Notes from
the back-office.
What we're building, what we're learning, and occasionally what we're wrong about.
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What your OpenClaw agents forget, and where it should go instead
Your agents do real work, and then the session ends and most of it is gone. Not because the agent was bad. Because the only place it had to put the work was the session context.
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How we shipped MCP account switching in one session
Shipped a small Octopad feature in one session of a few hours. Research before design, a written spec, three rounds of adversarial review: the shape of that session is the more interesting story.
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Karpathy's LLM Wiki, ready for teams
Andrej Karpathy posted an LLM-Wiki gist in April. It described the persistent, accumulating knowledge layer that comes after RAG. The team-grade version is already here.
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Octopad vs Notion: Which Should You Use?
Notion is the deep human-first workspace, with AI added. Octopad is your AI's back-office, so every session walks in already up to speed on your team's work.
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Octopad vs Linear: Which Should You Use?
Linear is the engineering-shaped issue tracker with a free Basic Agent and an MCP server. Octopad is the back-office your AI runs cross-functional work from.
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Octopad vs Asana: Which Should You Use?
Asana is human-driven work management with 21 AI Teammates, credit-metered. Octopad is your AI's back-office, with no AI credit cap, shared across every AI client your team uses.
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Octopad vs ClickUp: Which Should You Use?
ClickUp is the all-in-one platform with Brain 2.0 and Super Agents. Octopad is your AI's back-office, so every AI on your stack reads and writes to one shared workspace.
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Octopad vs Claude Projects: Which Should You Use?
Claude Projects keeps memory inside one Claude account. Octopad is the back-office every AI you use can read and update, with tasks, decisions, and a structured place for what matters.
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Octopad vs ChatGPT Projects: Which Should You Use?
ChatGPT Projects keeps memory inside one ChatGPT plan. Octopad is the back-office every AI on your team can read, including ChatGPT itself.
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Octopad is live.
Two months from first commit to launch day. A back-office for the AIs your team works with every day, walked through in three and a half minutes.
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Octopad vs Notion vs Asana: Which One Should You Use?
Notion is best for human-first knowledge work. Asana for human-first project management. Octopad for teams that work through AI. A short buying guide for founders deciding which tool actually fits their workflow.
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