Granite City Sessions: Building Grok Bots for Real Business Workflows
Most businesses have at least one workflow that eats hours every week and follows the same steps each time. That is where a bot earns its keep. Justin Fortier (FYC Labs) and Sedale Turbovsky (Modern Zen, founder of OpenGrants) walk through building and deploying Grok-powered bots for real business workflows.
This is a working session, not a product pitch: you'll see how a bot goes from a repeatable task to something running in a business.
What you'll learn
How to pick a workflow that is actually worth automating with a bot
How a Grok-powered bot is put together, from instructions to the tools it can use
What deploying a bot involves, and what to check before you trust it with real work
Where a human should stay in the loop so the bot helps instead of creating cleanup
Who it's for
Founders, operators, and team leads who have a repeatable process in mind and want to see a bot built around it. Comfort with everyday business software is enough; you don't need to be a developer.
About the speaker
Justin Fortier is the founder of Fractal Group and previously led FYC Labs as CEO/CTO through its acquisition in 2020. Sedale Turbovsky is founder and CEO of Modern Zen Strategies and founder of OpenGrants, which runs much of its sales, content, and support with AI agents.
Tuesday, October 20, 10:00–11:30 AM at The Nook at Granite City, Suite 390, 705 Gold Lake Dr, Folsom, CA 95630. Free & open, part of Sac Tech Week 2026. Register to reserve a seat.
Full Sac Tech Week schedule at Granite City: granitecity.io/events/sac-tech-week