What messaging channels are supported?

Twenty-three channels out of the box: WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, BlueBubbles, IRC, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, Feishu, LINE, Mattermost, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Zalo, Zalo Personal, WeChat and WebChat.

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Heivol Assistant

Q: What can Heivol Assistant actually do?

It is a personal AI agent running on its own VM. You can chat with it from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage, Signal, Discord and 17 other channels; talk to it with a voice wake word on macOS, iOS and Android; give it scheduled jobs via cron; trigger it from webhooks or incoming Gmail; and extend it with custom skills. Heavier coding work is forwarded to Claude Code automatically.

Q: How long does it take to provision?

Roughly thirty seconds. You submit the signup form, and a dedicated virtual machine is cloned, configured, and exposed at your own TLS subdomain on openclaw.heivol.com while a live progress stream reports each step.

Q: Do I need to bring my own Anthropic API key?

No. You can either bring your own key, in which case you pay nothing to Heivol, or use the managed-key option where Heivol bills usage back with a hard per-tenant spend cap so there are no surprise bills.

Q: Is OpenClaw open source?

Yes. OpenClaw is MIT-licensed and developed in the open on GitHub. Heivol Assistant hosts and manages it for you so you do not have to run the VM yourself.

Your own AI agent VM, powered by OpenClaw. Fill out one form, and in roughly thirty seconds you have a dedicated, isolated virtual machine running behind a private TLS subdomain. No operator involvement, no shared infrastructure.

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One brain. Twenty-three ways to reach it. Your own isolated VM on the other end.

How it works

Dedicated VM per tenant

Every customer gets a fully isolated virtual machine. No noisy neighbours, no shared memory, no cross-tenant data leaks. Your agent runs alone.

BYO or managed API key

Bring your own Anthropic API key and pay nothing to us, or choose a managed key with hard per-tenant spend caps so you never get a surprise bill.

Private subdomain over TLS

Each tenant gets a unique slug.openclaw.heivol.com URL secured with TLS. No shared endpoints, no API gateway in between.

~30-second provisioning

Submit the signup form and watch a live progress stream as your VM is created, configured, and made reachable. The whole flow is automated end to end.

Zero-knowledge key handling

In BYO mode your API key is verified by making a single test call, then stored encrypted at rest. We never log, inspect, or proxy your key material.

Powered by OpenClaw

OpenClaw is the open-source AI agent runtime at the heart of every Heivol Assistant VM. You get the full agent toolkit with web browsing, file management, and tool use built in.

What can OpenClaw do for you?

OpenClaw is a general-purpose personal AI agent. Here is a concrete, non-exhaustive taste of what people actually use their Heivol Assistant for.

Talk to it from any messenger

Ping your agent from WhatsApp on the bus, Slack at work, iMessage on your watch, or Telegram on a flaky airport Wi-Fi. Same memory, same context, same assistant — twenty-three channels, one brain.

Voice wake word & Talk Mode

Say the wake word on your Mac, iPhone, or Android and have a real conversation out loud. Hands-free cooking, driving, or just thinking out loud while you pace around the room.

Inbox triage on autopilot

Hook it into Gmail Pub/Sub and have it summarise new mail, extract action items, auto-reply to the obvious stuff, and ping you on Telegram only when something truly needs you.

Scheduled briefings & reminders

Native cron: “Every weekday at 07:30, pull my calendar, the weather, and the overnight GitHub notifications, then DM me a one-paragraph brief.” Set it once, enjoy it forever.

Webhook-driven automations

Stripe charge came in? Sentry fired an alert? A form got submitted? Expose a webhook and the agent decides what to do — respond, escalate, write a Linear ticket, or just log it.

Browser & research errands

Tell it to price-check a flight, fetch a PDF and summarise it, watch a GitHub repo for releases, or cross-reference three articles into a one-page brief. It drives a real browser.

Live Canvas for visual work

A shared visual workspace the assistant can render and you can steer. Mood boards, flow diagrams, meal plans, trip itineraries — anything that benefits from seeing it rather than reading it.

Forwarded heavy lifting to Claude Code

When a task turns into real engineering — multi-file refactor, debug a failing build, open a pull request — your assistant shells out to Claude Code on the same VM and streams the result back.

Custom skills you can write yourself

The skills platform is extensible. Drop a folder of Markdown and scripts into your workspace and the agent picks it up. Teach it your weird niche: a tax regime, an API, a family recipe book.

A day in your life, with an assistant that lives on its own VM

Heivol Assistant is not a chatbot in a webpage. It is your assistant, running all the time, reachable from any messenger, remembering what you told it last Tuesday. A few concrete examples of what regular people ask it to do:

Manage your calendar

“Move the dentist to next Tuesday afternoon, find an hour of deep work before my 10am, and stop booking back-to-back meetings on Fridays.” It reads, writes, and defends your calendar across Google, iCloud, and Outlook.

Do the grocery shopping

On Monday you voice-noted “we’re out of olive oil and the kids finished the oat milk.” Saturday morning it has already built the shopping list, added the usual staples, and handed it off to your supermarket of choice — or read it back over voice so you can tweak it before checkout.

Keep an eye on your stocks

“Ping me if NVDA drops more than 5 percent in a day, if my portfolio beta creeps above 1.3, or if any of my holdings issues earnings guidance.” Price feeds, news feeds, and your rules, running in the background.

Throw your own birthday party

“Invite these twelve people to my place on the 24th at 19:00, send it on WhatsApp, track RSVPs, and nudge anyone who hasn’t replied by Friday.” It even remembers who’s gluten-free and who’s bringing the cake.

