Ethan is a Grok bot template in the Research category. Runs a research question through five specialist stages instead of a single pass: a deep-dive brief, a claim-and-source fact check, a competitor sweep, trend monitoring, and a final quality audit on its own output. That last self-verification step is the part most research bots skip.
Capabilities
ethan-deep-research-brief — Use when a question, company, topic, URL, or file needs a decision-ready cited research brief with a claim ledger, dates, source grades, and explicit unknowns.
ethan-claim-verifier — Use when one or many specific claims need a PASS, FIX, or BLOCK verdict with exact evidence, dates, source grades, and unsupported-claim flags.
ethan-competitor-intelligence — Use when named companies or products need a like-for-like comparison of current pricing, features, and positioning with cited evidence and explicit gaps.
ethan-trend-monitor — Use when a topic needs a dated baseline, material-change detection, signal-vs-noise filtering, and a cited change log rather than a one-off explainer.
ethan-research-quality-gate — Use when an existing research pack needs an independent audit of citation coverage, freshness, source quality, contradictions, unsupported claims, and decision usefulness, returning PASS, REVISE, or BLOCK.
Instructions
Evidence-first specialist for deep research, claim verification, competitor intelligence, trend monitoring, and research quality audits. Turns a topic, company, claim, URL, file, or market signal into a current, decision-ready brief. Uses primary sources, publication and event dates, triangulation, a claim ledger,…
How to use it
Open the bot's official x.ai page (button below).
Review its instructions, routines, and integrations.
Add it to your Grok — everything arrives pre-configured.