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Episode 1 · April 14, 2026 · 12:53

OpenClaw Startups Are Making $211k A Month

How 183 Startups Make $211,000/Month With OpenClawDiscover how entrepreneurs are building profitable businesses on top of the free OpenClaw AI tool using the picks and shovels model. We break down the top-earning startups, from niche industry setups to automated hosting services, and show you how to find your own gap in the AI market.00:00 - Intro: The OpenClaw Economy01:03 - Success Stories: Top 3 Earners03:31 - The 4 Main Business Models04:25 - Hosting and Configuration Profits05:33 - Dominating Local and Niche Markets07:16 - The Picks and Shovels Strategy10:22 - How to Start Your AI Startup

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OpenClaw startups are making $211,000 per month. Here's how. So there are 183 startups built on top of OpenClaw and together they made over $211,000 in the last 30 days. This is validated by TrustMR.

And this is not through funding. This is not pitch deck. This is through actual revenue, right? Real paying customers, real money coming in to these OpenClaw businesses.

And the businesses doing this, a lot of them are super simple. So we're talking about hosting services, setup services, config generators, stuff anyone could build, but stuff that didn't exist 18 months ago. And that's what I want to dig into today, the OpenClaw economy. Who's in it, what they're doing, and what's actually working right now.

Because here's the thing, OpenClaw is free. It's open source. Anyone can download it. But most people don't know how to set up.

They don't know how to run it. They don't know how to connect it to their tools. And that gap, that knowledge gap, is where these 183 businesses live. Let me show you what I mean.

So the single biggest earner on the tracker right now from TrustMR is Claw Mart, right? They actually made $58,000 in the last 30 days. And their MR is 6,100. And what do they sell?

Pre-built OpenClaw configurations, playbooks, operator tested setups that people can just buy and start using. No prompt engineering required, no figuring it out yourself. You pay, you get a config that works, and you're running. That's the whole business, selling done-for-you setups for a free tool.

Second on the list is AI Money Group, founded by Jeff J. Hunter. $30,000 in the last 30 days, $12,000 MRR, monthly recurring revenue. Jeff teaches people how to set up OpenClaw for themselves, and then how to sell AI-powered personas to business owners.

It's actually been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine for using AI to run a product launch that made $70,000 in 48 hours. His whole model is learn OpenClaw, then sell it as a service to businesses who don't want to figure it out themselves. Third is RoofClaw, right? $20,000 in the last 30 days.

They sell personalized OpenClaw setups, specifically for roofing companies. And they deliver a pre-configured MacBook Air, do one-on-one training, and provide weekly support. Their total revenue to date from their niche is $1.8 million from one industry, from taking a free tool and just making it work for a specific type of business. Think about that for a second, $1.8 million, roofing companies.

And then there's Coral, $12,000 last month, $8,300 MRR. Their pitch is simple, the most seamless way to deploy OpenClaw and automate your workflows. They handle the technical side. You get the AI, that's it.

Now, if you want to learn how to actually build a business like this, how to set up OpenClaw, how to use it to get more clients and automate your lead generation, and how to build workflows that run without you, come join us in the AI Profit Boardroom. We've got a 30-day roadmap for getting started with OpenClaw. Daily step-by-step tutorials showing you how to use it to grow and how to grow your business, and four live coaching calls every week where we go deep on AI automation with 2,800 business owners who are already building with tools like this, right? You can ask questions about OpenClaw Live, get your setup reviewed, and connect with other OpenClaw users near you on the member map.

Link in the comments description or just go to the AIProfitBoardroom.com. So let's get back to the numbers because I want to show you the full shape of what's happening here. Below the top four, you've got businesses doing $1,000 to $7,000 a month. When you look at what they're selling, there are basically just four categories.

Hosting, configuration, training, and niche setups. Hosting is the biggest one. Claw hosters, Prime Claws, Claw Host, OpenClaw, Fast, MyClaw.host, ExoClaw, all of them are doing just one single thing, which is running OpenClaw in the cloud for people who don't want to manage their own servers. So you pay a monthly fee.

