Open Sourcing Interacly: From Product to Movement

By Interacly Team July 15, 2024 10 min read

Why Open Source & Why Now?

Interacly started as a closed SaaS for building AI agents. Very quickly we realised that digital entities thrive on extensibility, and extensibility thrives on an open ecosystem. Open-sourcing the core is the only stance that makes long-term sense.

1. Composability Requires Transparency

Developers need to see how the agent kernel works to extend it safely. Closed binaries slow innovation; transparent code unlocks thousands of niche integrations we’d never have bandwidth to build.

2. Trust & Adoption

Enterprises are cautious with autonomous code execution. An OSI-approved licence (we chose Apache 2.0) plus public security audits reduce vendor-lock-in fears. Community eyes find bugs faster than private QA ever could.

3. Economic Flywheel

Open core ≠ charity. The value shifts to Interacly Cloud, premium orchestration UX, and enterprise SLAs. The larger the OSS install base, the larger the upsell pool.

Dual Positioning

Persona	Core Promise
Developers	”The open framework for creating autonomous digital entities”
End Users	”Drag-and-drop agents that collaborate with you”

We speak API for the former and outcomes for the latter.

Architecture Snapshot

interacly/
 ├─ core/            # fully open-source runtime & memory adapters
 ├─ plugins/         # community & premium connectors
 ├─ templates/       # reference entities (MIT)
 └─ cloud-extras/    # closed-source UI, scale & analytics

Launch Roadmap (Abbreviated)

Repo launch (July) – docs, CI, first RFC issues.
Reference Entities (Aug) – 10 fully documented examples (RAG bot, Coding assistant…).
Plugin SDK (Sept) – certify 3rd-party connectors.
v1.0 & Cloud GA (Q4) – SLA, encrypted memory, usage-based billing.

Community Programmes

Contributor Ladder – triager → maintainer → PMC.
Code Sprints – monthly themed hackathons (#MemoryMonth, #ToolTime…).
Showcase Gallery – featured digital entities with live demos.

Commercial Alignment

We commit to:

Public roadmap & CLA-free core.
75 % of new features landing in OSS first.
Revenue share for marketplace plugins.

Interacly isn’t just another AI product – it’s an ecosystem of entities. Going open-source is how we ensure that ecosystem belongs to everyone. Join the movement ▶︎ GitHub repo.

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