You should be replacing jobs with AI agents

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What I've been using

Turning OpenClaw into our internal AI workforce

I've been talking about OpenClaw for a over a month now. If you missed it, it's an open-source framework for building AI agents that actually do things, not just answer questions.

Most of us at Kleva were already using it individually, each for our own stuff.

But last week I decided we should stop treating it as a personal tool and start building real internal agents for the company.

So we launched Kleo with the idea of having a workforce of AI agents that run our business.

We started with the lower hanging fruit, sales.

After just a day of work, Kleo now monitored our CRM, catched leads that need attention, drafted personalized follow-ups based on the full email history, and sent them to Slack for the team to review.

But this was just the start.

Then we built a vacation and time-off agent. No more spreadsheets, no more "who's out next week?" in Slack. It handles the full approval process with managers per team, tracks balances, and keeps everyone on the same page.

These are the closest things we have to fully autonomous AI agents. They're not assistants waiting for instructions. They're doing someone's job, on their own, around the clock.

And we now have a full pipeline of agents we are building next.

The pattern is simple. You look at your operation and find the tasks that are repetitive, that depend on someone remembering to do them, that break when people get busy. Those are the ones you turn into agents.

The hard part isn't building them. With OpenClaw and Claude, that part is fast. The hard part is figuring out which processes in your business are ready to be handed off.

If you're thinking about building something like this for your team, reply and tell me what you'd automate first. I'll tell you if it's a good fit and how we'd approach it.

What caught my attention this week

OpenAI bought OpenClaw

This one hit close to home. OpenClaw is the framework we use to build our internal agents.

Both OpenAI and Meta submitted billion-dollar bids for it. Peter Steinberger, the creator, chose OpenAI. Sam Altman said he'll help build "the next generation of personal agents."

OpenClaw had 180,000 GitHub stars. It became the foundation that thousands of people used to build their own AI agents. All open-source, all customizable.

VentureBeat called it "the beginning of the end of the ChatGPT era," the shift from chatbots you talk to, to agents that actually do things for you.

Steinberger says it will transition to a foundation structure to stay open source. We'll see.

When big companies acquire open-source projects, the promises don't always hold up. For now, everything still works. And even if OpenClaw changes direction, we own our fork. Nobody can take that away.

SaaS is going open-source, and vibecoders are the reason

The OpenClaw acquisition is part of something bigger.

A year ago, if you needed a tool for your business, you bought a SaaS subscription. $30/month for this, $100/month for that, $350/month for something else. That was the only option unless you had a team of engineers.

That's changing fast.

We replaced Perspective, a $350/month funnel platform, with a custom tracking system built in a couple of days with Claude Code. We replaced a chunk of our sales automation with Kleo, built on an open-source framework and a $5 server. One person built each of these. No engineering team, no six-month project.

And we're not special. This is happening everywhere.

People are vibe-coding their own CRMs, their own analytics dashboards, their own internal tools. Not because they want to, but because AI makes it faster to build exactly what you need than to learn and adapt to someone else's product.

Open-source projects are exploding because they give you the foundation. You don't start from zero, you start from 80% and customize the last 20% for your specific workflow.

That's why OpenClaw hit 180,000 stars. That's why OpenAI and Meta were willing to pay billions for it.

The SaaS companies that are going to struggle are the ones selling generic tools that a vibe coder can replicate in a weekend. The ones that survive will be the ones with real data moats, network effects, or complexity that AI can't shortcut yet.

If you're building a business right now, this matters. The cost of internal tooling just dropped by 100x. The question isn't "which SaaS should I buy" anymore, it's "should I just build this myself."

That's it for this week.

-Ed

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