E635: How to Use OpenClaw for Your Ecom Brand
In this episode, Dave dives into how he uses the newest trend in AI: OpenClaw. Dave specifically talks about how he uses it in his business, how you can set it up for your business, and what you need to keep in mind.
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OpenClaw is the newest trend right now all over the internet.
They are essentially an AI agent that lives on your computer, and your files are its playground.
But how useful can it be for your e-commerce business?
In this episode, Dave dives into OpenClaw; how to get it installed in your computer, the things you need to keep in mind when using OpenClaw, and how Dave uses it in his business.
Note: As OpenClaw is still early in its development, many tips are based on recent experience and might evolve over time.
Timestamps
- 00:00 – Introduction to OpenClaw
- 02:17 – What exactly is OpenClaw?
- 03:41 – Why use a dedicated computer for OpenClaw?
- 05:02 – How Dave sets up my OpenClaw server
- 06:01 – Installing OpenClaw
- 07:29 – Controlling OpenClaw
- 08:56 – How OpenClaw works
- 11:16 – Practical use cases
- 14:06 – Automating logging
- 15:31 – Workflow automation
- 16:26 – Limitations
- 19:24 – Automating outreach and follow-ups
- 20:51 – Tips on configuration
- 23:47 – The evolving memory of OpenClaw
- 26:48 – When to develop custom apps vs. OpenClaw
- 29:43 – Final thoughts: Is OpenClaw right for your business?
Resources Mentioned
Full Audio Transcript
Ecomcrew (00:00.118)
What's up everyone. It's Dave here. And today I'm going to talk about the hottest topic in the world right now. Okay, maybe not the hottest topic, but one of the hottest topics, at least in the world of tech, and that's OpenClaw. So in today's episode, I'm going to talk about my experience over the last three weeks or so using OpenClaw, how I have it set up and some practical use cases of what I'm using it for and also my opinion on what I don't think it's valuable for. So,
If you're not using OpenClaw, I think this is a good primer episode for you to understand kind of what it is, how to get it set up and what you can do with it. All right. On to the pod. Welcome to the EconCrew Podcast. Podcast that for nearly 10 years has been devoted to helping you to develop, launch and sell better D2C products for Amazon and beyond.
So if you're like me, last year was probably a pretty stressful year for you running an e-commerce business, not the least of which was because of tariffs and compounding things. Not too long before that we had COVID, which was some of the most stressful times ever as an e-commerce entrepreneur. Now, the only reason I was able to manage with all these stress levels is because I had sold a business through Quiet Light Brokerage a few years prior.
So we had just found out that we were having our first child and I wanted to make sure that my family had a bit of a nest egg and I didn't have to worry about whether I'd have an income the next year for my business. So I talked to the guys at Quiet Light Brokerage and asked what it would take to sell my company. They gave me a roadmap for what it would take to sell my business, helped me prepare it to get the highest valuation and the entire sales process went about as smoothly as I could imagine. So I was encouraged from Joe at Quiet Light.
on multiple occasions to walk away from a deal that I might've otherwise taken. And ultimately I got a higher valuation than I'd initially asked for. So if you're waking up in the middle of the night, frequently thinking and stressing about your business, maybe it's time to go over to QuietLight and get a free valuation. So check out quietlight.com. All right, onto the podcast. Okay, so first things first, what is OpenClaw? Now I suspect that most of you by this point in time have kind of heard about
Ecomcrew (02:17.676)
what OpenClaw is and probably a lot of you guys have experimented with OpenClaw. So let me give you the ChatGBT description of what OpenClaw is and then I'll give you my real world definition of what I think it is. So according to ChatGBT, OpenClaw is an open source automation platform that lets AI agents like OpenAI control tools, APIs in your local computer to perform tasks automatically. And I think that's pretty dead on.
So basically how I would define it, OpenClaw is basically a server that's going to run on a computer that you have, that you own and operate, and it's gonna live there 24 seven, and it's going to allow an agent to do tasks on that computer for you. So if you're not using OpenClaw, I think that's the first thing that you kind of wanna know. So you've probably heard about this massive surge of people going out to buy Mac minis, and it's all because of OpenClaw.
Why are they doing this? Well, the reason they're doing this is, I guess because people don't have a secondary computer sitting in their storage somewhere. And so they're going out and they're buying a second computer. And the reason why they're doing this is because you do not really want to run OpenClaw on your day-to-day computer. And the reason for that is, that number one, it has to live 24 seven. You probably don't want to have your computer operating 24 seven. And the other reason is, is that because you're exposing everything to OpenClaw.
