DEV Community: Geo Jacob

Use Case: We automated our business vetting with OpenClaw

Geo Jacob — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:09:43 +0000

I've always wanted to build something with openClaw.

But it had to be genuinely useful for our business, not just another toy app for managing tasks.

Today, our Kelviq vetting system runs entirely on OpenClaw, handling initial screening and speeding up customer onboarding.

The Problem:

After launch, we saw a surge in business verification requests. Business verification is mandatory for us as an MoR platform. Every time a profile was submitted, we had to review the business in detail before approving it. This consumed a lot of time, caused constant context switching, and left us drained, especially when the outcome was a rejection.

So, we decided to automate it.

The Solution:

A profile is submitted, triggering a message to Discord that tags our Kelviq bot.
Our OpenClaw server picks up the request.
The AI agent analyzes the website, compares it against our policies, and makes a decision.

The bot instantly outputs an approval or rejection, a detailed reasoning statement, the appropriate category, and a confidence score.

The Stack:

– OpenClaw image deployed on a DigitalOcean
– OpenRouter subscription
– Discord for messaging

Here is the video + story behind building this over a weekend.

https://x.com/geojacobm6/status/2034127028329583111

Hope this is helpful! And happy to share more details if anyone's building something similar.

I quit my job to build my own startup

Geo Jacob — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:41:53 +0000

Three months ago, I left my job at PaloAlto Networks and started completely focusing on my own startup. It was not an easy decision for me. The job was very peaceful and flexible. But, building my own startup was always my dream and I can't hold it any more.

Around 3 years back, my friend Sachin Neravath shared an idea of implementing price localization for digital products. We started it as a side project. We developed and released the product.

Sachin quit his job and started concentrating completely on the product, that really worked. Within a short span of time we got good traction. Multiple payment providers reached out to us for integration and everything went well, we got many popular creators and some of the fastest growing SaaS companies as customers.

During this time, we talked to many customers and also helped them with their pricing setup. That's how we came to know how difficult it is for them to implement stripe, especially usage based billing, managing feature access, handling webhooks, and customers.

Other requirements were that PMs want to do pricing changes quickly, but they are always blocked on engineering which takes sprints for a simple change.

Last week ChatGPT launched a new pricing tier only for India. Imagine, how much engineering effort would have gone into this? What if they can get a new pricing plan up and running without code change in under 5 minutes?

We also came to know that there is no simple tool helps you do pricing experiments easily.

As AI is booming and most of the companies are moving their pricing models from their legacy fixed pricing models to usage based / outcome based pricing, we found that there is a need for this product. And we finally decided to go all in on this. Another co-founder (Alok Vats, who was design head at Branch) has also quit his full time job and joined us. Now we are completely focusing on our startup.

Last 3 months was very difficult for me and during this time, i was:
— working like 2 full time job at once (easily 16 hours a day)
— 5x stressed than before (feels as same as when i started my career in 2012)
— withdrawing zero salary (first time in last 14 years)
— no weekdays or weekends, everything is same. Sometimes I am exhausted like anything.
— on top of that, one day a production issue killed me, it actually taught me the real difference between as an employee and a founder.

But now i'm in a better position, the development is done, feedback from beta customers is in.

The wait is getting over, ParityDeals is going live tomorrow...

Feeling a little nervous and excited at the same time.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about the product or my personal journey, feel free to connect with me on twitter, as I will be inscribing my thoughts there very frequently.

Could age verification tech be the future of car safety?

Geo Jacob — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 08:57:45 +0000

I'm just thinking about the potential of implementing age verification technology in the automotive industry, where drivers would need to confirm their age through a selfie and government ID before starting a vehicle.

YouTube is currently adopting similar technology to identify teenagers in the U.S. and enforce additional safety measures.