OpenClaw LA Meetup #3

Overview

• Turnout: 120+ people, our biggest crowd so far: founders, product leads, engineers, investors, operators, and enough laptops to make the chair situation feel personal
• Location: Art & Space in LA, hosted by Arian (who also closed out the night with a demo)
• Organizers: JM + Robin, still treating chairs as an infrastructure problem
• Demos: 2 sponsor demos, 7 community demos, 1 founder waking up an agent on a home PC mid-presentation
• Vibe check: If meetup #1 was "oh wow, other people exist," and #2 was "okay, this is a movement," meetup #3 was "half the room is shipping products now"

The Crowd

• The attendee list looked less like a niche hobby meetup and more like LA's agent-curious operator graph accidentally compressed into one room: senior product managers, AI PMMs, product counsel, ML engineers, data scientists, cloud architects, directors of engineering, founders, CEOs, CTOs, investors, real-estate operators, e-commerce builders, and entertainment people
• Company-wise, it had real range: Amazon, Alibaba.com, TikTok, Snap, AWS, Cruise, Red Bull, Fox Entertainment, Johnson & Johnson, Pinterest, CAA, Cloudera, Motional, Harley-Davidson, Logitech, Monroe Capital, and a lot of stealth / early-stage AI companies
• People showed up with laptops open, half-built workflows, specific business problems, and the kind of questions that only happen after someone has actually tried to build the thing
• Trillium Massage set up in the back for complimentary 5-minute massages. Easily the most relaxed corner of the venue

Welcome

• JM kicked it off with the origin story: tiny venue, one tweet from Peter Steinberger, 100 signups overnight, the most pressing engineering problem became "do we have enough chairs." Three meetups in, still don't fully have an answer
• Robin handled sponsors, partly because he loves sponsors and partly because JM had just publicly outed his green bubble in the text thread. He took it like a champ
• The sponsor stack was unusually literal this round: Privy / Stripe for infrastructure, here.now for instant URLs, Accio Work for business operators, Trillium Massage for the massage chair, Red Bull for the nervous system

Sponsor Demos

• "The CEOs of Stripe and Alibaba were not available to demo. So they have me, the founder of here.now."
• here.now was two months old and had crossed 150,000 sites that morning. Adam's point: agents are generating dashboards, reports, decks, and one-off pages constantly, and not every artifact needs a GitHub repo plus a Vercel project
• The flow is copy instructions, paste them into your agent, say "publish this," and get a fresh URL with no signup, account, or API key. The deck Adam was presenting from had been made in Cursor and published to here.now about twenty minutes before he walked up
• Live demo: OpenClaw published "AI Clubhouse rocks" to a URL. Then Hermes Agent ran the same flow
• hello@here.now if you want in

• Ziwei came down from SF to get feedback from the room, not pitch at it. Genuinely grateful she made the trip
• Accio Work = a desktop app pre-trained on 25 years of Alibaba's e-commerce knowledge: a library of skills, pre-built agents that already understand Shopify / Amazon / Etsy / TikTok Shop, and connectors that email suppliers, post to socials, triage DMs
• Squarely aimed at non-technical e-commerce operators who don't want to touch a terminal
• New users get 7 days of onboarding credits with access to Claude Opus and GPT-5.4. The QR code on her slide was covered in phone cameras

Demo Highlights

• OG OpenClaw contributor; builds AI employees for solopreneurs
• Pitch: agents need the web. The web does not love agents back. LinkedIn doesn't have an API for "delete every dev shop pitching dev shop services to a dev shop owner." GrubHub does not want your agent ordering you lunch
• Naive fix is to give your agent your password. Bad idea. "Even though OpenClaw is fairly great at avoiding prompt injection, if it doesn't know your password, it actually can't give it away."
• Better mental model: imagine your agent is an intern. You don't hand them your credentials, you walk over and type it in. Lobsterlink is that walk across the office, minus the office
• Agent hits a login wall, texts you a link, you click into a 1:1 mirror of its browser tab, log in, and close it. Agent is now logged in and goes back to filtering your LinkedIn DMs
• "If you sent me a LinkedIn message, I would never see it because there's just way too much spam. OpenClaw solved this."
• URL: lobster.link

