Automate Your Lead Gen and SEO with AI Agents That Run 24/7

By Beau Johnson · · 20 min · 672 views

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  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:30How the Reddit + SEO agent works
  3. 4:30Why this isn't spam (the value line)
  4. 7:00How to build this for your business
  5. 10:00Real member results with distribution
  6. 12:30Closing thoughts

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I do 5 live bootcamps every week in Shipping Skool! Full courses on OpenClaw and Claude Code! Join Here ⬇️ https://www.shippingskool.com/ 🔗 GET CONTENT MACHINE: https://www.shopclawmart.com/listings/content-machine-0c67b3b3 Someone built an OpenClaw setup that monitors Reddit for customer questions, crafts helpful responses, generates SEO blog posts from real community data, and tracks competitor intelligence. They demoed it at an AI event and founders were lining up to get it. 0:00 - Intro 1:30 - How the Reddit + SEO agent works 4:30 - Why this isn't spam (the value line) 7:00 - How to build this for your business 10:00 - Real member results with distribution 12:30 - Closing thoughts Want to build something like this? Join our community of 100+ builders. Sources: Original Reddit thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1r750gc/has_anyone_madesaved_money_from_openclaw/ Get the weekly AI builder newsletter 📕 https://substack.com/@buildnpublic Follow Me On X - https://x.com/BeauJohnson89

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0:00Someone built an open claw setup that automatically gets them free customers through Reddit. Built an entire SEO pipeline that automatically draws customers right to his product, and this all happens on autopilot. The best part about all this is they demoed it at an AI event, and founders were literally lining up to try to get their hands on it. So, I'm going to back up and break this down on what this actually means and how you can use and build something similar. Pretty much genius, you know, I'm going to tell you you, you know, how you can build something exactly similar for your own business. We kind of do something similar on my pipeline and how I kind of, you know, do outreach and stuff. So, you know, this is the kind of stuff that actually makes money and works 24/7, especially if you're building on top of open claw. This isn't

0:45like some hypothetical use case. This is someone getting real leads and real actual traffic with real customers, and it's happening while they sleep. So, the setup is they have open claw agents that monitor specific subreddits related to their niche. You know, like you could do fitness, you could do food, you could do travel, AI, whatever. I'm not talking about just sitting there reading posts. The agent is actively analyzing what people are asking about. So, like what problems keep them coming up over and over again. It basically, you know, chooses what topics are trending in the community in that particular niche, and it's doing the deep kind of it's doing the deep market research that would take an actual human hours to do every single day. So, it basically takes that intelligence what it gathers from

1:30Reddit, and then it does a couple things with it. So, the first thing it does is it crafts a thoughtful, genuinely helpful response to Reddit threads where the person's product or service is like a natural fit, not spammy. I know Reddit has really locked down this whole AI content creation and promoting your whole SaaS in these subreddits. But, you know, the thing is this actually sounds like a human, you know, actual helpful responses that provide value and answer the question completely. The second thing is it feeds all of that competitor intelligence and topic research into the content pipeline that generates SEO-optimized blog posts, and it's targeting the exact long-tail, low-competition keywords that real

2:15people are actually searching for. So, I'm going to clear but be clear about something because I know someone's going to say it in the comments. This is not about being fake on Reddit. This is not about bot spam, and you know, the responses this agent crafts are actually generally useful, especially if it's trained on your data set and in a humanized voice. So, meaning it speaks like you, it writes like you. Basically, the agents answer people's questions with actual real detail. They share real insights from actual experience. And yes, you know, they mention the product when it's relevant and natural, but it's not spammy Tai Lopez style, right? So, it's the same thing a founder would do if they had 10 hours a day to spend on Reddit. They don't just have that time,

3:01and maybe you do, but it's more awesome when an agent does it for you. So, the SEO piece is where it gets a bit deeper. You know, think about this for a second. The agent is basically doing market research 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It knows what questions people are actually asking right now. It knows what problems they're struggling with this week. It knows what language they use to describe those problems, the exact words they type. This is goes much deeper than just a human at this point, right? It takes all of that, and then it generates the blog content that's perfectly targeted at those exact pain points using those exact phrases. This is not AI slop content. We are getting better and better. We're evolving, and this is actually useful content that answers

