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Episode 113 · July 30, 2026 · 08:05

NEW Grok Update is INSANE!

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New Grok update is insane. Grok just got a new power and it changes what an idea can turn into. X. A.

I turned on something called build mode inside Grok and here is the simple version. You type one sentence. Grok builds a real working app around it. Then it publishes that app to its own website link.

No coding, no hiring a developer, no waiting weeks. This rolled out yesterday on July 28th. It's live for super grok heavy subscribers on grok.com, on iPhone and on android. Build mode lets you tell grok an idea and it builds a working version live in your chat, on the web or on your phone.

When it's ready you publish it to a link anyone can open. That's it, that's the whole loop based on. Let me slow down and show you why this matters more than it sounds like. A year ago if you wanted an app here's what that looked like.

You had an idea, you wrote it down, you found a developer or you learned to code yourself. You waited days, sometimes weeks, you tested it, you found bugs, you paid someone to fix the bugs, then maybe it worked. Hey if we haven't met already I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates.

And Julian Goldie reads every comment so make sure you comment below. Now look at the new path, you have an idea, you type it into grok, grok builds it, you look at it right there in the chat, you ask for changes in plain English, then you publish it. The whole gap between I have an idea and I have a working product just got smaller than it has ever been. Here's the part most people are going to miss.

This isn't just a code generator that spits out a file you have to go set up yourself. Build, mode, stitches, together, several things x. AI had been building separately over the past few months. The grok build coding agent, the imagine generation tools and browser use tooling and packages them into one guided experience inside the regular grok app.

In plain English that means grok isn't just writing code, it's also making images for your app and it can browse and pull in outside information while it builds. Think of it like this, old AI tools handed you a pile of ingredients and a recipe card and you still had to cook the meal yourself. This one hands you the finished plate, developers digest. And the outputs aren't small toy demos either.

For bigger tasks grok build hands-off pieces of the work to separate helper agents that all work at the same time instead of one slow assistant doing everything step by step. That's why it can build something with moving parts like a dashboard with logins and data instead of just a single static page. To show what it can actually do the grok team shared three examples they built themselves. A driving simulator, a beat machine and a physics playground.

Notice none of those are boring to-do list apps. They pick things with movement, sound and interaction because that's a harder test than a plain form. And once something is built you can publish it to a grok.me link or to a custom domain you already own and share it with your team or anyone else who needs it. You can even pull the code out to github if you want to keep building it yourself later.

Dig basenot. I want to be fair here too, this is still early. X, A, I is calling this an early beta which means bugs are normal, some features will change and you should still check anything you publish before you send it to real customers. AI writing an app for you doesn't mean skipping the step where a human looks it over.

That part still matters a lot. X, AI. But here's the direction this is pointing. AI tools used to answer questions, now they're starting to finish projects.

That's a real shift in what these tools are for. Here's what that shift actually looks like in practice because a single prompt like this is exactly what we test inside the AI profit boardroom the second a tool like this drops. We don't just read the announcement out loud to members, we sit down together and build something real with it live on one of our four weekly coaching calls. With grok build specifically that means walking through the exact wording that turns one sentence into a working dashboard, a lead quiz or a booking tool and showing members how to publish it and hand it straight to a customer the same day.

If you want to see this tool used on a real business instead of a random demo that's what we're doing inside the community and the link is in the comments and description. Now let's get practical. Instead of showing you random app ideas that don't matter to you I want to walk through how this exact tool could be used to grow one specific thing, the AI profit boardroom community. I'm picking this on purpose, watch how each one builds on the last.

First up a member dashboard. This is for giving every member one home base to see their progress instead of hunting through messages and folders. The prompt would be something like this, build a membership dashboard for the AI profit boardroom with a login, a member profile page, a list of completed lessons, badges for milestones, a calendar for coaching calls and a leaderboard showing active members. The result is members open one page and instantly see what to do next, what they finished and when the next call is.

Second a landing page, this is for turning a first-time visitor into a member without them ever talking to a person. The prompt would be something like this, design a new landing page for the AI profit boardroom that shows the real value of AI automation, explains what members get every week, features a few short outcomes from real members and ends with one clear button to join. The result is one page that does the explaining for you, built and published the same afternoon you thought of it. Third an automation finder, this is for helping business owners figure out where AI can actually save them time before they even join anything.

The prompt would be something like this, build a short quiz app for the AI profit boardroom that asks a business owner five questions about their business type, their team size and their biggest daily bottleneck, then hands back three AI automation ideas matched to their answers. The result is a simple tool that turns a stranger's five answers into a personal list of automations which makes the value obvious fast. Fourth a prompt library, this is for giving members one searchable place to find working prompts instead of scrolling old messages. The prompt would be something like this, build a searchable prompt library for the AI profit boardroom with categories for marketing, sales, content, customer support and automation, plus a search bar, a favorites button and a one-click copy button on every prompt.

The result is members stop losing good prompts in old chats and find exactly what they need in seconds. Do you see the pattern building here? Each one of these took one sentence, not a team, not weeks. One sentence typed into grok turned into a working tool.

Here's the honest part I want to leave you with, tools like this move fast and it's easy to feel behind, I get that feeling, but being behind on a tool isn't the same as being behind for good. The people who do well with things like this aren't the ones who understood it first, they're the ones who sat down and actually tried it then kept trying it as it got better. That part hasn't changed no matter how fast the tools do. If you want to actually use tools like grok build to grow a real business instead of just playing with demos, that's the entire point of the AI profit boardroom.

Every week we run four live coaching calls where we build things like this together step by step using the exact prompts I just walked through tailored to whatever tool just shipped. There's a prompt library built specifically around grok build and every other major AI release so you're never starting from a blank page. There's a 30-day roadmap so you know exactly what to build first and there's a member map so you can find other members near you who are testing the same tools, comparing notes and building real things with them. If you want help turning this update into something that actually brings you leads and customers, the link is in the comments and description.

And if you want the full process behind everything I showed you today, the SOPs and over 100 AI use cases just like these prompts, come join the AI Success Lab. It's completely free to join. You'll get every note from this exact video sitting there waiting for you, plus you'll be dropped into a community of over people who are testing tools like grok build the same week they launch, not months later. It's the fastest way to see what's actually working for other people before you spend your own time testing it blind.

Link is in the comments and description too. That's the update. One sentence in, a working published tool out. The question isn't whether this changes things anymore, it's just how fast you decide to try it.

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