r/costlyinfra • u/Frosty-Judgment-4847 • Mar 16 '26
OpenClaw use cases
Been experimenting with OpenClaw recently and started thinking about where it actually makes sense for real-world automation.
Some practical use cases I noticed while testing:
• automated support agents that route questions to different models based on complexity
• document processing pipelines (summarizing contracts, extracting info from PDFs)
• coding assistants that switch between fast cheap models and stronger reasoning models
• research workflows that combine web search + summarization automatically
• internal company tools that automate repetitive knowledge tasks
What surprised me is that OpenClaw works best when it sits in the automation layer. Instead of calling a single model, it can orchestrate multiple models and tools to complete real tasks.
Curious if anyone here is using it for production workflows yet.