# Playbooks

> Step-by-step AI automation playbooks from Ential. Practical guides for Claude, Claude Code, and building systems that run your business.

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A curated library of AI-driven tools, guides, and templates for scaling your work. Built from real experiments by leading experts and ready to deploy inside your stack.
October 2026
AGENTS

## The Grok Bot Playbook

xAI's agents get their own cloud computer, sign in to your tools, and keep working after you close the app. What it actually costs, how to build a fleet that owns real outcomes, and the guardrails to set before you trust it with anything that matters.
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October 2026
AGENTS

## The Instinct Playbook

The personal agent with no new interface. You text it or you call it, and it finishes the job. What it does, what its backers just paid for it, the prompts people run to claw money back, and the limits to set before you connect a single account.
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October 2026
AGENTS

## The Hermes Playbook

Run your own open-source AI chief of staff on a machine you control. Set up models, profiles, messaging, schedules and the business and personal workflows behind Donna.
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October 2026
AGENTS

## The ChatGPT Dots Playbook

OpenAI officially calls them dots: always-on agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computer. Learn what a dot can do, how access works, the jobs worth delegating, and the approval boundaries launch week proved you need.
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October 2026
AGENTS

## The Meta Muse Playbook

Muse for Small Business is a set of business skills and connectors inside Meta’s personal agent. This guide covers price, setup, useful jobs, connector limits, privacy questions and the guardrails to set first.
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July 2026
PRODUCTIVITY

## The Claude Cowork Playbook

Turn Claude into an agent that does the work, not one that talks about it. Describe an outcome, step away, and come back to finished files, decks, and reports. Put Computer Use, Dispatch, and scheduled tasks to work, no coding required.
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