• Opened with the most relatable origin story of the night:
• "I'm newly opportunity hunting, and I sat down to write my CV, and I was like, let's build a product to write the CV instead of actually writing the CV."
• Built Tiny CV in a couple of days. Agent-callable resume builder with API calls or x402 / MPP agentic micro-payments. Your agent pays a few cents to scrape your LinkedIn, do a couple of Google passes, and assemble the thing
• Live-demoed on his friend Ryan Hoover's bio. In under two minutes: styled markdown resume, hosted preview link, clean PDF
• Pro tip: the folks at Agent Cash gave him a shared promo code for $5 USDC per user (~$250 in the pot) for trying agentic payments inside your own agents
• "I'm not as affiliated with them whatsoever. So have fun."
• If this doesn't get him a job, we don't know what will

• Real estate investor + e-commerce consultant. Zero coding background
• "I've always been scared of the terminals, because they're black, and I'm like, no, no, no, it's not gonna happen."
• Three days later: a live SaaS taking real payments from real customers
• Asked her bot for agents that "seem like they've been in real estate for years," rather than generic ChatGPT outputs. That became the Marketer Squad: Luna for listings, Chase for follow-up, Atlas for market analysis, Sage for brand strategy, and Scout for SEO
• Live demo: briefed Sage with "Catherine, 10 years experience, first-time buyers, warm and approachable." Watched the agent draft a polished bio in seconds. Work her industry friends would normally pay someone to produce
• "If I'm able to do it, I believe anyone else is able to do this." Loudest applause of the night

• Opened with audience interrogation: who works in data? what do data analysts do? has anyone heard about the massive job loss we are all imminently facing? Crowd nervously laughed
• Built a Streamlit app in OpenClaw, fed it a CSV of top-selling Amazon controllers, let it cook
• Auto-generated insights: average price spread, sales concentration, competition tiers, top 10 by revenue, buy-box distributions, all rendered into a CEOs-love-this dashboard
• Powered by a locally-downloaded Qwen on the back end (also works with Anthropic / OpenAI)
• The pitch, delivered with affection: "You could pay an analyst $80,000 a year plus benefits plus time off. He has to take bathroom breaks. He's very pampered. An AI analyst can work 24/7."
• Honest caveat: 80% of an analyst's job is data cleanup, and that part isn't going anywhere fast

• One of our OG Telegram members. Also why we're going to make the rooftop barbecue happen (we promise, Andy)
• Talk wasn't about a product. It was about a non-coder turning into someone who builds agents at 4 a.m. Easily one of the most charming moments of the night
• The arc:
  • February: showed up to Meetup #1, joined the Telegram, started decoding new vocabulary every week
  • March: went to the Koreatown workshop, got OpenClaw working, came home, the home Wi-Fi was different, learned about gateways
• "What is a gateway? Like, who? What is it? Like Star Trek? What do you mean you need a gateway?"
• April: named his OpenClaw Jarvis, generated a custom Iron-Man-with-a-claw avatar that put its own name on the picture, unprompted. "A little kind of scary how much it could do already." Connected him to Telegram, Slack, and the hard one: Outlook
• Microsoft tokens are a nightmare; Jarvis decided to refresh his own tokens daily. Andy didn't ask him to do that
• Live demo: texted his home PC ("Jarvis is on a screensaver at home, I didn't even buy a Mac mini") to create a calendar event for breakfast at 8 a.m. Opened Outlook to confirm. It was there
• Next up: an executive assistant agent named Pepper Potts, a CRM connection, and a multi-family real estate workflow. 11 years in real estate, scaling with AI

• Walked up to the mic, said "this is a bit of a freestyle," and proceeded to deliver a 10-minute live demo of a 350,000-line-of-code AI orchestration engine he and his wife and cofounder Maya are building
• Built it together. Maya was at home with their 7-month-old. They have nine kids, including three small ones: 4, 2, and 7 months. "I'm 39 if anyone's guessing."
• Product is Copious. Durand calls it an AI Orchestration Engine (AOE). Thesis: the next platform shift isn't another model, it's the app store layer that sits on top of all of them
• The cast on stage:
  • Caya: ambient "conscious mode" AI system. Watches what you're doing, surfaces voice-to-action suggestions like "want me to capture that note?", and disappears them after 90 seconds
  • Honeybee: core voice assistant. Durand asked it to say hi. Honeybee said hi
  • Cosmos: a browser, but the URL bar shows waw:// instead of www://. WAW = World Agentic Web. Different protocol (PAPS = Parallel Agent Protocol Socket Layer), different file types (.agent, .documents), different posture toward bots
  • Concierge: Copious-branded agentic services. Includes agent-to-agent email. "the irony is, this is not an email for me. It's the email for agents."
• "We're far away from this. Far away in AI is, like, three weeks where it's actually going to be better." Free to alpha users in the next few weeks

