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title: 'How I Set Up My AI Agent for Dropshipping in 15 Minutes (Anyone Can Do This)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0B_7q01fAo'
video_id: 'z0B_7q01fAo'
date: 2026-07-31
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# How I Set Up My AI Agent for Dropshipping in 15 Minutes (Anyone Can Do This)

> Source: [How I Set Up My AI Agent for Dropshipping in 15 Minutes (Anyone Can Do This)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=z0B_7q01fAo)

## Summary

In this tutorial, the creator demonstrates how to set up OpenClaw, a viral AI agent tool, for dropshipping automation — handling product research, ad creation, and store management via Telegram or WhatsApp. He walks through using a Hostinger VPS to host the agent securely and connecting it to a Telegram bot, all without requiring coding skills. The video also includes a live demo of the agent autonomously delivering product research and a mentorship pitch.

### Key Points

- **AI Agent Works Remotely** [00:03] — The creator uses Telegram to message an AI agent that performs product research, creates image ads, builds the store, and launches campaigns while he is away from home.
- **OpenClaw Is the Tool** [00:16] — OpenClaw, a viral AI agent tool, powers the automation. No coding skills are needed, and the setup is shown in under 20 minutes.
- **Live Autonomous Product Research** [01:07] — OpenClaw is scheduled daily to deliver product research, including product types, logistics, market gaps, and links — shown live on screen.
- **Why Not ChatGPT or Gemini** [02:01] — ChatGPT and Gemini are great but limited to being LLMs. OpenClaw can connect skills, tools, and MCPs, act agentically, and is cheaper to run.
- **Use a VPS, Not a Local Machine** [02:28] — Running OpenClaw on a local computer risks sensitive data leaks. A Hostinger VPS provides secure, private hosting for the agent.
- **Hostinger VPS Deal** [03:21] — The creator partnered with Hostinger to offer a $5.49/month VPS plan. He notes it is not a sponsored ad; he uses Hostinger himself.
- **Checkout Add-Ons** [04:27] — The 'ready-to-use AI' add-on provides credits for ChatGPT/Claude, and 'instant web search' enables web access — both recommended to turn on.
- **Preconfigured API Key** [05:50] — During setup, the nexus.ai API key is already applied. Users can also add OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI keys manually if needed.
- **Connect Telegram with BotFather** [08:47] — In Telegram, search BotFather, create a bot with a username ending in 'bot' (e.g., OpenClaw99Bot), and copy the provided token.
- **Memory and First Conversation** [10:24] — The bot asks for your nickname, timezone, and preferences (concise vs detailed). OpenClaw's memory is constant and never gets lost.
- **Upload Master Knowledge File** [11:14] — Users can upload a markdown cheat sheet so OpenClaw knows its role as a dropshipping agent, including winning-product criteria.
- **Option A Deep Research** [12:56] — For 5 winning products, OpenClaw performs a full web scrape over 20-30 minutes. The user can set constraints like market (USA), niche (beauty), and price ($50+).
- **Tools vs Skills** [15:11] — Tools are what the agent can do (browser, Excel, image generation); skills add knowledge and brainpower to do those tasks smarter. Only add needed skills.
- **MCP Integration** [18:10] — MCP connects external tools like Slack, Trello, and Notion to OpenClaw. Setup guides can be found via Google.
- **Train Before Automating** [19:15] — The creator advises training OpenClaw manually on each task before setting up automations, and keeping the brain and tool icons enabled.

### Conclusion

OpenClaw turns dropshipping workflows into an autonomous agent that handles product research, ad creation, and store management. Set it up on a VPS with Telegram, train it with clarifying prompts, and enable tools/skills to unlock consistent automation.

