A personal relationship CRM that keeps a private contact book and reminds you when a friend's birthday or follow-up is due, without burning weekly usage.
What this Grok bot does
A personal relationship CRM that keeps a private contact book and reminds you when a friend's birthday is coming up or you're overdue to check in. It never sends anything for you; you text from your own phone.
Vern at a glance
Vern is a weekly sales bot shared by @ahoop and first listed on 2026-10-02. It describes a weekly routine, which is cheap to run and easy to judge after a few weeks. 5 independent public catalogs list it, and its x.ai share link was last checked live on 2026-10-20.
How Vern compares
On our popularity score (installs, votes and how many catalogs list it), Vern shares rank 22 of 568 Sales & Customers bots with 87 others. It is one of 24 bots in the category (4%) that run on a weekly schedule. 5 independent catalogs list it, more than most bots here (typically 4). @ahoop has shared 3 bots here, most often life bots (1).
| Bot | What it does | Schedule · access | Compared with Vern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact ManStefan Markarian | Keeps a live 100-contact prospecting sheet fed with daily ICP research and ready-to-review packets | DailyConnects accounts | Both cover contact. It runs daily instead of weekly and asks for more access (email). |
| Client Hunter@perpycode | Finds and verifies real businesses that could buy your services, scores them with sources, finds contact… | On demandHigh access | Both cover contact and personal. It runs on demand instead of weekly and asks for more access (money). |
| Follow-Up Email Writer@bradsmith | Tell it about your business and it writes a 2-week plain-text follow-up email series, 9-word emails for cold… | On demandConnects accounts | Both cover follow. It runs on demand instead of weekly and asks for more access (email). |
Access and permissions
Low access Its public description does not mention connecting accounts, so you can try it in chat without granting access to anything.
No account access mentioned in the public description.
Derived from the public description. The live configuration on x.ai is the source of truth — review it before adding.
Before you add Vern
- Let the bot research and draft; keep sending manual at first.
- Run it on demand for a few days before you switch on its weekly routine.
- Open the x.ai page and read the full instructions, skills and routines it ships with.
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