Prosus, the Amsterdam-listed European tech investment group, has launched ToqanClaw, a no-code AI automation platform that lets businesses build custom tools by describing tasks in plain language. The company is explicitly positioning it as a GDPR-compliant alternative to OpenClaw, with all data stored on European infrastructure and a pledge that user data is never used to train third-party models.
“Built in-house and integrated with Prosus’ own AI platform, Toqan, it brings many of OpenClaw’s features into a secure environment, where your data stays under your control and is never used to train third-party models,” Prosus said, as reported by Decrypt.
Distribution Through Prosus’s Existing Network
ToqanClaw is not launching cold. Prosus is rolling the platform out across its existing network of more than five million restaurants, merchants, and entrepreneurs, according to Decrypt. That built-in distribution channel gives ToqanClaw immediate scale that most agent platform startups lack, though it also means early adoption metrics will be hard to separate from captive network effects.
Early results from restaurant partners offer concrete numbers. One Dutch café chain reportedly cut financial reporting from weeks to 30 minutes and achieved 40% year-on-year revenue growth while using the platform. Another increased deliveries by 25% while reducing overtime by 60%, according to Prosus.
The Data Sovereignty Play
The timing is deliberate. Agent systems that rely on external tools and APIs face growing regulatory scrutiny in Europe, where GDPR enforcement has intensified around AI data handling practices. German authorities have already taken enforcement action against biometric data practices in identity systems. ToqanClaw’s pitch is simple: keep everything under European jurisdiction, on European servers, with no data flowing to external model providers.
Prosus has also trained what it calls a Large Commerce Model on data from more than a billion customers and hundreds of millions of daily interactions. The company claims this allows agents to go beyond basic task execution and anticipate business needs, though independent benchmarks for this claim are not yet available.
Consumer Play in Parallel
Alongside ToqanClaw, Prosus is launching a consumer-facing assistant called Zapia, aimed at everyday tasks rather than business operations. “The future isn’t about opening ten apps to plan your week, book a trip or compare a price. You’ll simply tell your assistant what you want, and it will get it done,” Prosus CEO Fabricio Bloisi said in a statement reported by Decrypt.
Geographic Fragmentation as a Market Signal
ToqanClaw is the clearest signal yet that the agent platform market is fragmenting along regulatory lines. OpenClaw and its peers operate globally with infrastructure that spans jurisdictions. For organizations that need GDPR compliance baked into the platform layer rather than bolted on, a European-native option with local data residency removes a category of legal risk that third-party compliance wrappers cannot fully address. Whether that compliance advantage translates into competitive pressure on OpenClaw in EMEA depends on whether ToqanClaw’s agent capabilities match the ecosystem OpenClaw has built, an open question that will take months of production deployments to answer.