So OpenClaw is going to have access to files on your computer. It's going to have access to anything that you're browsing on the internet for the most part, depending on how you set it up, it's going to have access to your Google account as well. Now, some of these things you can restrict simply by setting up a known user for OpenClaw. So for example, for Google, you would probably set up its own separate email for OpenClaw. But when it comes to things on your computer, yeah, you don't really want OpenClaw accessing it. Because the problem is that OpenClaw
You know, if you're not super tech savvy, and I would consider myself kind of average in this regard, you might leave some opening available for hackers to get into your computer, and you don't want a hacker potentially getting into your day-to-day computer. But if you have a separate computer just for OpenClaw that doesn't have anything too sensitive on it, well, you don't really care if a hacker gets into that computer and sees your receipts for…
Ecomcrew (04:34.188)
gas and paper that you've purchased for your business. So basically you want that computer not to have anything super sensitive on it. So yeah, in a nutshell, basically OpenClaw is kind of a server that's running on your computer 24 seven. So I'll tell you how I have OpenClaw set up on my system right now. So if you're looking to set up OpenClaw, you can kind of screw around on your own computer and get it set up on your own computer, your day to day computer. That's fine. Like just doing that and messing around with it.
that's not going to really expose too many different security risks if you're just kind of setting it up. If you have it running in perpetuity though, yeah, you don't wanna do that on your day-to-day computer. Then you want to move it to its own dedicated machine. So in my case, what I did, I had an old Dell laptop, which had a broken screen. And so I took that old Dell laptop, I think it's a 2019 XPS 15. I took it out of my garage and plugged it into my home office and plugged in an external monitor.
And now this is the machine that's running my OpenClaw setup. Now this 2019 XPS 15 from Dell, it's probably about half as powerful as a Mac Mini. So you'll hear a lot of people talking about, man, OpenClaw, it's so resource intensive. You really need to have a good computer running it. In my opinion, for your average e-comm seller, you don't need to have a super powerful computer running your OpenClaw. If you're a developer, yeah, maybe then you need something a little bit more powerful, something like a Mac Mini, but…
If you're just messing around, trying to get something set up for your e-commerce business, any old computer really should do the trick. Now for me, I'm running it on Windows. So the most common use case for OpenClaw is to run it on a Mac. But in my case, I'm running it on Windows and OpenClaw is totally compatible with Windows. Now when it comes to installing OpenClaw on Windows, I'm going to talk to the 1 % of people actually running Windows here in the audience. If you're running OpenClaw on Windows, you're going to want to run it in something called
WSL and this basically stands for a Windows Subsystem for Linux. So it's basically allowing Linux to run on your Windows computer. So it's pretty straightforward to set up WSL on your Windows machine. Just follow the chat GPT instructions on it. It's pretty straightforward. Now I will say though the whole process of actually setting up OpenClaw on your computer, at least when it comes to Windows, you know, it probably took me the better half of a day to get it all set up where it was actually working.
Ecomcrew (06:59.724)
Now part of this is because I dragged this old computer out of storage and I had to do a bunch of things to get it back up and running and updated and that type of thing. But even just setting up OpenClaw and kind of understanding it, yeah, it probably took me a few hours. So if you're listening to this podcast and you think that you're going to go home and set it up within an hour, probably not. It's probably something you want to dedicate a rainy Saturday or Sunday to and just spend some time tinkering with it. Now, once you get OpenClaw set up and you have it open on your computer, whether it's Windows or Mac OS,
Basically, it's just going to be a server running and out of the box, it does nothing. It's basically kind of like having a computer installed with absolutely no apps on it. Wouldn't it be that useful? Sure, you could open a folder, but that would be kind of it. And the same thing goes for OpenClaw. To make it useful, you really need to kind of set it up. So the powerful thing with OpenClaw is that theoretically, let's pretend that you set up OpenClaw on your machine. You kind of want that machine living in a clause that you never actually touch that machine. It's just operating and it's just living there.
