“Making $$$ with Grok Bot Greg Isenberg Billy Howell runs The Arlington Bagel, a Thursday local newsletter for 6,000 Arlingtonians, with a Grockbot agent team consisting of a chief of staff, research, sales, Beehive, and other specialized agents.”

#13 ▶️ Making $$$ with Grok Bot Greg Isenberg Billy Howell runs The Arlington Bagel, a Thursday local newsletter for 6,000 Arlingtonians, with a Grockbot agent team consisting of a chief of staff, research, sales, Beehive, and other specialized agents. Billy Howell keeps one business per Grockbot account to avoid context bloat and token consumption; he pays $200 for a separate Grockbot account dedicated to a Shopify experiment. His four-week Grockbot workflow is: build the initial team in week one, execute without adding agents or tinkering in week two, add or remove agents for real gaps in week three, and add automated routines in week four. The Arlington Bagel research agent checks sources twice weekly and creates Notion cards; Make.com formats newsletter blurbs, Beehive sends the issue each Thursday, and the Gmail-connected sales agent found a local bagel-shop sponsorship lead.

“▶️ Biggest Unlock for AI Agents in 2026: Skillsmaxxing Greg Isenberg Remy stores company agent skills as Markdown SOPs in a GitHub repository, converts the repository into department-specific plugins with JSON files, and installs those plugins in Claude Code and Codex with auto-update enabled.”

GenAI PM Daily August 20, 2026 GenAI PM Daily 🎧 Listen to this brief 3 min listen Today's top 20 insights for PM Builders, ranked by relevance from Blogs, X, YouTube, and LinkedIn. OpenAI announces Zero Data Retention for frontier models #1 📝 OpenAI News Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models - OpenAI announces offering zero data retention for frontier models, committing to not retain user data for those models and clarifying how this impacts customers and data handling. The post outlines the company's privacy-focused approach for frontier model interactions. Also covered by: @OpenAI , @OpenAI , @Sam Altman #2 𝕏 Cursor announced that it can now monitor pull requests, watch a Slack thread, and run scheduled tasks. Cloud agents automatically subscribe to pull requests they create and drive them to completion. #3 𝕏 Mustafa Suleyman announced that MAI-Image-2.5 is ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard for image editing. #4 𝕏 Logan Kilpatrick announced that Google AI Studio now supports GitHub repository imports and bi-directional push/pull synchronization. A new UI also supports force pushes and merges. #5 𝕏 Qwen shared that Qwen3.8-27B ranked as the #1 open-weight model on Harvey’s Legal Agent benchmark, describing it as capable of professional tasks while remaining small enough to run locally. #6 𝕏 NVIDIA shared that NVIDIA cuOpt, its open-source solver, is the fastest open-source solver on Hans Mittelmann benchmarks across three optimization problem classes. #7 𝕏 Results from benchmarks of 300+ NVIDIA verified skills on real tasks showed that using skills improved correctness by 41 points, effectiveness by 39 points, and efficiency by 35 points. SkillEvaluator is open source for testing skills before shipping. #8 𝕏 Philipp Schmid shared that Gemini 3.7 Flash ranked first on Artificial Analysis’s new AA-AnalystAgent, which covers 80 real-world quantitative analysis tasks across 14 business and scientific domains. #9 𝕏 Claire Vo shared how she uses Codex browser/Chrome/computer for operational tasks including accounting, inbox management, Stripe Radar configuration, browser-based QA, security questionnaires, SaaS setup when an API is unavailable, and subscription cancellation. #10 𝕏 Madhu Guru shared an eval strategy for AI products: define a rubric, use the best available measurement process to establish a trustworthy quality frontier, then reduce costs through automation, smaller judge models, sampling, and deterministic checks where relevant. #11 𝕏 Santiago shared an unnamed automated AI agent security testing tool for chat, code, and phone-based voice agents that runs 10,000+ jailbreaks and adversarial attacks. #12 ▶️ Biggest Unlock for AI Agents in 2026: Skillsmaxxing Greg Isenberg Remy stores company agent skills as Markdown SOPs in a GitHub repository, converts the repository into department-specific plugins with JSON files, and installs those plugins in Claude Code and Codex with auto-update enabled.

“Cloudflare’s AI crawl control, pay per crawl, Monetization Gateway, and x402 payment rail use HTTP 402 responses to charge AI agents for access to pages, datasets, APIs, MCP tool calls, files, and search indexes.”

Cloudflare will make 1000+ AI millionaires Greg Isenberg Cloudflare’s AI crawl control, pay per crawl, Monetization Gateway, and x402 payment rail use HTTP 402 responses to charge AI agents for access to pages, datasets, APIs, MCP tool calls, files, and search indexes. Under x402, an agent requests a resource, receives an HTTP 402 “Payment Required” response containing the price, pays, retries with proof of payment, and Cloudflare verifies the payment at the edge before the request reaches the origin.

“A cron-based cold-outbound agent pulls LinkedIn post engagers through Apify and API Maestro, waterfalls their profiles into email and phone data for email and LinkedIn outreach, while a second agent converts calls, Slack, and transcripts into LinkedIn posts scheduled through Ordinal.”

