel anytime.

Workplace AI provisions and runs your CrokPot fleet on our Cursor Teams workspace. We invite you on your own email — you accept, install Grok Bot, and we handle the rest.
$200/mo
  • Your whole fleet provisioned and installed for you
  • Cursor Teams seat included — paid by Workplace AI, never billed by Cursor
  • Onboarding + ongoing training
Hire the team
Your Cursor Teams seat is included and paid by Workplace AI. Drafts only, using your own data. No earnings, time-saved, or outcome guarantees are made.
How access works

You buy a CrokPot fleet from Workplace AI — not a Cursor plan

CrokPot runs on Workplace AI, Inc.’s (WAI) Cursor Teams workspace. WAI keeps the unpaid admin seat and pays Cursor for your seat. You join as the invited user on your real email and work through the installed Grok Bot fleet.

Your card is charged by WAI via Stripe for the CrokPot fleet ($200/mo, auto-renewing monthly) only — never by Cursor. If you cancel your fleet subscription, the invite/seat ends with it and is not portable to your own Cursor account.

FAQ

What you get, who owns the seat, and what happens after you pay

From the team behind Ancestry — CrokPot is built by Paul Allen, a co-founder of Ancestry.com.

Drafts only — you approve everythingYour own data, never shared$200/mo · cancel anytimeProvisioned & supported by Workplace AI

What do I actually get?

A pre-built fleet of Grok Bots for your trade, provisioned and installed for you on Workplace AI’s Cursor Teams workspace, plus onboarding and ongoing training. Every bot drafts; you approve.

Who owns the seat?

Workplace AI, Inc. (WAI) owns the Cursor Teams account and pays Cursor for your seat. You’re invited as a paid user on your own email. The seat isn’t portable to a personal Cursor account.

Do the bots act on their own?

No. The fleet is drafts-only, working from your own data. Nothing sends, files, or is trusted until you review and approve it — that’s the whole design.

Can I cancel?

Yes, anytime. It’s an auto-renewing monthly subscription at $200/mo. If you cancel, your invite/seat ends with the subscription.

What happens after I pay?

We follow up soon: our team provisions your fleet and invites you on the email you used at checkout. Watch for your Cursor Teams invite and Grok Bot download link, then accept, install, and go.

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