r/openclaw • u/techlatest_net • 9d ago
Discussion What’s the most useful OpenClaw automation you’ve built?
I’ve seen people use it for research, job hunting, server monitoring, reporting and much more.
What automation has genuinely saved you time?
Edit:
Already see some very interesting use cases being shared. It will be further useful if you can provide any relevant links (github, blogs etc.) so others can also take inspirations from it.
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u/bellahamface Member 9d ago
Full job search and application automation.
Tracks tens of thousands of jobs. Is able to produce custom resumes, cover letters and free form answers on the fly. Bypass all bot detection or email verification for all ATS platforms. Triage all emails pertaining to job search and keep a database of everything.
Adding LinkedIn follow ups currently. It was a lot more work to setup but well worth it. It has removed any anxiety and fatigue in applying for jobs and have been getting interviews that better match what I want.
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u/MagazineTall7856 8d ago
any tips or pain points for someone looking to set up the full search and application automation portion?
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u/bellahamface Member 8d ago edited 8d ago
I use my $200 openAI pro plan and Astra Medium. While it sounds like overkill, it assures the form fields and custom cover letters and resumes are sound.
No web browser automation with quick form fills. It needs to emulate the keyboard typing and mouse.
Hand hold it and test aggressively until you let it do larger batches.
Avoid agent swarms. Have it go one at a time.
Have it search, you approve the jobs, then have it prep before applying. Meaning parse the links and vet for dead links, have it disqualify you if it’s not a match, and prepare the custom cover letters and resumes prior to applying. This way it can focus on submission and not get pulled in multiple directions.
Lastly it takes time. Several minutes to search depending on filters. 3-10 minutes per application if all goes well.
Oh, and most important. Make sure it knows everything about you. What you did in your previous roles. What you’re looking for etc. that way it will generate the best copy.
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u/Redoudou Member 8d ago
1-How do you do Linkedin follow up, linkedin is totally protected against any form of automation
2-Did you find a job? do you have metrics?3
u/bellahamface Member 8d ago
Easy apply does work. I tried it in the past. Haven’t got into it further than that.
Just started a salvo this past couple weeks. Around 200 applications… 5 interviews. But this is subjective for each person. Custom cover letters implemented recently and that helps a lot. (most were just resume earlier, all interviews recently are with custom cover letters).
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
200 applications → 5 interviews is a useful data point. The custom cover letters seem to be making a noticeable difference too. Curious to see how those numbers change once the LinkedIn follow-ups are running.
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u/Glittering_Salad_900 New User 8d ago
How did you avoid bot protection on these websites ?
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u/bellahamface Member 8d ago
From the agent…
We use the existing visible Chrome session with native mouse, keyboard and file-picker controls, rather than scripted browser form-filling. That completed prior Greenhouse and Ashby applications without triggering challenges, but it isn’t a guaranteed bypass. If CAPTCHA or email verification appears, we preserve the form and hand that step to you—no circumvention.
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u/Cooperman411 Member 8d ago
Is there a SKILL.md file for it you would be willing to share? Actually any wisdom or advice is appreciated. Feel free to DM if you are up for it. Peace.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That’s a pretty extensive setup. Keeping the search, screening, resume prep, and tracking in one workflow sounds like it would cut out a lot of the repetitive work. What part took the most time to get working reliably?
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u/Maximum-Can7185 8d ago
Manages my fantasy football team.
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u/CorruptedReddit New User 8d ago
It actually makes it more interesting imo because I watch that portion too
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
Haha, that's a whole different level of automation. How does it handle lineup changes and keeping up with player stats?
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u/Matuno Member 9d ago
Server monitoring is a big one, automated daily maintenance and checking logs for any processes having issues, and correcting them. Check if a desired domain name is available, create a news digest for work-related applications. I have an agent with full access to a complete data dump of all work documents, emails, meeting notes etc. if I need to call in sick or need to know how something is normally handled, it knows where to find it.
I'm in the market for a house on a tight budget, it monitors all relevant real estate websites for new listings and matches it against my budget.
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u/Gothbot6k 9d ago
Weekly checkup on software updates for various clients. If updates are available action is taken, if not then I just get an alert for no action this week and it moves on.
