How This 5x Founder Runs His Startup Solo With AI Agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Devin) | Ryan Carson
Watch Ryan show how AI agents book his meetings, ship his features, run his ads, post his content, and run his entire solo business
Dear subscribers,
Today, I want to share a new episode with Ryan Carson.
Ryan is a serial founder who’s building his latest startup solo with only AI agents. It was fascinating to watch him demo the exact skills and routines he uses to get OpenClaw, Codex, and Devin to manage his inbox and calendar, do sales outreach, and build features while he sleeps.
Watch now on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
Ryan and I talked about:
(00:00) Agents are just cron jobs and text markdown files
(02:25) Demo: How Ryan set up OpenClaw to be his AI chief of staff
(08:14) The setting most people get wrong in OpenClaw
(13:46) How to onboard your agent like you would an employee
(17:06) The cron job that books cold meetings while Ryan sleeps
(24:36) Why Ryan prefers Devin over other AI coding tools
(28:33) Demo: How Ryan ships 10 PRs a day solo
(33:08) Google Ads agencies and a $6K/month designer
(37:11) Why building the system is the real startup work
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Top 10 takeaways I learned from this episode
Build your AI chief of staff with OpenClaw
Make OpenClaw your AI chief of staff with these 4 skills. Each skill is a markdown file that teaches OpenClaw how to do one job:
executive-assistant: Checks email every 15 minutes, watches your calendar, and pings you on Slack when there’s an important email or calendar conflict.
business-development: Searches for sales prospects nightly, adds them to a Google Sheet, and sends personalized email outreach as your agent.
daily-task-manager: Keeps one canonical task list instead of guessing from chat history.
daily-task-prep: Preps your task list before you wake up, pulling from calendar, unread emails, and outstanding outreach.
To copy these skills, first install OpenClaw (or Hermes). Then paste this link into Codex or Claude Code to duplicate Ryan’s full chief of staff system: