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Website visitors to outbound emails: Grok Bot built the whole workflow that used to take a week

At his last job the author spent a week downloading GSC, RB2B and HubSpot data and building Clay tables by hand. This time he wrote a spec and had Grok Bot build the whole thing: identify visitors, skip current customers, pick the right people, check every email before it sends, and alert Slack.

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The problem

Most website visitors are anonymous. Turning them into outbound means finding the company, picking who to contact, getting a valid email, and avoiding current customers.

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What to prepare

  • Clay, Squid
  • Salesforce, EmailBison, Slack

How to do it

  1. 1

    Write the spec before building

    Write down the end state, the non-negotiables and what done looks like. The author says that with AI you should spend more time on scope and guardrails than on building.

    Prompt

    Replace the 3 ✎ dashed parts with your own details, then copy.

    I want to build a website visitor to outbound workflow. Don't build anything yet; write the full spec and show me first. End state: when someone visits, find the company and person and send one email written for the pages they viewed (sample, replace with yours). Never: email current customers or open deals, mention that they visited our site, or link to anything outside our content library (sample, replace with yours). Done means: every lead has a first name, last name, LinkedIn and a verified email (sample, replace with yours).
  2. 2

    Filter before you look up contacts

    Filtering is free and finding contacts costs credits. First drop agencies, competitors, government, schools, current customers and companies over 1,000 employees.

  3. 3

    Screen out current customers

    Before anything sends, check Salesforce. Skip anyone with a current customer record or an open deal.

  4. 4

    Check every email before it sends

    Block any email that hints at a site visit, links outside the content library or breaks the style rules. If it fails, it doesn't send.

  5. 5

    Post every visitor to Slack

    Include pages viewed, time on site and the contacts found so the team sees every visitor in real time.

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