Book your next trip

“I want to be in Lisbon the weekend of the 18th, direct flight, budget under 4,000 kr, aisle seat. Hotel near Alfama, walkable breakfast places nearby.” It researches, shortlists options, and holds your hand through the final click — you approve the payment, always.

Never forget the important stuff

Your partner’s birthday, your parents’ anniversary, the dog’s vaccination, that one friend whose name you always forget. It remembers quietly, surfaces reminders with enough lead time, and can suggest a thoughtful gift based on what they actually talked about last time.

Plan the week’s meals

“Five dinners, one vegetarian, one fish, nothing with coriander, use up the chicken in the freezer.” Recipes, a shopping list, and a pinned Live Canvas board so the family can actually read what’s for dinner tonight.

Triage your inbox

It reads the boring stuff so you don’t have to: summarises the newsletter, confirms the receipt, drafts the polite no, and flags the one email that actually needs your brain — on whatever messenger you prefer to be interrupted on.

Track every package

Forward the confirmation email (or just let it watch your Gmail) and it handles the rest: courier websites, delay alerts, a heads-up when something’s out for delivery, and a nudge to file a claim if a parcel goes missing.

Watch your subscriptions and bills

“Tell me before anything over 200 kr auto-renews, and remind me to cancel the streaming trial on the 12th.” No more surprise charges, no more forgotten free trials turning into annual plans.

Keep you honest about habits

Morning voice check-in, evening journaling prompt, a gentle nudge if you haven’t moved all day, a weekly summary you can actually look at. Your habits, your data, your VM — nobody else’s business.

Be your language tutor

Ten minutes of spoken Danish over your morning coffee, corrected on the fly, with a flashcard deck that updates itself based on what you actually got wrong. Pick any language — it’s just a skill.

See it in action

Three real conversations, on three different channels, with the same agent. No screenshots from another product — these are rendered live so they work in dark mode, scale to your screen, and stay sharp on any display.

▶ 0:07

“we’re out of olive oil and the kids finished the oat milk”

Got it — adding olive oil and oat milk to Saturday’s list.

Saturday list?

Saturday shop · Netto

Olive oil, 1L
Oat milk × 4
Sourdough (usual)
Bananas, apples
Coffee beans (almost out)

6 items · ~230 kr estimate

⚠ Stock rule triggered

NVDA−5.8% today

rule“flag drops > 5% intraday”

14:32

what’s driving it? 14:33

Two things: earnings preview delayed, and a note from MS downgrading the sector. No single-stock news. I can set a re-check for 16:00 if it keeps sliding. 14:33

yes, and ping me if portfolio beta > 1.3 14:34

Done. Current beta 1.18. I’ll alert if it crosses. 14:34

Assistant APP 07:30

Good morning. Tuesday 14 April. Cph, 6°C, rain by 16:00.

Calendar · 3 blocks

09:00 — Zenith standup (15m)
11:00 — 1:1 with Mads (30m)
14:00 — deep-work block you booked yesterday

Overnight

2 PR reviews requested (EC-79412, EC-79418)
Datadog: no new P1s
Stripe: 4 charges, all green

Flights CPH → LIS

Fri 07:40 · direct · 3h 20m

TAP · 3,840 kr

Stay Santiago de Alfama

2 nights · walkable to Fado row

Boutique · 9.3/10

Sat morning Alfama & the miradouros

Breakfast @ Dear Breakfast, then tram 28 loop.

Sat dinner Taberna da Rua das Flores

Walk-in only from 18:30. I’ll set a reminder.

Sun Belém

Pasteis — tower — Jerónimos — flight 19:55.

Open questions

• Aisle or window?

• Want me to book the hotel now or hold until Wed?

Live Canvas — a shared visual workspace the assistant renders and you can steer. Here, a weekend trip being planned out loud.

23 channels, one assistant

Reach your agent wherever you already are. No app to install, no new inbox to check. If you use it to talk to people, odds are OpenClaw speaks it.

WhatsApp
Telegram
Slack
Discord
Google Chat
Signal
iMessage
BlueBubbles
IRC
Microsoft Teams
Matrix
Feishu
LINE
Mattermost
Nextcloud Talk
Nostr
Synology Chat
Tlon
Twitch
Zalo
Zalo Personal
WeChat
WebChat

Frequently asked questions

What can Heivol Assistant actually do?

It is a personal AI agent running on its own virtual machine. You can chat with it from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage, Signal, Discord and 17 other channels; talk to it with a voice wake word on macOS, iOS and Android; give it scheduled jobs via cron; trigger it from webhooks or incoming Gmail; and extend it with custom skills. Heavier coding work is forwarded to Claude Code automatically.

How long does it take to provision?

Roughly thirty seconds. You submit the signup form, a dedicated VM is cloned, configured, and exposed at your own TLS subdomain on openclaw.heivol.com, and a live progress stream reports each step end to end.

Do I need to bring my own Anthropic API key?

No. Either bring your own key and pay nothing to Heivol, or use the managed-key option where Heivol bills usage back with a hard per-tenant spend cap so there are no surprise bills.

Is my data shared with other tenants?

No. Every tenant gets a fully isolated virtual machine with its own memory, file system, and subdomain. There is no shared agent process, no shared cache, and no cross-tenant data path.

Can it run scheduled tasks and respond to events?

Yes. The assistant has native cron, webhook, and Gmail Pub/Sub triggers, so it can check your calendar every morning, post a status update on a schedule, react when a specific email arrives, or respond to any HTTP callback.

Is OpenClaw open source?

Yes — MIT-licensed and developed in the open on GitHub. Heivol Assistant hosts and manages it for you so you do not have to run the VM yourself.