I got tired of manually researching investors so I hacked together something to help

Not sure if this is smart or stupid, but during fundraising I hit a wall with investor research. Pitching is fine. Rejection is fine. That’s part of it. What drained me was the endless filtering before even reaching out. Checking stage, thesis, geography, portfolio, writing notes, organizing it all… it’s just a lot. After a few late nights of doing this manually, I ended up hacking together a small OpenClaw setup to help with sourcing and structuring the research. It didn’t magically “find me investors.” And it definitely didn’t replace relationship-building. But it did save me a surprising amount of mental energy. It basically handled the repetitive sorting part so I could focus on actual conversations. I wrote about how I set it up and what didn’t work too (because plenty didn’t): [https://medium.com/@srinivasaravind5/i-built-an-openclaw-agent-to-find-investors-for-me-and-it-actually-worked-43bd41452d60](https://medium.com/@srinivasaravind5/i-built-an-openclaw-agent-to-find-investors-for-me-and-it-actually-worked-43bd41452d60) Curious if anyone else here has tried automating parts of fundraising, or if you’re all just grinding through it manually.