## Transcript

that I'm messaging from Telegram to do product research for me, to create [music] image ads for the product, to build the store, and to even launch campaigns. And the craziest part is, whilst I'm messaging this AI agent, I'm
outside the house at the gym, or out for a walk. So, the days of me being by the computer and doing everything by myself has gone. And if you're wondering how I was able to do this, I'm using a tool called OpenClaw that has gone viral on
the internet. Now, the best part is, guys, there is no tech skills needed. don't need to be a professional at coding. It's all going to be easy to [music] use. And I'm going to be showing you how you can do this all in less than
20 minutes. Now, before I get into the video, guys, I have created a PDF file that goes over the full step-by-step guide in text format. And I've also got some golden nuggets in there in terms of prompts that you can use with OpenClaw
to get ahead of everyone else. Now, that PDF will be available in the pinned comment and the description below once we've hit only 500 likes. So, guys, as you can see on my computer screen, I'm on OpenClaw, and you can see it live in
action autonomously doing my product research for me. I've scheduled this in, and you can see it's delivering me live right now some product research. And that's basically the benefit of using OpenClaw as your personal AI agent for
drop shipping. You can get it to do tasks on a daily basis. I get it to do product research every day, and you can see it delivering that information to me like what type of products they are, the logistics, the market gaps. It's doing
delivering me all the links and all the information that's critical for me to this on the OpenClaw gateway. You can do this on Telegram from your phone, which home, I do it all on my computer. When
you've just seen live in action, guys, it delivered me a full comprehensive product research sheet going over loads of different products and the benefits of them. Now, you can do way, way more with OpenClaw, which I'll show you later
on. But, that's just a live example of the power of it. Now, you might be watching this thinking, "Well, can't ChatGPT or Gemini do this?" And the answer is no. They are great, but they're only restricted to being an LLM.
Whereas, OpenClaw, you can connect skills, tools, MCPs to it, and it can go out there and be agentic and do the work for you. And it's a lot cheaper to use. thinking, "Well, this is the same." It really isn't. And you'll understand that
later in the video. So, now I've quickly shown you guys the power of it doing product research automatically for me. Let me show you how you can set this up super easy. You just need to head over
comment, and you're going to see a link to Hostinger OpenClaw. And you're going to come to a page that says, "You own an AI agent private, always on, and live in 60 seconds." Now, the reason why we're going to be using Hostinger to get our
OpenClaw agent is because we're going to be using something called a VPS, saying to you guys in the intro, you've got people online buying Mac minis, new desktops, just to run OpenClaw. And the issue with that is, when it's on your
machine, there are risks of sensitive data getting leaked. So, you don't ever want to run something like OpenClaw on a local device. You're always going to want to use something like a VPS. And that's why I've partnered with Hostinger
to get you guys access to a VPS. It's 100% secure and private, and it doesn't risk any of your data or anything on your computer at risk. So, once you've in the pinned comment, you're going to see this page, and you're going to click
claim deal. You're then going to choose the most popular option, which is only $5.49 a month, which is to manage OpenClaw. And if you use my link and the better deal. And by the way, this isn't sponsored by
Hostinger. I use Hostinger for my own VPS service for OpenClaw. I've just partnered with them to get you guys a better discount. But, I've not been paid do, guys, is click choose plan. And then, what you guys are going to want to
do is choose your period. You can choose between 12 or 24 months. By choosing one the best discount. So, for example, 12 months, you're going to get it for $122. Remember, that's for the whole year without my discount code. So, that's
less than $10 a month, and you have to ask yourself a serious question. Are you 12 months? So, you might as well save yourself a load of money by getting a 12-month subscription. If not, you can just go for the 1 month, but it is going
to be $20. So, for me, guys, I'm actually going to change it back to 12 then, I'm going to use the ready-to-use AI. This is essentially adding credits so that you can use ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI models at no extra setup, so it
And then, you're going to want to use instant web search as well. these are both turned on. That way, you get access to it without any issues. You technical things. It already works straight out the gate. And then, once
