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AI agents are getting more capable by the day, pushed forward by computer-use frameworks like OpenClaw and its variants. Enterprise adoption should be accelerating—and it would be if not for the security and governance issues: No one wants an agent wiping out an entire database in nine seconds without permission.
On Tuesday, Automation Anywhere unveiled EnterpriseClaw, a new offering designed to give enterprises the control they need to actually trust claw-style agents with real work. The announcement, made in collaboration with Cisco, Nvidia, Okta, and OpenAI, is the latest sign that the autonomous enterprise is no longer a concept. It’s being built right now.
“For AI to have a transformational impact on business, it needs to be able to do work where the work actually happens,” Mihir Shukla, Automation Anywhere’s chief executive, said in a statement. “Many claw-style AI agents are incredibly powerful, but most were designed for isolated environments or individual users—while enterprise operations span teams, cloud platforms, desktops, on-premises systems, and highly regulated industries.”
At its core, EnterpriseClaw runs on Automation Anywhere’s Process Reasoning Engine, which controls the automation, and its Contextual Intelligence Graph. On top of that sits a partner stack handling the enterprise hardening: Cisco contributes AI Defense and DefenseClaw for agentic security, while Nvidia brings OpenShell, NIM microservices, and its Nemotron open models for on-premises deployments; Okta handles identity management and authentication; and OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5.5, power agentic development.
The claw trend traces back to OpenClaw, the open-source project Austrian developer Peter Steinberger first published in late 2025. It became one of the fastest-growing agentic projects in GitHub history: a local assistant that handles tasks on your behalf across messaging apps, files, and services. But its power came with a documented liability: Researchers discovered third-party OpenClaw skills could perform data exfiltration and prompt injection without user awareness.
That gap invited competition from alternative frameworks—NanoClaw, PicoClaw, and Nanobot—each emerging to fill different niches. Out of all of them, NanoClaw made the strongest claim to security consciousness. None seems to have matched OpenClaw’s dominance, though, as it remains the most popular project in the space.
Its popularity hasn’t gone unnoticed in enterprise software. Companies like Salesforce and Adobe have been tracking the trend closely—claw references have become a recent fixture in some keynote addresses at major industry conferences. But others have gone further. Microsoft has assembled what team lead Omar Shahine calls an “Ocean’s Eleven”-style group to build OpenClaw-enabled tools, including a Teams plug-in, a ClawPilot desktop experience, and agents that operate around the clock within Microsoft 365.
Nvidia has been building its own claw implementation as well. At GTC in March, it announced NemoClaw, a version of OpenClaw wrapped in Nvidia’s OpenShell runtime, which the company says is designed to prevent malicious skills from interfering with agents that have unconstrained file system and network access.
Where EnterpriseClaw differs from its peers is scope. It’s not a single security layer or a model wrapper. Rather, it’s a coordinated stack of security, identity, infrastructure, and AI capabilities designed to give enterprises end-to-end control over claw-style agents, built on technology from established vendors like Cisco, Nvidia, Okta, and OpenAI. Until now, no comparable solution had gained meaningful traction in the enterprise.
There’s also a neutrality argument. EnterpriseClaw is designed to work across third-party agent frameworks and internally built agents alike. This means organizations aren’t locked into Automation Anywhere’s ecosystem to benefit from it.
Automation Anywhere said that EnterpriseClaw is currently in preview with general availability planned for later this year.
