Set up OpenClaw (step-by-step)
Marily Nika
Gen AI Product Lead @ Google
It’s not that AI got smarter (though it did). It’s that AI got persistent. It stopped waiting to be asked.
The traditional product manager role was built on a foundation of information management: reading tickets, synthesizing feedback, chasing engineers, writing specs, moving Jira cards, sending Slack updates. Most of us would admit, if we’re being honest, that a significant portion of our week is spent doing things that feel more like administration than actual product thinking.
OpenClaw automates most of that. Not eventually. Now.
This post is a practical guide to what OpenClaw is, how to set it up, and — most importantly — how to configure it specifically for the work PMs actually do. If you’ve seen the demos floating around online and thought “this looks cool but I don’t know where to start,” this is for you.