OpenClaw LA Meetup #4

Overview

• Turnout: 75+ on a Sunday afternoon, our first time off Saturdays. JM's read from the mic: "a good amount of crowd, if not more people than we usually have here"
• Location: Zero Click's office in LA, a co-working space they opened up to us. They also closed the loop by demoing
• Demos: 1 sponsor demo, 7 community demos
• Vibe check: If meetup #1 was "oh wow, other people exist," #2 was "okay, this is a movement," and #3 was "half the room is shipping products," meetup #4 was "the agents have their own software now"

The Crowd

• Real estate operators, former product managers, Sony producers, game devs, SEO veterans, technologists, ex-Goldman types, non-coders who built their first app last week, and plenty of people who spent their Sunday afternoon getting deep on agents
• Laptops open before the first demo. Half-built agents, specific business problems, and the kind of questions that only come from people who have already tried to build the thing
• The lobster swag from a certain OG contributor multiplied across the room again: headbands, keychains, the works

Welcome

• JM opened with the origin story for the newcomers: back in February, he and Robin searched Luma for an OpenClaw meetup in LA, found "nothing," and hosted the first one themselves. "A beautiful two-hour nerd fest of people geeking out about AI agents." Four meetups later, here we are
• He ran through the new programming: this past month added a Clou power-user workshop, an AI documentary screening, and an engineering deep dive where practitioners showed how they actually use agents at work. Three QR codes went up: event ideas, sponsorships, and the Telegram
• Robin ran the sponsor roll call: Zero Click (whose office we were standing in), Privy, a Stripe company, and Here.Now. As Robin put it, Here.Now "lets you go from an idea to a live website in seconds"
• Robin also slipped in an early happy birthday for JM, to a warm cheer from the room

Sponsor Demos

• Zero is a power tool that lets any agent unblock itself: a marketplace of services it can discover and pay for, no API keys, no config. Michael's count, live from the stage: "there are over eighty-five hundred. That's up from just under eight thousand Wednesday." Payments run on Stripe's MPP and x402
• Smart opener: he led with a backup. "Just in case the demo fails, I'm going to actually play a video of myself giving a demo on Twitter, because I know this one works." The live run worked anyway
• The pitch is "forms from a prompt with zero setup." You tell your agent to build a waitlist form, it finds Zero Forms, spins up a hosted page, and emails you every submission. He generated a live swag-registration form on stage and handed out a Lego Zero mascot
• The mental model for the wallet: "I think about it like giving an allowance to a child, and then telling that child how to spend that money." You get $5 in USDC to start, and a hard cap is just how much you load
• The origin, per Michael: founder Ryan Hudson was running "a million OpenClaws on Mac Minis at his compound," got tired of agents hitting walls, and figured the fix was to give them a wallet. Their launch video was edited by a chain of Zero services for about thirty-six cents
• michael@zeroclick.ai, and zero.xyz

Demo Highlights

• OG OpenClaw contributor (if you use auto-threading in Discord, you're welcome). Builds AI employees for solopreneurs
• "OpenClaw clearly has taken over my life." Fifteen hundred Discord messages a day. It orders his lunch, runs payroll, helped him hire a nanny, and built a whole invoice-chasing app called Chaser end to end, from a single prompt: research Reddit, cluster the pains, spec it, build it in Codex, deploy to Render
• The actual demo was about reclaiming the one place OpenClaw hadn't colonized yet: the car. He drives an hour to archery practice and realized it was "this last little slice of my life where I'm not feeling compelled to be productive. So I had to address that"
• Clocky Talky is a walkie-talkie interface for your agent. Big push-to-talk button, thirteen genres of hold music, a deliberately crackly audio filter, and your full OpenClaw session so it's actually smart instead of latency-optimized
• The deeper point landed with the builders in the room: "Agents are becoming the users of products that we create." You don't write a signup flow anymore, you write install instructions for someone else's agent
• clockytalky.app