you're not actually going to do anything on that computer that you have OpenClaw set up. And the reason is, is that generally you want to be controlling your OpenClaw through some type of chat messaging program. And the two most common chat messaging programs that people use to control their OpenClaw would number one by far is Telegram. And then number two is probably WhatsApp. Now we also have it set up with Slack for our company. So you can control it that way as well too. Now with that being said though,
When you have OpenClaw set up on a computer, you can actually run it through that computer. So basically it'll show up. It has its own little interface that you can control through a web browser. And on that web browser, you can just send chat prompts like you would through Telegram or WhatsApp. So again, there's nothing wrong with doing it that way, but it defeats a lot of the purpose of running OpenClaw. Cause it's the nice thing with OpenClaw is that it can kind of operate on its own and you can control it from wherever you want and whichever device you want. And especially as most of us are
doing more and more work through their phones and remotely, whether you're on the train going, going to your daytime job or whether you're at your parents having dinner there and you want to do something, something comes to mind. You want to kind of control your server through your phone. It's really nice to have these messaging apps set up through your phone or your other device and you can kind of control your server. So that's probably going to be your big stumbling block after you get open claw installed is getting it to interface with your chat messaging client, whether it's telegram or WhatsApp. I will say
Ecomcrew (09:24.258)
WhatsApp was actually the easiest to get integrated with OpenClaw. You basically scan a QR code and poof, it's working right out of the box. Telegram's a little bit more tricky. Maybe it's partly because I don't use Telegram on a day-to-day basis. Telegram has something native called Telegram bots. I'm sure they have an actual name for it, but it's basically a bot specifically for doing things like this, interfacing with OpenClaw. I'm not quite sure what Telegram bots are normally used for, but they work great for OpenClaw. They're just a bot that lives.
within your Telegram account that you can, in this case, control your OpenClaw server with. So if you're comfortable with Telegram, maybe you can set up your Telegram bot a little bit more easily than I could. But for me personally, setting it up through WhatsApp, that was easiest. You just scan a QR code and poof, it's working. And all of a sudden, once you do that, now all of a sudden you can control your computer through your phone, which is pretty nifty. Now I keep saying control your computer and…
That's a bit of a misnomer. You can't actually control your computer. So that was the thing I was confused about at first with OpenClaws. Hey, can I actually like, can I do things on my computer? Like, can I have it installing programs for me and moving things around on my desktop? That might be possible, but for the most part, that's, I guess, not really what it's doing. It's not really per se controlling your computer. I would say a better analogy is more like it's a really glorified, zappier,
that you can control with AI. And I shouldn't say control it with AI, but use the intelligence of AI to really take your Zapier integrations to a next level. I'm gonna give you some real world examples here in just a minute, but yeah, that I think is the best real world example is OpenClaw is kind of like Zapier, just on steroids and much more intelligent. Okay, so let's talk about some of the actual things that you can use OpenClaw for. And that's probably the…
what you've been waiting for in this podcast. So Mike Jackness and I, were both messing around with OpenClaw, I guess about three weeks ago, and we're kind of exchanging ideas back and forth for what we're doing and kind of showing off what we had actually performed. And I think one of the first things that people are going to do when they start messing around with OpenClaw is you're gonna say, hey, OpenClaw, every week, I want you to email me a summary of my YouTube channel's performance. So tell me what videos I published that week, how many views I got.
Ecomcrew (11:45.246)
and maybe give me some suggestions for things that I could do to tweak our scripts and tweak our titles going forward. And so OpenClaw can definitely do this. So with OpenClaw, you're one of the major things that you're going to be doing is setting up what they call cron jobs and a cron job. If you're not really from a developer background, that's basically just an automated routine that runs on some step schedule. So for example, selllesnooper.com, a little app that we run, it has a cron job to download.
the seller data for the top thousand sellers in Amazon every week. That's just a cron job. The cron job is that task that's being performed on some regular set schedule. And so with OpenClaw, that's essentially the heart of OpenClaw. You're have a bunch of these different cron jobs that you have set up being run. Or in other words, a bunch of routines that you're have set up and run. And when you first set up OpenClaw, you're gonna have a couple of these and as time goes on, pretty soon you're gonna have…
dozens of these different cron jobs which are running at some set interval. So probably the first thing that people are gonna start doing is send me some summarized information every week or every day or every minute, whatever interval that you want it to be. Now, I'm going to tell you in a few minutes why you gotta be really careful with how many cron jobs you have and how frequently you're running them. But that's kind of typically how people get started. You're gonna have some cron job, giving you a summary of information probably every week or daily. Now, once you get a really simple
Cronjob setup. Pretty soon you're gonna say to yourself, you know, that's cool, but I could actually do that with ChatGPT or Claude. I could have it running something on some set interval. So that's not really the power of OpenClaude. I think that's where most people are going to start, but that's not really the most powerful thing about OpenClaude. The powerful thing with OpenClaude is when you can combine these routines with actually doing something. Now, I have to say I'm by no means an OpenClaude expert, but I've been toying around for…
a couple weeks now and hopefully I can give you just a couple of practical use cases where you can go, yeah, you know what, that would actually be kind of useful. So I'll give you a real good example, which I think most people can relate to. Most entrepreneurs are going to relate to. So a real use case that almost every entrepreneur will relate to is you buy something, you're out, you buy something from Staples and you take a picture of that receipt and you need to log it and either send it to your bookkeeper or keep track of somehow.
