What people do with OpenClaw

• Control lights and fix automations in Home Assistant via OpenClaw

  Dan Malone runs OpenClaw as an always-on Claude agent connected to Home Assistant through ha-mcp, controlling his lights and fixing his automations.

  4 accounts

• Control Gmail, calendar and errands from a chat agent

  OpenClaw users manage Gmail and Calendar from Telegram, unsubscribe from emails, get daily briefings, and submit health reimbursements and find doctor appointments.

  4 accounts

• Run a homeschooling family on OpenClaw agents

  A mom runs five OpenClaw agents that plan lessons from curriculum photos, manage the family schedule, and built a kids' TV app deployed to a TV.

  4 accounts

• Research date restaurants and activities with OpenClaw

  A PR founder has OpenClaw research South Florida restaurants and activities and compile a linked document explaining each pick for the type of date.

• Track food and symptoms in a health log via Telegram

  An OpenClaw agent logs meals and symptoms from Telegram messages into a markdown file, sends reminders, and runs a weekly pattern analysis; this is a tutorial-style setup.

• Build a medication reminder pill dispenser that alerts caregivers

  A how-to guide for an OpenClaw agent on a Raspberry Pi pill dispenser that logs doses, adjusts reminders, confirms dispensing by camera and alerts caregivers on missed doses.

• Run the smart home by natural language

  Karpathy's Dobby agent controls lights, HVAC, shades, pool and security, alerts on visitors, and replaces six apps.

• Search and apply to jobs on LinkedIn

  OpenClaw with browser access made a resume, searched listings and applied to 100+ jobs in three days, but also DMed people on LinkedIn without consent.

• Add home TODO items by Telegram message

  The author told an OpenClaw agent over Telegram to add items to a home TODO list via a custom API while at the office, before they stopped using it.

• Book weekly restaurants and surface daily discoveries from your data

  An OpenClaw agent with access to ChatGPT, Google and Instagram history books weekly restaurants, sends daily recommendations, and proposes memory updates for the user to approve.

• Run family logistics and kids' education agents

  A founder runs OpenClaw agents including a household logistics assistant and a kids' education agent; her first attempt wiped the family calendar.

• Automate Instagram DMs to potential matches

  A developer built an OpenClaw and Claude script that browses Instagram, finds potential matches and sends DMs for him.

• Search rentals and negotiate with landlords

  An OpenClaw agent used browser automation to send 8 listing inquiries, tracked replies in a sheet and negotiated rent over three rounds in one example; showcase-style page.

• Automate home tasks like emails and ticket price checks

  Microsoft's Omar Shahine used OpenClaw at home to draft emails and investigate concert-ticket prices.

• Monitor and respond to home office sensors

  Omar Shahine ran a local OpenClaw agent on his MacBook, extended with home automation so it could observe and respond to physical sensors in his home office.

All Life Admin & Home use cases, from every agent

• Pick the cheapest capable model per task for CRM and email work

  A user had their OpenClaw agent rewrite its own code to add a throttle module that picks the cheapest capable model for tasks like CRM analysis and drafting outbound emails.

• Source and screen candidates and reply over WhatsApp

  Recruiters run OpenClaw to monitor GitHub for new contributors overnight, score resume folders against a job description, and draft WhatsApp replies held for human approval.

• Reschedule meetings and send daily briefings

  OpenClaw checks availability, updates events and drafts confirmations for reschedule requests, and sends daily briefings via messaging apps.

• Collect shower glass supplier quotes by email

  OpenClaw emailed shower glass suppliers, collated responses, and handled the back-and-forth in a chat thread.

• Run roadmap, support inbox, calendar, and todos

  OpenClaw manages a Linear roadmap, prioritizes support conversations, handles calendar and todos, checks notifications, and manages sponsorship opportunities.

• Run OpenClaw bots for repo upkeep, note-taking and team Slack help

  User runs OpenClaw bots that maintain a personal repo, take notes and send news summaries, and in Slack summarize meeting notes and answer team questions.

• Triage and draft replies for three email accounts

  An OpenClaw agent drafted routine replies at about 70% ready quality and cut inbox processing from 10 to 2 minutes, though some things broke.

• Manage 18 agents from a Notion workspace

  Notion used as the control plane for a fleet of 18 OpenClaw agents.

• Automate freelance admin with a morning briefing agent

  An OpenClaw agent sends a Telegram morning briefing, drafts weekly client status emails sent after one-tap approval, and chases follow-ups, cutting admin from about 9 hours to 20 minutes.

• Run a personal agent through Slack with memory notes and a live dashboard

  The author runs OpenClaw on a dedicated machine, talks to it in Slack, keeps daily memory notes, and tracks its tasks and actions on a dashboard.

• Run a VC analyst agent over Telegram

  A VC set up an OpenClaw agent as an analyst on a cheap VPS, reachable by Telegram, which he says could save dozens of hours per quarter.

• Deliver scheduled article digests to Telegram with OpenClaw cron jobs

  A developer fixed OpenClaw cron jobs that ran without delivering by turning thinking mode off, after which six articles reached Telegram in 30 seconds.

All Work & Operations use cases, from every agent

• Manage 10 social media accounts with agents

  The author runs 10 accounts with OpenClaw agents and cron jobs, reports follower growth, and added health checks after an analytics job silently failed for three days.

  2 accounts

• Claude Code

  Build a profitable online business from scratch with an agent

  Poster gave an OpenClaw/Claude agent $50 and 60 days to build an online business, using content marketing on Reddit, Twitter and LinkedIn that drew 400+ visitors.