click continue. You're going to register if you haven't already. Now, whilst I'm checking out, guys, I do want to say this. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee with Hostinger if you're not happy or fulfilled by the service. Now,
Everyone loves Hostinger and their own VPS for OpenClaw, so I'm sure you're worst, guys, you get a 30-day money-back guarantee. So, it's literally risk-free. guys. Now, once you've successfully created your Hostinger account and paid
inside of the dashboard, and on the left-hand side, you're going to see OpenClaw early access. So, you're just going to want to click on that, and then you've got, which I've got five credits remaining. You're going to see all of
plan. So, you can see I've got my five credits here, and I've got my search credits there. And you can top these up at any point that you want to. We don't says OpenClaw pending setup, so you're going to want to click setup. You're
then going to see your API key. Now, you don't need to touch this, guys, because it's already done based on your account. Remember, we chose the beginner-friendly to make life a bit easier. So, we're using the nexus.ai key, and it's already
need to do anything. But, let's say, for example, you did, you can go to where it says OpenAI and add your API key in here, or Anthropic, or xAI. But, as like I said, we're using nexus.ai because that's what we're paid for in our plan.
We can click next. Then, you're going to see it says setting up OpenClaw. So, today's case study, I wanted to make a quick announcement. If you've been looking for the best mentoring, we're not talking about group mentoring, we're
your e-commerce and drop shipping experience, then you're in the right place. The amount of people that reach out to me on Instagram or comment on the video saying, "Do you have one-to-one mentoring? Can I work with you?" Then,
yes, guys, I do offer a one-to-one mentorship. And it isn't just any mentorship. We've been offering mentoring in the drop shipping space now for over 7 years, and our track record is proven. We have some of the most
successful students that have graduated from our e-commerce mentorship. We're offer one-to-one mentoring, and we're one of the first companies to ever do one-to-one mentor to help you with your drop shipping store, taking you from the
product, building the store, launching the ads, having an accountability confidence to run your store without I doing it wrong? How do I find the little gems about how to do it
correctly?" Your mentor will figure that out with you. He will turn you into a drop shipping professional within 30 days. I can guarantee that the mentoring that we offer in our company is the highest quality of education in the
much about the mentoring, guys, but I know a lot of you guys have been asking for it. So, if you want to apply for one-on-one mentorship, there'll be a link in the comment, and there'll be a QR code on the screen so you can apply.
But, before you apply, guys, only apply if you're serious and you have a good budget. We only want to work with people that have a good mindset and a good budget so it doesn't slow them down through the process. Our most successful
students have always been the ones that have the correct mindset, and they have to guess, all the available spots for the one-to-one mentoring for Q1 will be fully booked by the end of the next 2 days. So, if you want to make sure that
scanning the QR code or clicking the link in the description before it's too late and we reopen for the next quarter. With that being said, guys, let's get installation process will take a few minutes, and then we get greeted by how
do we want to manage our OpenClaw? Then, we can connect our OpenClaw to Telegram before, you can manage this on your mobile phone, either using it on WhatsApp or Telegram. Now, technically, you don't have to choose any of these.
You can just manage it inside of the OpenClaw desktop, but it means you're restricted to using it on your computer. The whole point of this is to use it on the go, so I'm going to click Telegram. So, what we have to do to do this on
Telegram, guys, is very simple. Go on to Telegram and search for BotFather. So, I've got Telegram here. I'm going to search for BotFather. Then, I just need call it a name, so we're going to call it OpenClaw
99. For Telegram, it has to end in bot, so we're going to put OpenClaw99Bot. So, I've called my bot OpenClawMS99Bot. Now, you just have to keep naming it till you've got one that has a username. This one has a username available. And
now, you can see that this token is what our bot is called. We're going to use to paste it in here, and then we're going to click finish setup. And now, you can see it says you're all set up. And then, what we're going to want to
do, guys, is very important that you click access key, and then what that computer. Now, you're going to also want to save that, guys, somewhere safe, now going to see that it's going to ask you for that token. So, now you can see
that OpenClaw has opened up. So, now we're inside of our open Claw desktop dashboard. So, this is where we can manage our open Claw agent. And if we go back to Telegram, guys, this is our bot here. So, you can see open Claw 1999.