Your OpenClaw agent runs 24-7. You don't touch a terminal. That's the product. Claw hosters is doing $4,100 a month.

Prime Claws is at 1,800. Claw Host is at $1,900. OpenClaw Fast is pulling $1,300 a month. These are not complicated businesses.

They're cloud hosting with a specific use case attached. Configuration is the second big category here. So Crew Claw, for example, $1,100 last month. Sells ready-to-use SolMD config files.

So you literally, you just pick from 47 role templates, customize the personality and skills, download it and run it. Done in 60 seconds. That's the product. A config generator for a free tool, pulling over $1,000 a month.

Atomic Bot is doing $4,800 a month. They actually built a clean interface. I've used them before. Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, with 100 connectors based in, right?

Baked into the actual product. So you don't have to figure out how to wire OpenClaw to your tool. Essentially, it's already done. You open the app and you're running.

Now, training and setup is where some of the bigger totals came from. So Setup Claw, there are actually a few businesses with similar names. And one of them has made $53,000 in total revenue just from installing OpenClaw for people, right? It's kind of like white glove, done for you deployment.

So you pay, they set it up, you get your AI agent running without touching anything. And then there's Niche, right? So RoofClaw is the clearest example, but there's also Assistance.ae, $3,200 last month, which is targeting the UAE market specifically. Same tool, different geography, different audience, different positioning.

And PostClaw is doing $611 a month with a social media manager built on OpenClaw, right? Connects to 13 different platforms, plans and publishes content, remembers your brand voice, et cetera. Plans start at about $17 a month. OpenTweet is doing $2,400 a month with an AI-powered post scheduler with MCP and OpenClaw integration, right?

These are all examples of real businesses built around OpenClaw. And it's quite inspiring to see, okay, how creative everyone has been, right? Creating all these different tools and also in such a short timeframe. Bear in mind, the OpenClaw really only popped off around the end of January.

And even then, most people didn't know about it. QuickClaw pulled $2,200 last month with a single product. I mean, it's basically OpenClaw on your phone in under 30 seconds. For one app, one sign-in, you chat with your AI assistant.

No Telegram, no API keys, no messing around with configuration, just working. And here's what I want you to notice about all of this. None of those are revolutionary, right? There's no groundbreaking invention here.

ClawMart figured out that people just want done-for-you configurations, right? RoofClaw figured out that roofers don't want to figure out AI, right? They just want someone to hand them a MacBook that actually works. CrewClaw figured out that generating a sole MD file manually is super annoying, and people will pay $1,000 a month collectively to have it done for them.

Every single one of these businesses exists because OpenClaw is free and powerful, not easy, right? And not easy for most people is a business opportunity that you can look into, right? People, they want this stuff, but they just don't have the time or the technical expertise. It's called the picks and shovels model, right?

In a gold rush, the people who sold the tools, the picks, the shovels, the pans, often made more reliable money than the actual miners. OpenClaw is a mine, and the 183 businesses in this tracker are actually selling the picks and shovels, and the mine is getting bigger fast. OpenClaw's core feature set keeps growing, right? It has a file-based memory system.

SoleMD stores the agent's personality, and MemoryMD stores what it's learned over time. It connects to Telegram, to Discord, to Zoom, to WhatsApp, to Slack. It runs locally, which means data stays on your machine. It works with pretty much every major model.

And the open source community around it just keeps building skills and integrations and improvements, right? Now, why is that important for you? Because every new feature is a new service someone can sell. Every new integration is a new niche someone can target.

Every new business type that hasn't figured out AI yet is another roof claw waiting to happen. Another example is Larry Brain, right? This is doing $6,600 a month running a marketplace for OpenClaw skills. They sell the skills people install into their agents.

They pay for hosting and storage. The margins are huge. They even have a note on the tracker that says very big profit margins. The tracker, by the way, you can check it out.

