02Personal AI Infrastructure

Alice
OpenClaw

A personal AI operating system built on OpenClaw and Claude. Not a chatbot. Infrastructure.

7 weeks

To build

45 days

In production

Integrated services

30+

Specialized skills

Daily cron jobs

50+

Smart home devices

This is what happens when you stop treating AI as a chatbot and start treating it as infrastructure.

Alice isn't a demo. She's been running in production.

The problem

Most AI tools are treated like chatbots. Stateless, reactive, siloed from the systems that actually run your life. Every session starts from scratch. Every prompt requires re-explaining who you are and what you care about.

That isn't an assistant. It's a very clever intern with amnesia. I wanted something closer to a chief-of-staff crossed with an operator: memory, tools, identity, voice, physical-world access, and the authority to take action instead of just answering.

Architecture

Alice as the orchestration layer

ALICEOPENCLAW

Slack
Gmail
Calendar
Asana
Home Assistant
ElevenLabs
Telegram
Notion
n8n
Grocery API

Alice orchestrates 15+ integrated services through OpenClaw

What Alice helps me run

Six areas of my life, one operating layer

Health

Saturday meal prep automation

Reads my weight-loss and blood pressure goals out of memory, builds a 7-day plan inside a $100 weekly budget, pushes the cart directly into my local grocery store's API, and pings me Saturday night to confirm. 55 items, $211 in the big runs, ordered in seconds.

Home

Home Assistant as Alice's hands

Full control of lights, climate, locks, cameras with live feeds, kitchen switches, outdoor lighting, and a robot vacuum on daily routines. Context-aware orchestration, not dumb rules: presence-based scenes, speaker group routing, safe-vs-unsafe device guardrails.

Family

One calendar instead of five

My calendar, Natalie's, Cody's work schedule, and US holidays merged into a single per-person-toggled view. Birthdays surface a week out with notes on what I've given before. Shopping list shared across the house.

Career & Work

The Ivy, the skills library, the content engine

Salon infrastructure runs on automated rails: recruitment, billing through Salon Manager, compliance docs, renter feedback, training. A library of 30+ structured skills covers SEO, copywriting, cold email, ad creative, YouTube scripts. Content production pipelines drive the videos too.

Finances

Billing and budgets on rails

The Ivy's renter billing is fully automated. Personal subscriptions are reviewed, recurring charges flagged, expenses watched across ventures. The $100 grocery budget is an enforced constraint on the meal prep generator.

Personal growth

Memory as an operating system

Long-term file for durable truths. Daily journal for context that's alive right now. Alice reads both on wake and notices drift when actions stop matching goals. Not a chat log. An operating system for a life.

The Warren

Four agents, four trust boundaries

Personalization matters. Isolation matters too. Each agent gets its own soul file, memory, tools, Slack account, and rules.

Alice

Chief of staff

tools: Memory, calendar, email, Slack, Home Assistant, skills

scope: Full personal workspace

Andria

Design lead

tools: Figma, image generation, brand system, copy

scope: Design tools only

Felix

Dev lead

tools: Codebase, git, deploys, web tools

scope: Dev environments only

Iris

Salon operator

tools: Salon Manager, Ivy calendar, salon Home Assistant

scope: The Ivy workspace only

Alice HQ

The control center, module by module

A real assistant needs visibility. I need to know what it knows, what it did, what changed, what failed, and what is queued. The dashboard is where Alice is not just used, but observed, managed, and improved.