The project
OpenClawMU is the multi-tenant fork of OpenClaw, the open-source AI gateway that bridges a dozen messaging channels. Upstream is a beautifully built single-user product; the MU fork is the same code with the architectural surface for multi-customer use: isolated tenants, per-tenant tokens, sandboxes, quotas, S3 backup, a control-plane HTTP API.
The bet
Every team building AI products with a messaging-channel front end needs the same primitives: tenant isolation, sandboxed code execution, per-tenant cost accounting, channel pairing. Right now most of them are either paying a cloud bot platform 30–50% of their margin, or building these primitives from scratch on every project.
The bet is that an Apache-2.0, self-hosted, vendor-neutral multi-tenant gateway is the right shape for that primitive. Not a SaaS that holds your customers, not a closed framework that charges you to scale, but a single Node process you can deploy on a VM that already costs you $20/month.
The maintainer
Dipankar Sarkar (LinkedIn) is the primary maintainer. Neul Labs is the publishing entity — there's no big team behind it, no VC funding, no eight-week roadmap with an exit clause. Just a fork that's being actively maintained against upstream.
Other Neul Labs projects
OpenClawMU is part of the Neul Labs product family. If you're here for AI infrastructure that's open-source and self-hosted, you may also like:
- closegate — the open-source policy gate for finance AI agents.
- bondfoundry — relationship infrastructure for outbound sales.
- agentmatic — agent automation tooling.
- gity — git workflow tooling.
Contributing
OpenClawMU is open to contributors. Issues, PRs, doc fixes, and bug reports are all welcome. The repo lives at https://github.com/neul-labs/openclawmu ↗. Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the process; in short:
- Open an issue first for non-trivial changes.
- Keep PRs focused — one logical change per PR.
- Mark new code paths with
OPENCLAWMU ADDITIONif they're net-new vs upstream. - Tests are appreciated for anything touching the dispatcher or token-auth layer.
Get in touch
Email openclawmu@neullabs.com, open an issue at https://github.com/neul-labs/openclawmu/issues, or join the Discord at discord.gg/clawd.
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