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I Built an AI Agents Army with OpenClaw to Run my $28k/mo Startup

Thursday, February 12, 2026

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šŸ‘‹ Get the FREE OpenClaw Starter Guide → https://floriandarroman.com/openclaw-starter-kit/ Bhanu built and sold Feather for $250K, grew SiteGPT to $18K MRR, and now uses an army of AI agents running 24/7 on OpenClaw to hit $1M ARR. In this episode, he breaks down: → How to set up a main agent and let it create specialist sub-agents → The dashboard he built just by talking to Telegram → How AI agents collaborate, assign tasks, and manage his entire marketing → Security tips and mistakes to avoid when getting started → Why he stopped hiring and replaced his team with AI agents šŸ”— Mission Control HQ: https://missioncontrolhq.ai/ šŸ”— Follow Bhanu on X: https://x.com/pbteja1998 šŸ”— OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:01 Feather ($250K Exit), SiteGPT ($18K MRR), Mission Control HQ 1:41 What is Mission Control HQ? 2:48 Why One Agent Wasn't Enough 5:51 The Lead Agent System (Jarvis) 7:42 Florian's First 24 Hours with OpenClaw 9:11 How to Get Started with OpenClaw 10:33 Don't Install on Your Personal Computer 12:49 Security: Run "openclaw doctor" 14:36 When to Build Mission Control 17:06 Brute: The Retention Specialist Agent 20:10 Sub-Agents: Always Stay Available 23:04 Why Use Opus for Everything 24:45 Did It Actually Help You Make Money? 28:37 100K Emails Auto-Analyzed 30:08 Built the Entire Dashboard 33:43 Activation vs Retention 36:13 Treat It Like an Employee 39:57 From Assistant to Marketing Machine 41:15 The Real Bottleneck Is You 43:45 Excitement About OpenClaw 46:44 OpenClaw + Hardware 48:34 It Updates Itself 49:16 It Created Its Own Notion Account 50:38 Final word

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