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How I Use Clawdbot to Run My Business and Life 24/7

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In this episode, host Greg Isenberg interviews "Kits," a prolific AI tinkerer, about how to use Claudebot to automate business and personal life through custom AI agents. The guest demonstrates 10+ practical use cases—from customer support automation to smart home integration—and argues that AI competency is becoming essential for productivity and employment in 2026. The core hook is that Claudebot's ability to access your computer's shell and self-learn new skills makes it fundamentally more powerful than consumer AI tools like GPT-4.5.

Key takeaways
  • Start with Telegram or iMessage for beginners to feel the power of Claudebot's automation, then graduate to Discord for more advanced, organized multi-agent setups
  • Create multiple specialized AI personas (e.g., fitness coach, accountant, home manager) trained on specific data and personalities rather than relying on a single general-purpose bot to avoid mixing contexts
  • Never connect your bot to email immediately; start Dockerized with no email access, use only the most capable models (Opus, Codex), and avoid cheap models like Haiku that are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
  • Wearable devices with microphone buttons—like the Pebble Ring or Apple Watch Ultra—paired with Claudebot unlock true voice-driven productivity by providing always-accessible AI input
  • Claudebot can self-learn and discover workarounds to network limitations (e.g., casting HTML dashboards as images to smart displays) because it has shell access to your entire system, unlike cloud-based AI assistants
  • The future job market will see a massive collapse in traditional roles (customer support, programming, middle management) within 1–2 years unless workers adopt AI-enabled workflows and build their own "army of agents" to remain competitive

Recommendations (15)

GPT-4.5 Codex

"I prefer Opus most of the time for this and Codex for coding."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 13:27

Claudebot
Claudebot uses

"I have it running on my Mac studio and there's like one gateway that then to that gateway you can interface with telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, your phone."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 3:20

Discord
Discord uses

"I'm using Discord basically. And as you can see here, I have like a one discord called kit and I have a one discord called zikit."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 3:02

Mac Studio
Mac Studio uses

"I have it running on my Mac studio and there's like one gateway"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 3:20

Meta Glasses

"I'm making a Meta glasses app right now to be able to connect through the Meta glasses"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 3:30

Home Assistant

"goes to home assistant finds my TV makes an HTML dashboard and casts it on my TV"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 8:58

Claude Opus

"I prefer Opus most of the time for this and codeex for coding."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 13:23

Twilio
Twilio uses

"I bought a phone number with Twilio and a couple days ago I wanted to test it."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 14:28

Pebble Ring recommends

"I think this paired with the Meta glasses or this paired with your AirPods and whatever is the missing interface to like super hyper productivity"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 19:34

Apple Watch Ultra

"So I have this button on the Ultra set up to go to Benji."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 19:53

Google TPUs

"you cannot cast HTML dashboard to Google Home without a lot of hacks and stuff"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 20:49

Spotify
Spotify uses

"we sent screenshots from Spotify from which songs we playing to my daughter"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 24:34

Plex
Plex uses

"connected to my NAS, hosted them on Plex and now on Plex, we have a nice playlist"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 24:40

Pi-hole
Pi-hole uses

"hey I have a spare Mac studio laying around. It's going to be plugged in all the time. How about you set up Pi Hole and block ads on my entire network."

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 25:08

Excalidraw
Excalidraw uses

"Skill for making Excalidraw. Excalidraw format for Excalidraw is JSON. So basically you can tell it to make a JSON file"

Greg Isenberg · ▶ 25:34

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Claude
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT "both ChatGPT and claude like the UI don't have the ability to like self-learn and kind of find th..." ▶ 9:05
Slack
Slack "I would say if you want to make like a workspace specific agent, most people would easily transit..." ▶ 11:25
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