• Building websites and doing SEO since 2006. Closed out the night because, well, he's also why we had a venue
• In the last two weeks he'd spun up two tools with Claude Code:
• Tool one, the builder. Feed it your URL, it rebuilds the site at a new aesthetic level: light/dark mode, animations, the whole package. Demoed on his own Art & Space site, which he confessed he should have built himself
• "It's funny because it's for this place. It's not, like, terrible, but it's not great."
• Output was the kind of polish that costs four figures from a dev shop
• Tool two, the auditor. Drop in a URL and it gives you a page-by-page roast: generic H1, weak CTA, missing pricing, wrong tone for niche. Then it gives you fixes, compares to local competitors, and pulls UI / animation / graphics ideas from what's working in your specific niche
• Found a 404 on his own site mid-demo. We all learned something
• "Most of the time websites are just business cards. You're like, 'use my website.' 'Oh, well does Google see it?' 'No.' I mean, anyway, that's a whole other conversation."

Takeaways / Common Themes

1. The non-coders are catching up. Fast.

Catherine had never opened a terminal. Andy was asking what a gateway was two months ago. Both demoed working products on stage. "If I could do it with no technical skills, you could do it too." That line landed because the proof was standing there with a microphone.

2. OpenClaw isn't always the right entry point.

It's deep, powerful, and a lot if you've never used a terminal. Accio Work is pointed at people who want the leverage without the setup pain. Catherine's story points at the same thing from the other side: when the instructions are clear enough, the builder pool gets much bigger.

3. Infrastructure for agents is becoming its own category.

David's Lobsterlink solves logins for agents. Adam's here.now solves URLs for agents. Andrew is wiring agentic micro-payments through x402. Durand's Copious wants to be the orchestration layer. Three meetups ago people were demoing chatbots. This time they were demoing the stack that lets everyone else demo chatbots.

4. People want workshops alongside the demos.

People are loving the demos, but the follow-up ask is getting more hands-on: give us a room, a topic, and someone who can walk through the build step by step. So we're starting a new AI Clubhouse program: Academy, where we'll run focused workshops for people who want to leave with something working.

5. "When's the next one?" is now the default question.

People asked before we even wrapped, and the answer is getting more specific. We realized people want smaller meetups around sharper interests, so the next one we're planning is engineering-focused. After that, we're looking at rooms for designers, SMB owners, and AI filmmakers. And yes, Andy's rooftop barbecue is still happening.

After the Event

• The talks ended before the event did. For another 90 minutes people stayed in the room, drifted into the back garden, exchanged numbers, pulled laptops back open, and demoed the use cases they were building for themselves
• The Telegram group crossed 100 people, then kept moving. Setup help, project ideas, venue suggestions, workshop requests, and "wait, can OpenClaw do this?" threads started before we even finished cleaning up
• The clearest post-event signal was that people were asking for smaller, more focused rooms: engineering, design, SMB operators, AI filmmakers, and the still-promised barbecue

Shoutouts

• Adam (here.now), Ziwei (Accio Work by Alibaba), Privy / Stripe, Trillium Massage, and Red Bull: the only reason this event is free
• David, Andrew, Catherine, Bobby, Andy, Durand, and Arian: every demo had the room locked in
• Andy: barbecue is happening. We've now publicly committed twice!
• Arian: hosted us at Art & Space and closed the night with a demo. Genuine MVP
• The massage therapist in the back: pretty sure the most popular person at the event
• Everybody who showed up on a Saturday to nerd out about agents instead of telling their spouse about agents

P.S. One more reminder, since you probably hear about AI every single day and at least sometimes feel late to the bandwagon: OpenClaw has only been around for about six months. The transformer-driven AI consumer revolution is two or three years old. Everyone in this room is early. We're figuring this out together, in the same room, and that's the whole point.

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JM & Robin