Clam (formerly Baseframe)

Clam (formerly Baseframe)

Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI Agents like OpenClaw

Winter 2026ActiveB2BArtificial IntelligenceWorkflow AutomationSecurityAI AssistantSan Francisco, CA, USA
Company
https://tryclam.com
AI frameworks like OpenClaw have a major issue: data security. Whether you're an enterprise or an individual exploring AI, your data should stay protected. Clam brings enterprise-grade security through their “Semantic Firewall”, a security checkpoint that sits around the AI's environment at the network level. Our system runs a series of scans on anything your AI sends out into the world and everything that comes in to catch inconsistencies before they turn into problems. Each message is scanned for personal info leaks (SSNs, credit cards, private keys), prompt injection attempts (jailbreaks, instruction overrides), and malicious code (reverse shells, encoded execution). To keep your data even safer, API keys and secrets are injected at the network level so the AI never sees or stores your credentials. Deploy and set up broad-access AI agents built on security with Clam.

Verdict

High Signal
Market Opportunity
AI agent security is a genuine enterprise pain point with growing urgency as agentic frameworks proliferate. B2B ICP is enterprises running broad-access AI agents needing PII protection, prompt injection defense, and secrets management. TAM expands with every new AI agent deployment; defense/compliance-driven buyers (finance, healthcare, legal) are obvious high-value segments with real budget.
Medium Signal
Founder Signal
Anshul Paul was founding engineer #1 at HappyRobot (Mar 2024–Dec 2025), grew it from Seed to Series B — strong early-stage execution signal. Vaibhav Agrawal did Sutter Hill Ventures Codepoint Fellowship rotating through Sigma Computing (Go/Rust query infra) and Augment Code (remote agents, containerization) — directly relevant to the product. Both are recent Berkeley grads (~2024), so limited years of experience, but the HappyRobot and Augment Code roles are substantive, not intern-level fluff.
Medium Signal
Competition
No competitor data surfaced in research, but the space is filling fast — Lakera Guard, Protect AI, Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco), and emerging offerings from cloud providers all target AI security. Clam's differentiation is network-layer semantic firewall + secrets injection + packaged automation platform, but these moats are thin and replicable. Positioning around OpenClaw specifically is a niche wedge but also a dependency risk.
Medium Signal
Product
Live product with pricing page ($50-$150/mo tiers), 3-day free trial, 1,000+ integrations, and detailed security feature documentation. No named customer logos, revenue metrics, or testimonials visible. The product appears real and deployed but lacks social proof or usage metrics to confirm meaningful traction.
OverallB Tier

Clam has a real, live product with a clear security value prop and a pricing page — not vaporware. Anshul's HappyRobot founding engineer experience and Vaibhav's Augment Code agent work are directly on-point. The semantic firewall concept is technically credible. The core risks: no visible customer traction or revenue proof, tight coupling to OpenClaw as the primary use case (platform dependency), and a rapidly crowding AI security market where Cisco/Lakera/cloud players have distribution advantages. The $50–$150/mo pricing feels prosumer rather than enterprise, which limits ACV. Needs to show paying customers and enterprise contracts to move up a tier.

Active Founders

Vaibhav Agrawal
Vaibhav Agrawal
Founder

Co-Founder of Clam (W26). Previously a Fellow at Sutter Hill Ventures. Worked on the data ingestion infrastructure at Sigma Computing and remote agents orchestration and containerization at Augment Code.

Anshul Paul
Anshul Paul
Founder

Co-Founder and CEO of BaseFrame (W26). Previously first full-time employee and founding engineer at HappyRobot, where I worked on omni-channel AI communication, AI evals, and enterprise system integrations. Helped grow company to 100+ in size and Seed to Series B. Majored in EECS and Business at UC Berkeley M.E.T.

Clam (formerly Baseframe)
Clam (formerly Baseframe)
TierB Tier
BatchWinter 2026
Team Size2
StatusActive
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA