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## What is Pinchy?

Pinchy is an enterprise layer on top of [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) — the open-source AI agent runtime. OpenClaw is powerful for individual users. Pinchy adds what teams need: permissions, audit trails, user management, and governance.

We believe AI agents should run on **your** servers, with **your** data, under **your** control.

## Current Status

Pinchy is in early development, but the core is working end-to-end. Shipped features include setup, authentication, provider configuration (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama local & cloud), agent chat via OpenClaw, agent permissions with defense in depth, knowledge base agents with PDF support, user management with invite-based onboarding, per-user and per-org context, the Smithers onboarding interview, a cryptographic audit trail, Telegram channels with account linking, a usage & costs dashboard, Web Search integration via Brave, Gmail integration via OAuth, Odoo ERP integration with 16 pre-built agent templates, and a domain-lock security profile. We're building the remaining enterprise features (granular RBAC with custom roles and per-resource permissions, plugin marketplace, additional channel integrations) next.

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    Get Pinchy running in 5 minutes with Docker Compose. [Read the guide
    →](/getting-started/)
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  <Card title="Installation" icon="setting">
    Environment variables, Docker volumes, and development setup. [Full details
    →](/installation/)
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  <Card title="Architecture" icon="document">
    How Pinchy wraps OpenClaw, the request flow, and the tech stack. [Learn more
    →](/architecture/)
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    Source code, issues, and discussions. [View repository
    →](https://github.com/heypinchy/pinchy)
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