Your Claw, Yourself

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Knowledge base

“OpenClaw: Our Comprehensive Guide for Beginners” by Dan Shipper and Willie Williams: A Claw is a personal assistant that lives in your messaging apps, rewrites its own code to learn new skills, and acts without being asked. Dan Shipper and head of platform Willie Williams distill everything they’ve learned from running Claws daily: the right mental model (delegate, don’t search), how to stay secure, and how personality emerges from everyday use. Read this before your first conversation with your Claw.

“OpenClaw: Setting Up Your First Personal AI Agent” by Katie Parrott/Source Code: Personal AI agents that text you back, order groceries, and write code overnight are no longer stunts—they’re weekly workflows for a growing community of OpenClaw users. At Every’s first OpenClaw Camp, COO Brandon Gell, head of growth Austin Tedesco, Nat Eliason, and Claire Vo walked 500 subscribers through four distinct setups, from a family assistant in iMessage to a crypto-trading agent with its own bank account. Read this for key lessons on where to start.

“How Claws Took Over Every” by Every Staff/Context Window: Every’s Claws have colonized the company’s Slack, and the patterns that have emerged — agents advising each other, one Claw broadcasting to many humans — hint at what AI-native organizations actually look like in practice. This week’s newsletter maps those interaction types and includes a new AI & I episode where Dan talks to Sam Gerstenzang and Dan Friedman of Boulton and Watt, a startup incubator focused on unglamorous businesses like medical spas and funeral homes, about building AI-durable companies that Silicon Valley ignores. 🎧 🖥 Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.