This Week in Startups

Jeff Weisbein, a solopreneur who builds OpenClaw integrations and starter kits, and Oliver Henry, creator of the Larry OpenClaw skill and founder of Larrybrain, demo agentic automations. They show marketing pipelines, bug-fixing tools, shared memory for teams, and agent-driven content creation. Conversation covers agent orchestration, breaking information silos, and how startups must adapt to agentic infrastructure.

Jesse Leimgruber, founder/CTO of OpenHome who builds open-source voice devices. Tremaine Grant, founder/CEO of Pulse who crafts agent workflows and telemetry. Jordy Coltman, writer behind WeeklyClaw who documents practical OpenClaw setups. They demo voice-enabled hardware, a virtual office for coordinating agents, telemetry protocols, local vs cloud tradeoffs, and why new hardware and context matter for proactive agents.

Jason Grad, founder of Massive (ethical residential proxy and web data tooling). Ryan Yaneli, founder of NextVisit (AI clinical documentation for psychiatry). Matthew Berman, YouTuber and OpenClaw tinkerer teaching practical builds. They debate if OpenClaw will reach consumers, whether it should be an app or OS feature, killer consumer use cases, web-access skills like ClawPod, voice UX, security risks, and healthcare guardrails.

John Arrow, creator of AI Scott Adams, explains building a controversial AI likeness. Jesse Genet, founder-turned-homeschooling parent and maker, shows kid-friendly OpenClaw apps and media curation. Hiten Shah, serial founder and product expert, demos a personal CRM and agent workflows. They debate OpenClaw's future after a big hire, DIY skill building, costs and models, and practical agent-driven tooling for families and founders.

Alex Liteplo, founder of RentAHuman — a marketplace where AI agents hire humans for IRL tasks. Ryan Carson, serial entrepreneur behind AntFarm — an open-source tool to orchestrate agent teams. They demo agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop marketplaces, agent verification and workflows. Conversations highlight agent societies, companion personas, commerce-enabled bots, and real-world bounties.

Presh Dineshkumar, founder of The Wellness Company who builds niche health apps and created Tempo, and Peter Cetale, CEO of Sourcerer who built an AI sourcing platform. They pitch product-led health tracking, protocol-driven habit automation, community and IRL integrations. They also dig into AI agents that automate sourcing, cut supplier costs, handle tariffs, and scale procurement workflows.

Sean Liu, engineer building Meta Ray-Ban integrations that enable hands-free visual understanding. Presh Dineshkumar, founder of The Wellness Company using OpenClaw agents to automate product, support, and growth. They discuss connecting wearables to agentic workflows, email-based agents that automate outreach and debugging, real-time vision + agent stacks, and practical hands-free retail and perfumery use cases.

Matt Van Horn, product builder who made the 'Last 30 Days' OpenClaw skill, and Alex Finn, CreatorBuddy founder and multi-agent tinkerer, debate practical OpenClaw uses. They cover Ray‑Ban vision demos versus real value. They discuss autonomous agent teams, lights-out startups, local vs cloud models, and a sushi-ordering skill that keeps budgets in check.

Alex Cheema, founder and CEO of Exo Labs, builds tools to run frontier AI on consumer Apple Silicon. They discuss running powerful models locally for data control and cost savings. Short demos cover automating recurring workflows, a dashboard that stores memories and files, clustering Macs for inference, and risks like prompt injection.

Scott Rogowsky, former HQ Trivia host turned entrepreneur and CMO of Savvy, and Trevor Bennett, co-founder and engineer at Starfish Space, join forces in conversation. Scott teases Savvy, a live Wordle-style mobile game with interactive play and monetization ideas. Trevor explains Otter, a compact spacecraft that docks, maneuvers, and deorbits satellites to clean up low Earth orbit.