3:47real questions from real people. The difference between this and generic AI slop is that it's grounded in actual data from actual conversations on Reddit happening in real time. I think it's pretty cool. So, instead of a human spending 3, 4 hours a day researching keywords and writing a blog post, the agent does it in about 10 minutes. So, the targeting is probably better because it's working with a fresher, like more specific data set than any keyword research tool that could give you. Real quick, before we keep going, if you're watching this and you want to actually build with some of these tools, not just watch videos about them, then you're going to want to check out our community down below, Shipping School. We have a full Cloud Code course, a full Open Claw course, and four live bootcamps every

4:34single week where we actually help you get set up from scratch. Like actually set this thing up, not just watch a tutorial and figure it out by yourself. And we also provide one-on-one coaching, so you could book a call with me, we could share screens, and I can help you get Cloud Code or Open Claw running on your machine. That's it, no fluff. I built this community because watching YouTube's only gets you so far. We launched it just 3 days ago, and we have over 55 members. You need people around you who are actually building, people who hold you accountable, and coaches who can help you when you get stuck. I'll put the link in the description down below. Get in now before the price goes up. So, if you have any kind of online business, whether it's a SaaS product like my product Easy Flip, a

5:19community like Shipping School, or you have a school community, or say you have like an e-commerce business that sells FBA through Amazon, or you do eBay, whatever, a consulting business, any kind of course, whatever, you need two things. You basically need traffic, and you need trust. Reddit gives you both, you know, SEO gives you both, and they take forever to do them manually. I know this from personal experience. When we launched Shipping School, I was spending hours on Reddit and on Twitter and on YouTube trying to figure it all about myself, and then I got Open Claw involved, and you know, I'd spend time answering questions on these subreddits, Facebook groups, X posts, trying to be the reply guy, and it just wasn't gaining much traction. So, I would post about like what we're building and what

6:04worked and what didn't, and you know, we have over 105 members in the community right now, and that's with no paid ads, no influencer deals, and it's just me doing organic content. So, you know, if I had this kind of automation running from day one, we would be much further ahead. So, I did spend my first few days trying to do it manually, building out this open claw and telling it, "Hey, we need to put this on autopilot." So, I'm going to talk to you about, you know, like how my setup works and why it should matter to you because that's what this channel is about, documenting the journey and sharing with you, you know, maybe you want to build something similar to this, you know, Reddit automation. And by the way, the sources are always going to be linked down below. You can check out the story for

6:49yourself. Um, you know, I do want to show you cool stuff and keep you up to date with AI news, but more importantly, I want to share my journey on what I'm building and how we're growing this channel. We have just crossed over $4,000 in monthly recurring revenue in 10 days using Open Claw. I would say, you know, backing up, step one, you need to identify your subreddits if you're going to go down the, you know, Reddit route for finding customers. Like, you know, I don't mean just the obvious ones. Like if you're building a SaaS product, sure, you know, go to the side project subreddit or MicroSaaS or whatever, but also look deeper at the niche-specific subreddits where your actual customers hang out. So, like if your product helps real estate agents, you want to be in the realtor subreddit, obviously. Um, but if it helps like

7:36content creators, you also want to be in the NewTuber subreddit. So, if you're building something for small businesses, look for the small business subreddit or entrepreneur subreddit. Like get more specific. The more specific the subreddit, the more targeted your audience, and then thus increasing a better conversion rate. The second thing is like setting up your Open Claw agent with a skill that actually monitors those subreddits. You could use the Reddit API, you could use Brave Search API, you could use Chrome DevTools MCP, whatever you want to do, whatever. I use Brave Search, and you basically get to avoid the whole API hassle. And that's actually what I do for a lot of the research. I just use Brave Search. It's like $5 a month for 1,000 searches, and then it's filtered to Reddit basically

8:21all the time. Every morning at 5:00 a.m. it kicks off and gives us fresh intel for creating videos and scripts and outlines and copywriting, blogs, newsletters. Um, basically, the agent checks for any new post in our niche matching specific keywords and topics related to your business on whatever schedule you set. You do something similar. Every hour, you could have it scheduled every few hours, whatever you want. I have mine just once a day. The third thing is this is the important one. Don't skip this. This is where most people get lost or they get it wrong. You give the agent clear guidelines on how to respond. This is where most people mess it all up. They tell the AI to promote their product, and the responses come out feeling like a straight AI slop ad. Everyone can tell, and at this point, you do not want to