Ecomcrew (14:06.83)
Now for me, our bookkeeper, have a little spreadsheet they like us to keep, which records the amount of the purchase, a brief description of the date, et cetera. Yeah, and that doesn't take that long, but it's a little bit of an annoying process. And more often than not, when it comes to me, if I make a purchase that's under a hundred bucks, I'm like, I can't be bothered with actually logging this receipt and sending it to our bookkeeper. And I forget about it nine times out of 10. So now I have a little cron job set up with OpenClaw.
where all I do, I have a chat within my WhatsApp account between me and OpenClaw. Anytime I take a picture of a receipt, I just send it to that chat and automatically OpenClaw takes that picture, logs it into a Google Sheet with all the details that I've set up for that template each and every time automatically. And it also saves that receipt to a specific folder in my Google Drive. It's taken that job from probably two or three minutes.
down to two or three seconds. Now, is it that massive of a savings? No, but it definitely just makes this entire process way easier. And I'm going to do it each and every time I get a receipt. Unlike before when I just forget about it most of the time. One of the other things that we're working on now is integrating it fully with Slack for our team members. And now they can kind of use Slack as a way to log what they've been up to on a weekly basis. And then OpenClaw each week will give a summary.
of what's been performed by those employees and any potential misses that they missed in terms of things that they should have been delivering for that week. So it's not doing anything that we couldn't have done before, but what it does is makes it that much more quicker and it's just more native with how people typically work. So most of us are living in some type of chat messaging client. And so just handling everything through there instead of like,
having to log into Hubstaff and log all your work there, it's just more likely that it's gonna get done by people. So whether it's employees logging their work output for the week, or you as an entrepreneur just logging your receipts, it makes everything that much easier, and as a result, that much more likely to actually get done. Okay, now you're saying, okay, this sounds kind of good from a workflow perspective, but as an e-commerce entrepreneur, what can I actually use OpenClaw for? And I will say that's probably one of the big limitations right now.
Ecomcrew (16:26.35)
So OpenClaw kind of requires some type of easy integration between your computer and some service. So in the cases that I've been talking about, OpenClaw has nice, easy integrations with Slack. It also has nice, easy integrations with Google. Google is phenomenal for allowing things like OpenClaw to integrate with their services. So we have Google set up with OpenClaw where it can read our emails. It can read my calendar. It can save.
files to a Google Drive. It has really nice integrations. This is where one of the big problems comes in though. Google, it plays nicely with. Amazon is a bit of a walled garden as you may know. So Amazon's API, which is what you're going to really be relying on is different services APIs. Amazon's API is not very user friendly and it's fairly limited as well. So if you're an Amazon seller, it does make it really tricky to integrate OpenClaw out of the box with Amazon.
Basically, when it comes to Amazon, what you're going to need to do most likely is to use some type of third party scraping tool with Amazon. And even then, it's not super nice, in my opinion. Now, I'm sure there's going to be people super techie in the audience are listening to this and using OpenClaw for their Amazon business and have a ton of use cases for what they're using OpenClaw for, for their Amazon business. Right now, I don't have a ton of different use cases for Amazon.
when it comes to OpenClaw. Now there are a ton of great third party APIs for Amazon. So Rapid API, Rainforest, Appify, these are all various different services that either are dedicated APIs for Amazon or they're marketplaces for APIs which have a ton of Amazon services in them. But there's a ton that exists out there. But even with using one of these kind of third party integrators, I'm still not quite sure what you would want to use it for on a day-to-day basis.
for Amazon. Does that mean you could track your BSR and whether it's climbing or dropping and track competitors and that type of thing. But really you probably already have a SaaS tool that's set up and doing that for you right now. And I think the big danger with any new fancy tools like OpenClaw is that you all of sudden want to develop little make work projects for that app. I could do this. But in hindsight, this is not that.
