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A beginner-friendly quest to get a private AI running on your own computer. Pick your gear, follow five levels, and you'll never play alone: your companion has your back the whole game.
Which computer are you playing on?
How do you want to talk to your AI? Easy modes first â that's the whole point.
Slack takes real patience to wire up â apps, tokens, permissions. Beat the game with an easy mode first, then come back for it. Your future self says thanks. đšī¸
Before touching anything else, get Claude on your PCMac or phone. Claude isn't the AI you're installing â Claude is your co-op partner. Confusing screen? Weird message? Ask in plain English.
Grab Ollama from ollama.com â pick the Windows installermacOS download and run it like any normal app. Ollama is the engine that downloads and runs AI models on your machine.
Press the Windows key, type PowerShell, hit Enter.Press Cmd + Space, type Terminal, hit Enter. A window appears where you type instead of click. That's all a terminal is â and you only need it for one command.
Type this and press Enter:
ollama launch openclawOllama spots that OpenClaw isn't installed, offers to set it up, and configures everything â the model, the background service, even web search. Say yes and let it cook.
When setup finishes, OpenClaw opens right there in your window. Type a message. That's it â you have a personal AI on your own computer, and it's yours. No extra setup, no accounts to wire up. This is the easiest ending in the game.
OpenClaw can talk through Telegram, so your AI lives in your phone's messages. The trick is a five-minute side quest:
1. Install Telegram on your phone. 2. Message @BotFather (Telegram's official bot-maker) and send /newbot. 3. Give your bot a name â it hands you a token (a long code). 4. When OpenClaw asks for a Telegram token during setup, paste it in. Then text your bot like you'd text a friend.