Introducing Ian On
A plain-language look at Ian On, the workspace your company runs itself, where a team gets work done with multiple AI agents.

What is Ian On
Ian On is a workspace where a team gets real work done with multiple AI agents. And your company runs it in-house.
The difference from an ordinary chatbot is simple. A chatbot gives you an answer and stops. Ian On takes a goal, plans the work, has agents with different roles carry it out, and hands back a finished result you can review — a report, a decision, a draft. And because every piece of work leaves a record, Ian On steadily learns how your company actually works.
Ian On is self-hosted, installed inside your company. Your documents and records are stored on your company's infrastructure. If you connect an external AI or speech-to-text service, the content needed for requests, document analysis, and meeting transcription is sent to that service.
Who is it for
- Working teams — teams that want to hand off the research, summarizing, and analysis that comes back every week.
- Team leads and managers — people who want to keep track of what the team is doing and what it has decided.
- Operations and security owners — people who must prove who handled which data, when, and why.
Five things that matter
- Work in one place — The left menu has Home, Collaboration, and Knowledge. Meetings appears once an owner or admin turns it on in Admin → Features. Your Conversations with Ian and agents, History, Mentions, and What's new open from the same menu. Owners and admins also get Admin.
- You talk, it routes — On Home, open Talk to Ian and make your request. Questions are answered in the conversation, and work requests move on to a plan and then execution. When a step needs a decision, you are asked to approve it.
- Memory that compounds — Ian On reads not just your documents but the relationships between them, and keeps a ledger of the decisions your team approved. That shared memory makes it fit your company better over time.
- Permissions and an audit trail — Four roles (Owner, Admin, Manager, Member) plus per-item permissions decide who can see and run what. Key actions such as role changes, invitations, data access policies, and feature settings are recorded in Admin → Audit.
- Runs on your terms — Install it on your own servers and connect local models or external AI. Manage personal connections in Settings → My AI Connections, and organization defaults under Organization AI Defaults in Admin → AI providers.
Where to go next
Want the big picture first — the problem it solves, the idea behind it, and how companies use it? Read Why Ian On. To start right away, Getting started walks you from sign-in to your first request in five minutes. For feature guides, pick a topic from the left menu. If you're an operator, also read the Admin console overview.