Overview
- IBM Bob, which went live globally Tuesday, is offered as a cloud service with a free 30-day trial for enterprise teams.
- The platform runs agent-based workflows across planning, coding, testing, deployment, and operations and routes tasks to models like Anthropic Claude, Mistral, and IBM Granite.
- Built-in controls include prompt normalization, scans for sensitive data, real-time policy checks, AI red-teaming, and a command-line tool that records each step for audits.
- Inside IBM, the company says more than 80,000 employees use Bob and surveyed users reported an average 45% productivity gain.
- Early customer case studies cite faster modernization, including Blue Pearl cutting a typical 30-day Java upgrade to three days and APIS IT speeding architecture documentation and .NET migrations.