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OpenClaw + Aion UI is Insane (FREE!)

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast · 2026-05-02 · 8 min
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Aon UI: The Free Open-Source Dashboard to Control OpenCL (and Multiple AI Agents) From One PlaceThe video shows how to set up Aon UI, a free, open-source desktop dashboard that upgrades OpenCL agent management by replacing messy terminal and gateway workflows with a cleaner UI. The creator demonstrates downloading and updating Aon UI, connecting it to a running OpenCL gateway, and using the dashboard to view, chat with, and switch between multiple parallel agents (e.g., OpenCL, Claude Code, Hermes) in one place, including from a phone. Key features highlighted include conversation history, exporting/renaming/pinning chats, task scheduling, model selection, remote agent connections (e.g., VPS), teams with team leaders, skills upload/import, local file access for assistants (PowerPoint/Word/Excel), voice input, timeout controls, and a desktop pet shortcut. The video closes by promoting the AI Profit Board community for a full roadmap and SOP.
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Problem solved
Controlling OpenClaw through the terminal is messy; Aion UI gives one clean dashboard to manage all agents at once.
Benefits
  • Single dashboard for all agents, no terminal
  • Run OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes in parallel
  • Control agents from your phone
  • Free and open source
  • Easy task scheduling and chat organization
Use cases
  • Runs OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Hermes as parallel agents simultaneously in one dashboard, controllable from a phone
  • Connected OpenClaw gateway to Aion UI; supports Hermes, Kimi CLI, Codex, Quen, Claude, Gemini, Aion CLI, Nanobot
  • Built a web page generated with OpenClaw, then renamed, exported, and pinned the conversation for later
  • Created Team OpenClaw with a team leader to run multi-agent parallel workflows on local files
  • AI Profit Boardroom community has 2,900 members with weekly coaching and a step-by-step Aion UI roadmap
KPIs / results
  • 2,900 community members
  • 8+ supported agent CLIs in one UI
  • Free and open source
  • Phone-based remote agent control
Tools / build
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00:00
OpenCL Dashboard Upgrade
  • OpenClaw free upgrade: Aion UI dashboard for all agents
01:01
What Aon UI Does
  • One clean dashboard to see, talk to, switch agents
01:24
Download and Install
  • Download, install, or update to latest version
01:37
Multi Agent Teamwork
02:35
Connect OpenCL Gateway
  • Link running OpenClaw gateway to avoid connection errors
03:08
Why It Beats Default UI
  • Cleaner than messy default gateway; browse past chats
03:59
Settings Models and Remotes
  • Configure settings, add models, connect remote agents
04:50
Parallel Chats and Projects
  • Parallel chats; rename, export, pin OpenClaw projects
06:05
Teams Skills and Desktop Pet
  • Build teams, upload skills, use the desktop pet
07:16
Recap and Community Outro
  • Recap; AI Profit Boardroom community and roadmap
OpenClaw just got a free upgrade that makes it way easier to control all of your AI agents at once. And I'm going to show you exactly how to set up today. It's called Aion UI. And what it does is give you one clean dashboard that makes your agents 10 times more powerful. You can see every agent you're running, talk to all of them and switch between them, manage everything without a single terminal window. OpenClaw on its own is already powerful, but controlling it through the terminal is messy, hard to manage, easy to lose track of everything. Aion fixes that. You can have OpenClaw running a task over here. You can have Clawed Code running something else over here. And Hermes agent handling another job all at the same time, all in one place as parallel agents. And the wild part is you can handle all of this from your phone. You can control your agents, check on tasks, switch between chats right from your pocket. It's free, it's open source, and I'll show you how to set up in just a few minutes. By the end of this video, your OpenClaw is going to feel like a whole different tool. Let's get into it. Today, we're going to be setting up OpenClaw with Aion UI, which is a powerful way to manage your AI agents, kind of like a Clawed Cowork desktop style app, but it's for OpenClaw and we can use it with other agents, for example, like Clawed Code and that sort of thing. It helps keep all your agents in one place. Now, this is a free open source project. I want to show you exactly how to set up. You can also use it with your phone as well to control all your agents at once. So what we can do here is we can just download this right, like so. And once you've downloaded it, you can just search for it like so and open this up, right? So it's going to look like this. And if you already had it installed, just update to the latest version. Now, just so you understand, this is a co-working platform, which means all your agents can work together. Like for example, Hermes could work with Clawed Code, Clawed Code could work with OpenClaw, OpenClawed can work with Hermes, et cetera. They can operate as a team. There's even a built-in CLI that you can use too. You can access this from your phone and link it to your favorite messaging apps. You can schedule automation. So you can have multiple OpenClawed agents working at once. It's free and open source. And also it means that your agents can work on your local files. So my examples here. So for example, you could have a PowerPoint assistant, you could have Word assistant, Excel, et cetera, and you could have multi-agent modes too, along with a team mode. So you can add different teams and get them to work in together as a parallel agent workflow. So you could have multiple versions of OpenClaw working together as a team to automate whatever you want. And once you've opened it up, it's going to look something like this. There's even, for example, an OpenClaw setup expert. So if you're struggling with setting up OpenClaw or getting it to actually work, you can use that. And we can switch to OpenClaw gateway here, right? So this is the dashboard where you can speak to all your agents. We're going to be focusing on OpenClaw, but you could use this with Hermes, OpenClaw, Kimi CLI, Codex, Quen, Clawed, Gemini, Aeon CLI, and even Nanobot, right? Now just one thing to note is make sure you've got your OpenClaw up and running. So