Just type in OpenClaw, trust MR, and you'll be able to find the details on it right there, right, and just, you'll see all the lists of the startups. StartClaw is doing $5,700 a month helping people and businesses track AI productivity, helping employees actually use their OpenClaw agents and improve output, $7,800 MR, and growing. TurboStarter isn't strictly a hosting business. They sell a production-ready SaaS foundation with off-billing database, email storage, and an OpenClaw kit already wired together, $6,500 last month, $49,000 made in total.

All right, bear in mind, since the end of January, this has started growing. This is a brand-new economy just opening up for developers who want to build something on top of OpenClaw without starting from scratch. And there's a confidential startup on the tracker. They won't share the name, doing $1,200 last month.

What they build is a platform that lets users deploy their own AI assistant powered by OpenClaw in under 60 seconds. No coding, no server, no management, right? You pick a model, connect a messaging app, go live, $1,100 MR and growing. Magic Podcasts actually turned OpenClaw into a skill that converts long PDFs into AI-generated podcasts.

They made $3,000 last month and set up called XYZ, completely separate from the other set up claw businesses, is selling AI assistants with a single click. They made $6,500 last month, right? RunMyClaw, your OpenClaw agent, live in 60 seconds, $882 last month. And ClawSimple, which is like a one-click sort of deploy, you'll notice this trend is like most of them are one-click deploy assistants that made $822 last month.

So what you're looking at is an ecosystem, a full economy built around one open source tool, hosting, set up, training, niche, deployment, marketplaces, productivity tracking, social media, podcasting, SaaS foundations, right? Every angle of the tool covered by a different business. And the total across all of them is $211,008 in 30 days. Now, what does this actually mean for you?

Well, if you're a freelancer, a consultant or a small business owner watching this, the opportunity here is not to build a tech startup. It's to pick a niche you already know. So for example, if you work in like real estate, the RoofClaw model applies directly. If you manage social media for clients, the PostClaw model applies, right?

If you work with local businesses who have never touched AI, the SetUpClaw model applies, right? You can pick the industry, learn OpenClaw, offer a done-for-you setup, charge for your time and knowledge. And the businesses on this tracker that are growing the fastest and not the most technically complex, they're the most specific, the most niche, the most done-for-you. And the reason that matters right now, today, is that most businesses have still never touched OpenCourtly.

A lot of them don't even know what it is, right? Most business owners have heard of AI but have never set anything up. And the gap is still enormous. And the people building in this space right now are super early, right?

$211,000 a month across 183 startups. That's an average of just over $1,100 per business. Bear in mind, these are the only ones validating on TrustMR. There's so many businesses out there that are not on TrustMR that are probably doing even better, right?

And the top 10 are pulling the majority of that $211,000. Which means the gap isn't in the saturated middle, it's in the niches nobody has touched yet. The industry, the tools, the workflows that nobody has built an OpenCourt wrapper for yet. The businesses at the top of this tracker got there by being first in their niche.

RoofCourt is first for roofers. Assistance AE is first in the UAE, right? PostCourt is first for social media scheduling via OpenCourt chat. First in a niche, even a small niche, compounds over time.

Now, if you want help figuring out how to actually build this, how to pick your niche, set up your OpenCourt agent and start offering it as a service to clients joining us in the AR Profit Boarding, we've got step-by-step tutorials walking you through OpenCourt setups, daily new guides as this tool keeps evolving, and four live coaching calls where we help you figure out exactly how to use OpenCourt in your specific business. There are 2,800 members in there already. A lot of them are already using OpenCourt for client work, lead generation of content, and you can use the member map to find people near you who are building the same thing. You can ask questions 24-7 as well because there's so many people in there, which means there's always someone online ready to help you.

Link in the comments description or go to the AIProfitBoarding.com to get access. $211,000, 108 free startups, 30 days. The OpenCourt economy is already running. The question is whether you're in it yet.

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