# OpenClaw: Your First AI Employee Build 9 Income-Generating Agents This Weekend - Price: $12.99 (Kindle ebook) - Level: Intermediate - Pages: 267 - Best for: Automating your own job - You finish with: 9 agents that run email, content, and revenue - Series: OpenClaw AI Agent Playbooks, book 1 of 3 - Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/47gubvu - Web page: https://youcanbuildthings.com/books/openclaw-employee ## What you get You installed OpenClaw. It just sits there doing nothing useful. This book turns that dead install into a staff of AI agents that run your email, write your content, and send you money while you sleep. 9 working projects, no code required. Second edition: every command re-run against the shipping release, with a free companion repo that installs all of it into your own agent. Second edition. Turn a dead OpenClaw install into a staff of AI agents. 9 projects across 12 chapters, each with real code, real cost breakdowns, and a deliverable you can test the same day. Every command in this edition was executed against the shipping release before it went to print: the install path, the config format, the skill format, and the price of every model it tells you to run. The eight skills and eleven scheduled jobs ship as a free companion repo that installs into your own agent with one command. ## Chapters 1. The $40 Employee Who Doubled a Guy's Salary: 100+ tailored applications, two offers, doubled salary, $40 in API credits. 2. Your First Agent in 30 Minutes (Not 30 Hours): One installer command, the setup wizard, and the approval step most people miss. 3. The 10-Point Security Lockdown: Ten fixes mapped to real settings, then a command that grades your work. 4. Build Your First Custom Skill in 15 Minutes: A SKILL.md file needs exactly two lines of config. You reuse it nine times. 5. The $6/Month Setup: Four levers: cheap primary, prompt caching, the heartbeat, a second agent. 6. Inbox Zero Without Touching Your Email: Auto-triage, response drafts in your voice, morning briefing. 7. Your 24/7 Research Analyst for $8/Month: 50 sources, a daily briefing, and the dial that sets your own budget. 8. The Content Engine That Writes While You Sleep: One idea becomes 35 platform-specific posts a week, scheduled. 9. The Freelancer's $0 Admin Staff: Proposals, invoicing, follow-ups. Plus an honest list of what it cannot do. 10. The Multi-Agent Army: Real separate agents, each with its own workspace, model, and personality. 11. The Honest Chapter: What Goes Wrong: Cost spikes, hallucinations, lock-in, and the argument the community is having. 12. From Reader to Earner: 90-Day Action Plan: Days 1-30 build, 31-60 automate, 61-90 earn. $3K-$5K per client. ## Free guides from this book - [How to Build an OpenClaw Research Agent That Briefs You Daily](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/openclaw-research-agent-daily-briefing.md): Get a daily briefing on your industry from an OpenClaw agent that reads 50 sources before you wake up and tells you only what changed since yesterday. It runs about $6.91 a month, set by one dial most people tune backwards, and it starts with a curl check that caught a dead feed when we ran it. - [How to Build Your First OpenClaw Skill in 15 Minutes](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/openclaw-custom-skill-tutorial.md): Turn an OpenClaw install that just sits there into an assistant that answers questions about your own notes, with one skill you can write in 15 minutes. The skill is a single SKILL.md file with two lines of front matter, and the config.yaml format most tutorials still copy never loads at all. - [How to Harden OpenClaw in 45 Minutes and Prove It](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/openclaw-security-hardening.md): Lock down the OpenClaw agent that reads your email and calendar in about 45 minutes, then prove it with one command that prints 0 critical. The list starts with a bug that let any web page you opened reach the gateway on your own laptop. - [How to Have OpenClaw Handle Your Email Before You Wake Up](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/openclaw-email-automation-agent.md): Wake up to an inbox that's already sorted, with replies drafted in your voice and waiting for a thumbs-up from your phone. It takes one skill file, a mail tool OpenClaw already ships and two scheduled jobs, plus one Google setting that quietly switches the whole thing off after seven days if you miss it. - [How to Run OpenClaw 24/7 for $6 a Month](https://youcanbuildthings.com/articles/openclaw-reduce-cost-multi-model-routing.md): Keep an OpenClaw agent answering messages and checking in around the clock for about $6 a month, and know the number to the cent before you commit. There is no multi-model router in the product; four settings you already have take the same agent from $19.94 to $5.15.