Ecomcrew (18:54.062)
practical. So yeah, there's lots of interesting things that you can do with OpenAI and your Amazon seller account, but are they valuable? Interesting does not always equal valuable. Now that being said, one of the things that we definitely will be using OpenClaw for next quarter is just things like emailing influencers and reaching out to influencers. So this has been a pretty manual task that we've done in the past. And we have basically somebody dedicated in our team that's doing this and
Yeah, this can for the most part be automated through open claw. So with open claw, we'll have an agent going out and finding these influencers, getting their contact info, and we'll have another agent that's actually emailing them and following up with their responses. And what it will likely do, this is how I'm kind of envisioning it. Once that person actually responds to that email and kind of makes a positive acknowledgement. And again, this is great thing with AI, AI will be able to kind of interpret whether they've said yay or nay. Once that influencer has said, Hey, sure, great. I'd love to receive that new.
off-road product that you have, here's my address. At that point, it will trigger a team member to actually reach out personally to that influencer and follow up with them and send them a product and try to get a review or some type of influencer video from that influencer. So that's like kind of one of the practical use cases that you could use for your e-commerce company. Right now though, I would say most of the value for people is going to be just in different business processes on a wider level.
not necessarily any specific e-commerce tasks, but just wider things that most businesses kind of face on a day-to-day basis. So as we kind of wrap up here, I will give you this kind of, I guess, a summary of some of little tips and tricks which I've learned over the last few weeks. OpenClaw is totally new. So it's only been around really for a month here. So everybody's kind of learning as we go here. So we're kind of in early days. So a lot of this information, might be old,
a month from now, if you're listening to this podcast, a few weeks down the road. But I'll just give you some of my little tips and tricks that I've figured out here over the last few weeks. So first tip is that probably the number one thing that you want to get set up is what they call the Google command line interface skill. Now this is pretty easy to set up in OpenClaw where things get a little bit dicey is actually setting up the API access within your Google workspace account. So it's a little bit more involved than simply
Ecomcrew (21:21.482)
authorizing it with a click of a button between OpenClaw and Google, you're actually gonna have to go into your Google Workspace account and give them permission for a bunch of different things within your Google Workspace account for that user. So just look up a YouTube video on how to do it. Just be aware that, yeah, you're probably looking at about half an hour to get that baby all set up. Now, that being said, personally, I would never in a million years give OpenClaw access to my main Google account. Now, it would be fantastic to do that.
Cause it would just make the whole process of having to use a second Google account to control everything like my calendar, not much easier, but I don't feel totally comfortable giving this automated server tool access to my main Google account. I can envision a bunch of different scenarios where maybe it goes into my calendar and deletes every single event from it, or maybe it goes in and adds 10 events for every single day for the next 10 years to it. I can just imagine a lot of different ways that can go wrong.
So the way I've done it is I just have a free Gmail account set up right now and that's kind of the holder for OpenClaw, its main workspace. And so it has a bunch of shared folders there which I then share with myself and it saves everything to those folders, those Google Sheets, et cetera. And then those folders are then shared with both myself and our team members. Next quarter, once we start actually using that email account to…
emailing influencers and that type of thing will set up with its own dedicated email address. So for example, bob at ecomcrew.com or something, we'll set it up with its actual email address, not just some free Gmail account. But right now that's how we have it set up, just a free Gmail account. And that's hosting everything. So all the files that open clause saving, all the emails that it's sending, et cetera. And right now all those emails are just emails that we're sending either to me or people on our team.
The next thing I will say, and this is probably the biggest reason why you should start playing with OpenClaw right now, is that it gets smarter over time. And this is something I probably should have mentioned off the top, is that OpenClaw, it remembers everything. And that is the power of OpenClaw. So this is the closest thing I've ever had to having a digital coworker. So for example, when I first set up OpenClaw, I had to explain, you know what, we're an e-commerce company and we sell off-road camping products.
Ecomcrew (23:47.008)
At first, it obviously knew nothing about my company and the important things for us, let alone things like API keys and our channel names and our websites and that type of thing. Over the last few weeks, it's just learned more about us. And it's kind of like hiring somebody. So you hire somebody fresh, they know absolutely nothing about your company. They don't know about your processes, your SOPs, that type of thing. But after three weeks, you know what? They're pretty comfortable and they've learned a lot. And the same thing.
