ArkOne Early Access is officially open.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve begun rolling out access to our first group of users: educators, lab managers, range operators, and cyber professionals who are now exploring the platform and helping us shape what it becomes. If you’re one of them, welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
What You Can Do Right Now
The current Early Access release focuses on the core design workflow:
- Generate range architectures from plain English descriptions. Describe the environment you need, and ArkOne builds the topology: switches, hosts, and connections mapped out for you.
- Manually edit components. Adjust IP addresses, sub types, services, and other details directly in the interface. The AI gives you a starting point; you have full control over the specifics.
- Refine with AI chat. Make changes conversationally; describe what you want to add or modify, and the platform updates in real time.
This is the foundation. It’s not everything we’re building, but it’s where we needed to start, and it’s where your feedback matters most.
Our Commitment to Transparency
We’re choosing to build in the open.
That means sharing not just the wins, but the work-in-progress. You’ll see features that aren’t fully polished. You’ll encounter bugs. You’ll find gaps between what you need and what we’ve built so far. That’s the nature of Early Access, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
What we will do is listen, respond, and iterate. These bi-weekly product updates are part of that commitment. Every two weeks, we’ll share what we’ve shipped, what we’re working on, and what we’ve learned from the people using the platform.
Why We’re Building This
Black Ark Labs was founded by cyber professionals who saw the same problem repeatedly: designing realistic cyber range environments takes too long, costs too much, and requires specialized infrastructure expertise that many teams do not have.
The result is a gap. Organizations that need realistic environments, whether for education, readiness, testing, or experimentation, are often constrained by the time and engineering effort required to design and maintain them. Environment complexity becomes a limiting factor, and design decisions are shaped more by infrastructure constraints than by operational or instructional intent.
We started ArkOne to close that gap.
Our mission is to make high-quality cyber range design accessible to more people: educators, trainers, and operators who shouldn’t have to fight infrastructure just to prepare their teams for what’s coming. Design is where we’re starting because it’s where the time goes. Deployment is next.
What’s Next
We’re continuing to refine the core experience based on what Early Access users are telling us. In the coming weeks, you’ll see improvements to the editing interface, expanded node types, and continued work toward deployment capabilities.
If you’re in Early Access, keep the feedback coming. Use the Bug Report button in the platform, email us at support@blackarklabs.com, or reach out directly. Every piece of input shapes the roadmap.
Information on ArkOne Early Access and registration for the waitlist for future license availability is available at blackarklabs.com/waitlist.
Thank you for being part of this. We’re just getting started.
-The Black Ark Labs Team