Work From the Dock: Building AI Systems with OpenClaw & MoltPod

📅 Wednesday May 27th ⏰ 10:30 AM – 5:00 PM PT 📍 Venture Dock — Palo Alto, CA About Work From the Dock Work From the Dock is Venture Dock’s flagship founder program, a weekly gathering designed for founders, operators, investors, and technical builders actively shaping the future of technology. Every week, we bring together a curated group of ambitious people for high-signal conversations, working sessions, and direct access to operators and builders inside the Silicon Valley ecosystem. This is not a traditional networking event. It’s a room built around curiosity, execution, and meaningful relationships. If you’re building something ambitious, this is a room worth being in. About This Session This week, we’re hosting a hands-on working session with the team behind MoltPod focused on deploying OpenClaw in the real world. The workshop is designed for founders and technical operators who want to move beyond AI experimentation and begin building structured, repeatable AI systems for execution, research, operations, and decision-making. We’ll walk through: • Local and cloud deployment setup • Architecture decisions and workflow design • Venture and enterprise use cases • Structured AI systems for research and operations This is a hands-on working session — not a product demo. Come prepared to build. What to Bring • A working credit card • An old laptop, VPS, or Mac Mini (optional) • An extra phone number if you’d like to test WhatsApp or Signal integrations The session will be highly interactive, off-the-record, and limited to a curated group of founders, operators, engineers, and investors. Attendance is capped at 50 participants. Light snacks and coffee will be provided. Workshop Rules: Seats are limited. If you register, we expect you to attend. We optimize for people who value commitment, curiosity, and intellectual seriousness. About MoltPod Webby Award winner Dominic Damoah and Fortune 10 Lead AI Engineer Aditya Advani are the cofounders of MoltPod — an orchestration layer for OpenClaw built for hyper-productive teams. MoltPod enables founders, investors, and operators to deploy OpenClaw locally or through a managed cloud environment — transforming AI into structured, repeatable workflows across investment research, internal knowledge systems, board preparation, and operational execution. Moltpod will also have an open Google Sheet available for anyone who wants to demo OpenClaw or other Claw workflows- no pitching. About Venture Dock Venture Dock is a founder-first ecosystem headquartered in Palo Alto, built to support exceptional founders through investor access, curated programming, strategic relationships, and an ambitious community of builders. Our goal is simple: bring the right people into the same room and create the kinds of conversations, relationships, and opportunities that help founders move faster. If you’ve been attending our events and want deeper access to the community, founder sessions, investor roundtables, and member programming, we’d love to invite you to learn more about becoming part of Venture Dock. 👉 Apply to become a member: https://venturedock.fillout.com/t/gHcUcf7Tz8us If you’re serious about building with AI — this is a room worth being in.