●        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.