Clawdbot Clearly Explained (and how to use it)

0:00This episode is the clearest explanation of Clodbot on the internet and how you can use it to make money and be more productive. Clodbot feels like hiring a digital operator who works around the clock and actually ships. Once you see it in action, it changes how you think about building, how you think about delegating, and how you think about scaling. In this episode, we break down real use cases, how to get started, the risk, and why this is becoming a serious leverage tool for solopreneurs and founders. This just in, Clodbot has officially been renamed as Maltbot. I'm guessing they got a lot of heat from the Anthropic team, so they must have changed their name.

0:41So it's unofficially Clodbot, officially Maltbot. If Clodbot has been on your radar and you just want a clear explanation of how you can use this as a solopreneur, as a founder, this episode is for you.

1:00I've been waiting for this moment. Alex, Mr. Claudebot, Finn has come on the podcast. And by the end of this episode, Alex, what are we going to learn?

1:10Alex Finn:By the end of this episode, if you listen attently and closely, you will have your own 24-7 AI employee working for you at all times. But I've seen videos where that's the promise. Can you commit, can you promise to us that you're going to showcase use cases that people haven't seen before. They haven't seen, and then by the end of this episode, they'll be able to implement it. You are going to have an AI employee that's tracking trends for you, building you product, delivering you news, creating you content, running your whole business. This isn't your 101, it's gonna be checking your email, letting you know when you get an email.

1:50Alex Finn:This is gonna be, you're gonna be running a business by yourself with AI employees. Okay, so it's for people who want to make money and be more productive using Claudebot? It's for people who want to actually improve their life, get more productivity, and not just kind of have a Tamagotchi toy. All right, let's get into it. Let's do it. So I have been playing around with this pretty much nonstop for a week now. I don't think I've slept. This is the most excited I've been about technology probably since the first time I used ChatGBT, if not in my entire life, because I really do believe this unlocks a next level for solopreneurs, probably a lot of people watching this video right now, and then just people who wanna get things done.

2:38Alex Finn:I am a one-person startup. I have my own SaaS that I built and run completely by myself. I'm a YouTube creator. I'm an X creator. I have a newsletter. I do 100 things at once. I work from beginning to end of the day. And when I got my hands on Claudebot and when I started trying it, like this isn't hype. If you use this the right way, you're actually gonna get insane productivity, especially if you're someone in kind of my position, the one person startup. And so let me give you an example. I think I'll give you an example right here that will kind of blow a lot of people's minds. I don't think a lot of people are doing something like this at the moment.

3:18Alex Finn:So I, for instance, every single day, I get a morning brief from my Claudebot Henry. From moving forward, I will use Henry instead of Claudebot because I treat my Claudebot with respect and use its name. So let me share, first of all, my Telegram chat. I use Telegram to communicate with Henry. That's one of the other kind of mind-blowing things about this, I think, is the fact that you're interfacing just kind of in messaging app on your phone. But I get a morning brief. and we did a lot of setup to get to this point and I'll go through that setup. I just wanna kind of show the power of what we'll be going through here.

3:58Alex Finn:I get this morning brief and every night while I'm sleeping, Henry does many things for me. First of all, he gives me the weather, that's kind of nice. But I also have him doing a lot of work while I sleep. I have him researching projects that I've talked about. One of the most amazing parts about Claudebot is it is self-improving, constantly self-improving. every single thing you tell it it remembers and includes in further conversation future conversation right so for instance i talked about the fact that i am buying a mac studio to run it on in the next couple weeks and so it started going and it started looking at different ways to run local models on a mac studio overnight while i was sleeping without me asking and it created an entire report for that.

4:45Alex Finn:It came up with a content repurposing skill because I told it I have a newsletter. I told I do YouTube X, whole bunch of things. So it came up, didn't, I didn't ask for this, created a content repurposing skill for me so I can easily repurpose my content, right? It's just improving itself. The most mind blowing part, I think of what it did for me over the last few days is it kept an eye on X. It found, if you've been paying attention to X, you know, Elon's been talking about giving a million dollars away to the top article, right? It actually found, you know, that this, this story articles are popping on X, Elon's giving away a million dollars and it actually built out article functionality for me in my SaaS creator buddy, right?

5:33Alex Finn:So I have this app creator buddy. It's all about X content. And so it actually saw on X that articles are popping off million dollars and it built out some article writing functionality in creator buddy for me. I woke up, it said, Hey, I built out this functionality in creator buddy that I think would be helpful based on what's trending. Check it out. Let me know what you think. And so now I have this employee that is just every night while I'm sleeping, checking what's trending, what's going on, building me little demos and showcases, building new skills based on our conversation from the past day.

