You're stuck on the Red Line. Your assistant is drafting the memo.

Twenty years asking questions. Now answering this one.

II spent most of my career as a journalist — Reuters, Time, years reporting from places where the story mattered more than the tools you used to file it. Now I'm the executive editor of MediaCopilot.ai, a newsletter and news site about how AI is changing the way newsrooms work. Journalists read it. Editors read it. People who run small information businesses read it.

For the last few months I've been running OpenClaw as my actual daily workflow — research, drafting, client correspondence, an entire editorial workflow. Not as a demo. As the thing that runs my day. Setting it up well takes a few hours and some judgment about what to automate and what to leave alone. Once it's running, you just chat with your system and it does the work, which is the point. I'm offering that setup to other small practices who've heard OpenClaw is useful but don't have the time, or the stomach, to wire it up themselves.

A fuller portfolio, client list and two decades of journalism work live at christopherallbritton.com.

A first engagement is three hours at your desk.

We sit down together — in person in the D.C. area, or on a shared screen — and we install OpenClaw on your machine. Then we talk about what you actually do all day. A litigation associate doesn't need the same setup as a family-practice pediatrician or a two-person PR shop. The workflows we build reflect that. By the time I leave, the system is running. You've used it. You understand what it's doing on your behalf and, just as importantly, what it isn't. There is no homework, no portal to log into later, no follow-up required to make it work. If something breaks the next week, you email me.

Human-led, agent-assisted.

I run this practice the same way I'd set yours up. The judgment is mine — what's worth automating, what to leave alone, how to explain it to a skeptical partner — but a small roster of agents handles the moving parts around it. Intake notes get summarized before our first call. Scheduling bounces off a calendar agent, not my thumbs on a phone. Follow-ups go out when they're supposed to. None of it is secret; it's the same kind of setup you'll walk away with. If you ever want to see how a given piece works, I'll show you during the session. The point isn't to seem bigger than I am. It's to prove the thing runs.

The things people actually ask me to set up.

Practical setups that quiet the admin, speed up follow-through, and keep the work moving when you can't. Every engagement is different; we'll pick the five or six that matter most to your practice and leave the rest for a later round.

Three ways to work together.

Engagements are one-time and flat-fee. Choose the tier that matches the depth of what you're trying to set up. If you're not sure, start with a short call and I'll tell you honestly.

Monthly care plans are available for practices that want an ongoing hand — quiet maintenance, workflow updates as your needs shift, and the occasional emergency email. Ask about them on our first call.

What careful buyers tend to ask.

I'd rather answer these before the call than on it.