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title: You Have a Claw. Now What?
subtitle: Our comprehensive guide to OpenClaw is here
description: Our comprehensive guide to OpenClaw is here
authors: [Dan Shipper, Willie Williams]
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published_at: "2026-03-03T05:00:00.000-05:00"
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You’ve probably heard us [talking about Claws](https://every.to/context-window/five-ai-agents-walk-into-a-group-chat)—the personal AI assistants that live in your messaging apps and do things for you. Almost everyone at Every has one now, and they’ve changed how we work in ways we didn’t expect.

Claws are personal AI assistants built on [OpenClaw](https://docs.openclaw.ai/). They live in messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram and remember everything you’ve told them, and when they can’t do something, they write the code to teach themselves how. You can use them to sort through 120 unread emails in seconds, or to send you a daily briefing with your calendar, weather, and to-dos in one message.

But many people run into the same problem when they first set up their Claw: What do you actually ask an always-on AI assistant to do? Where do you start?

We wrote a comprehensive guide that takes you from “I just got this thing” to building complex workflows that save you hours. The guide covers everything from basic to-do management to making your Claw automatically check you into flights.

[Read the full guide](https://every.to/guides/claw-school?source=post_button)

**_[Dan Shipper](https://every.to/@danshipper)_** _is the cofounder and CEO of Every, where he writes the_ _[Chain of Thought](https://every.to/chain-of-thought)_ _column and hosts the podcast_ [AI & I](https://open.spotify.com/show/5qX1nRTaFsfWdmdj5JWO1G). _You can follow him on X at_ _[@danshipper](https://twitter.com/danshipper)_ _and on_ _[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danshipper/). _

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**_[Willie Williams](https://every.to/@bigwilliestyle) _**_is the head of platform at Every. You can follow him on X at [@bigwilliestyle](https://x.com/bigwilliestyle)._

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