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Designed for individuals and enterprises,
ShellBot offers a private AI agent that simplifies everyday tasks and works
24/7 across apps
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Built with a strong focus on safety and
control, ShellBot is the safest and most accessible way to use AI agents - with
permissions, confirmations, and full visibility over every action
Gurugram,
2nd April 2026 : Squad As a Service, S.L. (SqaaS), an AI company
backed by ixigo, today announced the launch of ShellBot, a managed, secure AI
agent hosting platform designed to make autonomous AI accessible to
individuals, freelancers, SMEs, and enterprises worldwide. Built on OpenClaw -
one of the fastest-growing open-source AI agent frameworks - ShellBot
enables users to deploy their own private, cloud-hosted AI agent that works
24/7, handling tasks such as emails, scheduling, research, coding, and agentic
workflows through familiar interfaces such as WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram,
Gmail, and Microsoft Teams.
ShellBot
is positioned as a new category of AI infrastructure, offering users their own
dedicated virtual machine running an autonomous AI agent rather than relying on
shared environments. This ensures greater data privacy, performance, and
control, while making advanced AI capabilities simple enough for everyday use. Designed
for individuals as well as enterprises, the platform allows users to
interact with their AI seamlessly across more than ten communication channels,
all while maintaining a single memory and context layer, enabling continuity
across conversations and tasks.
A
key differentiator for ShellBot is its strong focus on safety and control.
As AI agents become more powerful, concerns around unintended actions and
misuse continue to grow. ShellBot addresses this through a “secure by default”
approach that ensures the AI performs only the actions explicitly intended by
the user. The platform incorporates multiple layers of safeguards and
guardrails, including confirmation before critical actions, granular
permissioning, protection against prompt injection attacks, and mechanisms to
prevent runaway usage. It also provides full visibility into agent activity and
allows users to immediately pause or stop operations at any time, reinforcing
trust and reliability.
ShellBot
is built to democratize access to AI agents, extending beyond developers to
freelancers, small businesses, and enterprise teams. With pricing starting at
€29 per month, it lowers the barrier to entry while offering enterprise-grade
infrastructure and flexibility. The platform is model-agnostic, supporting
multiple leading AI providers as well as local models, ensuring users are not
locked into a single ecosystem.
Commenting
on the launch, Francisco
Novella Fletcher, Co-founder of SqaaS, said, “ShellBot
is built to make powerful AI agents simple, secure, and truly useful in
everyday life. Our vision is to leverage advanced AI systems to solve complex,
everyday problems at scale, while ensuring users always remain in control of
how their AI operates.”
Rajnish
Kumar, Group Co-CEO and Aloke Bajpai, Group CEO, ixigo
further added, “AI agents represent the next paradigm shift in how
technology serves users - moving from passive tools to active collaborators.
With ShellBot, SqaaS has taken a powerful open-source innovation and made it
secure, accessible, and practical for real-world use. The technology powering
ShellBot and the underlying agentic system are already being used within
ixigo’s own internal AI-driven workflows, and are now productized and made
available externally. We’re excited to
support this journey as ShellBot brings enterprise-grade AI capabilities to a
global audience.”
ShellBot
is now LIVE at shellbot.sh with global
availability across its Starter and Pro plans. For a limited time, users can
avail the Pro plan at just $1 for the first month (regularly $58/month)
using the code EARLY while signing up.
About SqaaS (Squad As a Service,
S.L.)
Squad
As a Service, S.L. (SqaaS) is a Spain-based AI company focused on building
advanced AI-led software systems and infrastructure. Backed by India’s leading
AI-based travel platform, ixigo, which acquired a 45.02% stake in the company
in February 2026, SqaaS is at the forefront of developing next-generation
agentic AI technologies designed for real-world applications across industries.
The
company is the creator of ShellBot, a managed, secure AI agent hosting platform
that enables individuals, freelancers, SMEs, and enterprises to deploy their
own private, always-on AI agents. Built to simplify access to powerful AI
systems, SqaaS focuses on combining autonomy, security, and usability to make
AI practical and accessible at scale. Developed by a globally distributed team
across Spain, India, and Dubai, SqaaS reflects a broader shift toward AI
systems that are not only intelligent but also autonomous, secure, and easy to
deploy.