IKE has been available and evolving since its initial public introduction earlier this year. This substantive release brings the current platform together and marks the start of its formal market launch and active promotion.
IKE is the environment we wanted when we started building agents for real work. A useful agent needs more than a model and a prompt. Start with the work in front of you, define the role, knowledge, capabilities, and boundaries the agent needs, then keep those pieces connected as you move from a conversation to a managed framework or a purpose-built Agent Application.
Start with the work. Use the simplest application that fits.
Start free with Direct Agents
Register for free to access the IKE environment and Direct Agents. You can define Personas, organize Knowledge, connect Skills and Tools, and set Permissions around the work.
The Free plan uses a selected set of models through IKE. It is the shortest path to learn the environment and put an agent against a real task.
Add a managed Smart Agent
Hosted OpenClaw is for teams and individuals who want OpenClaw without operating the instance themselves.
IKE Professional is $20 per month after a 7-day free trial and includes Smart Agent access plus higher block limits in the IKE environment. A payment method is required.
This is more than a hosting wrapper. The OpenClaw agent operates as a Hosted Agent inside IKE, where it can use the same Personas, Knowledge, Skills, Tools, and Permissions as the rest of the environment.
Map a purpose-built Agent Application
An IKE knowledge application brings expertise, evidence, and method into the work people need to do. It may provide a new experience or embed agentic capabilities in an existing product. Users get the relevant records, guidance, decisions, and actions where the work happens.
Agent Applications provide that path. We start with SMEs and existing artifacts, establish vocabulary and relationships, then agree human-owned intents and acceptance scenarios. IKE’s Application Development Kit supplies reusable contracts and composition. Builders connect the domain method, integration meaning and access, code, and experience, then prove the working result.
The builder journey accommodates an idea or wireframe, a prototype, a mature product, data, or a combination. These starting situations are separate from the three product access paths described here. A managed agent is an option, not a prerequisite for every application build.
This path is guided through the IKE Design Partner program.
One foundation. Three ways to put it to work.
Use Direct Agent for a Persona conversation. Choose Hosted OpenClaw when the work needs a managed agent framework. Build a knowledge application when you need to compose expertise, integrations, and agent capabilities into a particular workflow or product. These experiences draw on IKE’s shared foundation. At Omni Arcs Product Studio, we built Hosted OpenClaw as one application of that foundation. Design Partnerships bring the same approach to your knowledge work and help refine the ADK, which remains in private preview.
