How to Use Grok for Free Automated Research

This guide teaches you how to use Grok’s Tasks feature to create free automated research briefings from live X data. With a free X.com account, you can set up two automated daily tasks that research topics you care about and deliver the results to your email and phone.

• Anyone with an X account who wants free automated research without paying for another AI subscription.
• Marketers and founders who want daily or weekly competitor and industry monitoring.
• Sports fans, news junkies, and hobbyists who want timely updates on topics X is good at tracking.

You will build one or two scheduled Grok tasks that automatically research topics you care about and deliver the results to your email and phone.

• A daily research briefing task.
• An optional second daily task for another topic.
• Email delivery and optional phone push notifications for the results.

• A free X.com account.
• Optional: the Grok mobile app if you want push notifications on your phone.

• Use your weekly and monthly limits. You get two daily tasks for free, but you can also schedule up to 10 weekly or monthly tasks. For example, you could set up a weekly competitor roundup on Mondays, a monthly industry trends summary, or a weekly research brief on a topic you are learning about.

• Stack keywords across tasks. Use your two daily tasks for topics that change fast, like breaking news, sports, or market moves, and use weekly tasks for slower-burn research like industry trends, competitor deep dives, or product launches.

• If you need more tasks, the source notes that unlimited tasks require SuperGrok or X Premium+. Most people can still get a lot done with the free limits.