is you can click start. And then what we can do is we can go back to open Claw. We can go to channels. And then you're going to see Telegram here, guys. So, now what we can do is we can message our open Claw bot saying hello. And then
just came online. Two things is I need to know who you are, your nickname, what I should call you, and what you want to discuss, and what time zone you're in." Now, the good thing with open Claw is the memory never gets lost. So, the
memory is constant. It never forgets who you are or what you're doing. Then you usually call it Claw cuz it's called open Claw. Then it's going to say, "Do you want me to be concise or detailed?" This is where you want to choose
it says, "What do you want me to do first?" So, here it tells you do you want to connect to WhatsApp, Telegram, set reminders, work, inbox. Now, this is where we're going to prompt open Claw with what we want it to be as an
autonomy agent. Now, we can come back and set up WhatsApp and Telegram later. can come back and do WhatsApp at another time. It's super easy. I'll show you. But this is where we really need to tell open Claw what we want it to do for us.
you're going to want to upload this markdown file that I've given you guys in the cheat sheet once we hit 250 likes. And then what you're going to want to do is use this document that I've given you access to in the cheat
sheet in the pinned comment because this is the master knowledge file that we're going to give open Claw. So, we're going to paste that in and click send. So, now this is going to tell open Claw everything that we're going to want it
to do as a drop shipping agent. And now what we can do is we can start giving the agent tasks to do. So, now we can say, "Find me 10 winning products." Now,
what open Claw agent might do is it might ask you what makes a winning product. Now, you only need to answer this once. And like I said, the memory in the cheat sheet, you're going to have access to what makes a winning product.
of this. We're going to go back to open Claw. And we're going to paste that in. So, this is just building its knowledge and its memory over time. So, that in the future we never have to do it again. And just like that, now it's giving us a
And just like that, now it's giving us a high potential list of winning products. So, just like that, it's now giving us winning products. Now, to make open Claw as powerful as possible, you really have to give it a lot of information to start
give it. So, like for now, I'm doing product research with it. So, that in the future, like I've said, it will always do it to the best performance. So, it's asking me what market do I want to sell to? And I'm saying the USA.
when it gave me this list of products. And it said lightly. That's not good. I want it to use it intensely. So, I've asked it to use it, but for the USA. And you can see now it says two options. It can take me 20 to 30 minutes. And it
will find me five winning products. So, I'm going to say option A. So, option A, I'm going to say option A. So, option A, it will do a full web scrape of all of the winning products that it can find. And then I've said, "Focus on beauty and
$50 plus products." So, now it's got all that information. It's now going to go over and proceed. And you can see it says just type in no constraints and it will proceed. And just like that, guys, now you can see tool here. And it says
browser. So, you can see the tools that it's using when you open these up. So, you can see it's now using the browser feature to actually go out there and going to do. So, like it said, it's going to take 20 to 30 minutes to
perform that task. Now, it might ask you questions whilst it's performing the task. Like it's asking me where should it get the data from? I said AliExpress. once, it will never ask you again. So, a lot of people think when they use agents
hands-on to start with. But the thing is, if you want your agents to be the best, you have to be very hands-on with them first. And then once they've got all that data, they're then going to run automatically. So, whilst I'm waiting
now I've updated on the latest information. You can head over to things This basically goes over your gateway access. You don't really need to look at logs. You can look at the cost it's costing you to run it. We're now going
the left. Now, this is where you can really make open Claw on steroids. So, you're going to see on agent, you're going to see here where it says skills. So, this is where you can add tools and skills to the agent. Now, these are ones
that they already have. So, you can see here built-in tools, browser, canvas, edit, Excel, gateway, image, and message. So, technically, all of these tools are built into open Claw. Now, that doesn't mean that they're going to
built in. So, if you want to make sure that these tools are working, we can come back to this later on. Now, if you want to make sure that all of these tools are working, you can click enable. You can click enable all and then click
