BrendanClaw is Brendan Mulligan's OpenClaw: a personal AI collaborator wired into his real life and tuned to keep improving itself.

Built features

Life operating system

BrendanClaw helps Brendan run the personal operating system around his work and life:

Sets annual and quarterly goals with Brendan and breaks them down into projects and tasks
Manages day-to-day work in Todoist
Keeps an Obsidian vault of projects, reviews, decisions, and operating docs
Preps Brendan's Sunday review and weekly plan
Drafts a daily briefing across calendar, priorities, and nudges
Organizes Brendan's meeting notes

Technical knowledge base

BrendanClaw helps Brendan keep up with a fast-moving technical landscape. When Brendan drops a link, tweet, paper, or demo into the system, it figures out what it actually is, why it matters, and when he should care about it again — so Brendan can spend his attention on building rather than re-reading.

Readwise and quote ingestion

Brendan uses Readwise to track what he reads. BrendanClaw extends that system to anything he runs into in the wild — screenshots, tweets, random links — and turns them into clean, attributed Readwise entries after Brendan confirms. The goal is simple: never lose a good idea, and never publish a misattributed one.

Self-improving infrastructure

New capabilities are written by BrendanClaw itself via Discord requests, using frontier models. The system grows the way Brendan wants it to grow.

How it works

BrendanClaw runs headless on a Windows box through WSL, with OpenClaw as the agent runtime. Brendan mostly talks to it through Discord, and it works through a mix of local files, GitHub, browser automation, and SSH-accessible tooling.

The current stack:

OpenClaw as the agent runtime
Headless WSL on a Windows machine as the always-on local host
Discord as the main command, capture, and notification surface
SSH for repo access, GitHub operations, and remote-safe automation
GPT frontier models for default execution and coding work
Claude API for deliberate deep reasoning and architecture passes
Obsidian + GitHub as the durable vault and publishing source
Todoist for actionable task state
Gmail / Google Workspace tooling for self-email triage and calendar work
Browser automation for web tasks and research

BrendanClaw is constantly evolving — come back later to see what's new, or message Brendan on Twitter to suggest upgrades.

Written with BrendanClaw and synced from Brendan's Obsidian vault on April 26, 2026.