Yash Tekriwal, head of education at Clay, built a custom Slack digest using OpenClaw and Perplexity Computer that filters 150-plus daily notifications into three buckets: action-required, need-to-read, and FYI. He also runs a consolidated dashboard pulling news, email, and Slack into a single interface. He built all of it without a traditional engineering background.
The real argument here is not about the tools. Tekriwal draws a hard line between deterministic tasks, where you use APIs and structured code, and subjective tasks, where you let AI categorize and summarize. He makes a specific case for why Perplexity Computer outperforms Claude Code and Codex for personal productivity builds, citing three concrete reasons covered at the 14:28 mark. His anti-to-do list framework, one hour daily automating tasks you never want to repeat, is the operational logic underneath all of it.
The broader claim is worth reading for: Tekriwal rejects the SaaS apocalypse narrative and argues we are entering an era of micro-software, where the long tail of user needs gets served by custom-built tools rather than monolithic products. His team at Clay already uses this approach to prototype design systems and persona-based learning journeys for Clay University. The full episode is on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
[READ ORIGINAL →]