Rory Sutherland

Do we want to do matter?

If we get through this entire podcast and not mention open claw and malt book, I will just be disappointed.

I'll try and then Jason can correct me because this is not numbers, this is coding.

So I'll do the amateur version and then Jason will pilot.

Two products were released over the last two weeks.

First was a product

originally called Cloudbot, but then after some yelling from Claude, called OpenClaw, which was a piece of software you could install on your computer that allowed you to build your own, effectively, an agent.

And you could tell it to do things like sort out your file system, look up, you know, build me a little to-do thing, examine my emails, and just give it commands.

And it had pretty free reign of your computer.

And there was a whole bunch of issues on is that safe, etc.

But you could build these really cool agents.

And that was about a week or two ago.

And then last week, the same guy introduced a product called Modebook.

Think of it as a social network for those agents.

And with a few modifications, you could enable your little agent that was just running on your own little desktop.

you could join it to the social network.

An author would join to the social network, and it would start commenting on that network, just like we comment on human social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

So now you have literally, over the course of the last four or five days, about a million and a half agents joining this moat book, which is the network.

By the way, moat is from the idea that lobsters, they shed their skin.

And