Is Grok 4 Worth $300? I Tested 9 AI Agents to Find Out

0:00Everyone is talking about Grok4. People are saying it's just outperforming open AI, outperforming perplexity, outperforming clode. I wanted to test it. So today we're going to test Grok4's design agents, coding agents, market research agents, productivity agents, copywriting agents, customer feedback agents, and more. We're going to go through nine prompts. I'm going to give away the prompts. This is going to help get your creative juices flowing. And by the end of the episode, we're going to see, is Grok4 worth playing with? Should you make this a core foundational part of your stack? These are the things we're going to go through and we're going to see if it's worth it.

0:49And by the way, these are like these are the first times first time I'm actually doing this as well. So we're going to see pretty much live. Well, we're going to see live if this is if this is worth doing. So the first prompt we're going to do is act as a market research agent, analyze competitors and, you know, we have to pick a, we'll just say productivity apps. Using real time web and X search, provide a table of top three players, their pricing, user pain points from recent reviews and untapped opportunities for my startup to differentiate and capture 10 % market share. so we're going to go ahead and click that this is going to be helpful for anyone who has a startup or wants to build a startup understanding obviously your your competitors um is going to help you you know basically come up with product ideas how to think about things um in a more clear way so if this works this would be huge um you know i think what what obviously grok has that other people don't have is they have x data right so uh the reason why grok 3 was you know when we played with grok 3 it was like pretty darn good um so i'm not surprised that people are saying that grok 4 is really really good because of the unique data that they have so um it you know from like a ui perspective you know it's going it's browsing you can see it's searching on x uh pain points about the Todoist app.

2:26I love that you can just kind of watch what's happening. This has obviously been a trend for a lot of the LLMs, but I love that Grok has this. Look, many X posts about Todoist don't mention it. Todoist complaints. I mean, it's kind of crazy that you can actually just figure out what are the pain points in a particular industry, and it's going to search of the millions of tweets and webs and websites. So now it's creating the table. You can see it puts Notion first. Wow, it talks about Notion slowness. I've actually tweeted about Notion slowness. The CEO of Notion actually reached out to me from it because it went viral.

3:10And that's why, okay, I'm just like, that's amazing that it has it in there. Untapped opportunity, focus on a streamlined, lightweight interface that prejudices speed and simplicity. Yeah, I agree. I think that a lightweight version of Notion with a lot less bloat would actually do really well. And then it goes through Todoist, lack of visual clarity leading to overwhelm. And what you can do here, the untapped opportunity, introduce advanced visual planning tools like Intuitive drag and drop. All right, so I'm not going to go through all of this, but the point is, you know, this seems like really dialed.

3:48It took a minute and 20 seconds, so not super long. And it did what we said. So, so far, so good for prompt one. Using, you know, using Grok as a market research agent, it's definitely something that I'm going to be doing more of. Okay, can you use Grok to code your MVP? So we're going to go ahead and copy this prompt here. Using Grok4 code mode, so I guess it has a code mode, generate Python code for a simple founder tool like a lead gen bot. So that's our example that we're going to use. Include error handling, integrate with API, e.g. Stripe for payments, and explain how to deploy it. Fix any bugs in the pasted code snippet.

4:34We don't have any code snippets yet, but it's good that we can use that prompt if there's any bugs. if there's any bugs, we'll go ahead and put that prompt in and just tell Grok4 to fix it. So it's going ahead and it's planning the project. So this is similar to how, you know, if you're going to use something like a Bolt or a lovable replet, it's going to do something similar. Now you have this with Grok4 as another option for you to go and go and do this. So, I mean, here we got the code. I'm not going to go and figure out if we can compile and deploy this but it's pretty cool that it can do that how fast was that?

5:18that took like 20 seconds it explains the code it tells you how to deploy it so this is pretty legit this is pretty legit

5:36and yeah took 25 seconds so you know the jury's out you know the jury's out around is like I haven't deployed this so I don't know if it works and stuff like that but just like quickly looking at it like it looks looks clean and we're gonna go ahead and you know go to the next one so the The next prompt is around productivity workflow optimization. So this is just about increasing your productivity. Let's go ahead and post it in. So as a founder agent, optimize my daily routine. So it says analyze the schedule. So I got to pace my schedule. So let's just say 7 a.m. wake up, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. deep work, 11 a.m.

