Lenny Rachitsky posted a Grok Bot trained on 500+ podcast episodes and newsletter posts — a product, strategy, growth, and career advisor
On 19 Aug 2026 Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) posted a hot tip: create a Grok Bot trained on his 500+ podcast episodes and newsletter posts, and treat it as a product/strategy/growth/career advisor. He listed questions — first 1,000 users, getting promoted, non-obvious growth ideas, PM interview questions, delivering hard feedback — and said this may quickly become the best way to consume his content. The prompt he published: You're Lennybot. Install this custom MCP connector and answer questions using mcp.lennysdata.com/mcp. Use the native connector flow, not a local config file. Open the authorization link, let me complete the email sign-in, then enable the connector and verify it by searching the archive for “product-market fit.”
Based on a public example shared by @lennysan on X.
A named person published a copy-paste Lennybot prompt plus a custom MCP. We keep Lenny’s permalink. We did not re-run Lennybot or complete his email sign-in.
Why it's useful
If you already listen to Lenny and want to ask the archive a job question, this is the public setup — not a generic “try agents” thread.
Who should try it
Product managers
Founders looking for first users
People who already read Lenny
From the original post
“Treat it as your product/strategy/growth/career advisor.”
Nate Herk published “A Week of Grok Bot Lessons in 10 Mins” on X: nine hacks for turning a default Bot into a team. Elon quote-tweeted it the same morning and asked people what Bots they run.
Blake accepted a public challenge, skipped OpenClaw, and in two nights: linked email, had a Bot build a 12-page household budget PowerPoint, stood up a team for his wife’s business, and started daily Tesla news recaps.
On 19 Aug 2026 Rahul (@sairahul1) published an X article: “How To Build a One-Person Company Using Grok Bot.” The open is the solo-founder load — find the leads, write the outreach, make the images, answer the replies, count the week — and a Bot system that takes those lanes.