START: Oliviero Pinotti, Co-Founder, Tensol "AI employees for your company, built on OpenClaw"

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Most companies don't need smarter AI. They need AI they can actually deploy

OpenClaw is brilliant but can be brutal to set up. Days of configs.

Agents messaging random contacts on WhatsApp...

Tensol: one click. Five minutes. Each AI employee runs 24/7 in its own isolated VM with full company context

Connect Slack, GitHub, Sentry, HubSpot, Gmail. Every action logged. Enterprise-grade security built in

When we recorded this ep: ~100 AI employees running. 300K+ Twitter views

Not chatbots. Agents with their own computer for engineering, sales, SDR

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🎙️ Oliviero Pinotti, Co-Founder, Tensol (YC W26) on Fondo START

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01:33 what Tensol does and how it works
02:07 300K Twitter views and what launch day looked like
02:25 ~100 AI employees deployed within 24 hours
02:44 Why it took off
03:42 The problem Oliviero saw early: Mac Minis, firewalls, configs
03:57 Tensol's answer: one-click deploy and isolated sandboxing
04:37 How Tensol handles enterprise security and prompt injection
05:46 Five minutes vs four days to get up and running
06:59 Most common integrations: Notion, HubSpot, GitHub, email
09:43 Getting into YC after multiple attempts
10:43 The full-circle pivot back to the original vision
14:02 Pricing, trial access, and getting started

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