Grok Bot plus Obsidian: six scheduled agents run a research vault for $30/month
A Zettelkasten-style Obsidian vault with six scheduled Grok Bots (inbox, linker, research, digest, critic, gardener) and two daily approval checkpoints, pitched as replacing a research team for $30 a month.
GROK BOT + OBSIDIAN DOES THE WORK OF AN ENTIRE RESEARCH TEAM $30/MONTH VS $200K/YEAR IN SALARIES one vault, 6 bots on a clock, you show up twice a day to approve the hidden move: the vault is a Zettelkasten every note links to the ones around it, so by week 8 it works less like a notes app and more like Karpathy's LLM wiki: a second brain that keeps itself in order one person does the job of five > clipper and research analyst > editor who writes the daily digest > fact-checker who flags contradictions > librarian who merges duplicates and tags > PM who chases all of them all of it for $30/mo, and the vault compounds every night the setup > make an Obsidian vault with 00-inbox, 10-notes, 20-sources, 30-artifacts, 40-runs, daily > point one Grok Bot at each folder on a schedule > every note carries 4 edge fields: source, supports, contradicts, supersedes > the Linker Bot reads those fields as Zettelkasten edges and wires notes together the schedule > Inbox - hourly, pulls links, DMs, voice memos > Linker - every 2h, adds [[wikilinks]] > Research - 09:00 and 15:00, files sources with a summary > Digest - 08:00, writes the daily note > Critic - 18:00, flags contradictions > Gardener - 23:00, merges duplicates and rescues orphans > you - 08:30 and 21:00, approve paste this into Grok Bot once: "you run my Obsidian vault at ~/Vaults/brain. build 6 scheduled bots named Inbox, Linker, Research, Digest, Critic, Gardener using the folders and times above. every note needs frontmatter: id, type, source, supports, contradicts, supersedes, run, confidence. Linker only follows the four edge fields. nothing lands in 10-notes/ without passing my approval queue in 40-runs/pending.jsonl. Digest is the only bot that may write to daily/. every bot action is appended to 40-runs/YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl. follow the rules in ~/Vaults/brain/RULES.md. show me the plan, the schedule and the diff first. edit nothing until I confirm." how it pays you back more than it saves > package the daily digest as a paid newsletter > turn 30-artifacts/ reports into briefs you sell to founders > sell the vault template to anyone who sees your output the person running this can out-earn the five people it replaces
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