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Building a Deal Flow Triage Agent for VCs with OpenClaw

PitchBook tracks 5,000-10,000 inbound pitches per year at active VC firms. DocSend found the average VC spends 2 min 24 sec on a first-pass deck review. Here's the full architecture for a private OpenClaw agent that triages 400-600 decks/week at 90 seconds each.

Amarpreet Singh

Feb 25, 202614 min read

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How to Configure OpenClaw for WhatsApp: Your AI Agent in Your Pocket

WhatsApp has 2B+ monthly users and is the default messaging app in 180+ countries. Connecting OpenClaw to WhatsApp via Meta's Cloud API turns your AI agent into a pocket assistant you text from anywhere. Here's the full configuration with security hardening.

Jashan Preet Singh

Feb 24, 202616 min read

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Running a Private LLM with Ollama: Keep Your Data Off the Cloud Entirely

Ollama runs Llama 3.1, Mistral, and Qwen 2.5 natively on Apple Silicon — 40-60 tokens/sec for 8B models and 12-20 for 32B on a Mac Mini M4 Pro. Paired with OpenClaw, your prompts never leave the machine. Here's the full setup + the honest trade-offs.

Jashan Preet Singh

Feb 19, 202617 min read

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How to Build an AI Executive Briefing Agent with OpenClaw

The morning briefing agent is our most-deployed OpenClaw configuration. It scans Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and your CRM every morning and delivers a prioritized daily briefing to your phone at 6:30am. McKinsey found it saves 47 minutes/day — here's the full build.

Amarpreet Singh

Feb 17, 202617 min read

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Connecting OpenClaw to Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and 250+ Tools via Composio

Composio is the OAuth credential broker that lets OpenClaw agents connect to 250+ apps without ever touching raw API keys. Verizon's 2025 DBIR found 44% of AI breaches involve exposed credentials — this architecture eliminates that vector entirely.

Jashan Preet Singh

Feb 10, 202618 min read

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Setting Up OpenClaw on a Mac Mini: The Dedicated AI Machine Approach

The Mac Mini M4 Pro draws 22W at idle, runs silent, and costs $3.67/month in electricity. Over 3 years it beats AWS reserved instances on total cost — and you own the hardware. Here's why it's our default OpenClaw deployment target and the full macOS configuration playbook.

Jashan Preet Singh

Feb 5, 202617 min read

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How to Get Your First OpenClaw Agent Running in One Day

A full OpenClaw deployment — hardware, OS hardening, Docker sandbox, Composio integrations, agent configuration, and adversarial testing — takes one structured working day. Here's the exact playbook we run at beeeowl for every client.

Jashan Preet Singh

Feb 3, 202618 min read

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