START: Oliviero Pinotti, Co-Founder, Tensol "AI employees for your company, built on OpenClaw"

START: Oliviero Pinotti, Co-Founder, Tensol "AI employees for your company, built on OpenClaw"

From START by Fondo

July 2, 2026 · 16 min · Episode 148

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Oliviero Pinotti discusses Tensol's AI deployment solutions and the challenges of setting up AI employees.

Most companies don't need smarter AI. They need AI they can actually deploy OpenClaw is brilliant but can be brutal to set up. Days of configs. Agents messaging random contacts on WhatsApp... Tensol: one click. Five minutes. Each AI employee runs 24/7 in its own isolated VM with full company context Connect Slack, GitHub, Sentry, HubSpot, Gmail. Every action logged. Enterprise-grade security built in When we recorded this ep: ~100 AI employees running. 300K+ Twitter views Not chatbots. Agents with their own computer for engineering, sales, SDR 🎙️ Oliviero Pinotti , Co-Founder, Tensol (YC W26) on Fondo START 01:33 what Tensol does and how it works 02:07 300K Twitter views and what launch day looked like 02:25 ~100 AI employees deployed within 24 hours 02:44 Why it took off 03:42 The problem Oliviero saw early: Mac Minis, firewalls, configs 03:57 Tensol's answer: one-click deploy and isolated sandboxing 04:37 How Tensol handles enterprise security and prompt injection 05:46 Five minutes vs four days to get up and running 06:59 Most common integrations: Notion, HubSpot, GitHub, email 09:43 Getting into YC after multiple attempts 10:43 The full-circle pivot back to the original…

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Host: Fondo

Guest: Oliviero Pinotti

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Organizations: Tensol, Slack, GitHub, Sentry, HubSpot, Gmail, Notion, YC

Products: OpenClaw

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