AI Forum 2026: "There are claws everywhere now"

Sandy Carter, Chief Operating Officer of Unstoppable Domains, said "there are claws everywhere now" and enterprises need to give OpenClaw and its various derivatives a spin (in a secure sandbox).

Speaking at Constellation Research's AI Forum 2026 in Silicon Valley, Carter and other CxOs walked through OpenClaw usage, what it means for work and early experiments.

Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller set the scene. "This is the fastest piece of open source ever made available and even beat Linux," said Mueller.

Carter said enterprises need to run OpenClaw but make sure it's isolated. She said she got a call from an AI agent, which called on the behalf of one of her software vendors. Carter said there was a call every hour.

"I answered it, and you get that creepy AI voice. So, I said, is this an AI agent? And it said yes. And I said, ‘are you OpenClaw?’ It said yes. And I was like, Why are you calling me? And said, ‘we want you to renew your software,’" said Carter.

The vendor didn't know OpenClaw was calling every one of their customers.

Despite that issue, Carter is a big fan of OpenClaw. She uses it to aggregate social media for her company on an isolated machine. The agent isn't allowed to post, but accesses success rates and makes recommendations.

Carter added that she is looking at new versions based on OpenClaw with more security. Some options:

• IronClaw, which has hosting and security.
• NemoClaw, which was launched at Nvidia GTC. Nvidia GTC 2026: Nvidia launches NemoClaw, eyes to pair with DGX Spark, DGX Station
• PicoClaw.
• ZeroClaw.
• Utopic, a startup that assigns identity to claws.

Carter noted that it's a good idea to monitor your token spend when playing with OpenClaw.

Rohit Jain, CIO at Harvard Business School Alumni Association, said herding AI agents is going to be an ongoing issue. "What's the skill set of the agent? What's the token consumption? These are just some of the challenges I'm facing and it's a rapidly evolving field," said Jain.

Carter said people "will have dozens and dozens of agents that are orchestrated." "I think the orchestration layer is going to be important," said Carter.

She added that she creates a set of agents to debate topics in voice to spur ideas. Carter has created an agent that's a futurist built on 500 of her favorite futurists with 36 strategic frameworks.

Going forward, Mueller said OpenClaw will go vertical focused on industries, specific roles and specialized use cases.