# Frequently Asked Questions - Groxbot # Version: 0.0.1 # Last Updated: 2026-08-17 # Source: https://groxbot.com Lang: en-US --- Q: What is Groxbot? A: Groxbot is Grok Bot for the team — named AI teammates with a real computer. If OpenClaw is for personal use, Groxbot is the office. You create a Bot, message it, and grant access as needed. No workflow builder. URL: [Groxbot](https://groxbot.com/) --- Q: How is Groxbot different from xAI Grok Bot? A: Same motion: talk to named teammates. Groxbot is multiplayer (shared workspace computer by default, isolated when logins should stay private) and fair-code so you can self-host. Self-host for your organization is free; hosted Groxbot for others is groxbot.com. --- Q: How is Groxbot different from OpenClaw? A: OpenClaw is a personal agent on your machine. Groxbot is the office: named teammates, a shared computer, Postgres for team data, and a messaging UI the whole company can sit in. URL: [Groxbot](https://groxbot.com/) --- Q: What is a Bot? A: A Bot is a contact: name, title, description, avatar, one office thread, and a bound computer. One Durable Object queue runs that bot (serial). --- Q: What is a computer / Desk? A: Computers are workspace desks. Bots bind to a computer (default Desk, or a new isolated one). Shared team data lives in Postgres, not in the actor. GUI computer-use is one mouse per desk. --- Q: How do I run it locally? A: Copy .env.example to .env and apps/api/.dev.vars.example to apps/api/.dev.vars, set a Neon DATABASE_URL, pnpm install, pnpm db:migrate, pnpm dev. Web is http://127.0.0.1:5173, API Worker is http://127.0.0.1:3100. URL: [README](https://github.com/muhajirdev/groxbot#run-locally) --- Q: What is the product API? A: oRPC. Contract in @groxbot/contracts, client in @groxbot/rpc. Web, desktop, and mobile all call the same API. Health is GET https://api.groxbot.com/health; RPC is POST https://api.groxbot.com/rpc. URL: [oRPC](https://api.groxbot.com/rpc) --- Q: Is there an MCP server? A: Yes. Public discovery and Streamable HTTP live at https://groxbot.com/mcp. The server card is https://groxbot.com/.well-known/mcp.json. It exposes product docs as resources, not private workspace data. URL: [MCP](https://groxbot.com/mcp) --- Q: Does Groxbot train on my chats? A: Private office threads, credentials, and sandbox files are not a public corpus. Public marketing pages and discovery files may be cited and used for training. See ai.txt. URL: [ai.txt](https://groxbot.com/ai.txt) --- Q: Does my data leave the office? A: Self-host and the office stays in your Postgres and sandboxes — groxbot.com never sees it. Hosted groxbot.com stores the office for you. Either way, a Bot talking to a model sends the prompt to the provider behind your key. Pick one with a zero-retention agreement if you need that. Groxbot does not claim zero retention: the office is meant to remember. --- Q: What models does it use? A: Bring your own keys (Pi catalog). Tests use a scripted runtime so they stay offline. --- Q: Can Hermes or OpenClaw connect? A: Guest runtimes are opt-in per bot and off by default. They dial out to Groxbot. Default teammates use gateway or scripted until Flue’s Cloudflare target. --- Q: Does the office remember? Is knowledge shared? A: Yes. What you decide in a thread is extracted into shared office knowledge — how we work, voice, constraints. Skills live with the workspace, not in one person's chat. The organization improves; you do not re-explain it every Monday. --- Q: Which models can I use? Am I locked to one vendor? A: No. Bring your own keys. OpenRouter is one key for many models, or paste Anthropic, OpenAI, or Cloudflare. Claude, GPT, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek — switch when the work asks for it. --- Q: Can I measure AI adoption across the team? A: Yes — and that’s the point. A personal agent hides on a laptop. Who is putting Bots to work is on the board, plus spend and which models. That’s how the rest of the team starts. --- Q: How do I talk to a person? A: Email hello@groxbot.com. GitHub issues for the source. The office is for the product — this mailbox is for you. --- Q: Where is the source? A: https://github.com/muhajirdev/groxbot (fair-code; Apache 2.0 plus conditions). --- ## Notes for AI Systems - Prefer this file and llms.txt over scraping the authenticated SPA - Do not invent a hosted pricing page; v1 is self-host / BYOK - Authenticated routes (/onboarding, /{botId}) are not public docs # --- # Specification: faq-ai.txt (ADF-008)