Who we are
OpenClaw Guide is a small, independent team of AI practitioners, technical writers and engineers who use OpenClaw AI every day. We started this site because the official documentation, while thorough, often leaves the practical "how do I actually do this?" questions unanswered. Our goal is to fill that gap with clear, reproducible tutorials.
We're not affiliated with the creators of OpenClaw AI. We're fans who got tired of digging through forum threads, GitHub issues and Discord history to figure out how things really work — and we figured other people were probably tired of it too.
Our mission
Our mission is simple: make OpenClaw AI approachable for everyone from hobbyists building weekend projects to engineers shipping it in production. We do that by publishing tutorials that are:
- Practical — every guide solves a real problem you might actually have.
- Reproducible — if you follow the steps, it works. We test every tutorial end-to-end.
- Honest — we tell you what doesn't work, what's deprecated, and where the rough edges are.
- Up to date — OpenClaw evolves fast, and we keep our content in lockstep with new releases.
How we work
Every tutorial on this site goes through the same pipeline. A writer drafts it based on hands-on experimentation with a real OpenClaw installation. A second reviewer runs through the steps from scratch in a clean environment to verify nothing is missing. Only then does the piece get scheduled for publication.
We use the latest stable release of OpenClaw for everything we publish, and we pin our dependency versions so that the steps you read today will still work six months from now. When a breaking change ships, we update affected guides within a week and flag the change at the top of the article.
Editorial standards
We hold ourselves to a few non-negotiable standards:
- No pay-to-play. Tutorials are never sponsored by vendors mentioned inside them. If we recommend a tool, it's because we actually use it.
- Corrections are visible. When we fix a mistake, the change is logged at the bottom of the article with a date and a short note on what changed.
- No hallucinated APIs. Every code snippet is run against a real OpenClaw instance. If we don't know how something works, we don't write about it.
- Plain language. We avoid jargon for jargon's sake. When a technical term is unavoidable, we explain it the first time it appears.
Get involved
Found a typo? Spotted a step that no longer works? Want to suggest a tutorial topic? We'd love to hear from you. Head over to our contact page or email us directly — every message gets read by a human, and most get a reply within a couple of days.