can be said for OpenClaw. Now it's learned a whole lot about not only my company, but myself as well. So naturally it's going to learn a lot about you. However, one thing that you should also be aware is that it's storing a lot of this information about you in what they call memory. And these memory, memories, memory, whatever you want to call it, these memories, it's basically just a plain text file that OpenClaw is saving with different things about you and your company. So for example, this person I'm
communicating with, I should call him Dave. Oh, Dave likes to use a relatively informal vocabulary when he's speaking with people. Oh, Dave's YouTube channel is e-com. So it's storing all these things to memory. And it's going to do the storage of memories by default a lot of times, but just a little tip, sometimes you might have to remind it, hey, you know what? I want you to remember this. This is important. And when you say that, I'll be like, oh, okay, no problem. I'm going to save this to memory. So I don't quite know how to explain how it's different than
working with like Claude or OpenAI, which also kind of remember things about you, it just feels more intimate the way OpenClaude remembers things about me and my company. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it is that feels more real and actionable. It just does. And finally, the last little kind of tip or trick I will say is that, and this kind of goes back to the, it interesting or is it valuable comment? A lot of people are gonna start messing around with OpenClaude.
Ecomcrew (25:49.272)
So I talked briefly about how, yeah, technically you could use OpenClaw to log changes in your BSR for an item on Amazon. Yeah, you can use it for that, but there's probably a better app that does that than OpenClaw. The other thing is, is that it is so easy to code nowadays and it's so easy to launch little apps for you or your company. And a lot of times you're better off just setting up an app that's going to live on something like DigitalOcean, which runs from a URL.
rather than totally exposing something to OpenClaw that's living on a server that has a whole bunch of potential security risks. So in my opinion, there are a lot of things which are better done in a little app that you develop than an OpenClaw. And yes, OpenClaw could help you develop those apps. There's also a lot of other great tools out there which can develop apps for you from scratch. So things like Reflit or things like Cursor if you're running it on your computer. So those things are still absolutely invaluable and I think
A lot of people are just ignoring how easy it is to set up apps now that you can just run for your company. So OpenClaw should not be the be all to end all when it comes to this automating different routines for you and your company. And now the last thing I will say, and this is the biggest problem with OpenClaw, and we'll wrap up on this. OpenClaw is freaking expensive to run. And it's not OpenClaw that's expensive to run. It's the API usage that you're going to pay
when you integrate it with some AI agent like OpenAI or Claude or whatever agent it is that you're planning on using. So you can integrate OpenClaude with any AI agent that you want. Typically, most people are doing it either with Claude Opus or some OpenAI model, but no matter what model you're using it with, probably gonna cost you a pretty penny. Now there are some models which are living just on your machine right now. For most people,
probably not gonna do that. You're gonna use one of either OpenAI or Claude. So ease of use aside, they're also the smartest models by far. So things like Kimi, which can kind of live on your machine. Yeah, sure, they're free. Are they smart enough? That's the question. I personally have not toyed around with them. They may be a better solution, but until I get comfortable using them and I'm having to rely on either Claude or OpenAI, I'm also having to rely upon the expensive usage of these clients.
Ecomcrew (28:15.16)
For example, I have a daily cron job of OpenAI basically monitoring our top competitors on YouTube and letting me know what new videos they've published in the last week. That cron job costs roughly a dollar to run each time. And that's just in API tokens that is using to run. So this is gonna be a big shocker for you if you're just using like some paid OpenAI account where you you pay $20 a month and you can basically execute as many prompts as you want. With OpenClaw, it's consuming a ton of tokens.
So be very careful, set caps out on your API that you're have to set up with OpenAI when you start integrating it with OpenClaw. Definitely set a cap on it because you're gonna consume a ton of tokens and a ton of money. So with OpenAI, when I first set up OpenClaw, I basically deposited $20 onto our API usage. And actually I've used this in the past for other little tools. And basically I'll replenish that $20 maybe every month.
After setting up OpenClaw, basically I had to replenish that 20 bucks within a day. I was like, crap, wow, that used up a lot of tokens. So the moral of the story is, is that you can set up these different cron jobs in OpenAI to be running every minute if you want, but you will go broke doing it. So allow yourself a little bit of budget to play around with, but long-term, yeah, you want to make sure it's actually budget efficient for you because very, very easy to spend a lot of money. All right.
That kind of wraps up this episode on OpenClaw. Hopefully that was useful if you haven't really started tinkering with OpenClaw. If you're listening on the way to work, your day job, or listening to this episode on a run that you're making around the park, hopefully it gives you a little bit of inspiration to go out and using OpenAI or OpenAI, OpenClaw. I know for me, it took me quite a bit of work to get up and running. so hopefully this podcast will make your job.
of started with OpenClaw just a little bit easier. Thanks for listening and until the next one, happy selling.
