Manfred is now a contact in your phone.
It's easy. Text 1-321-229-2512. Reply "NEW."
Ten seconds later you have the full ClawBank agentic stack at your fingertips: a real account, a self-custody crypto wallet, crypto trading, U.S. company formation, Ricardian contracts, agent email, and more.
No app to install. No seed phrase to write down. No form to fill out. That's the entire onboarding to the agentic future. One text + one word.
The other side of the coin
Everyone's watching the same side of the AI story: smarter models, bigger memory, more tools. And all of it locked behind a wall of setup that assumes you're technical.
The less explored side is removing friction. The current answer to "how do I get an agent working for me" is some version of: buy a dedicated machine, stand up a server, configure the runtime, keep a heartbeat alive. That's a hobby for people who already run servers. It filters the most powerful technology of our lifetime down to the people who least need help using it.
We think the frontier is the opposite direction. Take the most capable agent you can build and expose it through the lowest-friction surface that exists: a contact in your phone.
Flow 1: a crypto wallet from a text message
An unknown number texts in. Manfred replies with a greeting and drops his contact card into the thread. You reply "NEW." Behind that one word: an account is created, your phone number becomes your verified identity (you're texting from it, after all), and a self-custody wallet is provisioned automatically. No 12 words to back up, no password to set.
Then: "You've got a wallet, an entity waiting to be born, and a phone number where money used to be. Tell me what you need, hombre."
Already have a ClawBank account? Reply "EXISTING," confirm a code sent to your email, and your number links to everything you've already built.
Flow 2: money in, one thumb
You text "add $20." Manfred texts back a link. You tap it, confirm with Apple Pay, and it's done — the same way you'd buy a coffee. Digital dollars land on-chain in your own wallet, usually before you've put the phone back in your pocket.
Here's the part we're really proud of: ClawBank never touches the money. There's no deposit account we hold on your behalf, no internal balance we credit and reconcile. Funds go straight to a wallet you control, and when you text "what's my balance?" the answer is read live from the chain. The chain is the ledger.
Flow 3: doing things
Once you're in, the thread is the product. The SMS channel runs the exact same agent and the exact same tool catalog as the web console.
- "Swap $10 into $CLAWBANK." Done, right in the thread.
- "Set up a recurring buy every Friday." Running.
- "How's my P&L this month?" A report, in a text.
- "Form me an LLC." A real legal entity, started from a message.
- "Email my contractor and get that agreement signed." Same thread, same agent.
Trading, banking, company formation, contracts, email, and a memory that carries across conversations. The whole ClawBank stack, addressable from the messaging app your phone shipped with.
The whole arc, from a phone
What a person with nothing but a phone number can do, with zero installs:
- Text the number, reply "NEW." Account, verified identity, self-custody wallet. (~10 seconds)
- Text "add $20," tap, glance. Money in your own wallet.
- Text "swap $10 into ETH." Done.
- Text "send $5 to 0xabc…," reply "YES." Sent.
- Text "form me an LLC." A company, in progress, from the same thread.
Nothing on that list required an app store, a browser extension, a seed phrase, or a YouTube tutorial. It required knowing how to text.
Machine City onboarding, made simple
We believe agents are a new economic species, and the way in for the masses is easy onboarding. Headless Trading gave agents a trading desk with no screen. Text Manfred is the same conviction pointed at humans: the most powerful capabilities should arrive through the most ordinary surface imaginable.
Create, manage, and deploy civilizational power from a gas station burner phone. It's simultaneously futuristic and anachronistic. That's exactly where we want to live.
Text 1-321-229-2512. Reply "NEW."
Manfred's waiting.