I've just set up in the terminal there, and then we can link it directly to Aeon UI. Otherwise it will say connection error, or it will show that the gateway is not live. And now you can see it's working and it's up and running. Now, if you compare that to like your typical sort of OpenClaw gateway and the UI inside there, this is much nicer, much smoother. So for example, this is the gateway, which is harder to manage. You don't really see what's going on. You can't really see through previous chats with OpenClaw. This is the Aeon UI gateway and the UI. It just looks a lot cleaner, a lot nicer. I can switch between different conversations, different agents, and manage everything in one place, right? I can also see the history and my schedule tasks. So if you pull up the normal gateway, this is super messy, right? Like we've got these dropdowns everywhere. We have this update available at the top here that sometimes doesn't work when you click it. And then you've got like your scheduled tasks, but it's pretty hard to see through all your scheduled tasks in a clean sort of way. This makes everything way nicer. Like here's an example, right? It's just way easier to set up and see your scheduled tasks inside Aeon. Now inside your settings as well, you can configure all of the settings for your agents. OpenClaw actually gets automatically detected, and then you can select between the custom agents that you have like so. So if you want to set up these different templated sessions, you can see how they work right here, including the OpenClaw setup expert, and you can delete any if you need to. Now you've also got remote agents, so you can actually connect to agents here. This basically means like, you know, if you've got a agent that's connected remotely, maybe for a VPS or something like that, you could use this setting and then configure that with Aeon UI, and that might work a lot better for you. We can also switch between models inside this section. So we can add a new model. And when we're actually using the chat over here, we can select which AI we prefer to use, right? So if you're using Aeon CLI or any of those, you can add different models like so. Now you can also have parallel agents working. So for example, we could have this OpenClaw session over here, but then we could set up, okay, another chat. And this time around, we're going to add Hermes, right? So we're going to speak to Hermes directly, and we could give it a task and switch between those tasks, right? So they work in the background. Now when you actually assign a task to an agent like this, for example, you can see the files and the changes you've made, which is great. And then also this can open stuff up inside your browser. So an example of this is we've created this page over here, and it was generated with OpenClaw. If we wanted to come back to that project later, we can just rename the conversation, right? It just makes it way easier to organize everything. So we can come back to that. We can actually export it, rename it, and also pin it to the top. So that means we can come back to that conversation with OpenClaw specifically. So we've got that pinned topic that we can always come back to later. That is much easier to manage than if you're inside OpenClaw, you're trying to figure out how to get back to your chat, and then you're like, well, what did I just do? Or how do I get back to that conversation I had yesterday? Well, you can't really, right? Inside the gateway. That's the difference here. And so it's a lot easier to manage, a lot easier to organize. NICY is a free open source project. You can manage your scheduled tasks. You can manage all your agents in one place. And the other cool thing here is you can add up teams, right? So we could create Team OpenClaw over here. We set the team leader as OpenClaw, or for example, clawed code might be a better alternative. We create the team, and we can build out a team of agents here. Now inside the capability section as well, you can add skills. You can upload skills, add new ones, et cetera, which is pretty useful. You can import them too. And there's even this desktop pet, right? So what you can see here is this is the pet. And then if we go off and start doing other stuff like this, if we click that, it'll just take a straight back to A on you. And then if you want to hide it, just right-click it and type hide. You can also set the timeout for your agents. Basically what that means is like if you wanted to end the agent, because you didn't use it for five minutes, you can set that as a setting right here. And you can even switch on more agents like so. So really powerful, easy to use, easy to set up, does a lot of cool stuff. And so it's easier to use the terminal. You can have multiple agents, which you don't get in terminal. You got the task scheduling, which is quite complicated to manage in the gateway. You got phone control, which is way easier to manage with A on. Then you've got voice input, which you can also do here. And it's free to use. So just to recap, you can use OpenClaw inside Aeon UI. Aeon UI is a free dashboard that runs locally and can control all your agents in one place. It's just a desktop app, which makes everything easier to manage too. It's pretty simple to just download and install it. You can give project folders to your agents for hyper-specific context as well. So you can change the folder that you're actually talking to with OpenClaw over here. You can manage your scheduled tasks. You also have a skills marketplace, which is pretty cool. And you can link MCP and voice, which is nice. You've got phone control, which you can set up in the remote section here. And if you do want a full roadmap guide and step-by-step tutorial on how to use it, feel free to check out the AI Profit Boardroom. Link in the comments description or go to the AIProfitBoardroom.com. This is my AI automation community that helps you save time and grow and scale with AI automation. Inside the community, you can ask questions. We've got 2,900 members in there. So there's you can jump on weekly coaching calls, ask questions, share your screen, meet other people using AI agents. From the map, you can actually meet people in your local city who are using OpenClaw, Hermes and other AI agents and automations. And then inside the classroom too, you can get all of my new daily tutorials and all of my other best training. In fact, we actually have a full step-by-step guide, roadmap and SOP for using AR and UI over there. Thanks so much for watching. Appreciate it. Bye-bye.