Name: My Multi-Agent Team with OpenClaw
Uploaded: 2026-02-26T04:14:15.000Z
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Well, sitting on my desk is a new Mac Mini that I set up just for the purpose of running my team of AI agents using OpenClaw.

I've got a developer, a marketer, a project manager, a system admin.

They each have their own personality, they've got a queue of tasks tracked in this custom dashboard that I built.

And I'm chatting with them in Slack just like I would with my real team members, except they're agents powered by OpenClaw and various large language models.

But you know, getting this up and running was not a plug and play situation.

Over the past week and many late nights, I had to figure out my answers to question after question, some technical, some strategic, like should I order a new Mac Mini or can I run openclaw on a vps?

And what's this gonna cost me in API tokens?

And what chat tool is best for my agents?

Telegram or WhatsApp or some should I have it power one agent or can I set up a team of agents?

And am I going to need a custom dashboard for managing them?

What should my agents be able to access and how should I think about safeguards?

And most importantly, what's my use case here?

What will I have my team of agents actually do for me?

So today I'll share where I've landed on all of those questions and I'll show you my setup for all of it.

You know, to be honest, I didn't see the appeal of openclaw at first.

Back when it was called claudebot and then Multbot and it was buzzing around Twitter.

A couple weeks ago, everyone was talking about having their agent respond to their emails for them or book flights or order takeout.

And I don't want or need an AI agent in my personal life and I don't even want it to manage my calendar.

But then I started thinking about a real challenge that I've been having in my business and how setting up Open Cloud could help me solve it.

You know, I run this YouTube channel and builder Methods Pro and my courses and a weekly newsletter and.

And thanks to things like Claude Code, of course, building things has never been easier.

I develop training content, I manage a publishing pipeline and I oversee my membership business.

There's so much more that I want to create and deliver.

In my past businesses, I solved this by Hiring real teams and building processes to help us scale.

So when I gave openclaw another look, I asked a different question.

But what if this could fill roles on my team?

And now I'm convinced that this paradigm autonomous agents with defined roles running on their own machines.

Now, OpenCloud is just the first generation of what I think will be much bigger.

And maybe this video can help you get started too.

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And every Friday I send my builder briefing.

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It used to be called claudebot and then Moltbot.

And how is this actually different from how you might use Claude code or any other agent?

The core of openclaw is what's called the gateway.

That's a process running on a machine, which shouldn't be your personal machine.

But we'll talk about security in a moment.

Of course, Claude code can do a lot of that too.

But what makes OpenCloud different is that it's always on.

It maintains a persistent workspace with memory and session logs, so you can chat with your agents through Telegram or Slack and delegate tasks that they can do on their own in the background.

So that's a fundamentally different paradigm from you personally managing CLAUDE code sessions in your terminal.

Openclaw is closer to having teammates who do their work on their own workstations.

The first question is, where should this thing run?

Now, I don't recommend you run openclaw on your daily driver machine.

You don't want to give it unfettered access to your files and your accounts.

And even if you isolate it with something like Docker, your machine would need to be on and awake 247 for your agents to work.

So Openclaw needs its own dedicated machine.

That could be a cloud VPS starting at around five bucks a month.

Doesn't have to be a Mac Mini, any kind of computer on Your network both are valid and a lot of people are doing well with the VPS setups.

But I went ahead and I spent the 600 bucks on a new Mac mini M4.

I like to be able to screen share into it, see the desktop, install things and manage it visually.

And I ssh in too when I just need to run a quick command.

And if I end up using my agent team for all the use cases that I have in mind, I'll need more storage and bandwidth than the cheap VPS tiers offer, so the cost would start to balance out anyway.

And hey, if none of this works out, I'll throw that Mac Mini up in my home music studio.

I need to think carefully about what my agents can and can't access.

Now this is where the hiring metaphor really kicked in.

If I'm bringing someone onto my team, I wouldn't give them access to my personal laptop or let them loose on a browser where I'm logged into everything.

Now an employee would get their own machine, their own email access to the files and services that they need with the right permissions, nothing more.

I set up a dedicated email address for my agents.

I created a GitHub username that I can invite to specific repos.

I can grant and revoke access to services just like I would with any other team member.

I want easy two way syncing between my computer and the open cloud workspace on the Mac Mini, especially since I'm developing a brain system where all my business activity gets logged into markdown files that my agents can access and work with.

So all my files live either in GitHub repos or my main Dropbox account.

But I don't want to just share my personal Dropbox with OpenClaw.

So I had openclaw set up its own Dropbox account.

And so the specific folders that I want to share between my main Mac and the openclaw Mac mini, both Dropbox accounts have access to those, and

Because if you're not careful, you can easily run up hundreds or even thousands of dollars in token costs just chatting with your agents and running tasks.

I blew past $200 in the first two days of setting up my system.

Now I already pay for a Cloud Max plan and I was hoping that I could just use that, but

then I heard the stories of accounts being shut down because this type of usage might be against Anthropic's terms of service.

And then within a few days he upgraded to the $200 subscription or euros because he's in Austria and he was in love with that thing that for me was like a very early product validation.