9:08give that as a dead giveaway. The Reddit community will call it out, you'll get banned and thrown in jail, basically. So, you don't want to get downvoted, right? So, you want to tell the agent to be generally helpful first, and the more that you can humanize the copy in your voice. Maybe you have Zoom calls. Maybe you have 1,000 emails written exactly how you want it. Maybe you have a YouTube channel. Feed some of that data to humanize the voice, and make sure you're checking the output before it actually gets posted. Um, that's what I would do, 100%. So, basically, you want it to be genuinely helpful, and you want it to be in your voice. You want to answer the person's question completely, share your actual experience, and provide the actual value in the post. And only mention your product if it's a natural fit for what they're asking about. Don't be pushy. The goal is to be

9:54the most helpful person in the thread and not the most promotional. I learned this the hard way with our own content. When I was manually responding to Reddit threads on day one and day two about OpenClaw, the posts were just, you know, what I shared, what I built, and how I built it got way more engagement than any post where I tried to sell something within that same type of post. Now, I want to talk a more about the SEO pipeline. How does this work? How does it connect to your landing page? How does it connect to your website? You know, you're going to take all the topics and questions the agent identifies from Reddit and then feed them into a content generation workflow. For me, I have one of my agents write a detailed blog basically to go on our Shipping School website related to the content, what we're building, sounding

10:39in my voice, and then we target the low competition long-tail keywords so we can rank for those keywords naturally on Google. So, basically each blog post should target a specific question that real people are actually asking. Include the answer, include examples, include your own experience with it if necessary. So, I have 27 published use cases on Shipping School right now and all with real source URLs. Each one of those ranks for specific keywords because it answers the specific question that someone typed into Google. The competitor intelligence would be the next step. This is the part that the founders at that AI event went crazy over and I totally understand why. I get it. The agent also tracks what your

11:24competitors are doing on Reddit. So, what are people saying about their products and what complaints that keep coming up? Basically, what features people are requesting that they're not delivering. What's the sentiment around that brand? So, it helps you kind of where they're failing, you can make your product stickier. You can reduce churn. You can ship those features what they're asking for. All of that basically gets compiled into a weekly report that you can use to make your product better and position yourself against them. It's like having a full-time competitive intelligence analyst working for you around the clock. So, I want to get real with y'all and never want to sugarcoat this. Is this easy to set up? Probably for a beginner getting going, probably not. It's going to take you a while. You're definitely going to get more gray hair, but it's not impossible. You know,

12:09I've been doing this building public journey for a while now. We're almost approaching a year and just most recently, you know, we're pumping out more content and that's the goal. It's just to show you what we're doing, what we're building. One of the biggest lessons I've learned during this whole stretch is that distribution is harder than building. Building's the fun part. Wait till you start having to figure out how to get customers. You know, you could build the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, it does not matter. How are you going to drum up the attention to get your first customers? That's just the plain and simple truth. And that's why setups like this one are so powerful because they actually solve a distribution problem for a lot of people. You know, you have your product built and now you're like, "Well, now what? How do I get customers?" This is a great example. So,

12:55they get your name and your product in front of the exact people who need it. You know, the exact places they're looking for help. Reddit's a great source. And basically, it runs while you sleep. So, while you're eating dinner or while you're spending time with family, the agent keeps working. If you're struggling to keep up with content, well, I'm about to save you about 40 days' [music] worth of work. I built something called Content Machine. It's 10 AI agents that run on the OpenClaw orchestration and they handle everything. Scripts, [music] thumbnails, X posts, blogs, outreach, clips, newsletters, all of it. So, I went from 1,000 subscribers to 4,000 subscribers on YouTube in 7 days using this exact system. Every single morning, I wake up [music] and the content's already done.