save. And then you've got something called skills. Now, what you can do is drop-down menu. And you're going to see all the skills that open Claw has access to. Now, skills is basically giving it more knowledge or brainpower.
So, it uses a third-party service to get access to knowledge. Now, this isn't tools, guys. Tools is what it can do, meaning what can it create or what can it do. Skills means how smart is it at doing tasks. They're two different
of them it says blocked and some of them it's going to say enable or eligible. can click enable all and click save, which is what I recommend you do. And So, you can see the channels that you're connected to. You can see I'm connected
to Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack. And you can refresh this here. And then you're going to see the skills tab here, which is basically an in-depth skill-based tab where you can add more skills. And you can see all the skills
you've got here where it says need setup. So, you can see all of these need them, guys. Don't just add loads of skills thinking the more skills I add to Only add the ones that you know you need. Now, you can actually browse the
recommend. So, basically, these are skills that are made by third-party basically, you can add skills that aren't already there. And you can search for them as well. I can search here for let's say image. And you can see here AI
image generation, photo editing. So, you've got all of these skills. So, work is, if you get open Claw to generate images for ads, if you pair it with a skill, it's going to be smarter and more powerful at creating the image.
Remember, the tool is to create the image. The skill is how good is it going to be at creating that image, the knowledge it has when it creates it. So, You don't have to add any of these, guys. But if you want to to make it more
intelligent at doing things, then you can. So, I can go over here. I can click on this one. And then you can download it as a zip file. And then you can appearance, guys. You can change the way that this looks like in the desktop.
set up automation so that things can run recommend doing this straight away because you need to train your open Claw first at all the tasks, product
research, creating ads, creating video ads, creating hooks, all of that kind of Once it gets really good at that, when you manually give it tasks, then you can set up the automations. Then you've got AI and agents here. So, for example, you
your agents here. This is some advanced stuff, so I wouldn't recommend touching wouldn't recommend touching it. Then you've got something called important. So, if you go to infrastructure and go to web, you're
going to see here it says web channel enabled. Enables the web channel runtime behavior. Keep disabled when web chat is unused. Now, this is how your open Claw will react to the web. So, when it's doing web tasks, now all the web tasks
are enabled. You don't need to configure any Brave API keys or OpenAI keys for it to go on the web because we chose the web plan, which is a free add-on. It can perform web tasks for free without doing anything. But if you do want to make it
do advanced stuff. And then you've got MCP. So, you can connect MCP services to open Claw. So, you can click add entry. And then you can add the MCP. Now, if you don't know what MCP is, it's where you can connect other tools to open
Claw. For example, you can integrate Slack, Trello, Notion in here. And if you don't know how to do it, you can simply go to Google and type in MCP for Slack. And then what will happen is you'll find the MCP overview for Slack.
So, it'll tell you how to add the MCP for open Claw. You just need to add in these credentials. And then you'll have it connected. So, just an update, guys, on open Claw doing some product research for me. Again, it's just asked me some
quickly. Now, one thing that I wanted to mention that's very important is when you're in the chat interface, make sure the brain icon is red. Make sure the tool icon is on red because what this essentially does is it means that it's
using its memory and it's using its tools. If they're not turned on, it will not use them. And you'll regret it later on. So, just always make sure that these are turned on. That way it's using all of its capabilities and power. Now,
before I end today's video, this is just an example of how you can use open Claw as an AI agent for autonomous work. Now, this is just a short overview of how to use it, how to set it up. If you want an in-depth full free course showing you
me know. before, you have to train it first on each task that you want it to do. Once it gets itself in a very strong order, it's using the right skills, the right
tools, and even MCPs, then you can start setting up automations. But that's essentially, guys, how you can use open Claw for drop shipping as an AI agent. you've enjoyed the video. I hope you've learned a lot, and that is it for
today's video, and I'll catch you in the next one. Don't forget to hit the like next one. Don't forget to hit the like goal.