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.
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.
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.
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@kumareth excited to try. what's the lowest lift task that i can ask it to do to get a sense of the potential?
@anneliese Something like, “can you scour out my LinkedIn for <title> at <category> companies in <city> and add them all to your CRM? Also write the first outreach message for each: <kind of message>, and then lets work on a schedule and a plan to send them out!”
Hey PH! I'm Mark, co-founder of Dench.com. So excited to finally get DenchClaw into the hands of people. We've been using it every day ourselves and can't wait for you all to try it. Let us know what you think!
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@markrachapoom Kudos to you and your team. As someone building outreach workflows daily, how did you optimize subagent streaming for lead enrichment to keep it snappy on local hardware without cloud crutches?
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@markrachapoom Congrats on the launch! Quick question, for the outreach part, are you using an MCP browser or do you spin up your own? I'm doing browser automation via MCP myself, so the session is literally my Chrome, same IP, same cookies, same fingerprint. The whole point is making automated activity indistinguishable from a real session. There are cloud browser options too but then you're dealing with a different IP which is a whole other problem. Curious what your approach is here
On Desktop, it takes over your Chrome profile that you already have, or you can spin up new Chrome profiles. I have seen DenchClaw users use Proxy CLIs and MCPs to switch through networks for different fingerprints.
On the Cloud version, we support a VM browser you can always watch your agent do things live on.
@fabrice_gangitano For syncing across device, you can store your workspace on iCloud, or you can sync with GitHub for local collaboration with your collegues.
Cloud hosting with your own VM is also very close it can get to local, while you share it with the rest of your company.
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DenchClaw
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.
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.
@kumareth excited to try. what's the lowest lift task that i can ask it to do to get a sense of the potential?
DenchClaw
@anneliese Something like, “can you scour out my LinkedIn for <title> at <category> companies in <city> and add them all to your CRM? Also write the first outreach message for each: <kind of message>, and then lets work on a schedule and a plan to send them out!”
DenchClaw
Hey PH! I'm Mark, co-founder of Dench.com. So excited to finally get DenchClaw into the hands of people. We've been using it every day ourselves and can't wait for you all to try it. Let us know what you think!
@markrachapoom Kudos to you and your team. As someone building outreach workflows daily, how did you optimize subagent streaming for lead enrichment to keep it snappy on local hardware without cloud crutches?
@markrachapoom Congrats on the launch! Quick question, for the outreach part, are you using an MCP browser or do you spin up your own? I'm doing browser automation via MCP myself, so the session is literally my Chrome, same IP, same cookies, same fingerprint. The whole point is making automated activity indistinguishable from a real session. There are cloud browser options too but then you're dealing with a different IP which is a whole other problem. Curious what your approach is here
DenchClaw
@markrachapoom @slavaakulov
On Desktop, it takes over your Chrome profile that you already have, or you can spin up new Chrome profiles. I have seen DenchClaw users use Proxy CLIs and MCPs to switch through networks for different fingerprints.
On the Cloud version, we support a VM browser you can always watch your agent do things live on.
YTRCP
great work @kumareth and @markrachapoom
have been using denchclaw since it released couple weeks ago :)
DenchClaw
@markrachapoom @daksh Thank you Daksh, how has it been?
Local-first CRM is a smart angle — most teams don't need
their CRM data leaving their machine.
What's the sync story when you need to collaborate across devices?
And is the browser-driven outreach headless (Playwright-style)
or does it require a visible browser session?
DenchClaw
@fabrice_gangitano For syncing across device, you can store your workspace on iCloud, or you can sync with GitHub for local collaboration with your collegues.
Cloud hosting with your own VM is also very close it can get to local, while you share it with the rest of your company.
DenchClaw
@fabrice_gangitano The browser is a visible session like this, controlled by your OpenClaw.