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
Some work needs its own interface. The user may need records, controls, evidence, and agent conversation together around one workflow.
Agent Applications provide that path. We map the job, application surface, agent context, capabilities, review path, and operating owner. The application owns the purpose-built experience; IKE supplies the agent execution and governed building blocks underneath it.
This path is guided through the IKE Design Partner program.
One foundation. Three ways to put it to work.
Start with Direct Agent when chat is enough. Choose Hosted OpenClaw when the agent needs a full framework on dedicated resources. Build a purpose-built Agent Application when people need screens, workflow state, actions, evidence, and review around the work. Each path uses the same IKE Persona, Knowledge, Skills, Tools, and Permissions. At Omni Arcs Product Studio, we built Hosted OpenClaw to put that flexibility to work, from the agent framework to the managed service people use. Bring us your complex knowledge-work requirements. We can help design, build, and operate the application around them. These Design Partnerships also help us refine the IKE ADK for public availability.
