How This 5x Founder Runs His Startup Solo With AI Agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Devin) | Ryan Carson

About this episode

Ryan Carson discusses how he runs his startup solo using AI agents.

Ryan is a serial founder who’s building his latest startup solo with only AI agents. It was fascinating to watch him demo the exact skills and routines he uses to get OpenClaw, Codex, and Devin to manage his inbox and calendar, do sales outreach, and build features while he sleeps. Ryan and I talked about: (00:00) Agents are just cron jobs and text markdown files (02:25) Demo: How Ryan set up OpenClaw to be his AI chief of staff (08:14) The setting most people get wrong in OpenClaw (13:46) How to onboard your agent like you would an employee (17:06) The cron job that books cold meetings while Ryan sleeps (24:36) Why Ryan prefers Devin over other AI coding tools (28:33) Demo: How Ryan ships 10 PRs a day solo (33:08) Google Ads agencies and a $6K/month designer (37:11) Why building the system is the real startup workThanks to our sponsors: Oceans: Hire AI-native EAs http://oceanstalent.com/peter Wispr Flow: Don't type, just speak https://ref.wisprflow.ai/peteryang Linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams. https://linear.app/behind-the-craft Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-this-5x-founder-runs-his-startup-solo-with-ai-agents-ryan-carson Where to find Ryan…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Yang

Guest: Ryan Carson

Topics covered

• AI agents
• startup management
• automation
• productivity
• founder experiences

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• OpenClaw
• startup
• productivity
• founder
• Devin
• Codex

Sponsors

Oceans, Wispr Flow, Linear

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenClaw, Codex, Devin

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