Ray Li - Entrepreneur, AI Founder & Software Engineer

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Vectrro — AI for trucking

AI agents for trucking back-office. Document intake, billing, outbound sales.

2025

OpenClaw

Personal AI assistant. Docker + Fly.io + Claude Opus.

$0.30/mo · 24/7 · 23 sources

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2023

SimplePractice

ML data products serving 200K+ clinicians.

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Latest Adventures

Claw

24/7 personal AI assistant on Telegram

OpenClaw was nearly impossible to deploy. Made it one command.

24/7 availability

$0.30 AI cost/mo

23 news sources

How it works

Architecture

Telegram Bot user messages

Cloudflare Tunnel openclaw.rayl.info

OpenClaw Gateway :3000

Claude Opus API Anthropic

Capabilities

— Persistent file-based memory (SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md)
— Morning briefing: 23 RSS + HN + GitHub Trending via MiniMax M2.5
— Self-upgrade: container triggers own redeployment via Fly API
— Bidirectional sync: Fly.io <-> GitHub <-> local with atomic locking
— git-crypt encrypted secrets in version control

Infrastructure

Docker on Fly.io, shared-cpu-2x, 2GB RAM, persistent /data volume

supervisord: openclaw-gateway + cloudflared + clewdr

Stack

Docker Fly.io Node.js 22 Claude Opus Cloudflare Tunnel supervisord git-crypt

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Latest Posts

The Revenue Cycle Starts at the Front Desk

Dental RCM starts with insurance verification. The real challenge is reconciling EDI, payer portals, network status, and exceptions before treatment.

Posted on Aug 4th, 2026

Why most healthcare AI demos work and most healthcare AI products don't

The demo-to-production gap in healthcare AI is where startups die. Five failure modes that kill products after the pitch deck lands.

Posted on Mar 14th, 2026

Healthcare Needs Its Own OpenClaw

OpenClaw proved open-source AI assistants can rival proprietary tools. Healthcare's compliance crisis demands the same model.

Posted on Mar 1st, 2026

Commentary on "Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds"

A practical read on Ivan Zhao's AI essay through the lens of operational reality

Posted on Dec 25th, 2025

Using AI for Operational Intelligence (1/n)

From years of guesswork to data-driven decisions - building the visibility system every drayage carrier needs

Posted on Sep 8th, 2025

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