Use Cases for OpenClaw
Pre-built workflows you can deploy to your OpenClaw instance
Each use case is a guided setup session that walks you through connecting external services, configuring DNS, collecting API keys, and deploying OpenClaw agents, all through the same tunnel you already use for setup.
AI Travel Agent
Plans trips that respect your loyalty status, approval limits, and calendar — not just the cheapest fare
AI Travel Agent runs inside your private OpenClaw container and learns your real travel rules — preferred airlines and alliances, hotel loyalty numbers (Marriott Bonvoy, Hilton Honors, Hyatt), seat/cabin preferences, per-trip approval limits, calendar conflicts, and company T&E policies. Unlike Google Flights, Expedia, or Kayak, it doesn't just dump options on you. It shortlists the best two or three based on loyalty math (status credits, lounge access, free bag/seat), checks your calendar for conflicts and time-zone recovery, applies your spend policy, then waits for your one-tap approval via Telegram before booking. After the trip is locked, it auto-files the e-receipts, drops calendar invites with airport buffers, drafts your expense report, and watches the flight — if anything goes sideways, it pings you with three rebook options ready to confirm. Shield redacts your traveler PII (loyalty numbers, passport, DOB, card last-4) before anything reaches an LLM.
Reduce Cloud Costs
If you use AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or others, this finds the waste you're paying for — and cleans up only what you approve
A supervised cloud cost agent that runs inside your private OpenClaw container with read-only credentials. It inventories every account across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and more, then returns one prioritized report — idle VMs, oversized instances, unattached disks, old snapshots, unused IPs, orphaned load balancers, and forgotten dev/test environments — ranked by estimated monthly savings and risk tier. Nothing is deleted without you: the agent proposes cleanup one resource class at a time and waits for explicit human approval, snapshotting before any delete and logging every command. Production databases, IAM, and networking are blocked from autonomous changes. Shield redacts account IDs, access-key IDs, resource ARNs, and internal IPs before anything reaches an LLM, so a cost audit never becomes a topology leak. Schedule it on a monthly cron to catch new waste as it appears.
Intelligent Email Triage
AI-powered inbox management with style-matched replies, a learning spam filter, phishing protection, and priority alerts
Connect your existing Gmail, Microsoft 365 / Outlook, or IMAP inbox to an OpenClaw agent that scans, classifies, and drafts replies in your writing style. A learning spam filter studies what you delete and quietly moves look-alike future mail into a recoverable Agent-Spam box (never your native Spam or Trash). Built-in phishing protection spots credential-phishing and social-engineering attempts — fake document shares, lookalike login links, spoofed senders — even when they come from a trusted contact whose account was hacked, and quarantines them in a recoverable Agent-Danger box. Includes PII protection via Zedly Shield, long-term memory via QMD and Dreaming, Telegram priority alerts, and a daily email digest. The agent gets smarter over time by learning your preferences from every interaction.
Vibe Coding — DevOps from Your Phone
Ship code, review PRs, and deploy from Telegram with Shield safety rails and codebase memory
Turn OpenClaw into a mobile command layer for coding. Trigger feature work from Telegram, spawn a 4-agent team (planner, coder, tester, reviewer), and deploy to Vercel, without leaving your phone. Built-in Shield safety rails auto-redact API keys and gate destructive commands (force push to main, rm -rf, prod deploys, new npm installs) until you confirm in chat. QMD/Dreaming memory learns your codebase conventions over time so the agent gets genuinely smarter week by week.
Outlook Attachment Drop (Mac Desktop)
One-command installer bridges Outlook for Mac into OpenClaw, attachments auto-land in your container
For macOS users running Classic Outlook with Microsoft 365. A one-line installer adds a scheduled AppleScript that saves attachments from a named Outlook folder (with optional subject filter) directly into your OpenClaw container's inbox every 15 minutes. Includes a backfill mode that grabs ALL historical matching emails in one pass. No cloud auth, no Azure app registration, no API keys — it uses the Outlook app you already have. Pairs well with Intelligent Email Triage for full IMAP/Gmail workflows on other inboxes.
Two-Way Voice (Telegram or WhatsApp)
Talk to OpenClaw with voice notes, get voice replies back
Send voice notes to your OpenClaw agent from Telegram or WhatsApp and receive spoken replies. Inbound audio is transcribed with Whisper (Groq free tier or OpenAI), redacted by Zedly Shield, processed by a dedicated voice agent, then synthesized back to speech using Google Gemini TTS or ElevenLabs. Requires OpenClaw 2026.4.24+ (the reply-media persistence fix and bundled Gemini TTS arrived in 2026.4.15; the current Zedly image pins 2026.4.24). Free to deploy — you supply your own provider keys.
How subscriptions work: $19–$39/month per workflow. Includes feature updates, security patches, and email support for as long as you're subscribed. Workflows are Shield-protected and regression-tested on a reference install before every release. Cancel anytime from Billing. 14-day works-or-refund guarantee on your first month.
Frequently Asked Questions
Zedly Shield is a runtime security layer (shieldd daemon) that sits between your OpenClaw agents and the LLM providers. Before any content leaves your machine, Shield intercepts it and replaces personally identifiable information — email addresses, phone numbers, names, financial details — with opaque tokens like [EMAIL_1] or [PHONE_2]. The LLM only ever sees tokenized data. When the response comes back, Shield rehydrates the tokens with the original values locally. Your raw data never reaches third-party servers.
Not in raw form. When workflows like Intelligent Email Triage process your inbox, Zedly Shield automatically redacts all PII before the content is sent to an LLM for classification or reply drafting. The LLM sees sanitized text with placeholder tokens. After processing, Shield restores the original values locally on your machine. You can verify and adjust exactly what gets redacted through the Shield dashboard at /shield on your Zedly instance.
Yes. Shield policies are fully configurable through the /shield dashboard or directly in the shieldd.toml configuration file. You can enable or disable redaction categories (emails, phone numbers, addresses, financial data), add specific terms to an allowlist so they pass through unredacted, or create custom redaction patterns for domain-specific sensitive data like internal project codes or client IDs.
Yes. Credentials you provide during setup — Gmail OAuth tokens, IMAP passwords, Telegram bot tokens — are encrypted and stored exclusively on your machine inside the OpenClaw credential store. Zedly’s servers never see or store your API keys. The setup tunnel only carries commands and responses; credential values are written directly to your local filesystem through the SSH connection.
When you disconnect the SSH tunnel, the session key is automatically revoked and no further access is possible. Zedly retains a log of commands executed during the session for your audit trail, but no files, emails, documents, or credentials are copied from your machine. All workflow data — processed emails, draft replies, memory files — stays entirely on your hardware.
The email workflows support Gmail natively via OAuth 2.0 with granular API scopes, and any other provider (Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, self-hosted) via standard IMAP/SMTP with app passwords. Gmail users get richer features like label management and thread grouping. IMAP users get full inbox scanning, classification, and reply drafting with the same Shield protection.
Yes. Workflows that support learning — like Intelligent Email Triage — use OpenClaw’s three-layer memory architecture. Daily Notes capture short-term context, QMD (Quiescent Memory Distillation) provides medium-term retrieval using hybrid BM25 and vector search, and Dreaming consolidates long-term patterns overnight. The agent gets smarter at categorizing your email, matching your writing style, and recognizing your VIP contacts over weeks and months.
Yes. Every OpenClaw agent runs in its own workspace with a separate memory store, configuration files, and credential scope. A triage agent cannot read a voice operator’s call logs or memory, and vice versa. QMD indexes and Dreaming consolidation are scoped per-agent, so learned patterns from one workflow never leak into another.