A lot of people are reacting to the Anthropic change by ripping Opus out of their stack completely, and I think that’s the wrong move. Yeah, the old subscription setup is gone, but that does not mean OpenClaw is dead. It just means the architecture has to change. I just posted a video breaking down what actually happened, why the old setup stopped working, and the exact stack I’d use right now if I were rebuilding from scratch. In the video, I walk through the new setup, how I’d split the work across models, and the mistake I think most people are about to make. If you’re building agents for yourself or for clients, watch this before you touch your stack.

Made this one because a member in here asked for it, the only n8n tutorial you need. Three builds from scratch in a single video. A daily weather email, a client intake router that reads revenue and sends personalized replies down the right path, and an AI crypto research agent that pulls live data, runs GPT analysis, and logs everything to a sheet on autopilot. n8n is the workflow backbone underneath almost everything we build in OpenClaw, the piece that connects your tools, fires on schedules, and moves data between systems so OpenClaw can actually do the thinking on top. Most of the client builds people are shipping with OpenClaw lean on both, and if your skills are solid but the plumbing around them keeps breaking, this video patches that side of the stack. Workflow JSONs for all three builds are in the classroom, import them, swap your credentials, done. Go watch it and tell me what you'd want to wire into your OpenClaw setup first.

n8n gets you in the door, OpenClaw closes it. I use both together with my clients, and they complement each other really well. The thing is, a lot of law firms, medical practices, and financial advisors are hesitant around cloud tools. Sensitive client data running through third party servers is a liability issue, and for some of them it's a dealbreaker that kills the deal before you even get to a demo. That's why this has been my new upsell to existing clients, and honestly it's been the easiest conversation I've had. They already trust me, so when they see their own agent checking their calendar, summarizing emails, sending a morning brief straight to WhatsApp, all automatically on their own hardware, they don't ask about price. They ask when can we start. And for new clients in those verticals, you're coming in with a solution that actually fits how they think about data, which makes the whole conversation different from the jump. This is part 1 of 16 of my OpenClaw bootcamp. 30 minutes a day, and I guarantee you'll be an expert by the end. Day 1 is below, drop a comment or DM me if you want to know how I'm positioning this. - Adhiraj