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After two months in development, today I’m excited to announce the beta launch of Alfred Desktop Web 🚀 It’s like OpenClaw (long live the 🦞) - but radically simpler If you’ve wanted to try OpenClaw but have been too intimidated, Alfred is for you Alfred makes a deliberate tradeoff: ~70% of OpenClaw’s power at ~1% of the complexity The guiding principle: Simple Defaults. Infinite Customization. What does that actually mean? 🔌 Apps ✅ Simple Default Out of the box, you can connect Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Asana — and 800+ more apps. Alfred uses a 3rd party OAuth/credential management provider (Composio). You log in. Grant Alfred scoped access. Done. ♾ Infinite Customization You can still connect to other APIs/services. Alfred includes a Vault: •⁠Store private keys and secrets •⁠Encrypted •⁠Not stored on your VM •⁠Only readable by your agent at runtime 🧠 Memory ✅ Simple Default A basic, built-in, note based memory system. ♾ Infinite Customization Bring your own context system. Build a better memory system from scratch. That's a rabbit hole you can still go down later if you'd like. 👤 Usage Mode ✅ Simple Default Single-player. Your apps only work for you. Your Vault secrets are private. Nothing is shared by default. ♾ Infinite Customization Multi-player Later, you can share app permissions and Vault secrets with other Alfred users in your network, enabling coordination across multiple users' emails, calendars, apps - whatever. ⚙ Infrastructure ✅ Simple Default Connect Stripe Alfred comes provisioned with a default Fly VM (shared 4x CPU/8GB RAM) You’re live in ~30 seconds Pay-as-you-go LLM API and VM usage billing ♾ Infinite Customization Later, you can: Import/Export your data Resize your VM Use your own LLM provider API keys *What Alfred Doesn’t Do* ❌ No Default Heartbeat You can schedule future or reoccurring agent sessions (Agent Cron Jobs). But no background tasks runs automatically out of the box. ❌ No SOUL dot md/ Personality System Alfred doesn’t come with a predefined identity layer. You could build one using memory. But I left it out because it makes starting slightly easier. ❌ Platform Scope Alfred is desktop web only. No WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, etc. This one hurts, even for me. But it also means you can get fully set up in literally 30 seconds, in the familiar cocoon of a laptop browser session. ❌ No Built-In Browser Agent Alfred avoids this entirely. Yes — you could build one. But if you're use cases need this, then you won't get much out of Alfred anyways. Remember, Alfred uses a 3rd party provider (Composio) for Terms of Service compliant app integrations as the default - not agentic web browsing. In Conclusion: - OpenClaw is a jet-powered motorbike🏍️🔥 - Alfred is a tricycle 🐢 I built this and am sharing because I think there might be some tricyclists out there… #BuildInPublic

I'm trying to figure out what to care about next. I joined Anthropic 4+ years ago, motivated by the dream of building AGI. I was convinced from studying philosophy of mind that we're approaching sufficient scale and that anything that can be learned can be learned in an RL env.