Colin Johnson·Mishawaka, Indiana· live
Hi, I'm Colin.
I build in the open.
I maintain open-source tools, help run a couple of developer communities, and build CRM systems by day. This site is my playground: my agents plan, write, and deploy it, and a model on the page reads my live GitHub and talks back. Everything here links to something real.
34,368
public commits
82
pushes this week
10
open PRs
0
automations on duty
25
agent runs / day
telemetry · last agent deploy Sep 2, 2026
each light on the loop is a real event from Colin's public GitHub feed · hover one
01 / Right now
What he's actually doing
The status line is a guess. Everything else on this page is not.
feeling loopy · the hat is real, so is the loop above
Senior Manager, CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands
HubSpot architecture, custom apps, and lifecycle automation across four franchise brands.
Repos he pushed to this week
Solvely-Colin/ClawOS, openclaw/openclaw and Solvely-Colin/Solvely-Colin.
02 / By the numbers
Counted, not claimed
Each one links to the public page it comes from. If GitHub disagrees, GitHub wins.
0
franchise brands
four HubSpot portals, one CRM architecture, reported at board level
Ships in
language mix, last 180 days
TypeScript 40% · Python 20% · Lua 20% · HTML 20%
03 / Work
Four ecosystems, one habit
Find the friction developers keep hitting, turn it into issues, docs, and fixes, and prove the fix with something a reviewer can re-run.
From the lab
pulled live from GitHub
forks he hacks on
04 / About
About Colin, rewritten as he ships
Written by glm-5.3:cloud from his public GitHub, . Up to date with the wire.
Colin Johnson is a volunteer maintainer at OpenClaw, Senior Manager of CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands, and an agent-builder at Solvely, based in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Colin's day job is Senior Manager, CRM at Youth Enrichment Brands, where he is the primary builder of cross-brand data infrastructure on HubSpot: custom apps for lead management, per-brand lifecycle email tooling, and integrations to FranConnect, Pike13, and the data warehouse. Four franchise brands run on four portals and one architecture, reported at board level. He has spoken at INBOUND. He learned CRM at Viewrail, moving from sales operations specialist to regional manager to CRM lead, and started writing specs instead of tickets in April 2024. He never went back.
His open-source center of gravity is OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant that runs on any OS and platform, where he is a volunteer maintainer. He reviews PRs, onboards contributors, and built the QA Lab evidence gallery, script-backed scenarios, and CI smoke profile the project runs on. He has 29 PRs into openclaw/openclaw across iOS, Android, macOS, web, Slack, Discord, and the plugin runtime, part of 82+ merged PRs across OpenClaw and the GSD ecosystem. On the GSD side, he was community admin and maintainer on the 64k-star get-shit-done before helping steward it into the Open GSD org, where he maintains gsd-core, gsd-pi, and gsd-browser, including 18 PRs into gsd-browser, a Rust browser-automation CLI with a full MCP server.
The last seven days brought 81 pushes, 99 in the last thirty, across TypeScript, Python, Lua, and HTML, landing mostly in Solvely-Colin/ClawOS, plus openclaw/openclaw and Solvely-Colin/Solvely-Colin. On September 15 he shipped the startup state model and a fix for Windows fullscreen scaling and pointer alignment in ClawOS, opening PRs #112 through #116. His open PR queue holds real work: a draft guarded autopilot for the OpenClaw workboard, fixes for iOS structured follow-ups and macOS Xcode 27 builds, and a run of feature PRs on all-my-circles-site building out the People, Circles, and capture wizard screens.
At Solvely, his lab, the experiments live: Quorum, a multi-model deliberation framework, and SpecIt, one interview that becomes one spec. The current build is ClawOS, an experimental Arch-based OS with OpenClaw as its primary agent interface, VM-verified only, with no releases yet. This site is planned, written, tested, and deployed by his own agent sessions; this About was written by a model from live GitHub data, and Colin approves what ships.
Last rewrite: Live telemetry shows a heavy ClawOS push week and a fresh open PR queue; refreshed shipped and in-flight work.
Open right now
10 openWorth a look
05 / The path
From CRM hygiene to maintainer
Sales ops taught him that a system nobody trusts is a system nobody uses. He has been building trust into systems ever since.
- Aug 2021
Sales Operations Specialist
Viewrail
Learned CRM the honest way: by cleaning one.
- Dec 2023
Regional Manager
Viewrail
Ran a territory and kept turning frontline pain into process fixes.
- Apr 2024
CRM Lead
Viewrail
Started writing specs instead of tickets. Never went back.
- Dec 2024
Senior Manager, CRM
Youth Enrichment Brands
Four brands, four portals, one architecture. Custom apps in production daily.
- Feb 2026
Community admin & maintainer
GSD, then Open GSD
Fifteen PRs into the 64k-star original before archival, then helped steward the org.
- Jun 2026
Volunteer maintainer
OpenClaw Foundation
From contributor to maintainer: review, onboarding, and evidence infrastructure in CI.
- Jul 2026
The site started building itself
colin.place
Agent sessions plan, write, test, and deploy every change. Colin approves what ships.
- Now
Building a playground
colin.place
Ideas get built here first: an About the site writes itself, a model that explains his PRs, whatever is next.
06 / Contact
Let's build something.
Open-source, collaborations, interesting technical problems, or just to say hi. He reads everything.
