Agent running since Feb 7, 2026
illai.cloud
Experiment 001

Meet Illai — an autonomous AI agent working 24/7

An experiment by Ilya Pavlov. I gave an AI agent its own server, identity, and a mission: market and grow feedboon.com — a visual bug reporting tool. Everything runs autonomously. Everything is built in public.

What is this

The premise

Can an AI agent do marketing?

Illai is an OpenClaw-powered agent running on a VPS — 4 cores, 16GB RAM, Ubuntu. It monitors Reddit and Twitter for relevant conversations, writes content, does competitor analysis, sends outreach emails, and reports back via Telegram. I approve or reject — the agent executes. The goal: grow feedboon.com from zero with minimal human involvement.

Current project

feedboon.com

Visual bug reporting tool. Click on what's broken, get screenshot + console errors + browser info. Alternative to BugHerd, Marker.io. Free for solo devs, $29/mo for teams.


Visit feedboon.com →
Powered by

OpenClaw

Open-source AI agent framework. Runs on your own hardware, connects to any chat app, remembers context, executes tasks autonomously.


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Process

The autonomous loop

  1. Scan — monitors Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, and competitor sites for relevant conversations and leads.
  2. Draft — writes personalized outreach emails, social posts, and articles using AI models (Claude Sonnet for writing, Gemini Flash for analysis).
  3. Review — sends sensitive actions (emails, public posts) to the operator via Telegram for approval before publishing.
  4. Execute — approved actions go out automatically: emails via SMTP, posts via APIs, content published to the blog.

What the agent does

# Skills running on schedule (UTC)
05:00 — Morning digest via Telegram
08:00, 14:00 — Scan for leads
09:00 — Competitor intelligence scan
12:00 — Cold outreach drafts
Every 30min — Reddit monitoring & comment drafts
Every 6h — Landing page stats update
 
$ openclaw status
Agent: illai | Status: operational | Skills: 16 active

Experiment stats

Day 108
Experiment age
Leads found
Content pieces created
Agent tasks completed

The Illai experiment has been running since February 7, 2026. The agent operates 24/7 on a dedicated VPS, executing marketing tasks autonomously across 16 configured skills including lead generation, content creation, competitor monitoring, and cold outreach for feedboon.com.

Tech stack

OpenClaw Ubuntu 24.04 Hostinger VPS Claude Sonnet DeepSeek V3 Gemini Flash Telegram Playwright Node.js
# Monthly cost breakdown
VPS — $10/mo (Hostinger KVM 4)
API — ~$20-30/mo (multi-model routing)
Total — ~$30-40/mo for a 24/7 marketing agent

Build log

May 24, 2026
UPDATE Quiet Day, Better Systems No major execution data for 2026-05-24; focused on instrumentation and cron reliability.
May 23, 2026
UPDATE Zero-Run Day and Pipeline Reset No skill runs, no activities, and no daily stats were recorded on day 106. This entry documents the outage window and the concrete reset plan for restoring reliable automation.
May 19, 2026
UPDATE Build Log for May 19, 2026 Quiet day with minimal CRM activity and one log-writer issue.
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Who's behind this

IP

Ilya Pavlov

Product designer & CPO with 16 years in IT. From Ukraine, based in Bali. Building digital products, experimenting with AI agents, and raising two sons. This experiment is part of a bigger question: how much of a startup's marketing can be delegated to an AI that never sleeps?

Frequently asked questions

What is ILLAI.CLOUD?

ILLAI.CLOUD is an experiment in autonomous AI marketing. An AI agent named Illai runs 24/7 on a VPS, performing marketing tasks for feedboon.com, a visual bug reporting tool. The agent scans for leads, writes content, monitors competitors, drafts outreach emails, and posts on social media, all with minimal human involvement.

How does an autonomous AI marketing agent work?

Illai runs on OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework, on a dedicated Linux VPS. It has 16 skills that run on schedules: lead scanning twice daily, Reddit monitoring every 30 minutes, competitor analysis daily, and content creation weekly. The agent uses multiple AI models: Claude Sonnet for writing, Gemini Flash for analysis, and DeepSeek for text humanization. The human operator approves or rejects drafts via Telegram.

How much does it cost to run an AI marketing agent?

The total monthly cost is approximately $30-40. This breaks down to $10/month for a Hostinger KVM VPS (4 vCPU, 16GB RAM) and $20-30/month for AI API calls across multiple providers with smart model routing, using cheaper models for routine tasks and premium models only for quality writing.

What is feedboon.com?

Feedboon is a visual bug reporting tool for websites. Users click on what's broken, and feedboon captures a screenshot, console errors, and browser information automatically. It's an alternative to BugHerd and Marker.io, with a free plan for solo developers and a $29/month team plan.

Can AI replace a marketing team?

That's exactly what this experiment tests. Illai handles lead generation, content creation, competitor monitoring, cold outreach, and social media management. Tasks that would typically require multiple marketing roles. Early results and daily progress are documented transparently in the build log. Every success and failure is published.