Hi everyone, I am Kumar, co-founder of Dench.com. We were part of the YC Summer 2024 batch, back then we were an agentic workflow company that served very niche use cases like Legal Intake, Voice, and worked with a bunch of sales floors automating the most mundane enterprise tasks. Previously, I worked alongside Naval Ravikant on Airchat.

We launched on Product Hunt today https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Building consumer, or per-individual prosumer software always gave me more joy than FDEing into an enterprise. It did not give me joy to manually keep adding new AI tools to the AI SDK harness on the cloud for every small new thing, at least not as much as a completely local software that is Open Source, has all the powers of OpenClaw (I can now talk to my CRM on Telegram!). The future is skills and file systems, all tools are skills, all skills are tools. I am going all in on it.
A few weeks ago, we launched Ironclaw (An Open Source OpenClaw CRM Framework) which now has around 1.3k stars. A lot of people confused us with NearAI s Ironclaw, so we changed our name to DenchClaw.
OpenClaw today feels a lot like early React: the primitive is incredibly powerful, but the patterns are still forming, and everyone is piecing together their own way to actually use it. What made React explode wasn t just React itself, but the emergence of frameworks like Gatsby and Next.js that turned raw capability into something opinionated, repeatable, and easy to adopt. That is how I think about DenchClaw. We are not just building on top of OpenClaw; we are trying to make it one of the clearest, most practical, and most complete ways to use OpenClaw in the real world. We are an OpenClaw Framework, we are aiming to be the most correct way to use OpenClaw.
Demo: https://youtu.be/pfACTbc3Bh4
GitHub: https://github.com/DenchHQ/Dench...
Install today with just one command: `npx denchclaw`
One Click Deploy on Cloud: https://dench.com
We entered YC with Merse (AI Audio Comic), it was an app that I personally never used. Michael Seibel confronted us on it, and said, if you aren t the best user of your consumer app, then who is? .
I now use DenchClaw daily for everything I do, it also works as a coding agent like Cursor, DenchClaw built DenchClaw. I am addicted to DenchClaw now that I can ask it, hey in the companies table only show me the ones who have more than 5 employees and it updates it live than me having to manually add a filter.
On Dench, everything sits in a file system, the table filters, views, column toggles, calendar/gantt views, etc, so OpenClaw can directly work with it using Dench s CRM skill.
The CRM is built on top of DuckDB, the smallest, most performant and at the same time also feature rich database we could find. Thank you DuckDB team!
It creates a new OpenClaw profile called dench , and opens a new OpenClaw Gateway that means you can run all your usual openclaw commands by just prefixing every command with `openclaw --profile dench` . It will start your gateway on port 19001 range. You will be able to access the DenchClaw frontend at localhost:3100. Once you open it on Safari, just add it to your Dock to use it as a PWA.
Think of it as Cursor for your Mac which is based on OpenClaw. DenchClaw has a file tree view for you to use it as an elevated finder tool to do anything on your mac. I use it to create slides, do linkedin outreach using MY browser.
DenchClaw sees what you see, does what you do. It s the everything app, that sits locally on your mac. All yours.
Just ask it hey import my notion , hey import everything from my hubspot , and it will literally go into your browser, export all objects and documents and put it in its own workspace that you can use.
I want y all to break it, stress test its CRM capabilities, how it streams subagents for lead enrichment, hook it your Apollo, Gmail, Notion and everything there is.

Hey all,

I wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources.