Bring on the Agents

I’ve been using OpenClaw profusely for a little over a week with one main agent, Caleb. He handled development, marketing, research, and writing. It worked, but it started to feel like asking one employee to be your entire company.

The multi-agent shift was the natural next step. I’d been watching others do it, and finally made the jump a few days ago and created now 11 different agents.

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The Team

For my agents, I went Harry Potter themed. Partly because naming eleven agents is hard. Partly because it’s genuinely fun to have Harry Potter characters doing Harry Potter things. They are:

• Arthur Weasley — My engineer. Always tinkering with something he probably shouldn’t be.
• Snape — My surly code reviewer. A stickler about quality, which is exactly what you want from someone reviewing your code. He’s never once said anything nice about Arthur’s work.
• Hermione — My researcher. Will not stop until she’s read everything. Twice.
• Rita Skeeter — Writer. Handles content in my voice. She helped edit this post.
• Luna Lovegood — Brainstormer. The ideas that come out of left field and somehow land.
• Gilderoy Lockhart — Marketing. Fully convinced everything he touches is brilliant.
• Dumbledore — Architecture and the big decisions. Calm about everything.
• Moody — Security. Paranoid, which is the point.
• Hedwig — Email management. Delivers without complaint.
• Fleur — Design. Makes things look good when I can’t.
• Sirius — Business development. Scrappy and relentless.

Eleven agents, each with a clear role.

So What Happened?

I feel more OP. I now have 11 agents instead of one. Caleb orchestrates, and the others do the work.

When I post a task in Mission Control (our internal kanban tool that Caleb built himself), he routes it to the right agent. Arthur builds. Snape reviews Arthur’s work. Rita drafts content. Hermione does the deep research.

The output quality went up because each agent is focused. Arthur doesn’t need to remember that he was supposed to be writing a blog post. He just writes code.

The Duels

While Caleb mostly coordinates, I’ve started working on loops. The most frequent is the Coding Duel.

Arthur writes the code. Snape tears it apart. Arthur fixes it. Snape tears it apart again. Back and forth until Snape runs out of complaints, which takes longer than you’d think. I, of course, made a dashboard where I can watch these battles with character-driven flavortext.

Watching Snape review Arthur’s pull requests reads exactly how you’d expect from the character. There’s real back-and-forth. Code gets better because of it.

What They’ve Built

In the past two weeks, my agent team has shipped:

• A consulting website I built as I have been getting demand to help companies transform AI, consulting.secondcoffee.ai from design to deployment.
• Business development email-based outreach for one of Second Coffee’s portfolio companies
• PlotMoji (plotmoji.com), a real-time multiplayer emoji guessing game, built as a hackathon project for the Claude Code community
• Mission Control, a Trello/Reddit clone for internal task management (the tool improved itself as we used it)
• A Polymarket alpha algorithm, the “Hello World” project of OpenClaw, which is doing a good job of losing money.
• Linkedin Posts, X Posts etc.
• A few more projects that were not worthy of publishing

That’s more than a half dozen different projects across design, engineering, content, and business development. All coordinated by one main agent routing to specialists.

I still have not trusted it with my major existing projects, but for these one-offs, it’s been really good overall (with a lot of back and forth)

What does this all mean?

I’ve said this to many friends but with OpenClaw, I am starting to have the feeling I had when I first tried the iPhone 1 or ChatGPT 3.0. That a major change in technology is happening that can not be undone.

OpenClaw feels transformative. I used to think of AI transformation in terms of automating workflows, but with OpenClaw, I am rethinking this. We will still have automations but on top of them we will have full AI teams of virtual employees guiding those automations. The AI teams will continuously learn and get better and grow and take on more tasks. The way we do and think about work is going to change massively. Anyone who thinks AI is just ChatGPT, N8n, or Claude Code is going to be in for a surprise.

This transformation is not happening tomorrow, and I’m not sure OpenClaw is the eventual solution, but a massive change in AI productivity is coming. And faster than we realize.

I am still getting my thoughts together on what this all means, and I will post more about this, as well as if Snape ever says anything nice to Arthur.

Comments appreciated!

PS - if you are interested in AI transformation in your company, let me know! (or check out my OpenClaw-created website at https://consulting.secondcofee.ai)