My days are a blur of deal flow, market research, portfolio updates, news, writing, and trying to be present for my family. Like most people in this industry, context-switching was killing me.
A week ago, I set up OpenClaw, after some (okay, a lot of) help from my CTO. For anyone living under a rock, OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent that lives on your server and connects to actual tools that you use and want to give access to. It is not a chatbot. It is a persistent agent that's always running, always learning, always available across every messaging surface I already use.
Here's what my one week looked like:
Morning news - without the morning
My biggest FOMO factor was missing out on daily news. I had various channels to gather it but never a single source. Therefore the first thing I did was this - every day at 7 AM my time, a curated news digest lands in my Telegram. It has everything from finance, crypto, India, market-moving events and all the topics that I care about. I didn't search for it. I didn't open an app. It's just there when I wake up, and logged to Notion automatically.
Investment memos on demand
This one I was skeptical about - and still am. It required a lot of prompt engineering from my side. What helped was my own experience of building memos both as a public equity analyst and a VC. Now I can just drop a company name into a specific tg group I made for memos. Within minutes, I get a full investment memo - top-tier bank level equity research for public companies, and top-tier VC level IC memos for private ones. Thesis, valuation, risks, competitive positioning. Published to Notion, ready to add my inputs and share with the team.
A writing partner that actually edits
I always wanted to write more. Dedicating time to writing was the issue. So I trained my agent. Now I dump ideas into a chat with the story I want to convey. My agent acts as an editor. It restructures, tightens, refines, then publishes a version to Notion. I then do some final tweaks and voila. What used to take a week, can now be done over 30 mins, if I am super efficient. This post? Edited the same way.
VC blog roundups
Another thing I lost touch on lately was reading. I used to have a RSS feed when I was working in JPMorgan. The feed used to send over email the top blogs I followed. Since RSS is now more or less obsolete, I was looking for a tool that could help me follow all the key people I want to read in one single place. So, I trained an agent to do so. Now every morning, a curated digest of my hand-picked VC and tech blog posts. And then to my notion. No RSS reader, no inbox clutter. Just a daily telegram message and a beautiful notion page with links and summaries.
Parenting advice on tap
We have a 3-year-old and a newborn. Parenting is tough. We are always scrambling for questions about right techniques to teach our toddler, and how to engage her so she learns. What to say, what not to say. So now we have a dedicated Montessori education channel where we ask questions and get thoughtful, philosophy-grounded answers. At 2 AM during a feeding? A sudden tantrum? It's there.
Local recommendations
This was pretty low hanging fruit. I trained the agent to become the local and travel expert. Restaurant picks, hidden gems, logistics - I have a travel and local expert that knows Dubai and responds instantly. No more Googling "best brunch near me" and scrolling through ads. It shares recommendations, based on what it already knows about us (a family of four). Shares key things to do, eating spots, parking spots and a waze link that I can directly open in my drive.
And it doesn't stop there — daily quotes, poetry, image generation, even a Solana trading bot (in training). All running from one $20/month server and a $20/month claude account.
What surprised me most
It's not any single feature. It's the compound effect. When you remove 50 small friction points from your day, you don't just save time, you save mental energy. The cognitive load of "I should check the news" or "I need to research that company" or "let me find a good restaurant" just disappears. And frees up a lot of time and hassle for you.
The agent learns your preferences, remembers context across conversations, and gets better every day. It's not replacing me. It's handling the operational overhead so I can focus on the work that actually matters - making decisions, writing, learning, being with my kids.
The bigger picture
We're at the very beginning of personal AI agents. Not the ChatGPT-in-a-browser kind. The kind that runs 24/7, connects to your real tools, and compounds in value over time. OpenClaw is open-source, self-hosted, and yours. No vendor lock-in, no data leaving your server.
One week in, and I genuinely can't imagine going back.
If you're curious: openclaw.ai or dm me and I can help you set up your own.