On October 30, I hosted the first Grok Bot Meetup in Bucharest at Builders House. 117 people signed up, and 61 checked in.

This was my second event in the city after Cafe Cursor in June, and it was cool to see a lot of familiar faces from that night show up again. The room was a mix of developers, marketers, project managers, and business owners. Very diverse, which made the Q&A a lot more interesting.

That’s over a 50% attendance rate, which is pretty good for a free evening event.

Sergei opening the Grok Bot Bucharest Meetup

Opening the meetup at Builders House.

The format

We ran the evening from 17:00 to 22:00:

  • Welcome and a Grok Bot overview presentation

  • Live session with Kiara Polychroniadi, Field Engineer at SpaceXSI

  • Open Q&A

  • Pizza

  • Workshop: building bot teams, plus a few guest project shares

No prior bot experience required. People just needed a laptop and an idea they wanted to automate.

Attendees raising their hands at the Grok Bot Bucharest MeetupA full room at Builders House, with people standing along the wallAttendees listening during the Grok Bot meetupThe audience at Builders House during the talksFront row at the Grok Bot Bucharest Meetup

The room during the talks.

What I showed

I opened with an intro to Grok Bot and how my own system is set up.

I walked through how I run the studio with a bot team, and how I manage personal projects the same way. People asked a lot about creating bots, setting up automations, and automating business processes. The Q&A was solid. Basically the same questions I get in mentorship, just with 60 people in the room.

A few topics came up again and again:

  • How to set up Grok Bot workflows from scratch

  • Social media planning and automated content workflows

  • Using bots for X / posting processes

  • Building a Notion dashboard for the team: tasks, calendar, content calendar

I shared how my YouTube → SEO → blog posting chain is set up, and how I use bots around X and Notion for planning. It was a real look at the workflows I actually run, not a slide deck of theory.

There’s a foundation video for this coming on YouTube. I’ll link it here once it’s live.

Sergei presenting how a Grok Bot team changes routine workSergei presenting how AI teammates differ from chatbots and copilots

Walking through how a bot team changes the work.

An attendee asking a question during the open Q&AA guest speaking during the Grok Bot meetupAn attendee with the microphone during Q&AA question from the audience at Builders HouseAnother question from the room during the meetup

Questions from the room.

Kiara’s session

Kiara presented the current Grok Bot team setup and walked through how she gets work done with bots, including automating day-to-day work and running her own personal project.

Everyone was really into her demo, especially the personal project part. That was one of the clearest “oh, I can do this too” moments of the night.

Kiara Polychroniadi on screen for the live Grok Bot session

Kiara’s live session.

Workshop: people actually building

After pizza, we switched to a hands-on workshop.

People started setting up bot teams and building their own projects. I walked around answering questions and helping people get their first teams running. Some attendees had never heard of Grok Bot before. They were excited to see it live, and then they tried it themselves.

Others were already power users and mostly wanted to see real workflows and demos. Both groups worked well in the same room.

Attendees working on laptops during the bot team workshopSomeone setting up a bot team next to the Grok Bot bannerSergei helping an attendee one on one during the workshop

Laptops open, and first bot teams getting set up.

Two attendees sharing a project on screenA guest presenting the good fund project

Guest project shares later in the evening.

Stickers, cookies, and pizza

We made stickers and ordered gingerbread cookies shaped like the Grok Bot characters. Five shapes, 100 pieces total. That was a huge hit.

We ran out of cookies fast. Some people grabbed all the colors. Same energy as the stickers at Cafe Cursor, honestly.

Pizza boxes open during the break at Builders HouseA slice of pizza during the meetup breakGingerbread cookies shaped like Grok Bot charactersGrok Bot character stickers on a table

Pizza, bot-shaped gingerbread, and the sticker table.

We ordered 16 pizzas for about 60 people, and that was enough. Budget-wise, we spent less than we asked for, which is always nice when you’re organizing these things.

Huge thank you to Builders House for hosting us at AFI Park.

What worked

A few things stood out:

  • Returning people. Seeing folks from Cafe Cursor again made the room feel less like a cold first meetup.

  • Attendance. 117 registered, 61 checked in, over 50%. For a free Friday evening, I’ll take that.

  • Demos. Kiara’s talk and the personal project demo carried a lot of the energy.

  • Gifts. Stickers and bot-shaped gingerbread cookies punched way above their cost.

  • Mix of audiences. Newcomers and power users both got something useful: first setup help for one group, real workflow demos for the other.

Overall feedback was strong. People were excited, asked good questions, and stayed for the workshop instead of leaving after pizza.

Thank you

Thank you to Kiara for the live session, to the SpaceXSI team for the demos and free Grok Bot credits, to Alla and Jessica for helping host, and to everyone who showed up, asked questions, and built something that night.

And thank you to Builders House for the space. Photos are by Adi Molnar.

Photos

All photos from the event are here:

https://cursorromania.com/recaps/grok-bot-bucharest-meetup-2026-10-30

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