A personal assistant you host yourself: a gateway on your own devices, reachable from whichever chat app is open, that clears an inbox, moves a calendar and turns off a light.
intentic is a workplace for coding agents: a container, a worktree, credentials and a diff you read before anything lands. Different jobs, and they run together.
Head to head
3 of 10 rows go to OpenClaw: ▸ marks them
Where you agree · almost line for line the same convictions: an agent doing real work belongs on your own machine, on your own model accounts, nothing proxied or marked up. Both are MIT, both extend through skills, both meet you on your phone.
| Dimension | intentic | OpenClaw |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | software work: a branch, a worktree, a diff | ▸the rest of it: mail, calendars, notes, the house |
| Where it runs | a Docker sandbox | a gateway on your own devices |
| Host operating system | macOS, Linux, Windows | macOS, Linux, Windows |
| How you reach it | any browser over a private tunnel, phone included; Discord and Slack when invited | ▸the chat apps you already use, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and iMessage |
| Reviewing what it did | a diff reader you tick through, then accept or discard | the reply in the thread, and git afterwards |
| Where credentials live | inside the sandbox, injected per turn | with the gateway, on the device it runs on |
| Runs unattended | automations: cron, webhook, chat, email, CI/CD, workspace events | cron jobs, reminders and background tasks |
| Extending it | capabilities, extensions and any MCP server | ▸tools, skills and plugins from ClawHub |
| Licence | MIT for the sandbox, platform and CLI | MIT |
| Isolation | one sandbox container for the fleet; one git worktree per agent | isolated sessions per agent, workspace or sender |
What it comes down to
The artefact is a diff, not a reply
An assistant's output is the message it sends and the change it already made. Here it is a change on a branch: every agent gets its own worktree, and nothing reaches your tree until you have read the diff.
Different systems on the other end
OpenClaw connects to mail, calendars, notes, music and home systems. intentic connects a sandbox to GitHub, Postgres, Sentry, Stripe, SSH or any MCP server, each credential kept inside.
Hand the repository work over
An intentic automation answers a webhook, so an assistant can start an agent here after spotting a failed nightly report. You can also invite it into the same Discord or Slack.
Pick OpenClaw when
Your work is across your life rather than a codebase: mail, meetings, notes and home systems, inside the chat app you already use, with no account or container runtime.
How this was checked
Every claim about OpenClaw on this page is drawn from its own documentation, last read on . These products move fast. Spot something out of date? Open an issue and it is fixed in the next build.