OpenClaw started as a side project: an AI agent you could message from Telegram that would actually do things. Not just chat — send emails, manage your calendar, fix code, file tickets. It grew fast. 145,000+ GitHub stars. A real community. But we kept hearing the same thing over and over.
The self-hosting wall
People loved the idea. They'd clone the repo, start reading the README, and then hit a wall. You need a VPS or a spare machine. You need Docker. You need to configure API keys for your LLM provider, set up Brave search, wire up Composio for integrations, create bots on Telegram or Discord, handle webhooks, manage uptime. For a developer comfortable with infrastructure, it's a weekend project. For everyone else, it's a dealbreaker.
We watched the drop-off in our setup funnel. Thousands of people would star the repo, clone it, and never get a running agent. The gap between "this is amazing" and "this is running on my phone" was too wide.
What if setup took 60 seconds?
That was the question that started ClawCloud. What if you could sign in with Google, pick a name for your agent, and have it live — connected to Slack, Telegram, Discord, with 800+ integrations ready to go — in under a minute?
No servers to manage. No Docker. No API keys to hunt down. No webhooks to configure. Just sign in, and your agent is running.
Still open source
ClawCloud is not a fork. It's not a proprietary wrapper. The entire platform — the hosting infrastructure, the dashboard, the agent runtime — is MIT-licensed and on GitHub. You can still self-host everything. ClawCloud is simply the managed version for people who want to use OpenClaw without becoming sysadmins.
We think of it like WordPress.com and WordPress.org. The software is free. The hosting is a service. You choose what works for you.
What's included
Every ClawCloud agent gets:
- Its own isolated compute environment — not a shared container, a dedicated machine.
- Multi-channel access — Slack, Telegram, Discord, and web chat, all maintaining shared context.
- 800+ one-click integrations — Gmail, Calendar, GitHub, Notion, Linear, and more via Composio OAuth. No API keys needed.
- Bring Your Own Key — use OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter with your own API key. Zero platform credits deducted.
- 24/7 uptime — we handle monitoring, restarts, updates, and security patches.
- Persistent memory — your agent remembers you across every channel and conversation.
The bet we're making
We believe personal AI agents will be as common as email accounts within a few years. And just like email, most people won't want to run their own server. They'll want something that works.
That's ClawCloud. An AI agent that actually does things — without the infrastructure tax.
Try it at clawcloud.dev. Or check out the source on GitHub.