#20 ▶️ These AI Marketing Agents Get You Customers Greg Isenberg A cron-based cold-outbound agent pulls LinkedIn post engagers through Apify and API Maestro, waterfalls their profiles into email and phone data for email and LinkedIn outreach, while a second agent converts calls, Slack, and transcripts into LinkedIn posts scheduled through Ordinal. API Maestro’s Apify actors for LinkedIn profile posts, post reactions, and post comments were used with Claude Code; one post extraction returned 63 raw engager profiles before deduplication.

“How I AI Podcast Nick Baumann uses ChatGPT Work voice to delegate browser-based travel and expense tasks, ChatGPT Sites to build and privately share a searchable website, and a custom UGC Video plugin to turn raw clips into edited vertical videos.”

#9 ▶️ How this OpenAI engineer uses Codex + ChatGPT Work to automate everything How I AI Podcast Nick Baumann uses ChatGPT Work voice to delegate browser-based travel and expense tasks, ChatGPT Sites to build and privately share a searchable website, and a custom UGC Video plugin to turn raw clips into edited vertical videos. Using a hotkey-triggered voice orb that can read the current screen via an appshot, ChatGPT Work checked a Slack offsite message, checked calendar availability through plugins, created a travel task for SFO-to-Paris flights and a policy-compliant hotel in Navon, and created a separate task to find an Amazon microphone receipt and stage—without submitting—an expense report. ChatGPT Sites supports a SQL database, S3 file storage, and environment variables; the site built during the conversation used How I AI’s purple, black, and white branding, categorized video tips by AI tool and function, and could be shared publicly or restricted to individual email addresses through ChatGPT login. Nick Baumann’s UGC Video plugin processed roughly 20 clips in the live run by extracting transcripts, reviewing frames, selecting takes, and assembling an organic vertical video; for another workflow, he uploaded 50 or 60 clips for three videos, dictated the narratives, left it running overnight, and returned to completed outputs, including automated moving blurs over sensitive on-screen material. Also covered by: @claire vo

“Greg Isenberg Demonstrates setting up an automated monthly SEO loop using Claude Code/CodeEx connected to Google Search Console and Data for SEO APIs to iteratively improve Google rankings at under $5 per run.”

#9 ▶️ Making $$$ with Loop Engineering Greg Isenberg Demonstrates setting up an automated monthly SEO loop using Claude Code/CodeEx connected to Google Search Console and Data for SEO APIs to iteratively improve Google rankings at under $5 per run.

“Greg Isenberg Uses Grok 4.5 inside a Hermes agent on Orgo—with connectors like Agent Mail, Agent Phone, Agent Card, Composio, Idea Browser MCP, X MCP, and vidIQ—to autonomously provision cloud VMs, craft a startup landing page in ~40 seconds, and generate startup ideas, video thumbnails, market insights, and a cold-email sequence in one session.”

#21 ▶️ Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5 Greg Isenberg Uses Grok 4.5 inside a Hermes agent on Orgo—with connectors like Agent Mail, Agent Phone, Agent Card, Composio, Idea Browser MCP, X MCP, and vidIQ—to autonomously provision cloud VMs, craft a startup landing page in ~40 seconds, and generate startup ideas, video thumbnails, market insights, and a cold-email sequence in one session. Grok 4.5 delivers Opus 4.8-level intelligence at ~1/10th the cost and 10–15× the execution speed of Fable. A text command (“spin up a new computer with Hermes installed and Grok 4.5”) launched a fresh Orgo cloud VM with Hermes agent, injected API key, and pinned the model in seconds.

“GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to use it. Greg Isenberg Dan Shipper uses OpenAI Codex Desktop with the GPT-5.6 model and plugins like Tend, Mailroom, and compound-engineering (LFG and goal) to automate email, Slack, meeting notes, and live-build a SaaS prototype called Turnaround.”

The newsletter’s video section attributes a practical demo of Codex Desktop workflows to Greg Isenberg and Dan Shipper.

“Greg Isenberg presents an 8-step, 30-day playbook using Claude, chatbt, and Fable to launch an AI agent-first SaaS by shadowing 10–20 real jobs, building a minimal draft-and-approve or triage agent, evaluating it on 50 examples, wrapping it with logs and approvals, then selling a pilot and productizing repeatable parts.”

#11 ▶️ AI Agents are the new SaaS Greg Isenberg Greg Isenberg presents an 8-step, 30-day playbook using Claude, chatbt, and Fable to launch an AI agent-first SaaS by shadowing 10–20 real jobs, building a minimal draft-and-approve or triage agent, evaluating it on 50 examples, wrapping it with logs and approvals, then selling a pilot and productizing repeatable parts.

“Build a daily briefing AI agent using Ollama or LM Studio that ingests calendar entries, a folder of notes, and saved links, displays sources, and requests approval before delivering actionable summaries.”

#8 ▶️ "Learn AI” Is Bad Advice. Learn This Instead Greg Isenberg Build a daily briefing AI agent using Ollama or LM Studio that ingests calendar entries, a folder of notes, and saved links, displays sources, and requests approval before delivering actionable summaries.