We gave it a few months try. My conclusion was that it did interesting things but is designed completely wrong from the ground up which means it's got a lot of moving parts that are part of the code base that can break for all sorts of reasons.

As a learning exercise it was pretty nice. But since then the plugin/connector ecosystem for things like Claude Code/Cowork and ChatGpt/Codex has first come into existence and then matured to the point where they do most of what made OpenClaw interesting before that was the case. But in a way that can be shipped to lots of users. That wasn't true when I started using it. We played with it for a bit but in the end the code base is a mess, random shit breaks every time you update it, and you end up doing very dodgy shit with it that no responsible CIO would want to sign off on.

The current batch of tools from Anthropic and OpenAI is pretty solid but there are still lots of feature gaps, UX issues, security challenges, etc.

I think a lot of these tools will get into the enterprise in exactly the same way that usb sticks, MS Office, smart phones and other consumer tech got into the enterprise: employees will bring them and use them. Some bosses will tell them off and then make an exception for themselves. Because the promise of not having to do monkey work that can now be automated is unbelievably tempting if you need to do lots of that work. Even if this stuff only half delivers on some of the promises. So, my guess is that this could go fairly quickly. I already see a lot of non technical people that are pretty clued in to things like Claude Cowork. There will be some rogue early adoption followed by more enterprise appropriate solutions. That's already happening.

Here in Germany, there are a few German AI companies that work with big conservative German companies and the public sector (e.g. Langdock and Deepset). The type of organization where privacy and data security concerns weigh heavily. These companies can work with OSS models but OpenAI can do proper data residency in Germany as well if you talk to them. Azure, AWS, and others have very acceptable options. And there's a whole ecosystem of companies that are building on top of that.