6:31to 12.30 daily stand-up, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. deep work, 3 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. meet with my partners. Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong. I think that right now is an incredible time to be building a startup. And if you listen to this podcast, chances are you think so too. Now, I think that you can look at trends to basically figure out what are the startup ideas you should be building. So that's exactly why I built idea browser dot com. Every single day, you're going to get a free startup idea in your inbox. And it's all backed by high quality data trends.

7:21How we do it. People always ask. We use AI agents to go and search. What are people looking for? And what are they screaming for in terms of products that you should be building? And then we hand it on a silver platter for you to go check out. We do have a few paid plans that take it to the next level, give you more ideas, give you more AI agents and more almost like a chat GBT for ideas with it. But you can start for free, ideabrowser.com. And if you're listening to this, I highly recommend it. and then it says suggest ai automated tasks time saving hacks and tools to boost output by 2x pull real-time productivity trends for x so this is what i'm noticing is a hack for if you want to get the most out of grok 4 ask it to go and get data from x so this is this is like the biggest takeaway so far right like um you know if you want the most out of grok 4 well it's it's strength What is its strength?

8:21Its strength is that it has that data from X. So go and pull it from it. Will Grok4 be the best coding agent? I don't know. Because it's not reliant that much on X data. But something like this, I bet you it's going to be super, super dialed. So it says, your routine as a founder is solid. It's focused on deep work and essential meaning, but it has gaps leading to burnout. and it's probably looking at all those like all those tweets by productivity experts right um and yeah of course like huberman and stuff like that like wake up hydrate you know light exercise i mean this is cool oh my god this is cool leverage ai to offload 20 to 50 percent of manual work per x trends where agents handle workflows like research or support focus on 80 20 tasks.

9:19Use a script to summarize inboxes. Here's a sample Python code for email fetch. This could run daily at 7 a.m., condensing 50 emails into five bullets, saving 30 to 60 minutes. This is really cool. Tools to boost output by 2x. Interesting that it actually gives competitors cursor and replit which is kind of hilarious at least that means that it's not super biased although it does put grok for hey use grok of course but this is interesting basically thinking about how do you use grok to look at your calendar and suggest things to do obviously you can go deeper here ask it to build you scripts and just an interesting way to save you time.

10:11Okay, so the next prompt is going to be about creating a pitch deck. So it says, I'll just copy it over here. Go back to Grok. So refine this pitch deck script. I've prepared one. As a VC agent, use reasoning mode to spot weaknesses, suggest data-backed improvements from recent startup funding trends, Search X and web. Again, it's really important that we have that there. And predict investor objections with counter arguments. So let's go ahead and I'm going to copy. As you can see here, I just pulled this company called Anam. They raised$9 million seed around. And Anam is a human face for your product.

11:00It's this next interface for tech. so it's basically like that movie her but better anyways i i grabbed their script i'm gonna go put it on to grok and just see what it says and we're gonna see what it says right like you know if you're gonna do a pitch for a vc obviously you want the best possible pitch that's why people say you know people say like try it on your mom first or try it on your grandmother first like pitch them first so you get the kinks out but you know if you can get the kinks out earlier and you don't have to pitch your grandmother or mom that's a win right so the goal here is to get you know the best possible most dialed pitch based on data so the data here hopefully is better so 36 seconds i'm actually surprised with how fast grok 4 is it just feels faster than grok 3 so as a vc agent evaluating this pitch i'm going to outline my reasoning on weaknesses data-backed improvements okay so it says the section like team market and traction are high level without proof that's that's huge i agree with that there's overly broad use cases uh the Arrays framing feels unmatched.

12:26And then it gives you some data-backed improvements. And this is, again, this is why we're using Grok4. We're using it because it has the data. Add the TAM and trends. Autonomous agents is the top seed category. This is really good. And then it gives you the objections and counterarguments. So the objection, the space is saturated. Synthesia just raised$180 million at$2.1 billion. How do you compete with that? Well, the counter argument is we're differentiated by pixel by pixel real-time rendering and expressive control, enabling low latency interactions that Synthesia-like video tools can't match.

