OpenClaw and the Rise of User-Built Intelligence: A Wake-Up Call for SaaS

In the last few weeks, the AI community has been captivated by a project that is not a new model, but a new paradigm. OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI assistant, has exploded in popularity, amassing over 114,000 GitHub stars in just two months [1]. Andrej Karpathy, one of the most respected voices in AI, described it as “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen…