Grok: Advanced — Power Workflows & Automation

This course fills the step between everyday fluency and building on the platform: running Grok at an expert level without writing code. Learners design multi-step workflows, automate recurring work with live monitoring setups and research routines, and set personal systems that compound over weeks. They finish as the person on the team others come to for Grok technique.

What this course covers

The course runs across 11 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Architecting Multi-Step Workflows — Learn to deconstruct complex, recurring business tasks into logical, sequential prompt sequences that Grok can execute reliably without code.
Designing Decision Logic in Workflows — How to build conditional routing and branching pathways into your multi-step prompts to handle varied inputs.
Monitoring setups with Automations — Turn a monitoring prompt into a scheduled automation at grok.com/automations (or by asking Grok in chat): set a date range, trusted source types and a link and date for every item, choose daily or weekday timing and notifications, then click Run now to test and read the run history.
Research routines that run on their own — Build a weekly research automation that gathers, filters and summarises news on a topic, using @-mentioned connectors and Skills where your company allows them, plus an email-triggered version if your plan includes it. Review each saved run and tighten the instructions when the output drifts.
Building Reusable Skills and Templates — Turn a prompt that works into a Grok Skill or a fill-in-the-blanks template so the same task comes out in the same format every time. Test it in a new chat and refine it until the output is consistent.
Managing Personal Compounding Knowledge Systems — Organise your Skills, templates, reference files and saved automation runs into a personal system you keep improving week by week, so each new task starts from what already works.
Quality Control for High-Volume Output — Check large batches of Grok output with review prompts, simple checklists and spot-checks against the original sources, and read your automations' run history to catch mistakes before anything goes out.
Handling Edge Cases and Output Drift — Practise spotting and fixing drifting formats, made-up details and other unexpected model behaviour in your chats and Automations. Tighten the instructions, then test again with Run now.
Coaching Teammates on Grok Technique — Work out why a teammate's prompt or workflow isn't giving good results, explain in plain words how Grok works and where it tends to go wrong, and agree simple team habits such as asking for sources and checking figures.
Standardizing Team Workflows and Shared Templates — Collaborative exercises on packaging your personal workflows into reusable, fool-proof templates for your team.
What Grok Bot is, and when to use it — Grok Bot is a separate app from Grok, where named Bots work on their own cloud computer, sign into your apps and stop for your approval. Learn when a job belongs in Grok and when to hand it to a Bot instead; the Grok Bot for Everyone courses teach it in full, starting with Grok Bot: Intro.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

Experienced Grok users. The material is pitched at advanced level, and takes roughly 150 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Grok track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive, including guided lab, branching scenario, role play exercises. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment of 5 items, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

Grok for Developers: Advanced — Agentic Engineering with Grok Build — Agentic engineering with Grok Build: plan before coding, split work across subagents and parallel worktrees, add hooks and guardrails, share skills and plugins through team marketplaces, run Grok Build headless in scripts and CI, lock down permissions and sandboxing for a whole organization, and control cost and speed
Grok: Mastery — Leading Work with Grok — Lead reliable work with Grok through delegation, description, discernment and diligence. Package your expertise for the team, check every output, supervise the agent features you actually have and measure impact honestly, with no technical background needed.
What's New in Grok for Everyone — A short refresher on the latest Grok for Everyone updates
Grok for Developers: Mastery — xAI API & Building — Build reliable agents on the xAI API: the Responses API and function calling, optional web and X search with verified citations, guardrails enforced in your own code, and measurable controls for cost, retries and rollback. All labs use a fake client, so no live keys are needed.
Grok: Core — Skills, Connectors & Automations — A hands-on working level for experienced Grok users in any role. Set Grok up the way you work, get precise answers from long documents, teach Grok your recurring tasks with Skills, bring work in through the connectors and Office or Google add-ins your company allows, track news with sourced search, and put recurring jobs on a schedule with Automations. No code, no command line, no admin settings.
Grok for Everyone Pathway — Complete fluency in Grok for any role: from your first question to Search, files, Skills, connectors and Automations. Also includes 4 optional playbooks (Writing & Communication, Research, Data & Analysis, Coding) to take any time after Essentials; they don't count toward the certificate.

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 150 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Course code TUL-GRK-251.