Azeem Azhar's Exponential View Showing you my AI chief of staff (OpenClaw practical guide)
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Mar 5, 2026 A deep dive into a personal AI chief of staff running on a Mac mini and managing a ten-person equivalent team. Hear how overnight agent crews research, debug code, and draft long scripts in parallel. Learn about the hardware, software stack, personality spec soul.md, costs and security checks. Practical steps for delegating tasks and why individuals can outpace big firms with agent teams.
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Parallel Agents Investigated Viral Substack Essay
- RMA spawned five investigators overnight to probe a viral Substack essay, producing a report on authorship, background, and robustness.
- Parallel agents ran web searches and produced a consolidated research pack that Azeem considered publishing.
Agents Maintain Codebase Overnight
- Overnight agent teams refactored Azeem's CRM codebase, fixed bugs across GitHub repos, and ran security scans, sometimes making thousands of lines of changes.
- RMA schedules continuous housekeeping tasks and alerts Azeem about failures or patch suggestions.
Use Familiar Messaging As Agent Interface
- WhatsApp is the primary interface because Azeem already uses it for personal communication, enabling seamless delegation without a special app.
- He organizes multiple parallel conversation lanes, each representing a specialized agent context tied to projects like his book or CRM.