Martin Gontovnikas, known as Gonto, advises founders on marketing and product growth. A software developer turned growth executive, he publishes open-source tools and workflows, including Executive Assistant Skills for OpenClaw.[2][3]
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Gontovnikas began studying systems engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in 2006. His open-source projects included Restangular, an AngularJS service for REST APIs. At Auth0, he became senior vice president of marketing. He joined Hypergrowth Partners in 2021 and stepped down as a general partner in 2026 to focus on hands-on founder advising in marketing and product growth.[2]
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Package the recurring assistant workflow
Executive Assistant Skills separates meeting preparation, action-item follow-up, email drafting and daily digests into reusable instructions. Connected tools supply email, meeting transcripts and task records. Skills can run on schedules or be triggered manually, with personal configuration kept in a separate local file. The result is a workflow built around the operator’s existing communication and task systems.[3]
A tool interface that reduces repeated work
Restangular packages common REST interactions for AngularJS applications. Resources expose operations through reusable interfaces rather than repeated request plumbing in each controller. The repository documents examples and configuration for developers adapting the service to their API. It is an earlier example of Gontovnikas turning a repeated software task into a reusable tool.[4]
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Executive Assistant Skills
github.comOpenClaw workflows for meeting preparation, tasks, drafting and daily digests.
Read the prerequisite list and one meeting-preparation skill before installing the collection. It requires OpenClaw and the documented email, transcript and task integrations.
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