The ClawCast
Episode 3
Hosts Hannes Rudolph
Guests Josh Lehman, Sedrak Hovhannisyan, and Alexander Adamyan
Date July 8, 2026
In this episode of OpenClaw’s official podcast, The Clawcast, host Hannes Rudolph, OpenClaw Community Manager, is joined by Josh Lehman, OpenClaw maintainer and founder of Martian Engineering, and Sedrak Hovhannisyan and Alexander Adamyan, co-founders of Vana Labs, to discuss the OpenClaw onboarding overhaul, why the planned onboarding demo was cancelled, what OpenClaw can learn from Hermes’s self-improvement system, and how OpenClaw compares to tools like Codex for long-running autonomous workflows.
The conversation covers the push to make OpenClaw easier for non-technical users, the role of skills and self-improvement in agent workflows, the difference between managed AI tools and user-owned open-source systems, and why OpenClaw's flexibility makes it uniquely powerful for automation.
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