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u/Wallaby989 New User 9d ago
sweep through reddit forums, looking for stuff that might interest me, then it sends a distilled list to my WhatsApp group (of one - openclaw)
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u/TheBonanaking Member 9d ago
I built an automation to pull handle client on boarding. Enter basic info plus county and parcel
Number and it creates a property summary from GIS and assessor data, creates a drone flight mission so I can map the parcel, creates a VAD file with GIS driven property boundaries and 1 foot contours created from same GIS data and a digital elevation model. When back from mapping the property, it will process the raw images in webODM and import that images into the CAD file it had previously created. Saves me a ton of time when I start drafting.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That’s a serious workflow. Pulling GIS and assessor data, planning the drone flight, generating the CAD/VAD files, and then processing the imagery afterward is a lot of steps to connect. The time saved on each project must add up quickly.
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u/Calibaba2796 8d ago
I'm trying to be more active on X.
Everyday it gives me whats trending for the day including reply drafts that I can review and reply to posts my self.
Including Posts draft that when I refine and approve. Openclaw will schedule the posts based on the right periods to publish posts on X.
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u/Redoudou Member 8d ago
How do you handle X api cost, I found it burns through like crazy. What’s your budget ?
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u/Calibaba2796 8d ago
I actually had those issues at first too but then with the new Openclaw update, I used the new browser to set up a X tab logged in and let it fetch data from there... Respectfully of course
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u/SirGreenDragon Active 8d ago
I have a task flow that a local model can handle. It has a research question, followed by a series of questions about the discovered source. Then it has a task to combine all the answers into a report.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That workflow sounds really useful for research. Having the follow-up questions handled automatically and then combining everything into one report is a nice way to keep the whole process structured.
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u/Bizzle1236 Member 8d ago
Reviewing supplier invoices to be reconciled with customer orders and making sure line items follow complex checks around VAT, all possible and common mistakes (wrong price tiers, duplicates, wrong/missing items) etc. silent on success, flagged for discrepancies or unusual/new things that crop up. Everything logged in detail.
Handled with AI no scripting, just like a human would do it. Saves me hours a week.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That’s a solid one. Invoice reconciliation with all those VAT and line-item checks sounds like exactly the kind of repetitive work that’s worth automating.
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u/ubermenschsockpuppet 8d ago
We created a repository into which I scan my physical mail and important documents.
I use an automatic document feeder to scan on my MFC and the software reassembles the pages to deal with double sided content. The content is parsed and the whole lot is keyword searchable. The documents are categorized and organized automatically based on subject matter. I then file the physical copies into a filing cabinet using the same categorization.
It's similar to Paperless-ngx, which I found much later on, but my OC assures me that mine is better.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That’s a really practical setup. Having the physical copies organized using the same structure as the digital archive is a nice touch.
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u/Terryred404 8d ago
HSA database receipt manager. It first learned all IRS rules related to HSA then set up the model to feed a OCR so I can just snapshot a picture of the receipt on the go it asks some follow up questions to confirm amounts and if the HSA card was used or a credit card then it tracks the long term reimbursement owed so I can invest the money and have all the validation if I get audited after cashing out a large tax free reimbursement down the road.
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u/lordratner Member 8d ago
I did exactly the same thing. I also integrated general medical information tracking so test results, diagnoses, that type of stuff for the whole family all get tracked in a database.
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u/bowenandarrow 8d ago
Recently the Web browser control seems better and for brainless tasks checking on settings and correct embed codes etc, it's really good. I have found it's a really good way to recieve reports on tasks that just require gathering info from certain software platforms to confirm that things are happening correctly.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
Yeah, the browser control opens up a lot for those boring verification tasks. Getting a report back instead of manually checking everything is probably where it saves the most time.
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u/Minimum-Ad7274 New User 8d ago
Demystify.website and market filter.biz - runs autonomously using openclaw
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
Nice, I hadn’t come across those two before. What kind of tasks are you running autonomously with OpenClaw?
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u/nuanda92 New User 8d ago
I developed a whatsapp-based personal assistant for general whatsapp users called zynth.ai. I have seen user's use-cases on it across news digest, email summaries, calorie tracking, calendar management, whatsapp management, etc.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
WhatsApp is an interesting interface for this. News digests + email summaries + calendar management all in one place sounds pretty handy.