13:07These are really good. And then it gives you a refined script around what to do. And then you can go ahead and take this script and post it into a tool like GenSpark, which can create your AI slides for you into a tool like Gamma or just do it yourself on Google Slides or something like that. I actually wonder, can Grok4 create slides? I really like the refined script that you created, but don't know if you know how to design slides. I wouldn't be surprised if Grok4 could do this just because Genspark, Manus, and some of the others can. but let's see I will say I will say by the way that this refined script for this deck is probably, it might be the best I've ever seen so this is in terms of the LLMs this is really good and it's so quick so it could let's see what it's saying here I can actually generate or export actual slide files but it just tells me how they would design it in in text um for for me that's not super helpful so if but i will say like if you're if this isn't just about raising money right like this is about if you need a deck for sales if you need a deck to share with your team grok 4 seems to be really really dialed all right we're gonna do uh the content marketing strategy generator prompt so let's go ahead and put that into Supergrock.

15:00Act as a multi-agent content marketing team. Brainstorm a 30-day viral content plan for my niche. We're just going to say ideabrowser.com because it's a startup I'm working on to drive 10 ,000 new leads. Pull real-time X-trends for hot topics. Generate 10 post ideas with hooks, SEO keywords, and predicted engagement metrics. Use thinking mode to evaluate and rank them by potential ROI. And some people, by the way, they might want to know, like, how do I, how did I come up with these prompts? I actually asked Grok to optimize my prompts and that's why, that's why they're so clean and concise and good.

15:44And my hope, you know, I always do that when I'm prompting any LLM because I want it to give it in a way that's going to really work for it. I want to get the most out of the LLM. So I usually ask it if it could optimize it. So let's see if Grok4 is good at this. I mean, you would think it would be good at it because again, X, right? It has all the content or a lot of content. So you think that Grok4 would be pretty good at figuring out what's the type of content that's going to resonate. But you never know, it could suck. We'll see.

16:29so um interesting interesting so it actually this might be a uh anomaly you know an edge case because when you go to ideabrowser.com it's just showing it's basically every day we we share a free idea that people can go ahead and steal these ideas and build it. So today's idea is AI agents that find profitable expired domains. So it scraped the website and it didn't realize that we have ideas every single day. We have database of ideas. We have trends. We have this thing called Idea Agent. It just thinks that it's a website for agents, for domains. So it didn't do a good job at scraping ideabrowser.com.

17:17But I've had this with other LLMs before. It's kind of like a niche because it's kind of like a new type of product. But I'm just going to tell it like, hey, you didn't do a good job scraping ideabrowser.com. You only scraped the idea of the day. The idea changes. Today's was the AI agent for domains. Idea Browser is the number one tool for people to find ideas to build and trends to capture. And there's a bunch more. So don't just browse the homepage. So if you do come across, this is not just for Grok 4, but if you do come across something that's wrong, just tell it. Don't give up on the search.

18:20Like I could have easily just given up on it and just been like, yeah, you know, Grok Fork sucks at content marketing, but it might not be good at all. But I just I want to double check because the upside of this working is pretty huge. If we can figure out a way to generate more content, that means more leads, more attention.

18:47It's worth it for me just to do that second prompt and see what happens. You're going to come into issues like this. But just treat it like a human being. Okay, so now, yes, it's properly scraped, ideabrowser.com. and now let's see what happens okay so the content agent 10 viral x post ideas each with a hook trend tie-in and the snippet from an idea browser idea and cta designed for threads polls visuals okay bestie day ai revolution idea this is a horrible horrible actually this is all bad like so much hashtags like this is this is all bad the SEO keywords I mean I just feel like how many people are searching best DJ business ideas I just I don't see it okay so the content agent wasn't very good in my opinion let me know if you think otherwise

19:58alright overall not so good I'm going to try one last time. I'm going to say, you didn't nail the content for ideabrowser.com. Just give me five sample tweets that you think would go viral. You are overthinking it. The audience is people who love startup ideas and who want a playbook for how to implement them. So maybe the prompt wasn't the right prompt, you know, um, and maybe I just should have done a easier way, you know, just a more simple way, uh, of doing it. What I probably should have said actually is look at X posts. Um, and i wonder see on manis what you could do which i wish more lms would would would have is that like if it's working you can still type something and press uh submit but you know you can't do that here you actually have to stop the content um so here it's giving again it's like all hashtags and stuff like that.

