@Michael Pansolini Hey all, I'm a real estate GP with a full-time day job and a busy family. I'm building an AI "chief of staff" to handle task follow-ups, deal screening, email drafts and team check-ins, and I'd love to learn from people who've already done it. Where I'm at: - Private vault: Mac Studio M5 Max, 64GB, running local AI for sensitive business documents - Orchestrator: one cloud server running OpenClaw as a "CEO" agent that spins up helpers (builder, QA, ops) on demand - Dev work: Claude Code - Interface: Telegram / Discord - Security: vault fully segregated; servers can never connect into it What I'd love to hear: 1. Hardware: Mac mini vs. Mac Studio? How much RAM? Would you change anything? 2. Local vs. cloud AI: which local models are actually useful? Where do you still use Claude/GPT? 3. Daily use cases: what saves you the most time? 4. Creative or weird uses: one-off automations that surprised you 5. Segregation: how do you isolate your assistant from the rest of your infrastructure? 6. Multi-agent setups: org chart of agents vs. one agent with skills? What worked? 7. Lessons learned: what would you do differently? Easy reply template: Setup (hardware/RAM): Local models I use: Best daily use case: Most creative use: How I isolate it: Biggest lesson: I'll pull everything together into a summary and share it back with the group. Happy to share what I learn as I build too.