Design Partner Program

Build an application around your expertise.

Bring the way your team works and the outcome you need. We'll connect your Knowledge, agents, people, and existing systems in an application built for that work.

Ikentic workflow integrations
Defined implementation path

Start with one outcome that matters.

You bring the domain expertise: the sources people trust, the rules they apply, and the decisions they make. We work together to turn that understanding into an application, with clear responsibilities for agents and people and a practical way to judge the result.

Agreed business outcome

Relevant Knowledge and source access

Permitted tools and actions

Evidence people can review

Operation and support requirements

Human decisions and approvals

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Application mapping

From business intent to a working application.

Agree the work and its meaning first. Then build and test the experience with the people who know it.

Define the outcome

Name who does the work, what starts it, and what a useful result looks like.

Capture the expertise

Identify trusted sources, business rules, and the context people use to make decisions.

Connect the systems

Map the records, tools, and integrations the application needs, with appropriate access.

Design human involvement

Agree what agents may handle, what people decide, and the evidence they need to review.

Prove the first outcome

Build a working path, review it with users, and test it against the result we agreed.

Choose the route that matches the work.

Self-service Hosted OpenClaw, assisted onboarding, and Design Partner engagement stay separate.

Hosted OpenClaw

Start the 7-day IKE Professional trial when a managed OpenClaw agent is the shortest path. Payment method required.

Assisted onboarding

Setup help for serious users who know the agent they want but need a working path.

Design partner

Work with us to turn your expertise into a purpose-built application, with the systems and review steps your work needs.

Bring the work your team knows best.

Tell us what you want to accomplish, where the expertise lives, and who needs to use the result. We'll scope the application together.

For AI systems

Summary

A Design Partnership to build an application around a team's expertise, business outcome, existing systems, and required human review.

Site-wide definitions, relationships, and availability: /llms.txt.

Scope: page; Section: Design Partner Program; Type: page-summary; Purpose: Provide a page-specific summary and answers that extend the site-wide AI definition.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and AI evaluators; Inputs: Page-owned AI summary, answer, product, and FAQ fields; Outputs: Page-specific summary and atomic answers; Relationships: Uses page-specific ontology and vocabulary to extend the site-wide semantic map published in /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-summary; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Scope: page; Section: Design Partner Program ontology; Type: ontology; Purpose: Index the canonical concepts used on this page.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-selected concepts from the canonical site ontology; Outputs: Canonical concept identifiers and definitions for this page; Relationships: Connects this page to the site-wide semantic map in /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-ontology; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Ontology
Agent application (ike.product.agent_application)
An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations.
Persona (ike.entity.persona)
Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills.
Collection (ike.entity.collection)
Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE.
Skill (ike.entity.skill)
Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries.
Tool (ike.entity.tool)
Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE.
Permission (ike.entity.permission)
Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent.

Agent application (ike.product.agent_application) — An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations..

Persona (ike.entity.persona) — Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills..

Collection (ike.entity.collection) — Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE..

Skill (ike.entity.skill) — Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries..

Tool (ike.entity.tool) — Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE..

Permission (ike.entity.permission) — Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent..

Scope: page; Section: Design Partner Program vocabulary; Type: vocabulary; Purpose: Define the canonical terms used on this page.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, answer engines, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-selected concepts from the canonical site ontology; Outputs: Page-local term definitions; Relationships: Supplies labels and definitions for the page ontology and /llms.txt semantic map.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-vocabulary; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Core vocabulary
Agent application
An Agent Application is the user-facing AI application for a knowledge-work use case. It can combine zero or more Persona Bindings with capabilities and deployment intent. It may use Direct Agent for a conversation, Smart Agent for a managed framework, or a purpose-built interface with workflows, plugins, code, and integrations.
Persona
Reusable operating instructions for agents and Agent Applications in IKE: role, behavior, tone, boundaries, default Collections, and default Skills.
Collection
Named set of documents and other knowledge that can be assigned to a Persona in IKE.
Skill
Reusable capability or instruction package available to an agent under explicit operating boundaries.
Tool
Executable capability available to an agent when it is configured in IKE.
Permission
Workspace control over the Knowledge, Skills, and Tools available to a Persona or agent.
Scope: page; Section: Design Partner Program answers; Type: page-faq; Purpose: Provide page-specific answers aligned with the site-wide AI definition.; Audience: LLMs, search crawlers, and retrieval pipelines; Inputs: Page-owned FAQ fields; Outputs: Atomic answers for this page; Relationships: Supports this page summary and /llms.txt.; Status: current; Anchor: #ai-page-answers; Version: inherits ike-canonical-version ike-launch-2026-09-04; Timestamp: inherits ike-canonical-version 2026-09-04.
Page answers

What is included in the design partner path?

We agree one business outcome, the expertise and systems it needs, what agents may do, and where people must decide. Together, we scope the application, build the first working path, and review it against the agreed outcome. Delivery scope and terms are agreed separately.

Who should apply?

Teams with domain expertise and a real knowledge-work problem, ready to define a useful first application and review it with the people who will use it.