6:07Alex Finn:And then I wake up and I just got to approve things. And so I got this article writer functionality, built it out. It created a pull request. So it didn't just push this live on the internet. That'd be insane. You don't want to do that just yet. Maybe one day soon, not just yet. Took the pull request, tested it, looked great, works brilliantly. You can write articles, looked, pushed it to live. And just like that, I have new functionality and creator body based on what's going on. And like this is the, like this right here would have took me hours. That's hours saved just like that from my Claudebot being proactive and figuring out what I'm interested in.

6:46Well, it saves you hours and maybe you might okay, this is a great idea. Maybe you would have come up with this idea, but maybe you wouldn't have come up with this idea.

6:56Alex Finn:You know what I mean? Right. And that's one of the brilliant pieces of leverage here is this is super intelligence, right? This is able to think a lot more, a lot quickly and has a lot more context than my brain has. And yeah, I might not have came up with this idea. And luckily it did. And now it's live and my apps and my business are improving literally while I sleep. And I'm just a one person business. I'm not hiring people. This is my employee. And it was able to get this done, which is really incredible. Okay. And naysayers watching this or listening to this, what are they saying when they're hearing and watching this?

7:33Alex Finn:So I actually get this a lot. I get a lot of naysayers. I get a lot of people going, this is BS. You're making this all up. This is not BS. So here's how, this is all about setup. You don't just turn this on and it starts building you SaaS. There's a lot of setup that goes into getting this type of functionality. I mean, there's a lot of other, I'm demoing a lot of other things that it built out for me completely autonomously. The setup of your Claudebot is critical. what you need to do because its memory is so strong is you need to go in and you need to make sure it knows as much about you as humanly possible, right?

8:16Alex Finn:You need to make sure if you have a YouTube channel, you put the link to your YouTube channel. You talk about what you create content on. You talk about your hobbies, your interests, every part of your business, what your goals and aspirations are, right? What your relationship status is. Like literally as much as you possibly can, you want to give to it because it's going to remember all of it in every conversation. Then just like you would a human being, you want to set expectations, right? So like you, if you've ever had an employee before anyone watching this, you set expectations with your employee when they first get hired on like what you want that working relationship to be like.

8:54And so the big way I got all of this is I set the expectation with my Claude bot that I

9:02Alex Finn:want a proactive relationship where I don't need to give it all its commands. It can just do things without me. And so I have a prompt, Greg, I will send this prompt to you after this so that you can include in the description if you'd like. You want to give this prompt. The UI is not great with this here. I'll read it out though really quick so people can have an idea of how it works. But when I started my relationship during the onboarding, it's like, okay, what should I know about you? I put this in, but everyone watching, you can just put this in even if you've already onboarded. I am a one-man business.

9:40Alex Finn:I, at the moment, let me see here. I have a little typo in here. I from, oh, no, I don't. I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I need an employee taking as much off my plate in being as proactive as possible. Please take everything you know about me and just do work you think would make my life easier or improve my business and make me money. I want to wake up every morning and be like, wow, you got a lot done while I was sleeping. Don't be afraid to monitor my business and build things that would help improve our workflow. Just create PRs for me to review. Don't push anything live.

10:16Alex Finn:I'll test and commit. And what this is doing is this is setting the expectations for your working relationship with your CloudBot, right? You want to treat this with respect as a human being, right? As you would treat a human being. And from there, when I said it this, it was like, okay, I want to be able to update you on things. Let's do a morning brief. And it started sending me the morning briefs. And I got a morning brief. I'm like, oh, can you also research my YouTube competitors? And I gave it a list like 20 channels. And then it started including like, oh, this channel. It actually was really interesting.

10:48Alex Finn:I think I have an example I can show you right here. it actually started letting me know whenever other channels had content that performed well. Let me see if I have one of my morning briefs up that has this. Yeah, here we go. So it was like, oh, you want me to do a competitor research for you? I know what I'll do. I will see when someone posts a video that outperforms their normal videos and let you know in the morning brief. And you can see one of my morning briefs from a couple days ago, Nate B. Jones, who's another AI channel, posted a video that did better than it normally does on his channel, right?

11:31Alex Finn:And so it's little things like this, where you just want to set expectations for your relationship, give it as much context about you as humanly possible. And this is really important, interview it, right? Interview it as much as you can, where I'm like, I'm a YouTube creator. What can you do for me? What, what, what, what task can you do? How can you make my life easier? And it sat there and it thought, and it came up with like 10 different things. And one of them was I'll research your competitors and see when they have outlier videos. And now that's included in my morning brief. I think the issue most people have when they use not only Claudebot, but any AI tool at all, is they don't hunt the unknown unknowns.

