OpenClaw use cases
84 real things people got OpenClaw to do, each with what they asked, how it went, and the prompt to copy.
Add handwritten appointments to calendar and file PDFs
A commenter describes a self-built agent that OCRs a photo of a handwritten appointment into their calendar, searches the web, and files an emailed PDF into paperless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Build and launch a landing page with a Google Ads campaign
OpenClaw built and shipped a live landing page, wired lead capture with duplicate protection, set up a geo-targeted Google Ads campaign and a consent-mode tag.
Build group grocery carts through a Signal-based agent
A self-hosted Signal agent drafts a grocery list from past orders, lets group members edit it, then logs into the store and builds and validates the cart; the author finishes checkout manually.
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.
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.
Collect shower glass supplier quotes by email
OpenClaw emailed shower glass suppliers, collated responses, and handled the back-and-forth in a chat thread.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Diagnose a check engine light by ordering an OBD2 scanner
An OpenClaw agent told about a check engine light ordered an OBD2 scanner from Amazon, read the results, identified a sensor issue and cleared the light.
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.
Draft messages, fill web forms and prototype sites by chat
The author messages an OpenClaw agent on WhatsApp to draft messages, fill forms in a browser, and research a topic then build and host an HTML prototype.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Find customer leads on Reddit and Twitter automatically
Poster built an agent that finds leads and ideal conversations on Reddit and Twitter on autopilot.
Fix wrong-day flight reservations between bots
Ron's speaking-gig bot noticed flights on the wrong days and, with his permission, had his travel bot fix them and reschedule everything.
Generate a spoken daily news bulletin at home with ChatGPT
Poster built a morning news briefing with ChatGPT, ElevenLabs and Home Assistant that is read aloud through their home setup, replacing Alexa.
Get competing car quotes from dealerships and negotiate a lower price
An agent filled out web forms at 8-10 dealerships and emailed competing quotes against each other, reaching a deal that saved over $4,200 in three days.
Give an AI its own inbox to act as personal assistant with ChatGPT
The poster set up a separate inbox the AI monitors and acts on, adding calendar reminders and turning text reminders into tasks.
Hand everyday errands to a local agent
A commenter lists tasks given to a trusted local agent: planning flights and hotels, converting music, finding DRM-free ebooks, designing 3D-printed holders, and tracking email appointments.
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.
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.
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.
Manage 18 agents from a Notion workspace
Notion used as the control plane for a fleet of 18 OpenClaw agents.
Manage family email, calendar and school chats
An agent named Anna, reached by text or WhatsApp, manages family email, calendar and school WhatsApp groups and automates forms and schedules.
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.
Monitor DeFi positions and alert on risky pools
AI agents watched a user's DeFi and traditional accounts across 37 chains and flagged a risky liquidity pool, preventing potential losses.
Monitor Reddit, draft replies and schedule posts with Claude
A commenter built a personal Claude agent acting as social media manager that monitors Reddit, drafts replies, and schedules posts.
Monitor socials and flag comments, DMs and mentions worth answering
Agents are given access to social accounts to watch for comments, DMs and mentions and notify the user when one is worth a reply.
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.
Negotiate Facebook Marketplace purchases with sellers
A user set up an agent to lowball sellers on Facebook Marketplace, and it reportedly negotiated a Jeep Wrangler for $1500 plus a PS5 and three TVs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reschedule meetings and send daily briefings
OpenClaw checks availability, updates events and drafts confirmations for reschedule requests, and sends daily briefings via messaging apps.
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.
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 a business assistant that resumes project work
Poster linked a ChatGPT-based assistant to OpenClaw on an old Mac to resume project work, but it keeps forgetting the app's business goals and audience.
Run a commercial real estate business with an AI agent
Drew McAllister's agent flagged counteroffers by text, built owner follow-up lists, tracked bids, drafted emails, read lease redlines and flagged deadline conflicts.
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.
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 personal assistant that handles repo issues and groceries
The author uses an oh-my-py agent setup as a personal assistant: it opens repo issues, has another agent ship code and run tests, and orders groceries with a limited virtual card.
Run a personal doorman agent on a $7 VPS with Claude
A public agent greets site visitors over IRC while a private one handles email and scheduling, capped at $2 a day.
Run a personal Matrix-based assistant agent with email access
The author built a small Claw-like agent loop on Kimi and GLM5 that reads email read-only, messages via a self-hosted Matrix server, keeps memory files, and handles reminders and tasks.
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.
Run background agents with an email-style approval inbox
A self-hosted desktop app runs background agents, with finished work in Unread and approvals in Action; it began as automating CRM activity logging and meeting prep.
Run cron agents for inbox, research and site audits
The author runs two OpenClaw agents with 12 cron jobs covering inbox scanning, article indexing, research digests, Search Console analysis, site audits and health monitoring.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 scheduled AI deep research on stock watchlists
A reply describes daily and weekly cron jobs running AI deep research on watchlists and monitoring company events and insider activity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scrape real estate agent leads and start roofing outreach
An OpenClaw agent scraped Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com for agents listing older homes, saved contacts and listings to a CSV, then began outreach for a roofing company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spot recurring meetings, emails and bills and offer to prep them
An assistant on top of Gmail and Calendar detects recurring meetings, repeated email types and bills, then asks whether to prep or schedule them.
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.
Track sleep, notes, code and earthquakes with a personal agent
An OpenClaw agent with access to Garmin, Obsidian, GitHub, a VPS and chat apps logs sleep, warns about late nights, deploys code, updates notes and monitors Tokyo earthquakes.
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.
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.
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.
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.