"They are a chatbot if you don’t know what you are doing. You can spend hours and thousands of dollars just chatting away."
It was a Saturday morning. I found OpenClaw and I was genuinely excited — the kind of excited where you cancel everything and just go. I dedicated the next 10 days to figuring out what AI agents could actually do for my business. I went deep. I built flows, tested skills, pushed the system as hard as I could.
The result? Negative ROI. Very high LLM costs. An agent that reported a job done without checking if the job was actually done. Memory that broke when conversations got too long. Skills that needed to be built from scratch before the agent could do anything useful. Hours spent debugging instead of building.
I knew enough about building working systems to know this wasn’t a technology problem. It was a setup problem. The intelligence was there. The architecture was missing.
Where the name came fromMy son Benton loves anime. He’s the reason I started looking at Japanese words and characters. MyKyara — my character, my agent, my crew. The kind of word that means something before you even know what it means. Benton named this without knowing he named it.
What I actually builtI’ve been building working business flows for years. Not prototypes — actual systems that run, generate revenue, and don’t need babysitting. That’s the standard I applied to mykyara. Every agent needed to pass one test: does it make money, or does it make work?
The breakthrough was understanding that an agent is not a chatbot with a name. A real agent has a SOUL — who it is and how it thinks. A COGNITION framework — the reasoning patterns that make it useful instead of expensive. A HEARTBEAT — the autonomous check-in that means it’s working while you’re sleeping, not waiting for your next message.
It needs to do the work without asking questions every five minutes. It needs to verify completion instead of reporting it. It needs to figure things out when it hits something it hasn’t seen before. These aren’t features — they’re the difference between an agent and an expensive chatbot.
Why the learning curve mattersAI agents cost money to run. OpenRouter, ElevenLabs, API calls — it adds up fast if the agent isn’t generating more than it costs. The goal of mykyara is to make the learning curve as short as possible between “I bought this” and “this is making me money.”
Not someday. Not after you’ve spent three weekends reading documentation. This week. That’s the only version of this product worth building.