A step-by-step video guide to installing OpenClaw — the AI that handles your emails, messages, calendar and admin. For life. No subscription.
Get the Guide — £25 →Every step recorded on screen. Follow along and you're done in under 20 minutes — no tech background needed.
Every terminal command on this page — no typing, no typos, no frustration. Just copy and paste.
We go through every part of the OpenClaw interface in detail — the dashboard, sessions, settings, channels and chat. You'll know exactly where everything is and what it does before you use it for a single real task.
The powerful stuff most people never find. We walk through what Skills are (pre-built tools your agent can use), how to set up Cron Jobs (tasks that run automatically on a schedule), and how Memory works (so your AI remembers everything about your business between sessions).
We give you direct links to the best skills and agents to install immediately after setup — SEO agent, email agent, social content agent, research agent and more. Follow the guide and by the end you have a complete AI team running, not just a single chatbot.
How to run OpenClaw with Claude for the best results, and how to connect a completely free model if you want zero ongoing cost. You choose what suits your budget.
Set up Telegram so you can message your AI assistant from anywhere in the world — at home, in the car, on site.
Watch it as many times as you need. Yours forever. As OpenClaw updates, come back and re-watch any section.
Most small businesses are paying £200–400/month across these tools. OpenClaw replaces every single one.
OpenClaw writes full websites in clean HTML, builds landing pages, and deploys them — no drag-and-drop builder needed. Tell it what you want and it builds it.
Generates complete faceless YouTube video scripts with hooks, chapters, CTAs and titles optimised for the algorithm. Pair with free text-to-speech and you have a full content pipeline at zero cost.
Research keywords, analyse competitor pages, find content gaps, write fully optimised articles and generate schema markup — all from a chat window. No dashboard required.
Writes blog posts, ad copy, product descriptions, email sequences and social content. Claude (which powers OpenClaw) consistently outperforms dedicated AI writing tools.
Build automations in plain English. Morning briefings, weekly reports, lead follow-ups — running on a schedule with no workflow builder and no monthly fee.
Stop paying freelancers for copywriting, research, content briefs, data entry and admin tasks. OpenClaw does all of it instantly, and remembers your brand voice across every job.
Connects to your inbox and handles basic customer enquiries 24/7 — flags anything that needs you, drafts replies for the rest. No live chat software needed.
Takes meeting notes, produces summaries and action plans, organises information into memory files it can reference in future sessions.
OpenClaw runs on Claude — consistently rated above ChatGPT for real business tasks. And unlike a subscription, you only pay for what you actually use.
OpenClaw works with multiple AI models. Here's the honest breakdown — including how to run it at zero cost.
Anthropic's Claude is the best model for getting real business tasks done. It finishes what it starts, catches its own mistakes, handles multi-step jobs without drifting, and produces cleaner, more accurate output than ChatGPT on most tasks. Independent benchmarks consistently put it ahead for writing, coding and reasoning.
You pay per use — no monthly subscription. Typical small business use (emails, SEO content, research, admin) runs to around £10/month. Heavy daily use will cost more. You're in control — if you don't use it, you don't pay. Compare that to £20/mo for ChatGPT Plus whether you use it or not.
OpenClaw supports free AI models too. Google Gemini has a free tier. Groq offers free API access. Ollama runs AI models locally on your computer — no internet needed, no API costs, completely private. The guide walks you through connecting any of these in under 5 minutes.
Start free with Gemini or Ollama. Switch to Claude when you want more power. Switch back if you want to save money. It's one line in a settings file. The guide covers all of it.
Works with or without OpenClaw. This is how small businesses get to page 1 without paying £100/month for Semrush.
Connect Google Search Console to your site (free). Find every keyword you already rank for in positions 8–20 — these are your fastest wins. You're nearly on page 1. Write better, longer content targeting each one and you'll jump within weeks.
Without OpenClaw: Google Keyword Planner (free), Google autocomplete, and Answer The Public (3 free searches/day) give you real data. With OpenClaw: Ask it to generate 30 long-tail keywords for your niche in 30 seconds — it reasons about search intent, competition and seasonality automatically.
Without OpenClaw: Write 1,500+ word posts targeting one keyword, structured with H2s and H3s, answering the questions people actually search for. With OpenClaw: Ask it to write the full post — it includes headers, internal link suggestions, meta description, and FAQs automatically. What took 4 hours takes 3 minutes.
Without OpenClaw: Use Screaming Frog (free up to 500 pages) to find missing meta descriptions, duplicate titles, and broken links. Fix manually. With OpenClaw: Paste any page in and ask it to audit and rewrite your title tag, meta description, headers and keyword usage on the spot.
For local businesses this is the single biggest opportunity. Ask OpenClaw to write a location-specific landing page for every town or city you serve. Each one targets a local keyword (e.g. "plumber in Bristol"). Agencies charge £300–500 per page. OpenClaw does it in 2 minutes.
Ask OpenClaw to generate LocalBusiness, FAQ, Product or Review schema for any page. Paste the code into your site and rich results appear in Google search — star ratings, FAQ dropdowns, business hours. Most businesses have never done this.
Ask OpenClaw to find relevant industry blogs, directories and journalist query sites (like HARO) to target. It can draft your outreach emails, write your guest post pitches, and identify broken link opportunities on competitor sites — all the tactics agencies bill £1,000+/month for.
Set OpenClaw to publish one new SEO article every week automatically — keyword researched, written, formatted and posted to your CMS while you sleep. One year of consistent publishing and your organic traffic looks completely different. This is what separates businesses that grow from ones that stay invisible.
The guide shows you how to set up the full automated SEO pipeline. Step by step.
node --versionnpm install -g openclawopenclaw --versionopenclaw setupopenclaw gateway starthttp://localhost:18789openclaw gateway installNo. If you can copy and paste, you can do this. Every step is shown on screen and every command is on this page ready to copy.
OpenClaw itself is completely free. The AI model you connect it to is where costs come in — but you have full control. With Claude (recommended): you pay per use, no subscription. Typical small business use costs around £10/month. Want free? The guide shows you how to connect Google Gemini (free tier), Groq (free API) or Ollama (runs locally on your computer, zero cost, fully private). You choose what fits your budget.
Yes. The guide covers both. The steps are nearly identical.
Watch that section again — everything is repeatable. All commands are on this page. If you're still stuck, email us.
Yes. OpenClaw runs on your own computer. Your data stays on your machine — it doesn't go to any third-party cloud service.