12:17Alex Finn:And what I mean by that is these AIs have unbelievable power, can do unbelievable things, but we only ever ask it to do things we think of. You want to spend a lot of time saying, hey, here's everything about me. What can you do for me? And find those unknown unknowns. And that's how you unlock workflows like this, which are unbelievable and have seriously saved me hours and hours and hours of my life in a week. What else can you show? I got a good amount. So basically every night it's been building different apps to improve our workflow. One of my favorite things it's been doing is it's actually built a project management tool.

13:03Alex Finn:So let me pull this up here. Here we go. it built this and actually before I show this, let me give one more tip before I go deeper into kind of the tech and building side. Claude Opus is the best model ever made, period. It is fantastic for Claude Bot. One issue is even if you're on the$200 plan, you're going to hit your limits if you just use it for everything. So what I'm about to show you, I'm about to show you a few things that Henry built for me. You want to make sure when you ask your Claudebot to, hey, be proactive, build things for me overnight, build me, code me stuff. You want to use the right muscles.

13:43Alex Finn:And what I mean by that is I think of Opus as the brain. You want to use other models as the muscles. Codex is a really good muscle for coding for this. And so set up Codex inside your Claudebot, say, hey, whatever your name of your CloudBot is, only use Codex from here on out for building. And what that's going to do is save you a ton of usage on your Cloud so you can use it the whole month and never hit limits and also use other models to build other things out and make it more efficient. So that's just a side tip before I go into this next kind of step of my workflow. But just an example of something it built for me is this product management tool, which it calls Mission Control.

14:24Alex Finn:It named it that, Mission Control, where it actually tracks all the tasks it does for me. And as it does them, moves them along this board, right? And so I can wake up in the morning. I get the morning brief, which gives me kind of rundown of things it did. But I can also go into the activity here over on the right-hand side and see all the tasks it completed for me recently. And so this is kind of like our tracker system where if you use Claudebutt all, you know it's just one chat. You don't have multiple conversations. As the chat gets older, you can't really scroll back to see what was said.

15:04Alex Finn:This is your way of tracking everything it's done in perpetuity. So is this something that you asked it to build or is this come stock? Like how did this happen? This built it. So kind of with my prompt where I was like, be proactive, figure out ways to improve our workflow. One morning I woke up and it basically had the V1 of this where it kind of looked like a vibe-coded Kanban board you would see in any sort of tutorial video online. But it built a Kanban board with the goal of me tracking the tasks it's doing. And then I massaged it a little bit after, but 80 % of this was built autonomously while I slept and I woke up to it.

15:45Alex Finn:That's crazy. Yeah. I think what excites me the most about CloudBot out of all this is it's like it has unlimited potential this is an open source harness this isn't like a model this isn't a kind of clawed co-work where there's guardrails protecting everything this is no guardrails just a harness for an AI agent that just remembers everything you tell it and self-improve. So you can take this any direction you want and push it to limits that have never been seen before. Right. And that's what excites me about it is like, you can do things like that where you can say, Hey, tonight, build me something that'll improve our workflow.

16:33Alex Finn:Good night. I'll see you in the morning. And you can get something like this. There's not, there's never been a technology that allows for this type of autonomous improvement. Yeah. I mean, you can, you can say, Hey, you know, I run an e-commerce website, right now it converts at 1.2%, meaning 1.2, let's say just over one customer's convert out of every 100. I want to get to 4%. What are some, like iterate on helping me convert more customers because more customers means more money, more revenue, more profit. And then you wake up the next day and something happens. exactly you can I mean you can take it a step further like this is going to be difficult to do but I think in the next few months more people will be able to do it which is like taking out the barriers in your mind of what AI is like is taking it a step further what you just said you need to think of it from the lens of what would a human being do if I had a human being right here.

17:37Alex Finn:They had a computer. They had our e-commerce site up on it. What would they do? Not what would an AI do. What would a human being with a computer do? And what they would probably do is they might create a couple checkout workflows. Then they might test it themselves, go through, test the workflow themselves, take notes on what was easy, what was difficult, and then come back to me with a report like, here's the three different workflows. I created three different branches on your GitHub and here's a description of how they worked and what I liked about them. You wanna test it and let me know which one you like?

18:14Alex Finn:Like that's the way a human being would do it. So that's what you should instruct your CloudBot to do, right? You should be like, hey, come A-B test a few different workflows to improve checkout. Take screenshots. When I wake up, I'll go through the screenshots and let you know which one I want you to implement. That's kind of the new lens we should be using with this technology, not what kind of we were used to before with just straight up chat GPT? Well, it's almost like an agency even. It's not even one person, right? So it's like if you hire an e-commerce design agency, what's the first thing they're going to do?