13:41I spend maybe 15, 20 minutes reviewing and approving them and I move on with my day. It works for any niche, fitness, finance, real estate, marketing, whatever you're building and it is 100% completely customizable to your use case. So, you get the mission control dashboard, all of the cron jobs, everything I've built over the last 40 days helping me gain more and more people [music] to subscribe and join the community. So, you plug in your own thing and it molds it to you. It learns how you talk and it [music] writes so it doesn't sound like AI slop. $97 one-time, it's not a subscription. I'll put the link down below and you'll thank me later. I was talking to a member in our community just the other day, Robbie, who's building an AI content SaaS and his the biggest challenge was

14:27not building the product. The product was pretty solid. The biggest challenge was finding customers. Getting those first pub- pilot clients, beta testers, whatever you want to call them. Um, it should be easy in theory, but it's not. But after you get your first few customers, you start to see, "Okay, this is working. Now I need to double down." That's the challenge for everyone starting new businesses, not just SaaS products. The product is the easy part. Finding the people who will pay for it. That's a whole 'nother world. And the solution isn't always more features or a better product. I feel like a lot of people getting into this space really try to overcomplicate and overengineer things. Don't go down that route. Getting in front of more eyeballs, that's going to be the key. Now, how do you do that? Where are your people at?

15:12You know, being helpful in more places, building trust at scale, and that's exactly what OpenClaw is for, automating a lot of that. I want to address something that always comes up when I talk about this kind of, you know, automation. People would generally say, "Isn't this kind of sketchy or inauthentic using AI to post on all these social platforms?" And and I get it. There is a line and we don't want to cross that line. It's important that you have values, standards, and morals and ethics while you're building your product, but you can have an agent do a lot of the work for you to where you at least review it, add in your own two cents. So, basically, if your agent is posting genuinely helpful responses that make the community better and they answer people's questions, maybe they're sharing real insights off of your real

15:57experience, I think that's fine. But if your agent is spamming promotional garbage, which most people are doing, and it adds zero value, then obviously, you're going to try to figure out how not to do that. And tell that to your agent. It's not okay. And, you know, it's it's not going to work. I don't want you to waste time going down that road. Reddit communities are for real people doing real things. And you don't want to be called out, you know, when it's AI slop and get downvoted. You'll get banned. The key is authenticity. Even though it's an AI agent doing most of the work, the content needs to be authentic. It needs to come from your real experience, like based off your real data and actual insights about your product and, you know, based on your niche. That's why OpenClaw is very powerful for this because you can give

16:42it your entire knowledge base, basically things about your product, whatever documents, customer feedback that you might have, and then basically your own personal experience. I would add in your voice voice profile 100% anytime you're building something like this out. It uses all of that context to craft responses that actually feel like they're coming from someone who knows what they're talking about because in a way, they are. You know, if you're giving it this database, that's what it's going to do with the data and you need to tell your agent that. You know, it's based on your knowledge. It's delivered much more consistently and doesn't sound like AI slop. My challenge to you is think about your business or your product or whatever you're building right now. Where are your customers hanging out? You know, real estate agents hang out on Instagram. In theory,

17:28we would say, "Oh, let's send them emails." Real estate agents get thousands of emails every day. You need to go where your people at. Maybe your people are on LinkedIn. I don't know. Where are they hanging out? Find where they're hanging out, build the automation around it, and go from there. What problems does does your target audience have? Like, you know, and how can you help them solve them? Think about how OpenClaw and how an AI agent within OpenClaw can help you show up in these places consistently with genuinely helpful content. That's the game. That's how you build a business in 2026. It's not about who has the best product anymore. It's about who can be the most helpful to the most people in the most places. AI agents can get you mostly the way there and they can allow you to do it at scale, which was literally

18:13impossible just this time last year. We have people in the community building these exact type of systems right now, you know, real people, real builds. You know, Faheem's got the food truck business doing over $3,000 a night at events that get sold out. Colin's got his Chrome extension approved on the Chrome Web Dev Store. We got Dustin who is running a nonprofit that's got a $120,000 Google Ad Grant. These are real businesses being built by real people and basically, they decided to stop watching tutorials and decided to start building. And if that sounds like something you want to be part of, I think building in a community with other people that are building cool things is much better than not being in a community. We've gained over 105 members in just 10 days and people are building

18:58stuff. We have five live bootcamps every single week with a sixth one on the way, which is going to be more focused on content creation, building in public, and getting your first customers. So, altogether, we are a beautiful community that is thriving and our goal is to build the world's largest OpenClaw community to help build and ship your product. I'll put that link down below. Get in there before the price goes up. And if you haven't subscribed to the channel already, we're producing four to six videos every single day trying to keep you up-to-date with cool OpenClaw builds and AI news. We'll see you guys in the next one.

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