I Found 5 OpenClaw Businesses You Can Built In Hours

0:00In this video, we're going to be going over five open claw use cases of people actually building stuff with open claw and making money right now in hopes that you can take one of these ideas and run with it. You know, these are people who built real businesses and automations with open claw. None of them are developers and all of them started exactly where you are right now. By the end of this video, you're going to pick one of these, build it out, and it's only going to take a weekend. I'm not kidding. These actual setups that real people are running right now took them just days to build out. This isn't hypothetical. This isn't just, "Oh, I don't know how to do it. I'm not technical." These people built this in just a few days and they're actually making money. And these people already did it. So, I have the sources to all of the links and the builds down below. You

0:45can deep dive, you know, the Reddit posts and things like that on how they started, where they're at now, and take it, you know, one step at a time. Pick the use case that you like and run with it. The crazy thing is is how different these use cases are. They're covering different niches like finance, the medical field, the food industry. So, we're going to cover all of them. You know, we got a guy running a whole business from Discord, a family assistant that texts you back, a real estate broker who automated 20 hours a week of admin tasks, and an automated newsroom that costs less than a coffee. So, a dude who had an AI call 80 restaurants in one day, all on open claw, all built by regular people. So, the first one that absolutely blew my mind and and just seeing the potential

1:31of open claw right now and people building stuff, it's hard to stay focused on the idea that you actually chose because so many cool use cases are popping up. But, this one's crazy. Um a guy named Alex McFarlane runs a six-figure business with zero employees, and his entire operating system is Discord. Now, most people think Discord is like for gaming and maybe you've used it for community or group chat, but Alex is using it to run his entire company. So, when you see how he set it up, it makes a ton of sense. And here's how it works. He created a Discord server with channels organized by business function. So, he's got a channel for YouTube production, a channel for measuring his analytics, another channel for his client work, a channel for content review, and a channel for drafts that need approval. So, basically every part

2:16of his business has its own dedicated space. Then he connected to open claw, and he connected to two AI agents to that Discord server. Agent number one is called Proxy, and Proxy handles his personal brand, you know, content creation, schedule drafts, social media. Agent number two is Atlas. Atlas handles the client work, similar to our Atlas that we have handling the coordination in our uh lineup. And basically Atlas also helps with proposals, follow-ups, deliverables, and client communications. So, basically two agents, completely separate contexts. None bleed into each other, you know, they're separate. They don't even know the other one exists. Real quick, before we keep going, if you're watching this and you want to actually build with some of these tools,

3:02not just watch videos about them, then you're going to want to check out our community down below, Shipping School. We have a full Claude code course, a full open claw course, and four live bootcamps every single 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 Claude 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

3:47help you when you get stuck. I'll put the link in the description down below. Get in now before the price goes up. Here's the part that really got me. He set up cron jobs so these agents work overnight. He literally goes to sleep, and then when he wakes up, there's finished drafts sitting in a review queue channel waiting for him. He also set up an Obsidian bridge so he can see everything the agents build in real time from his home notes app. Here's the part that's crazy. He actually tried Claude code remote first and then made a video saying open claw was dead. Then he came back and built this Discord setup and then said it was better than anything he had. Hmm. Sometimes you got to try the wrong thing to appreciate the right thing, especially for your particular use case. Here's how you'd start this yourself. You didn't install open claw on your Mac or whatever your machine.

4:33Create a Discord server. Just don't overthink the channels. Just start with four or five, like inbox, drafts, content, admin, whatever. Connect to open claw to Discord through the Discord plugin. Create two agent profiles with different system prompts. Give each one permission to read and write in its own channels. Set up a couple cron jobs for reoccurring tasks like every morning at 6:00 a.m., check my inbox channel and draft responses. That's basically it. You could have this running by Sunday night. This is actually really similar to what I run with my Wu-Tang agent pipeline. We've got agents handling different functions. The RZA handles the script outlines, Inspectah Deck handles everything on X, Ghostface gathers intel. Similar concept, different channels for different jobs. Discord just makes it more visual. The second

5:18one, and this one's for all the parents out there. Honestly, if you're not even a parent, you'd probably use this. This is going to show you what's possible with AI in your personal life. So, Brandon Gell is the COO of every.to, which is a pretty big media company in the AI space. He built an open claw agent named Zosa. This runs as a family assistant through iMessage. So, I'm going to paint a picture. Brandon and his wife both text Zosa like they'd text a friend. They say things like, "Hey Zosa, order groceries for this week." Or, "How many hours did the nanny work this month?" Or, "Book a date for Friday night for us." And Zosa handles it, just like texting a personal assistant, except this one never sleeps and never forgets. She tracks the nanny hours, she

6:04orders the groceries, she books the date nights. She also reviews documents for both parents. She even monitors their iMessage conversations, automatically creates calendar events when she detects appointments. Like if a dentist office confirms a time through text, Zosa caches that and adds it to the calendar. And she adds driving time buffers before and after. She maintains a running inventory of what's in the pantry and in the fridge, and either parent can check from anywhere. She deduplicates ingredients across recipes when making grocery lists so you don't buy double of something. Here's what's pretty crazy. Zosa refused to follow instructions from people she doesn't know. So, Brandon set that up intentionally. Only he and his wife can give her tasks. If someone else