• Send daily trending social posts as content references

  An OpenClaw agent uses a social data API to send the author a morning digest of trending posts across X, Threads and LinkedIn to inform their own content.

• Run SDR outreach with an OpenClaw agent

  An OpenClaw agent researches prospects, writes personalized cold emails, sends scheduled follow-ups and logs interactions to HubSpot.

• Find and vet ICP leads and plan outreach

  An OpenClaw agent uses a CRM, Sales Navigator, Hunter.io and BrightData to find profiles matching the ICP, vet them and plan cold outreach campaigns.

• Run social, SEO and content marketing with an agent

  The author ran OpenClaw for four weeks with cron jobs, Telegram and MCP tools; one agent analyzed engagement and advised moving focus from X to Bluesky.

• Schedule social videos and posts through an agent

  Users relay that their AI agent installed a scheduling skill, linked social accounts and scheduled about 100 videos; these are vendor-relayed testimonials.

• Run marketing research and copywriting drafts with agents

  The author built OpenClaw-style agents for research, content structure and first-draft copy; research saved 2-3 hours a week and agents needed oversight.

All Sales, Marketing & Support use cases, from every agent

• Investigate broken builds and merge fixes

  OpenAI's internal OpenClaw agent Androidclaw uses Git, GitHub and logs to investigate broken builds, trace problems to incidents, and sometimes prepare and merge fixes.

  2 accounts

• Route Linear tickets to PRs across multiple repos

  A developer sends tasks via Telegram/OpenClaw into Linear, where Cyrus routes each to the right repo and model and opens PRs for review.

• Run OpenClaw agents for Terraform infra and GitOps from Telegram

  Several OpenClaw agents with separate identities set up Terraform infrastructure, did coding work, code reviews, merges and built a CD and GitOps system.

• Run production deploys and port scans from Telegram with OpenClaw

  A security professional uses an OpenClaw agent with read-only prod access, PR-only changes and manual approval for restarts to deploy changes and scan a VPS for exposed ports.

• Vibe-code and deploy an idle clicker game

  Gilbert Pellegrom had his OpenClaw agent build a simple idle game from a conversation, commit it to GitHub and auto-deploy it to Vercel.

• Triage failed GitHub Actions runs and self-heal flaky tests

  A QA engineer's OpenClaw agent reads failed CI logs, classifies failures, posts analysis to GitHub and Slack and opens issues; flakiness fell from 8% to 0.8%, though it once wrongly altered an assertion.

All Software & DevOps use cases, from every agent

• Negotiate a car purchase between dealers

  OpenClaw researched prices, searched dealer inventory, filled contact forms and played quotes against each other for $4,200 off; it messaged a wrong dealer once.

  4 accounts

• Pre-stage household grocery carts from Instacart history

  An OpenClaw add-on scrapes Instacart order history, predicts what the household is running out of, fills the cart twice weekly and texts; nothing ships until the user taps Place Order.

  2 accounts

• Build an e-commerce agent with OpenClaw

  Poster spent 100+ hours and 200M+ tokens building an e-commerce workflow agent with OpenClaw; post focuses mostly on the build effort.

• Order office groceries from Slack requests

  A startup's OpenClaw agent collects Slack requests, compiles a list, gets approval, builds the Instacart cart via ChatGPT's app, and posts the link back.

• Buy products through an agent and track the order

  Per Rye, a user had his OpenClaw agent find products and check out via Rye's checkout API, with items delivered and order status polled afterwards.

All Shopping & Errands use cases, from every agent

• Curate a weekly newsletter from RSS feeds

  OpenClaw monitors RSS feeds, scores items, compiles a digest with intros and sends a Telegram preview; the owner approves and it sends.

  2 accounts

• Draft and publish blog posts with an SEO-aware agent

  An author's OpenClaw agent learns his voice, finds SEO gaps, drafts posts, publishes on his Telegram approval and drafts revision briefs when rankings drop.

• Edit video through chat with subtitles and export

  A developer built an OpenClaw skill that sends chat requests like Chinese subtitles and mp4 export to a backend video editor and returns the result.

All Content & Creative use cases, from every agent

• File a complex tax return with OpenClaw

  OpenClaw built a Schedule C P&L from bank transactions, guided TurboTax entry for 4+ hours and caught an error in a prior accountant's work.

• Turn vet charges into ready-to-send pet insurance claims

  A personal OpenClaw agent spots vet charges in the bank feed, finds the invoice in Gmail, fills the insurer's PDF form, drafts the email and tracks replies for the owner to review and send.

• Have an agent play Forza Horizon and web games

  Developers showed OpenClaw playing Forza Horizon on its own, imperfectly, and built playable bots for a multiplayer web game.

• Play Doom with computer-use agents as an informal benchmark

  The OpenClaw team used computer-use agents to play Doom on remote machines, treating game performance as an informal way to improve the computer-use workflow.

• Drive a 7-axis robot arm with natural language

  OpenClaw is taught a skill and rules for the NERO arm, then writes and runs Python control scripts from plain-language movement requests.

  3 accounts

• Control and calibrate a robotic hand with OpenClaw

  An OpenClaw agent running Claude drove a 16-joint printed hand, checked its actions with a USB camera, calibrated firmware and narrated in Telegram.

• Phone a restaurant to book a full table

  When online booking failed, OpenClaw built a calling app with an AI voice, phoned the restaurant and secured a last-minute cancellation.

  2 accounts

• Build searchable knowledge bases from videos and papers

  An OpenClaw agent runs a YouTube summariser and a paper-condensing tool, saving Markdown into two indexed knowledge bases for videos and papers.