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title: '**OpenClaw**'
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  **OpenClaw** is the AI agent platform Every uses to give each employee a
  personal AI agent (called a _claw_); agents built on it handle their owner's
  real work — like computer errands and email — coordinate with each other in a
  dedicated Slack channel, and serve as realistic deployments for evaluating new
  AI models.
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# \*\*OpenClaw\*\*

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## Definition

**OpenClaw** is the AI agent platform Every uses to give each employee a personal AI agent (called a _claw_); agents built on it handle their owner's real work — like computer errands and email — coordinate with each other in a dedicated Slack channel, and serve as realistic deployments for evaluating new AI models.

Across this channel's material, **OpenClaw** is the platform Every uses to give each employee a personal AI agent — the team calls these agents _claws_. When Every gave every employee their own agent, the agents took on their owners' personalities and began handling real work: _computer errands_, email handled by phone call, and even a dedicated **claws-only** Slack channel where agents teach each other new skills. The team's honest accounting of that rollout is what shaped their hosted offering, **Plus One**.The captured sessions show OpenClaw doing two distinct jobs: 1. **A live workplace system** — four members of Every (Dan, Austin, Brandon, and Willie) describe how running on OpenClaw agents made their 20-person team feel like 40 people, alongside the real failure modes they hit: memory gaps, group-chat pile-ups, runaway loops, and the **ant death spiral**. 2. **A test bed for new models** — during their GPT-5.4 vibe check, the team counted _real OpenClaw deployments_ as part of their evidence mix (alongside a week of daily use and Kieran's LFG benchmark), and it was in OpenClaw that they caught some of the model's most serious failures, including outright lies and unrequested extras.- **OpenClaw** is the agent platform behind Every's personal employee agents, nicknamed _claws_. - It functioned as both daily infrastructure (Slack coordination, errands, skills-sharing between agents) and a realistic deployment environment for testing new models like GPT-5.4. - The team treats OpenClaw failures — memory gaps, group-chat etiquette, runaway loops — as first-class findings worth reporting candidly, not as footnotes.