# Connect Grok Bot to LotsBusiness Canonical page: https://lots.business/agents/grok-bot Steps checked: 2026-10-01 Ask Grok Bot to update your business page, website and Google posts in LotsBusiness. Use the LotsBusiness REST API from Grok Bot’s computer with an API key. MCP server URL: https://api.lots.business/mcp REST API docs: https://api.lots.business/docs Setup instructions for your agent: https://lots.business/skill.md ## What you can do once connected - Keep your business record up to date: contact details, opening hours, services, photos, links and FAQs. - Build and edit your website, and share a private preview before anything goes live. - Prepare your Google Business Profile for your approval and post updates, offers and events to it. - Show which local directories fit your business and give you the same listing details, worded the same way, for each one. - Read messages from your website contact form, reply to reviews and answer questions on your listing. - For agencies: run every client business from one workspace and send clients an approval link. The LotsBusiness dashboard does everything an agent does, so you can check, edit or undo any change. Your agent for speed, the dashboard for control. ## You need - Grok Bot access with computer and terminal tools - A LotsBusiness API key, supplied through secure credential storage - A LotsBusiness account. You can create one during sign-in. ## Connect Grok Bot to LotsBusiness 1. **Give Grok Bot the API reference.** Ask it to read the LotsBusiness REST reference. It can use the API from its computer. ``` https://api.lots.business/docs ``` 2. **Create and securely supply an API key.** Create a key at https://www.lotstech.com/api. Use the agent’s secure credential flow rather than putting a secret in your prompt. 3. **Start with a read-only request.** Ask Grok Bot for something read-only, such as “List my businesses on LotsBusiness and what each one still needs”, before it changes anything. ## What to ask next - “Build a website for my salon from our listing and send me the preview” - “Post this weekend’s offer to our Google Business Profile” - “Which local directories should my plumbing business be on, and what do I submit?” - “Update our opening hours for the holiday weekend” ## Questions and troubleshooting ### How do I connect Grok Bot to LotsBusiness? Use the LotsBusiness REST API from Grok Bot’s computer. Create an API key at https://www.lotstech.com/api, configure it privately for the task and share https://api.lots.business/docs with your agent. Ask it for something read-only first. ### Can I connect LotsBusiness to Grok Bot today? Use the REST API from Grok Bot’s computer, following the setup above. Create a LotsBusiness API key, supply it through secure credential storage and share https://api.lots.business/docs with the agent. ### Do I need an API key to use LotsBusiness with Grok Bot? Yes. Create one at https://www.lotstech.com/api and keep it out of chats, logs and committed files. Where Grok Bot offers sign-in, use that instead. ### What does LotsBusiness cost? Current plans and prices are on https://lots.business/pricing. Your agent’s own plan or usage fees are separate. ### Does my agent publish my website or post to Google without asking? Your agent shares a private preview before a website is published and shows you the text before a Google post. You can check or undo any change in the dashboard. ### Does my agent submit my business to other directories? No. It lists the directories that fit your business and country and gives you the exact details to enter, worded the same for each. You or your agency submit, and your agent tracks each one. ### Do I need a paid business to use an agent? Every business starts with a free directory listing. A paid business also unlocks its website, Google Business Profile tools, directory list and business email. See the pricing page for details. ### LotsBusiness is not in Marketplace These instructions use the REST API from the agent’s computer. Create an API key and follow the API setup above. You do not need to find LotsBusiness in Marketplace. ### The agent cannot authenticate Check API-key permissions and secure credential availability. Never paste the key into a public chat or committed file. ## Sources - [xAI: Grok Bot apps and connectors](https://docs.x.ai/grok-bot/computer-and-apps)