Why We Handed Our Agent’s Infrastructure to Anthropic
Moving from OpenClaw to Claude Managed Agents let us focus on building a shared coworker. Here’s what we gained—and the trade-offs we accepted.
TL;DR
- Every initially experimented with individual AI agents (Plus One) using OpenClaw, but found managing the infrastructure and agent maintenance to be burdensome.
- Limitations of individual agents included siloed knowledge and repeated update efforts, prompting a shift towards a single, shared company agent.
- The company transitioned to Claude Managed Agents (CMA) from Anthropic, which handles infrastructure and maintenance, allowing Every to focus on the AI's functionality and user experience as a coworker.
- Challenges encountered included deployment-related bugs and agent verbosity, which were addressed through iterative development and model updates.
- Key trade-offs with CMA include being limited to Claude models and lacking zero-data-retention options, though the benefits of offloaded infrastructure outweighed these limitations.