Recently, I decided to jump on the latest AI bandwagon and play around with OpenClaw. While cloud-based large language models are powerful and convenient, I wanted complete control over my data, plus the satisfaction of running everything on my own infrastructure. Enter OpenClaw — a personal AI assistant that runs locally and integrates with messaging platforms you already use.

The challenge I set myself was to see how much I could do without actually spending anything. This left me with a few choices to try: