Compared with the other ways

Four ways of getting the same work done, compared by who carries what: the machine, the keys, the hours and the upkeep. Each page says when the other way is the better one.

• A hosted agent platform

  The dividing line is where the work runs and who holds the keys. On a hosted platform your work runs on their machines, which means your credentials have to be reachable from their machines. Here the work runs on a machine you own, your keys sit in a vault on it, and we hold an email address, a payment and an entitlement.

• Claude Code on your laptop

  The dividing line is attendance. A session you drive needs you present, and ends when you close the lid. This is the same model, on a machine that is never shut, holding work it keeps without being asked, and reaching your phone when the next step is yours.

• Hiring an engineer

  The dividing line is what the work needs. An engineer is for work that needs judgement and ownership. A fleet is for work that needs doing at a volume or an hour a person cannot cover, inside limits you drew in advance.

• Wiring it yourself

  The dividing line is the week after. Claude, Codex and Apple move every week, and a provider session on a machine lasts weeks, not years. The build is a weekend; the upkeep is a standing obligation. That is what the fee pays for.

One named product

• OpenClaw

  The free, open-source assistant that lives in your chat apps, against a maintained fleet on machines you own — with OpenClaw’s facts from its own docs, and when it is the better choice.

How these were written

These pages describe the product as its own code and terms describe it. Where a page compares Founderizer with another way of working, it compares the way of working, not a named product’s current plan.

A page that quotes another company’s price goes out of date the week that company changes it, and a one-person shop cannot keep a shelf of them true. So the comparisons here are about who carries what — the machine, the keys, the hours, the upkeep — which does not change when somebody edits a pricing page.

One page is the exception. People look for an alternative to OpenClaw by name, so the owner approved one page that names it, on 8 November 2026. It takes every fact about OpenClaw from OpenClaw’s own README and documentation, links each one, and says the day they were checked. That page is here.

Our own side of every comparison comes from this site’s own code and terms: the price, the free days, the fleet limits, what stops when you cancel, and what we hold about you. If a line on one of these pages disagrees with the terms, the terms are right and the page is wrong — tell us and we will fix the page.