18:45They're going to audit your website. They're going to say, okay, I'm going to look at every single page, every letter of copy, every image, everything. That's step one. The step two is I'm going to come up with a bunch of ideas. And then step three is I'm going to wireframe those ideas. I'm going to do competitive analysis, et cetera, et cetera. And usually when you have an agency, It's not like you just have one designer working on it. You have a copywriter, you have a marketer, you have an engineer, right? You have all these people put together. And what's really cool about CloudBot is it's this employee, this 24-7 employee is bespoke to understanding your business, right?

19:24Because it has all the context necessary. and if this does what it says it does, meaning if it actually can do the task, then I don't understand how this isn't a genie in a bottle and the people that, correct me if I'm wrong.

19:42Alex Finn:Yeah, I mean, we are 20 days into this. This released actually exactly 24 days ago. This was basically discovered five days ago on Twitter. So it's about, for all sake and purposes, five days old. and so people are starting to kind of realize what's possible. I showed you a couple of things out of what's possible, but like taking this a step further, what does this look like in a month? What this is like six months in a year. Imagine a world where every person has their own personal computer that has five or six local AI models running that specialize in different things, a vision AI model, several different models, and they're all constantly working on your business.

20:24Alex Finn:So I just ordered a Mac Studio, maxed out, RAM. I want to be on the cutting edge of this. And what I'm going to be able to do, my CloudBot Henry actually built the plan for this because I was talking, I think I want to get a Mac Studio with local models. And it's like, okay, here's what we should do. It's going to have local models where I'm going to record a video. The moment it's done recording, there's going to be one AI agent that just watches my downloads to see what goes into it. It's going to recognize I had a video that went into it. It's going to hand it to another AI agent, an audio AI agent.

20:59Alex Finn:I forget the API it's going to use, but it's going to extract the transcript. It's going to give it to Minimax 2.1, which is kind of a lighter weight local AI agent that's going to then find the bookmarks or the checkpoints in the video for YouTube where you can have your bookmarks in there. Then it's going to hand it to Flux, which is a local vision model, image model, that's going to then generate the thumbnail. And now all I did was record the video, and now five different models locally on my computer are going to basically process this video. And in 45 seconds, the entire production process is over, and it's going to be uploaded on YouTube.

21:39Alex Finn:That's where this is going. we just kind of need to as a community get to the point where we're thinking of it in this lens which is what does unlimited proactive productivity look like with an ai agent not just a chat bot and like that's where we're going to be going i think over the next few months is once we start looking at this through that lens all those things are very possible right now so if if people want to get started with this they could buy a mac mini they can buy a studio they can host it on the cloud What's your recommendation? There's many ways to do it. The cheapest, quickest way is hosting it on the cloud, which is you can go on Amazon AWS EC2, which is basically a virtual private server where you can install CloudBot and it runs on there.

22:27Alex Finn:That's the quickest and cheapest. I actually would not recommend that. I've gone through all the setups. I've tried every way to set this up just so I can be familiar with what I'm talking about. and I don't love that system. I think it's technically confusing for the normie. I think that it makes it difficult for it to use different tools, for it to monitor emails and do different things because you need to plug in APIs for every single thing. But if like you're really nervous and you just want to dip your toes, that's the way to go. I think the best path for the average person, honestly, is a Mac mini.

23:04Alex Finn:Actually, I take that back. like if you just have like a computer laying around using a computer. Basically, my recommendation is the cheapest computer you can find, use that, a local device. The reason why I recommend that is like you can control the environment, you can control the accounts it has access to, you can control the tools it has access to, you can monitor it and watch what it's doing in real time. I think that methodology of being able to watch what it's doing on a screen is just fun and helpful and interesting. It helps you learn how the technology works. And I think the more you learn how it works, the better you'll be at using it.

23:42Alex Finn:I think if you're taking it to the next level, which I am going to do is like, okay, now you get hardware like a Mac Studio or you buy GPUs where you can start running local models, which gives you the advantage of, A, saving kind of money on tokens, but B, you just learn how AI and machine learning works and you can train models and do interesting things like that. Basically, the more you tinker, the more you're going to learn and the better the experience is going to be. So in a nutshell, I recommend going the Mac Mini route, even though a lot of people on the internet tell you not to. I've been using this nonstop.

24:16Alex Finn:Mac Mini, I think, is the way to go. But you can go the VPS route if you just kind of want to dip your toes a little bit. Yeah, I think the studio makes sense. For someone like you, the studio makes sense because you've had the aha moment. You kind of have to have the aha moment to really get it and to be bought in. So for someone listening to this and it's their first time ever, probably don't go out there and buy a Mac studio. Try to set it up, have the aha moment. Seeing is believing. And if you get to that point where you're like, okay, I see a huge opportunity here. For example, if we do believe that CloudBot could be almost like an agency where you can run local models where it does video editing and titles and scripting and basically a whole process there, or e-commerce conversion rate optimization, if we believe it can do that, buying a Mac Studio is like a business in a box that you can have clients, right?