Last week Larry tried Grok Bot, named a chief of staff, and got far enough to see what it can do.
This week I want to talk about what you actually hand that helper. Because a blank Grok Bot is just a very expensive intern.
Compass is the briefing document.
The use case I built Compass for
The Gen eXit Compass is a $27 interview.
It asks you about the skills, jobs, hobbies, and scars you already have, then it spits out a next-act brief: business, side hustle, or freelance. Not a personality quiz. A file.
Grok Bot is the first tool I've seen that can sit with that file like a person.
You build the helper from the ground up. You give it a job. It can organize, ideate, coach, and keep working while your laptop is closed.
That's the pair:
Compass tells the bot who you are and what you're building.
Grok Bot is the employee that works the brief with you.
If you've been reading me on Gen X and AI, this is that argument in practice.
You don't need to become a 22-year-old prompt engineer. You need your experience in a form a helper can use.
I've been feeding AIs about me for years
This didn't start with Grok Bot.
When ChatGPT added Projects, I started dumping my work history, my businesses, my scars, anything that would make it actually know me. Then Gemini. Then Claude Code. Repos. Google Drive. Notion. Notes on a hard drive. Years of it.
That's where Compass came from.
I got tired of watching people start from a blank chat when I already knew the briefing was the whole job.
A lot of this was possible before. ChatGPT Projects. Gemini Gems. NotebookLM. Claude Code more recently. It just sucked to explain, and it was technical, and it was clunky.
Grok Bot is the first time it felt like the clunkiness got out of the way.
It organizes the pile. It builds agents. It does things. It can be a source of truth.
And it goes with you.
The big chunk of this post was authored on a walk. I talked the whole thing out and it updated everywhere.
Last week it built three websites while I was mowing the lawn.
I plugged it into a website builder and a hosting account. It staged them. Ready for me to look at. Not the critical work. Not the final say.
In none of these cases is it making the final call.
It's doing the stupid shit so I don't have to. It's a road crew. The roadies show up, set the stage, plug everything in, make sure it sounds good. Then the performer jumps on and does the thing.
That's how I'm using it.
It still needs my secret sauce. My discretion. My voice. My content. It just gets me there faster.
So what I'd actually do
It all starts with giving it context.
That's what Compass is for. If you're starting from zero, Compass is the first briefing. It gives you something worth training a helper on from the get-go.
If you already have a pile, even better.
Pull it in. I had notes scattered everywhere. I just fed Grok Bot the same stuff I'd been feeding everything else.
That's the chance.
Inventory your skills and your experience. Start a database on yourself. Then start building a small team of bots that actually know you.
Grab the free Gen eXit Playbook if you don't have the map yet.
Run Compass. Twenty-seven bucks. You walk out with a brief about you. Open Grok Bot, make one helper (Larry named his Lawrence), and paste the Compass output as the first thing it reads.
That's it. Not a 40-tool stack. One interview, one helper.
If you already tried Grok Bot and felt lost, that's the missing piece.
The bot isn't the strategy. Compass is. The bot is the hands.
Yeah, this is a pitch
I'm not going to dress this up.
I want you to buy Compass. Same offer that's on the Compass product page. Same one sitting on the Playbook thank-you after you grab the free Playbook.
Twenty-seven bucks. 60% off.
What's actually in it:
Run your 25 years through 7 plug-in AI prompts and walk away with a direction that's yours. No blank page.
The AI Rory Test. Aim at the kind of work AI can't eat.
The Ikigai Intersection. Where what you're good at, what you love, what's needed, and what pays overlap.
Turn that into 3 real, demand-validated opportunities, ranked by which you could test fastest.
A fill-in "My North Star" page. You leave holding an actual document, not a vibe. That's the briefing you hand a Grok Bot helper.
Yeah, I know.
I get it. I'm cynical like you are. I can smell a pitch coming from a mile away. But hey, we're Gen X. We've had crap sold to us our entire lives. Probably more than any other generation at this point.
I made it with the best intentions.
I only want to help people figure out their next move. It's literally something I love doing. I do it for friends. I've walked enough people through this stuckness that I know the shape of it, and I know what happens when you finally get the skills you already have onto one page.
This is legit. I stand behind it. If you're not sure where to go next, I know it will help you.
So yes. It's a pitch. Trust me. It's worth it.
Playbook is still free if you want the map first: Gen eXit Playbook.
And if you want the longer "why Gen X wins this" version, that's here: Gen X and AI: Why We're the Unexpected Winners.
If Compass is going to help you, it's all about context.
The better context Grok Bot has about you, the more it can do for you, and the better it can do it.
Alright. I'm going to shut up now.
I get too excited about this stuff and I ramble. If you want a place to start feeding a bot, that's Compass.
Have a good one,
Corey
✅ When You Are Ready, Here Are a Couple Things That Might Help Figure Out Your Next Move
No pitch attached — just a few things if you want to dig in further:
Grab the Gen eXit Playbook. The 5 things that actually worked when I walked away from my 9-5 in my 40s. → Get the Playbook
Newsletter Fast-Track Checklist. The 3-phase roadmap I used to get my first 50 subscribers. → Get the Checklist
The Gen eXit Compass. A guided workbook (plus 7 AI prompts) that takes you from "no idea what's next" to a named, validated direction in one sitting. → Get the Compass