Era or OpenClaw?
Short answerA personal agent that reaches everything on your machine: OpenClaw. Teammates scoped to your business, with limited permissions and approvals: Era.
OpenClaw is an open-source personal agent that runs on your computer and takes commands from chat apps; it tries to do anything with broad access. Era’s teammates are scoped to your business, hold limited permissions and ask before anything risky.
Side by side
The things a small business uses every day. Every row about OpenClaw was read on OpenClaw’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.
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What it looks like in Era
This job has its own screen in Era, in the same workspace as customer cards, the calendar, the inbox and the AI. The screen below is Era itself, with sample data.
AI/EraSwitching from OpenClaw to Era
An afternoon’s work. If you like, spend the first week using both; nothing switches off at once.
- 1Open Era and connect your AI subscription.
- 2Pick your trade; ready teammates and their permissions arrive.
- 3In the desktop app you choose which folders it can reach.
When OpenClaw is the better pick
If you want an agent for personal tasks that you configure yourself and that can reach everything on your machine, OpenClaw is an interesting option.
When Era is the better pick
In Era each agent works only where you allow and every action is logged; messages to customers, payments or deletions wait for your OK.
Era and OpenClaw — questions
If you want an agent for personal tasks that you configure yourself and that can reach everything on your machine, OpenClaw is an interesting option. In Era each agent works only where you allow and every action is logged; messages to customers, payments or deletions wait for your OK.
Yes. Era works on your computer in the folders and apps you allow; it asks before risky steps and stops at any moment with Esc. The Windows app is on the download page; Mac is coming.
Yes. Era works with your supported Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Grok sources or your own API key. It orchestrates work rather than providing a model service.
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One workspace for your business.
Open Era with your own AI subscription or API key. Turn on what you need and add the rest later — the same workspace on Windows and the web.