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Built on Open Source, Giving Back Every Quarter

1% of ClawOps revenue goes to open-source projects, and you vote on who gets it. Here's how and why.

By Gavin

We Owe Everything to Open Source

ClawOps wouldn’t exist without open-source software. That’s not a throwaway line, it’s literally true. Every layer of our stack is built on projects that people gave away for free.

We think you should know exactly which projects those are, why they matter, and what we’re doing to support them.

The Projects That Power Your Bot

These aren’t logos on a landing page. They’re tools we use every single day, and tools whose maintainers deserve recognition and support.

ProjectWhat It Does for YouCreated By
OpenClawThe AI assistant platform your bot runs onOpenClaw community
QMDLocal document search that makes your credits go 5x furtherTobias Lutke
OpenRouterConnects your bot to 300+ AI modelsOpenRouter team
Tailwind CSSThe design system behind every ClawOps pageAdam Wathan & team
AstroPowers this blog and our documentationAstro community
Node.jsThe engine that keeps your bot running 24/7OpenJS Foundation
BunThe fast runtime behind QMD’s instant searchJarred Sumner & team
SQLiteQMD’s search index, fast, reliable, zero configD. Richard Hipp
Hetzner CloudThe infrastructure your dedicated VPS runs onHetzner

When you pay for ClawOps, you’re paying for an opinionated stack of these tools, configured, maintained, and monitored so you don’t have to be. The technology itself belongs to everyone.

1% of Revenue, Every Quarter, Your Vote

Using open source without giving back is extractive. We don’t want to be that company.

Here’s how our donation program works:

1. We accumulate 1%

1% of all subscription revenue goes into a quarterly donation pot. The pot grows with every subscriber, and you can see the live counter on our homepage.

2. You vote on X

Every quarter, we run a public poll on X/Twitter. The candidates are the open-source projects listed above, tools ClawOps genuinely depends on. Anyone can vote.

3. We donate publicly

The winning project gets the pot. We post the receipt on X, no exceptions. Then that project rotates off the list and a new one takes its place.

This means every project on the list will eventually receive a donation. The vote decides the order, not whether it happens.

Why Public Voting?

We thought about doing this quietly, just picking a project each quarter and sending money. But that misses the point.

Public voting does three things:

It’s honest. You can see the pot, see the vote, and see the receipt. There’s no way to fake this.

It creates awareness. Most of our subscribers aren’t developers. They’ve probably never heard of Bun or SQLite. The quarterly vote is a chance to explain why these projects matter, even to people who’ll never write a line of code.

It’s engaging. The poll gets people talking about open source who wouldn’t normally think about it. Even if a project’s fanbase floods the vote, so what? We’re still giving back. The “worst case” is that an open-source project gets funded.

Beyond Money

We’re not just writing checks. As we build ClawOps, we’re contributing back in other ways:

  • Bug reports and fixes submitted upstream to OpenClaw
  • Documentation improvements for deployment patterns we’ve battle-tested
  • Public QMD configurations so others can replicate our token savings
  • This blog, if you read this and decide to self-host everything yourself, we’ll cheer you on

We believe being transparent about our stack makes us more trustworthy, not less. If you can see exactly what you’re paying for, you can make an informed decision about whether ClawOps is right for you.

What’s Coming Next

We’re actively working on more features and more ways to give back:

  • Companion skills, purpose-built specialists for entertainment, trading, coding, research
  • More channels, beyond Telegram
  • Community skill contributions, making it easier to share and discover skills

Every new feature we build, we’ll evaluate whether it can be contributed upstream. That’s the deal.

The Bottom Line

ClawOps is a business built on open source. We charge for convenience, provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and support. The technology underneath? That belongs to everyone.

If you want to try it: deploy your bot.

If you want to self-host: here’s OpenClaw. Here’s QMD. Go build something.

Either way, we’re grateful to the open-source community that made all of this possible. And we’ll keep giving back, every quarter, publicly, with receipts.


Follow our journey: X/Twitter | Discord | GitHub

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