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OpenClaw Workshop: Soft-Launching the baadalAI MCP

by Ashleyn CastelinoApr 15, 20263 min readEvents
OpenClaw Workshop: Soft-Launching the baadalAI MCP

A packed room, fueled by Red Bull

We hosted our first OpenClaw workshop, and the room filled up faster than we expected — 60+ students and builders spread across long work tables with laptops open and projects half-deployed. Red Bull sponsored the energy drinks, Dunkin' kept the sugar flowing, and the room had the quiet hum of people actually shipping.

A full room of attendees working through the OpenClaw workshop

The goal was simple: get people hands-on with OpenClaw, and give them the fastest possible path to a live, production-shaped deployment.

What we built

I walked everyone through the OpenClaw architecture — the model, the tool runtime, the sandbox — and then did the first public demo of the baadalAI MCP, our infrastructure layer that takes a repo and turns it into a running service in under a minute.

From there, we went one-on-one. Attendees cloned their projects, pointed their agents at the baadalAI MCP, and deployed their own Claws live. Watching someone go from "this works on my laptop" to "this is on the internet, my friends can use it" in a single sitting is genuinely the best part of building this company.

A few things that stood out:

  • The MCP hides the ugly parts. No YAML, no Dockerfile edits, no CI pipeline — just a natural-language instruction and a URL at the end.
  • People chose Hetzner without knowing it. The optimizer quietly picked the cheapest provider for every workload. Cost conversations simply didn't happen.
  • Failures were recoverable. Even when someone's build misbehaved, the MCP handed back a plain-English explanation and a one-line fix.

What's next

This was a soft launch. The platform is stable enough to deploy real projects today, but we're still dialing in provider coverage, observability, and the agent-facing MCP surface.

If you want early access, join the waitlist — and if you want to host the next OpenClaw workshop on your campus, reach out at admin.baadalai@gmail.com.

We're just getting started.

Want to ship like this?

Join the baadalAI waitlist for early access.