Who here is using OpenRouter for their back end app architecture? What’s been your experience?

Just out of curiosity, how many profiles here are being autonomously run by open claw Agentic AI right now?

I test every new AI tool that drops. Claude Code, OpenClaw, Perplexity Computer, all of it. Not because I'm chasing shiny objects. Because making content about them is literally my job. But here's what I keep finding. There is no winner. There is only the right tool for three things: → The job. What does the task actually need? → You. Where are you most productive and comfortable? → Your client. What gets them the result they paid for? The real skill right now isn't knowing what's possible. Pretty much anything is possible. The skill is knowing the difference between what you COULD do and what you SHOULD do. I'll keep testing everything so you don't have to. Your job is to stop switching and start shipping. What's your go-to tool right now? 👇

I've been watching the AI automation space pretty closely over the last year and I've stayed away from it mainly because I feel like I've seen this movie before. After mentoring hundreds of small businesses through SCORE, in my digital marketing agencies and in my corporate digital career, and growing my own audiences and communities, I've started to notice patterns in what makes businesses actually sustainable. Here's the thing about most "AI automation agencies" right now: they're selling boxes connected by arrows. Zapier workflows. n8n nodes. Make scenarios. API wiring. Clients pay because it used to take someone who knew code to do that wiring, and that person was expensive. But here's what's happening. Claude Code and Cursor can now build those exact workflows from a single prompt (I'm actually doing that, not just saying that I'm doing it). Not just the individual nodes. The whole thing. End to end. Error handling. Iterations. The works. So let me ask you something. When the AI can generate the same workflow in minutes that you used to charge a premium for, what exactly are you selling? This is the buzzsaw. The core product of most automation agencies is becoming fast, cheap, and increasingly self-serve. The thin wrapper around the tools is getting thinner every month. Naval Ravikant talks about leverage. Real leverage comes from something that can't be easily replicated. If your only moat is knowing how to connect two tools together, you've got a structural problem. The tools are getting smarter. You're not. If your leverage is the wiring, the tools are just gonna flat out eat your lunch. If your leverage is the model - the way someone thinks, decides, teaches, sells - you can swap tools as they improve and keep your value. The agencies that survive won't be the ones wiring boxes. They'll be the ones teaching clients how to think about their business in a way that the tools can't teach. Everything else is just a commodity waiting to be automated away.

I built an n8n workflow that grabbed new stories in my industry and wrote LinkedIn posts about them. Built it for myself. To solve my own problem. Then I talked about it on YouTube. Someone watched, reached out, and asked me to set it up for them. I charged $600. That was my first ever client. No pitch. No sales page. No cold DMs. Just solving my own problem publicly. It doesn't have to be YouTube either. → A post in a community like this → A short thread → A comment on someone else's content Build the thing you actually need. Then talk about it out loud. The clients find you. How did you find your first client? Drop it below 👇