6:49texts the number, Zosa won't respond, and that's a security feature built right into the system prompt. That's very smart for a family with a nanny and other people who might have access to the household. The way he built it is pretty straightforward. Open claw connecting to iMessage through the iMessage plugin, a system prompt that defines Zosa's personality, her approved users, and her boundaries. Access to Apple calendar for scheduling, a grocery list integration, a simple tracking system for nanny hours, and ambient message monitoring that watches for appointment-related texts. So, if you're a parent and you're spending 30 minutes a day coordinating household stuff, you could build this in a day. Install open claw, connect it to iMessage, write a system prompt that says, "You are the

7:34family assistant. Here are the two people to take orders from. Here's what you can access." Start with one function, just like a grocery list. Get that working and then add more. You can add nanny tracking, the calendar monitoring. Build it up piece by piece. Do not try to do it all at once. That's a big mistake people try to do when they get open claw going. I love this one because it's not just about making money, it's about getting your time back. And if you've got kids, you know that time is the one thing you never have enough of. That is the kind of build that makes your partner look at you and go, "Okay, I finally why you're getting into this AI stuff." The third one is more for like real estate, and honestly, real estate's about get hit a huge paradigm shift right now when it comes to the AI space. You know, basically anyone who has a job in real

8:19estate, you know, you're going to go in all day drowning in admin work, you know, when you get home, all the paperwork. It's very old and traditional, right? Daniel Fowt is a Canadian real estate broker. He's the chief of real estate and in valerie.ca. And he co-founded the Havestack, which is a data science platform, and he hosts Canada's top real estate podcast. The guy knows his stuff, basically. But, he spent a full month building an open claw system specifically for real estate workflows, and what he found is that AI can now handle 70 to 80% of the administration tasks that were eating up 20 to 25 hours of his week. So, 20 to 25 hours a week is not nothing, and now he

9:06has replaced that with an open claw agent. Here's what his system does. It updates contacts. It does follow-up tasks inside his CRM. He's using Follow Up Boss in the KV Core, which is two of the biggest real estate CRMs out there. It generates listing presentations and home appraisals. It schedules showings and adds them to calendars. It organizes paperwork and transaction documents. It drafts outreach campaigns to potential clients. It creates podcast summaries, newsletter posts, and YouTube scripts for his media channels. And the way he interacts with it is absolutely genius. He calls it the screenless CRM management. He texts the AI assistant from his phone while he's driving to showings. He'll send a message like, "Move this contact into a nurture sequence and schedule a follow-up call

9:52for Thursday." And the AI updates the CRM, triggers the appropriate automations, and drafts the follow-up message. Goodbye GoHighLevel. This is going to kill that entire industry. All while he's driving in the car between appointments. Insane. He said it perfectly in his YouTube video about real estate is a field job with a desk back end. Agents are now their cars all day. We've all been there. Agents are in their cars all day going to showings, inspection listings. They're not sitting at the computer managing a CRM. But all that admin work still needs to happen. This bridges that gap completely. And as far as I know, nobody else in real estate has done this deep of a project within Open Claw and he's basically said that himself in one of his videos. And he truly believes real estate will

10:37benefit more from this technology than any other industry. And when you think about it, he's probably right. Every real estate agency is basically a small business owner drowning in admin work. And they're based on like traditional methods and traditional concepts. It's like, who fills out paperwork anymore? To build something like this yourself, you need an Open Claw connected to like an iMessage or Telegram for texting interface, API access to your CRM or whatever you're using, a detailed system prompt that understands your specific workflow, and some skills for document generation. Basically, helping you with your calendar management and helping you manage your listings. So, if you're in real estate or in any field where you are on the go all day and you have tons of desk work waiting for you when you get home, this is your weekend project

11:23right now. Start with just the CRM integration, get that working, then layer on the rest. If you're struggling to keep up with content, well, I'm about to save you about 40 days worth of work. I built something called content machine. It's [music] 10 AI agents that run on the Open Claw 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 [music] up and the content's already done. I 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,

12:09marketing, 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 [music] helping me gain more and more people 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 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. The fourth one is amazing. This one costs less than $5 a month to get going and it runs fully automated as a newsroom. This might be the most copy-pastable thing I've ever seen. Like I said, all of these sources are down below. Check out which one you'd want to build for a further deep

12:55dive. So, basically a guy who goes by Jacob on GitHub built a open-source AI newsroom pipeline. He posted up about it on Reddit and it absolutely blew up. 300 upvotes on Open Claw subreddit. People were going crazy in the comments. The GitHub repo is completely public. Anyone can clone it right now. Here's what it does. Every 2 hours a cron job fires off and the system scans for five different data sources. 25 RSS feeds, 13 subreddit posts, Twitter X accounts, GitHub trending repos with star velocity tracking, and web search through Tavily. It pulls articles all from those sources, runs them through a quality scoring test, deduplicates them in a persistent SQLite database so you never get the same story twice across every scan. It enriches the top eight articles with full text by fetching the actual

