OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant framework that runs entirely on your own machine. It sits on top of the LLM of your choice to standardize tasks, personalize usage, develop memory and personality, and solve problems for you proactively. Think of it as your own personal AI that does not just respond when prompted, but acts in your best interest through recurring tasks.

It connects to LLM providers like Maple, Claude, and ChatGPT through API keys, or you can host the models locally.

It can manage its own (or your) email, calendar, files, web browsing, and more — all orchestrated locally and coordinated using the LLM API of your choice. It's like having a full-time assistant who never sleeps.

Running on dedicated hardware means it only gains access to the data that you choose, which limits risks of the AI making mistakes with your personal or professional email, passwords, and bank accounts. If attackers gain access to the machine, they only gain access to what you gave the machine access to.

If you run OpenClaw on your personal or professional machine, an attacker needs only to compromise the AI in order to compromise all of your precious data. This is new and bleeding edge technology, and the safest way to interact with it is to physically segregate the function from your private data.