The next era of software ‘will be built for agents, by agents’, said Jentic CEO Sean Blanchfield.

Irish AI start-up Jentic is jumping on the OpenClaw frenzy with ‘Jentic Mini’, a free, open source, self-hosted offering for developers building with the product.

The months-old OpenClaw project has taken the developer world by storm, but security issues associated with letting personal agents access computers has already led to a number of different iterations from big-name brands such as Nvidia, with its open source stack NemoClaw, and Anthropic, which recently integrated OpenClaw’s text features into Claude.

Jentic Mini also markets itself to be safer to use in real-world software environments. Jentic said that the API execution layer gives developers a better way to govern how agents access tools, APIs and workflows to help reduce risks that come with broad and unmanaged credential exposure.

Jentic Mini is available on the start-up’s website, as well as on GitHub. It can also be used with other general-purpose agents including NemoClaw.

With more than 10,000 APIs, agents created using Jentic Mini will come with a “machine-usable map” of the tools and workflows that can be used, while enabling a more structured and controlled way to connect agents to real systems, the company said. Jentic’s standard model is available as a verified connector in Claude.

“The next era of software will not be built for humans. It will be built for agents, by agents,” said Sean Blanchfield, the CEO and co-founder of Jentic.

“Jentic Mini gives developers a free, open source foundation for that shift, connecting general-purpose agents to real systems through an AI-curated catalogue of more than 10,000 APIs and workflows. We want to make it dramatically easier to deploy agents that do real work.”

Jentic became the first Irish company to be selected for the AWS generative AI accelerator last year. The selection followed a €4m pre-seed raise in 2024, one of the largest in Ireland that year.

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