13:41pages and then it runs everything through an AI editorial system that curates the seven best stories. The AI editor uses the three-tier failover chain Gemini Flashlight first because it's the cheapest and if it fails, it falls back to Grok through Open Router. And if that fails, Gemini Flash is the final backup. So, the system literally never breaks. If one model is down, the next one picks it up. The output goes straight to a Telegram channel. He's running one called Gen AI Spotlight that you can actually go follow right now and see it in action. Fully automated, no human touches it after the initial setup. And here's the detail I love. The repo includes an editorial profile system. So, there's a nightly cron job that updates the AI's editorial preferences based on which stories you

14:26approve or reject over time. So, it actually gets better at picking up stories you actually care about. And it learns your taste. The total cost of this? Five whole dollars. Wow, a month. So, Gemini Flashlight API plus Tavily's free tier, that's less than a coffee. So, the setup is on GitHub right now. Clone it, pull the scripts that you want, put it in your Open Claw works- workspace folder, and set up the cron jobs to fire off every 2 hours with an isolated session. Configure your Telegram or Slack channel as the delivery target, customize the RSS feeds and subreddits for your niche, and done. That's amazing. This is the one I think that most people could build in a weekend, especially if you're doing a bunch of data scraping. If you're in any niche and you want automated content creation, this is the blueprint. Real

15:11estate you news, you want crypto news, you want stuff happening in the SaaS space or e-commerce, whatever your thing is, just swap out the data source, change the keywords, and you've got a content pipeline running 24/7 for $5 a month. I run something very similar with my Ghostface agent. Every morning at 5:00 a.m., Ghostface gathers intel from Tube Lab and X trends for my content pipeline. Same concept, different flavor. If I was starting from scratch today though, I'd probably just clone Jacob's repo and customize it from there. Why reinvent the wheel? The fifth one is amazing. A guy named Dave spent 24 hours setting up his Open Claw and immediately did something crazy with it. He had his AI agent call 80 restaurants across five cities, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Seattle, and Sacramento. And these weren't just random test calls. He was looking for very specific

15:57information. He had an agent call Korean restaurants and pho restaurants asking about whether they use MSG in their cooking and whether they make real bone broth from scratch. Very specific dietary questions that you'd normally have to call each restaurant individually just to find out. He set up an automated voice calling with Open AI's real-time voice API through Twilio. The agent sounds like an actual person on the phone, natural voice, natural pauses, understands responses, and it asks the questions, processes the answers in real-time, and compiles them everything into a structured database. 80 calls across five cities. That would take a human days. The agent did it in hours. But that's not all he built in those 24 hours. He also connected the agent to iMessage so he could text it tasks, gave it a web browser so it could look things up, and set up monitors that

16:42actually scan Twitter for specific mentions and keywords. So, this one agent isn't just making voice calls, it's also receiving texts, browsing the web, and monitoring social media all from one Mac. All set up in a single day. To build the voice calling piece yourself, you do need a Twilio account which gives you a phone number, the Open Claw voice plugin which is Open AI's real-time voice API for natural sounding conversations, and basically a skill or a script that tells the agent exactly what to ask and how to store the answers. It is a little more technical than the other four cases. I'm not going to be lying about that. But for Dave and he got it up and running in 24 hours and shared the whole process on Hacker News and X, it's something you could follow if you like to go, you know, more technical down the road. So, even if you

17:27don't need to call 80 restaurants, think about what the voice calling could do for you as a business. You know, if you have cold callers out there for real estate, they apply the same methodology to this system. So, appointment con- uh confirmations for a service business, that's a huge one. Lead qualification calls for sales or other customer satisfaction follow-ups, vendor outreach, any business that makes repetitive phone calls with similar questions can automate this. That's literally hundreds of hours a year. So, those are the five real people running real automations with Open Claw right now. Alex is running the six-figure business from his Discord with two agents and zero employees. Brandon is automating his entire household with a family assistant named Zosa on iMessage. Daniel replaced 20 hours a week of real estate admin work with a screenless CRM.

18:13Jacob built a fully automated newsroom for $5 a month that got 300 upvotes on Reddit. And Dave had an AI agent call 80 restaurants across five cities one day. Every single one of these people started where you are starting right now. With one idea and a weekend. None of them wrote the perfect setup on day one. They all just started with a connection to one agent and one task and built from there. And if you want help building any of these, this is exactly what we do inside of Shipping School. We have 115 members in the last 13 days and we do six live calls a week where we walk you through these setups together step by step. People are shipping real projects every single week. Bootcamp builds on Monday, build labs with Brett on Tuesday and Thursday, beginners hour on Wednesday, ship and roast on Friday, and

18:58Saturday we focus on getting your first customers through social media. The link is in the description if you want to join us. You could pick one of these five projects, start on a weekend, don't overthink it, just install Open Claw, connect it to one thing, and give it one job. That's how every single one of these people started. And look where they are now. So, if you haven't subscribed already, we do four to six videos every single day. And if you like keeping up-to-date with AI news, make sure you hit the bell icon so you get notified for our next release. Hope you guys have a blessed Sunday. We'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.