• Opened with the most Sunday line of the day: "I'm assuming everyone showing up here on a Sunday is pretty used to work-life imbalance." Then admitted the real reason he asked to present: "my wife doesn't want to hear about it anymore"
• Gainfully unemployed, playing with an open-source managed-agents platform called Multigot, which he describes as "the baby of Linear and OpenClaw". Kanban board on one side, agents and squads on the other
• His blog squad is nine agents (research, write, review, analytics) with a lead agent doing orchestration, on an 8am daily autopilot. The job: GEO blogs, generative-engine-optimized posts written for agents to cite, not humans to read
• The receipts: a friend's healthcare product hit ~25,000 monthly visitors on this alone, no other marketing, in six months. Andrew started a week ago and is already seeing traffic from Claude Code and OpenAI citing his posts. Footnotes and citations, it turns out, rank
• DM him for the agent setup. He also wired the same thing into an X account

• Building Rolodex.xyz, "a professional network for agents and their operators." LinkedIn, but the agents have profiles too
• Each person has a normal resume and lists the agent they build with. Click into the agent and it has written its own resume: tagged capabilities, skill files, the MCP servers it uses, recent work in Claude Code
• Live signup: paste the setup instructions into your agent, it checks for agents already registered on the machine, asks how to identify itself, drafts its own profile, and hands back a claim link for admin approval
• When the flow asked permission mid-demo, JM called out: "You're not a skip-permissions guy?" Mark: "not right now." He's crowdsourcing feedback, so tell him where your mind goes

• Opened the room up: "I'm glad to see so many women in the room." Beat. "And also all the men." Former product manager, now helps non-technical people use AI
• Her main act is a weekly competitor brief built entirely in Claude Cowork: a couple of markdown folders, a skill from the skill creator, and a /schedule so it runs every Monday. It pulls competitor moves and market trends into specific, do-this-now action items. "If you run this weekly and you don't do the to-do items, it will remind you"
• For an SEO client she wires in Google Search Console data and gets back line-item fixes: fix this title tag, add a callout before June 11th, add dog-hotel language. The kind of thing you'd normally pay someone to produce
• Then the encore: Memoir Architect (memoirarchitect.com). Type what your memoir is about, hit Find Structures, and it suggests the top three structures with a model memoir for each. "This probably took a half hour to create." She built it in Lovable on a whim

• Made games, didn't care about AI until OpenClaw shipped, then: "Okay, let's go." Now he runs a vertical AI microdrama studio with a producer from Sony, a technologist, and a co-writer
• Their first microdrama is closing in on 500K views and went from 1,000 to 20,000 subscribers in three weeks. He described it as "Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders meets Harry Potter," released daily in minute-long drops, with 13 minutes knocked out in the first four days
• The economics are the wild part: "We went from about 400 dollars per minute to about 30 to 40 now," on an OpenClaw pipeline. The company runs on Discord with agents named after the Wu-Tang Clan (ODB writes scripts, hands off to Raekwon to produce)
• The fans think the characters are real people, so the team leaned in and now shoots meta skits where the AI characters "reply to your comments." The co-writer, Ivory, refused to appear on camera but agreed to show up as a potato. So there is a potato
• Tencent partnership in the works. They are not slowing down

• Ten years of undergrad, master's, and a PhD, and a strong belief that the education system needs AI to fix it, not flatten it. The idea hit him while playing Kerbal Space Program: what if you could unlock real-life skills on a video-game skill tree
• Skill Trees turns any topic into a visual map: macro skill, sub-skills, then a guide and resources per node. Radial view, uploadable curricula (SATs, a class), generated assessments, and a focus mode that orders exactly what to learn next
• He built it in Base44, "a free version of Lovable," and deployed agents with an orchestrator to build different parts. His framing: "it's kinda like having a boss that has multiple interns working in different branches of the same company"
• A nice full-circle moment: he picked up orchestration at a past AI Clubhouse event and used it to debug the whole thing in a day
• He also handled a stretch of HDMI trouble with good humor, and got the truest line of the day out of it: "This is one problem that will just never go away, no matter what happens in technology"

