LVP Bets on Hybrid Cloud AI: Deploys OpenClaw On-Premise, Connects to Claude

Sustainable investment firm LVP (A$1.6 billion in assets under management) is aggressively pushing forward with its AI strategy. Ivan Wong, the firm’s head of data and AI, revealed that LVP is restructuring its investment workflows around AI and has chosen a hybrid cloud approach: deploying the OpenClaw platform on-premises while connecting to Anthropic’s Claude model. “We view AI as the key to freeing up human talent and focusing on high-value work. Organizations that fail to deeply integrate AI in the next two to three years will face an existential crisis,” Wong told iTnews.

LVP’s portfolio spans clean-tech startups to affordable housing projects, and its AI transformation path offers a representative blueprint. Wong emphasized that pure cloud architecture has limitations for deep AI use. “If everything runs in the cloud, complexity and costs quickly escalate. That’s why we opted to deploy OpenClaw on-premises.” This approach allows LVP to run AI workloads on its own infrastructure while accessing cutting-edge model capabilities through Claude, striking a balance between data sovereignty, latency, and cost.

Industry analysts view LVP’s hybrid cloud AI practice as a reference model for financial investment firms. As AI agents reshape identity governance and attackers exploit technological gaps, architecture that coordinates local and cloud resources is becoming a critical factor in enterprise AI adoption. Going forward, more organizations are likely to accelerate AI deployment under a hybrid model of “local data processing + cloud model invocation.”