21:16I'm going to say one last thing. You know, I like the style of ideas from Akra Geisenberg. Make it more like that. Look at his X. And let's see what happens here. This is my last time. I'm going to try this before we move on to the customer feedback analysis agent so far not super impressed with the content marketing agent and let's just see if if it's my fault if i'm not prompting it correctly or if it or if grok 4 is just not not amazing at this particular piece okay wow so this is really good so it's taken my style of how i write uh startup ideas and it's wow this is really good and it's and it's created plate like new startup ideas um written it very similar so it basically looked at my format for um for how i write startup ideas.

22:34I had one. Here it is. I just wrote one a couple hours ago. Startup idea for you. AI agents have fine expired domain. I wrote this up pretty quickly. It started to get a bunch of traction. Grok went ahead. Grok basically created new ideas in the same casual, clear tone. It did a good job. So if you want to use Grok4, the lesson is it's really good for X. I need to play with this more. You just do it simple. I like this person's tweets. Go ahead and make me tweets like that. But for your niche. So that's kind of interesting. And let's move on. All right. So customer feedback agent. This is super helpful because for ideabrowser.com, I have some sample feedback, but I don't really want to go through every single one.

23:37I kind of just want an agent to run through it and tell me what I need to know. So the prompt is, analyze this batch of customer reviews. You can upload a file or just paste it. as a sentiment analysis agent, categorize themes, quantify NPS score, and suggest product improvements with prioritized roadmaps. Integrate real-time X mentions of my brand for broader insights and forecast my impact on retention. That's pretty crazy. If that's able to do that, that's pretty crazy. I'm a bit skeptical around forecast impact on retention, but if it can figure out NPS score if it can categorize themes that would be huge and if it could do it in a way that's not going to take a long time could it take under two minutes to go through all these all this feedback that would be really really cool and it is cool to have the tie in with X as someone like me I love X I use it a lot I want a lot of my world is on X, right?

24:49A lot of people talk to me on X. It's just for people who are building startups on X and have a bunch of people interacting on X, it is helpful. Okay, so we've gone ahead and categorized the themes. Wow, okay. The themes are content and idea quality, UI, UX, and accessibility, performance reliability. Wow, okay, so it gives you the sentiment summary. So on idea quality, people are saying highly positive. Users love data-backed ideas. They love trend signals. They love AI agents for validation and pivots. Minor tweaks like videos or summaries were requested. So then it pulled one of the testimonials.

25:36Greg's picks, which is on the database, there's some ideas that I actually will pick and say are good feels like a cheat code so this is amazing like if you aren't doing this and grabbing feedback and getting feedback and putting into grok 4 you're missing out because this is such an easy way to win and give you ideas startup ideas and feature ideas on where to take uh your your business um it goes and gives it an an nps wow an nps of 90 which is crazy um it tells you tells you about what the nps score is um and it says this is exceptionally high indicating world-class loyalty like x mentioned support this with users organically promoting ideas yeah because on X some people say get this into idea browser.

26:31So this is holy smokes. Then it gives you a full on product roadmap of where to take it based on feedback. And then it gives you a forecast. Okay, so based on that, it gives you the forecast impact on retention. No brainer. This might be my favorite part so far because it's on, it's really on point. All right. So the prompt six, the customer feedback analysis agent, must do. It's worth doing. Okay. The next prompt we're going to do is going to be around the negotiation agent. So prepare me for, let's say, a salary negotiation. Based on this scenario, describe details. I'm currently making$85 ,000 per year.

27:26but have been stuck making that for three years with limited equity upside too. And I feel like I have increased output 2x, yet pay has remained the same. It says, role play as both sides using multi-agent mode. generate scripts anticipate objections with data from recent deals search x and web and suggest win-win tactics to increase my deal value by 50 so let's see uh if this works uh things to note here multi-agent mode it's probably important to include that in your prompt uh generate scripts anticipate objections. And again, we want to say search X to get the most out of Grok 4. 25 seconds and we've got an answer.

