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Freelancer's morning-briefing agent cuts admin from 9 hours to 20 minutes

Business

Freelance developer

Task

Weekday 8am Telegram briefing from GitHub PRs and Slack; Friday client status emails drafted from merged PRs and closed Linear tickets, sent after a "send" reply; follow-up chasing

Result

Admin fell from about 9 hours a week to about 20 minutes; setup took 47 minutes; email tone needed two rounds of refinement

Tools

• OpenClaw
• Claude
• Mac Mini
• Telegram
• Gmail
• gh and linear CLIs

Setup

1. Three skill files plus a Lobster workflow on an always-on Mac Mini

Source

dev.to ↗

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Results as reported by the source; not independently verified.