5 ways to safely automate OpenClaw with Zapier MCP

When OpenClaw went viral earlier this year, the reaction from most people I talked to was some mix of impressed and afraid. The idea that an open-source AI personal assistant could negotiate a car deal or fight your insurance company over WhatsApp while you slept was…a lot to process. In case you're only tangentially familiar, OpenClaw is made up of two parts—an AI agent that runs on a computer or server you control, and a gateway that lets you talk to it from a messaging app like