28:30Earning 85K for three years with no raises, you're in a strong position to negotiate, especially if you can try your contributions to measurable business impact. Win-win tactics to increase deal value by 50%. Focus on total compensation rather than base salary alone to create mutual benefits. Okay, use sites like Glassdoor Levels FYI to benchmark your role's market rate, performance-based bonuses, prepare by scripting your pitch, role-playing with a friend, and timing the ask post-major win. That's actually really smart after a project success. That's really, really smart. I'm going to simulate a negotiation between two agents, you and the employer, anticipating common objections like budget constraints.

29:15I'm just reading this now. like hi manager thanks for meeting i've been reflecting on my three years now where my output has doubled handling twice the workload this is really good this is really good so using the multi-agent uh i'm sure people are reading this now like this is just it's really clear clean and yeah i think it's if you're going to negotiate anything big or you just want someone to you know a negotiation partner basically like it's going to help you get better at negotiation grok for pretty pretty darn good all right we've got two more and then we're done here and we'll make a call if we like grok or not uh forecast emerging trends in all right let's say you know let's let's go with productivity apps for the next 12 months using real-time x data and web search as an innovation agent proposed three product features my startup could build, including a feasibility analysis, competitor gaps, and projected revenue impact.

30:16Use code mode to model simple growth projection. So thing to note there, code mode, X data, be specific around time, you know, 12 months, be specific around what you want, three product features, not product features. sometimes I find when the more specific you are with any LLM actually the more the more the better output you get out you do you do have to have some guardrails or else or else these LLMs man they they they got a mind of their own so let's go ahead and and see what uh what what what's happening here so it's analyzing the task requirements the startup specific focus isn't mentioned so that's interesting.

31:05So maybe I wasn't, you know, I shouldn't have been, I should have been a little more niche than just productivity apps, maybe productivity apps for remote workers or something like that. But you can see it's executing code right now, which is so cool. So cool that, you know, you can do this. Okay, so a minute and 10 seconds, a bit longer than the others, but let's see what we get um it says here's a synthesized forecast for july 2025 to 26 uh from recent expert analysis user sentiments and mark projections productivity apps will increasingly incorporate multi-agent systems that handle end-to-end workflows such as report generation task automation and decision making with minimal human input generative and flexible interfaces That's completely correct.

31:59These are both correct. Traditional rigid UIs will shift to canvas and node-based designs, enabling unrestrained, restricted visual thinking. That's absolutely correct. Deep integration to existing workflows. This is really good. So it's giving you product features too. The canvas-based general task interface. I actually think that that's completely where things are going. And then it gives you a growth projection. This to me is less interesting. but this is really good. Proposed features and trend analysis is really good. And you can go ahead and if you don't have a trend, go to something like ideabrowser.com, find a trend, put it into Grok, get some ideas as well.

32:47So the last one we're going to do is see if Grok is any good at being a design agent. I'm pretty wary of this. I'm not sure that it can do it, but let's go ahead and see. Create a logo for my startup, ideabrowser.com, with a futuristic vibe and coordinating elements with circuits and stars. Generate four options in vector style and rank them by potential brand appeal using marketing trends from X in the AI startup community. So let's see. I have noticed with a lot of these LLMs, they do a pretty good job getting something up, but the copy is off sometimes. They spell things wrong. But, oh, actually, I was wrong.

33:44Here it's spelled completely right. It did what it asked for. It's actually pretty tight, pretty clean. I asked for four options it gave me two

34:00so it didn't do that but it spelled it right which is really cool and I do like how it has this edit button right here so if we said what do we want to do here make it more colorful let's see what happens by the way it was really quick I'm not sure how long that took but probably under 30 seconds to create a logo, which is crazy. Let's see if the colorfulness make it a little bit more interesting. And there you have it, folks. That, it broke on the copy there. That actually looks pretty good.

34:45But yeah, it broke on the copy. This is what you're seeing a lot of the time. it happens a lot of time in chat gpt as well but i guess if you can continue prompting it you probably can get something you like and even this is like pretty good so it's a good starting point it's good to create your you know maybe your mood boards and stuff like that you know are you going to use it for your 100 million dollar your business like i don't know but for getting ideas out there and iterating i do like this edit button so i'll give it that The other thing is sort of a bonus thing. I saw this tweet. They just enabled companions on Super Grok.

35:27And this is how you can enable it. Companions are basically, I actually haven't used it. Let me pull it up. I'm going to pull up Grok on my phone. Okay. So I pulled it up on my phone. I clicked enable companions.