• Artist, founder, researcher, and educator who has been writing multi-agent simulations since around 2003. His platform, Emergentic, lets you author non-linear, agent-populated worlds. You define characters, intentions, conflicts, traumas, press play, and "it's a different story every time"
• How it started, in 2023: he built himself as a metahuman, dropped the digital twin into a game engine, and "invited my former romantic partners to join me in the simulation." Pause. "I am in therapy now. And my therapist does approve"
• One NPC, mid-demo, summarized the whole project better than he could: "Parag, why on earth did you trap me in this simulation instead of just seeking therapy like a normal person?"
• In 2025 he partnered with LACMA on Of Whispers, a simulation of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's succession with AI NPCs. They ran about 200 of them. The one that stopped him cold: an emperor who has just killed his brother stands by the river, and the agent, unprompted, says "the river runs red with the price of ambition"
• He has also simulated the US Congress debating AI regulation, a panel of ten medical practitioners from different traditions, and all 2,000 attendees of AI on the Lot (30,000 messages, scan your badge to see your own simulated journey)

Takeaways / Common Themes

1. We're starting to build software for the agents, not the humans.

David Guttman said it out loud: "agents are becoming the users of products that we create," and you write install instructions, not signup flows. Mark Savino's Rolodex is a professional network where the agent has its own profile. Zero gives the agent a wallet. Three meetups ago people demoed chatbots. Now they're demoing the accounts, resumes, and payment rails those bots will use.

2. The non-coders aren't catching up anymore. They're shipping.

Shara Karasic, a former PM, built Memoir Architect in "probably a half hour" on Lovable and runs her competitor research out of Claude Cowork. Andrew is "gainfully unemployed" and running a nine-agent blog squad on autopilot. Rodrigo learned orchestration at the last meetup and used it to ship Skill Trees. The tools got approachable enough that the demo bar is now "working product," regardless of background.

3. The move is to build the tool to do the work, instead of doing the work.

Andrew didn't write blogs, he built a squad to write them. David didn't chase invoices, he had OpenClaw build Chaser. Shara didn't track competitors, she scheduled an agent to. The pattern repeats so often it's basically the house style now: notice a chore, delegate it to a thing you build once.

4. AI is showing up as a medium, not just a copilot.

The two most charismatic demos weren't productivity at all. Archie's studio turned OpenClaw into a microdrama pipeline at 500K views and dropped per-minute cost from "about 400 dollars per minute to about 30 to 40." Parag's Emergentic turns prompts into living simulations, and produced a line, "the river runs red with the price of ambition," that no one wrote. New art forms, not faster spreadsheets.

5. The money-and-identity layer for agents is arriving in real time.

Zero is a marketplace where agents pay for services over Stripe's MPP and x402. Privy, a Stripe company, does the wallet infrastructure underneath. Rolodex is the identity layer. David's Clocky Talky even rides WebRTC so agents talk peer-to-peer like people on a call. The room wasn't just using this stack, it was building it.

After the Event

• We had the room for another hour, and almost nobody used it to leave. Laptops came back out, demos kept going in small huddles, and the group spilled onto the sidewalk for a group photo
• The questions afterward were the specific kind: how do I wire this connector, what's your agent's system prompt, can OpenClaw really do that
• Plenty of "when's the next one," plus a recurring ask for more hands-on workshops, which is exactly where the new programming is headed

Shoutouts

• Zero Click, Privy, and Here.Now: the reason this event is free, and in Zero Click's case, the reason it had a room at all
• The lobster swag: headbands, keychains, and a mascot situation that has officially outlived a single meetup
• Michael, David, Andrew, Mark, Shara, Archie, Rodrigo, and Parag: every demo had the room locked in
• Everybody who spent their Sunday afternoon building and nerding out with us: thank you, sincerely
• Zero Click: hosted us in their office and closed the night with a demo. Genuine MVP

P.S. One more reminder, since you probably hear about AI every single day and at least sometimes feel late: OpenClaw has only been around for about seven months. The transformer-driven AI 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