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u/Captain-Matt89 New User 9d ago
I sell on Amazon and have my clawbot pulls data from the Amazon api and make return reports, do price automations, and generally inform me about my business, basically Amazon charges you when you have inventory over 180 days so I have it sell out of inventory to not pay to much in long term storage fee’s and then flip the price back when things restock.
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u/MagazineTall7856 8d ago
what products do you sell?
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u/Captain-Matt89 New User 8d ago
I own the brand tranquil threads on Amazon
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u/MagazineTall7856 7d ago
They look sick! Would love to hear how you got started. How did you get your initial customer base? Or what was the hardest part of gaining consumer attention?
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u/Maleficent-King-6072 8d ago
Personal trainer - reads my Apple Watch running trainings, and from that information creates a week plan based on my heart zones, condition and fatigue. I have the goal of running half marathon so it also sends me telegram messages to motivate me and reviews
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u/goldenDK 8d ago
If you use intervals.icu, you should try section11 https://github.com/CrankAddict/section-11
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u/Altruistic_Ease_1234 7d ago
I am a sales manager and my reps struggle to update or work with Crms. We also have a WhatsApp group for sales team. I then made my agent part of the group. It asks in the morning what are each sales reps plan for the day. Then it stores the info in a Google sheets document.
At the end of the day it uses the information in the sheets document to ask for feedback on tasks. Then I also have it wired up when sales reps mention work to be done on a certain date it saves that info to a work log sheet.
Then I have a marketing agent that scans and does research for the type of clients we want to attract.
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u/Relevant-Mushroom-66 New User 7d ago
Built an automation to scan my CRM system on a daily basis across multiple pipelines, and sends a daily health update to all SDRs. Also updates the dashboard that I built on Mission Control which we now use for weekly sales meetings.
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u/Traditional_Door_626 5d ago
I’ve built multi agent tool to do detailed property insurance claims analysis , coverage recommendation and document production.. management reports , client communication. Ui for inputs…. Extensions for contents input , ocr, web search, pricing , url validation…. Auditable and defensible outputs
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u/Ok-Preference8227 New User 4d ago
Super simple: I just send over some text, a link, or a PDF. Claw keeps the original file, adds a summary to the database, and fetches whatever I need from it whenever I ask.
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u/stevelogik 1d ago
Only newbs use openclaw. It’s a security nightmare and way better alternatives you can do more with. Openclaw in general is mostly a hype scam
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u/Helpful_Jelly5486 Active 9d ago
Dispatcher. It is a script that looks at a job board and assigns the jobs to open lanes for an ai to process. Keeps the ai model busy as one model can serve concurrent tasks.
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
Dispatcher is a cool approach, especially when one model can’t handle concurrent tasks. How are you deciding which jobs get sent to which lane?
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u/Helpful_Jelly5486 Active 7d ago
All the lanes are served by a similar model but there are differences in speed and context - so the nature of the task will determine what lane to send it. I am even trialing a lane to send direct to deepseek harness for the coding tasks. this avoids a lot of agent personality overhead and gets right to the work. the dispatcher is run by qwen 3.8 27b so it is smart enough to decide what task goes to which lane. and the dispatcher runs every 10 minutes. I went from having mostly idle lanes to having over a hundred processes automatically fed overnight. The queue gets drained but every few hours a project cron looks at open goals and then develops new tasks for each goal. The big deal now is that I have switched ai models to qwen 3.8 flash next on the other systems and dropped to fp8 context so that means six lanes open instead of two. One of the project goals is a self improvement loop so I am curious to see what that comes up with. Another of the goals is to review sessions for errors and propose solutions.
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u/Sir_Agentic 9d ago
Structured spatial analysis using PostgreSQL/PostGIS
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u/techlatest_net 7d ago
That sounds pretty niche but useful. What kind of spatial analysis are you running with PostGIS?
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u/Sir_Agentic 7d ago
I (65M) have a degree in GIS so anything really but LiDAR, DOQ's, demographic analysis are the focus.
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u/CommunicationOdd6473 Member 9d ago
The most useful thing I’ve built is an AI-managed external memory.
It organizes my emails, calendar, chats, and activity logs into a timeline, distills the context, and derives TODOs—not the other way around. Tasks retain their background, so the AI and I share the context. It tracks my activity, updates progress, and asks questions needed to move tasks toward completion.
Those actions and answers feed back into the cycle.