Sales
Daily Upwork shortlist + drafts; you still hit send
Agency applications burn Connects and read like AI slop if the bot auto-sends.
What hurt
Marco Rodrigues (@dadhalfdev) runs a daily Grok Bot for his agency on Upwork: search deliverable lanes, filter (e.g. >$45/h and agencies OK), match top ~10 jobs to freelancers, draft proposals — and he deliberately does not auto-trigger send because drafts look like AI slop. He spends a few minutes polishing, then applies. Tip/workflow with a hard human send fence (Connects are spend).
What to install or create
Schedule a daily search→filter→match→draft routine. Stop before apply. You edit voice and decide whether Connects are worth it.
Bots
Upwork Scout
Daily search, filter, match, draft. Stops before apply/Connects spend.
Plugins
None on day one. Follow the first-run steps.
Files
Team skills list and rate floor for filters.
Routines
Daily: shortlist top jobs + drafts only. No auto-apply.
The prompt
This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.
First run
- 1Read the Upwork section in https://x.com/dadhalfdev/status/2097073152559862265 (Article: 5 Ways I Use Grok Bot…).
- 2Create an Upwork Scout bot with your lanes, rate floor, and "agencies OK" filter.
- 3Routine: daily search → top ~10 → match freelancers → draft proposals.
- 4You rewrite AI slop out of the drafts.
- 5Only then approve apply / Connects spend. Bot never auto-sends.
Approval fence
Never apply, bid, or spend Connects without an explicit human yes after you edit the draft.
What to tweak
Steal the draft-only daily loop. Auto-send is the bug.
Source
Marco Rodrigues @dadhalfdev · Original post
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