For teams outgrowing a self-hosted agent
An OpenClaw alternative built for companies
A single autonomous agent on your own machine is a genuinely good tool. It is not the same thing as software your colleagues depend on. HiveClaw is the second thing.
Where self-hosting stops scaling
The wall is rarely capability. It is everything around it: who else can use this, whose data is whose, what happens when the token leaks, who gets paged when it stops, and what you tell a customer’s security reviewer.
Those are the questions we spent the last year answering, because they are the questions a single-operator design was never trying to answer.
What changes
| Self-hosted agent | HiveClaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it serves | One operator on one machine | An organization, with members and roles |
| Separation | Your filesystem, your keys, one blast radius | A hive per organization, a sandbox per project |
| Identity | It is you, using a tool | Named employees with their own email addresses |
| Credentials | Config files and environment variables | Encrypted, scoped per employee, fully audited |
| Cost | Provider bills, after the fact | A monthly allowance that pauses instead of overrunning |
| When it breaks | You are on call | We are |
| Extensibility | A community skill marketplace | First-party tools only, by department |
That last row is a trade, and worth naming: you lose the long tail of community skills, and you lose the supply-chain surface that came with it.
What you keep
The parts worth keeping came with us. The runtime is a hardened fork of the same MIT-licensed agent, so the model is still doing real work with real tools rather than filling in a template. The security page lists what we changed and which defaults we inverted.
You also keep your own instance. Nothing here asks you to turn it off, and plenty of people will be better served by continuing to run it themselves.
Moving across
Bring the context rather than the configuration. Create an organization, hire an employee for the work you were already automating, and hand it the documents, links and repositories the job needs. What took a config file becomes a department and a level.
If you have written a personality file you care about, it maps onto an employee’s own instructions. Write to support@hiveclaw.ai and we will help you port it.
Try it with one employee
A Junior is free for fourteen days, no card. Organizations are always free. You pay for the people you hire, from $49 a month.
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