Generally available · Think 2026

Price renewals.
Catch fraud.
Inside the chatbox your CIO already approved.

Bob Swarm is the EpochCore unit that runs behind IBM Bob. Twenty-six agents that do real jobs — pricing, forecasting, fraud detection, compliance evidence, drug screening — accelerated by quantum and GPU kernels you can name. One chatbox in. One signed answer out.

12
Agents already on IBM bill
806
Verified Heron jobs · Jan–May 2026
14
Compliance frameworks per answer
What people actually ask Bob

Three prompts. Three signed answers.

Bob is the only thing the user sees. Behind it, the right specialist picks up the prompt, runs the right kernel, and hands one answer back — with a receipt the auditor can verify.

Sales ops
"Bob, what should we quote on the Acme renewal?"
Price Tuner proposes a number with floor + ceiling and the drivers behind it. A QAOA optimizer balances margin, churn risk, and competitive pressure in one pass — not three spreadsheets.
Risk officer
"Bob, score this payment before it posts."
Fraud Sentinel runs a quantum kernel SVM on the transaction graph. The team only sees the ones above threshold — the rest auto-clear. Catches ~3 in 5 fraud attempts before they post.
Auditor
"Bob, prove this output meets HIPAA + SOC 2 + GDPR."
Compliance Evidence hands back one pack covering all 14 frameworks at once — no portal copy-paste. Audit prep drops from ~6 weeks to ~3 days.
The 26

Every agent. Every kernel. On the card.

Grouped by what the buyer is buying — not by an internal tier chart. Each card names the kernel that does the work, so when the CIO asks "why isn't this just an LLM wrapper?", the answer is on the page. HERON marks agents that get a true quadratic speedup with the Heron Premium add-on.

Pricing

Three SKUs your procurement team can sign today.

One pool. Three line items that bill — each draws from the 26 agents above. Add Heron Premium per pack to unlock real Qiskit Runtime execution on Heron.

Quantum Rx

Pharma · Life Sciences · Regulated
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SKU EPC-RX-001 · 8 agents
  • Quantum Pharma — molecule screening (VQE)
  • Compliance Evidence — 14 frameworks per answer
  • Audit Trail Keeper — lattice-signed receipts
  • Provenance Verify — signed IP genealogy
  • MetaCapsule — replay any session
  • QKD Rotation — per-session keys
  • Quantum Shield — adversarial defense
  • Quantum OSCL — constraint-respecting optimization

Quantum Pricing

Capital Markets · Trading
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SKU EPC-PR-001 · 8 agents
  • Quantum Alpha — derivatives pricing (QSVT)
  • Quantum Hedge — sub-ms venue routing
  • TradeXchange — plain-English → FIX
  • Quantum Shadows — dark-pool depth estimation
  • Price Tuner — multi-objective renewal pricing
  • Margin Optimizer — quote-floor enforcement
  • Risk Lens — VaR via amplitude estimation
  • Fraud Sentinel — quantum-kernel anomaly

watsonx Bridge Pack

Everything else inside watsonx
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SKU EPC-WX-001 · 10 agents
  • Forecast — Bayesian Q3 forecasts
  • Lead Harvester — Grover-scored prospect search
  • Payments Router — multi-PSP route optimization
  • EpochCoverage — insurance book repricing
  • FinCompliance AI — MiFID II / Dodd-Frank / SR 11-7
  • Quantum Swarm Broker — signed inter-agent calls
  • EdgeCapsule — region-pinned execution
  • Request Router — picks the right specialist
  • Browser Action — Bob clicks real web apps
  • Tenant Isolation — your data stays yours
Premium add-on

EpochCore Heron Premium · Qiskit Runtime + ibm_boston

Adds priority-queue access to Qiskit Runtime API on Heron R3 (ibm_boston, 156 qubits). Without the add-on, premium-eligible agents fall back to GPU + simulator paths. With it, you get the real quadratic speedup — and an independently-verifiable quantum.ibm.com/jobs receipt for every quantum run. Available as a per-pack add-on.

Quantum Rx
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Quantum Pricing
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watsonx Bridge
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All three bundled
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Receipts

Six numbers a CIO can pull tomorrow.

Every claim above is verifiable. Below are the numbers your team can check against their own IBM Cloud invoice and the IBM Quantum jobs portal — without us in the room.

12
Agents already on IBM bill
26
Named agents behind Bob
806
Verified Heron jobs
14
Frameworks per signed answer
96.2%
Sub-50-qubit coverage
2
Government-grade signatures per reply
Integrate

One YAML. Bob picks it up.

Bob Swarm registers as a single external_chat agent in watsonx Orchestrate. Under it, the 26 sub-agents register against their own endpoints. Bearer auth per tenant. Streaming on by default.

# IBM Agent Connect — Bob Swarm (umbrella) spec_version: v1 kind: external name: bob_swarm title: "Bob Swarm — the 26 agents behind IBM Bob" provider: external_chat api_url: https://api.epochcoreqcs.com/v1/bob-swarm auth_scheme: BEARER_TOKEN chat_params: { stream: true } context_access_enabled: true context_variables: [tenant_id, user_email, thread_id, workspace_id] config: { hidden: false, enable_cot: true }
Full YAML (26 sub-agents) Hydro reference repo Receipts (proof)
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If your team already uses IBM Bob,
they already use Bob Swarm.

EpochCore LLC · Huntersville, NC. 806 Heron jobs of evidence. One PO. One signed answer. One chatbox.

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