Definitely don’t need to be an engineer just a willingness to learn. I watched TechWithTim on YouTube and he showed how to set it up securely on a VPS. I’d start with those videos

I am working on that Goal is to design a way to onboard people safely and securely without confusion

If you have an extra machine lying around it is worth trying. Worst case you could run clawi.ai (cloud base) and just use it to help configure a machine and set up your own instance of open claw. Using telegram is the easiest path to communicate you could ask clawi for the specific commands to configure your open claw set up and then just copy and paste the telegram messages into the command line.