# Eric Zakariasson shares a Grok prompt to find automatable tasks

> Original title: try this prompt in grok @bot:

- Source: eric zakariasson
- Published: 2026-10-30T21:34:58.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/dkf7kyyb0jjx0z2gp6th9u34i
- Original: https://x.com/ericzakariasson/status/2116282740802998627

## Summary

Cursor's Eric Zakariasson posts a prompt for the @bot account on Grok that reviews two weeks of emails, meetings, Slack messages, and edited docs. It asks Grok to list repeated tasks with frequency, time per instance, and whether Grok could automate them, then rank the top three to automate.

## Post

try this prompt in grok @bot:

Look through my work from the last two weeks: emails I sent, meetings, Slack messages, docs I edited, and anything else you can see.

List the tasks I did more than once, grouped by type. For each one, tell me:
- what the task is, in one line
- how often I did it
- roughly how long it takes me each time
- whether you could do it for me, partly or fully, and what you'd need access to

Then pick the top 3 to automate first, ranked by time saved, and suggest a routine or a dedicated bot for each.