diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f15fe41..732c409 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1411,6 +1411,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "async-io",
  "async-oneshot",
+ "async-process",
  "async-trait",
  "futures",
  "futures-core",
diff --git a/service/Cargo.toml b/service/Cargo.toml
index 5c22b65..0066a43 100644
--- a/service/Cargo.toml
+++ b/service/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,3 +28,4 @@ toml = "0.5"
 tracing = "0.1"
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["fmt"] }
 futures-core = "0.3.16"
+async-process = "1.3.0"
diff --git a/service/src/client.rs b/service/src/client.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a0e3160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/service/src/client.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+// Copyright 2021 System76 <info@system76.com>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+
+use async_process as process;
+use futures::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncWriteExt, Stream, StreamExt};
+use pop_launcher::{Request, Response};
+use std::io;
+
+pub struct IpcClient {
+    pub child: process::Child,
+    pub stdin: process::ChildStdin,
+}
+
+impl IpcClient {
+    pub fn new() -> io::Result<(Self, impl Stream<Item = Response>)> {
+        let mut child = process::Command::new("pop-launcher")
+            .stdin(process::Stdio::piped())
+            .stdout(process::Stdio::piped())
+            .spawn()?;
+
+        let stdin = child
+            .stdin
+            .take()
+            .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, "failed to find child stdin"))?;
+
+        let stdout = child
+            .stdout
+            .take()
+            .ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other, "failed to find child stdout"))?;
+
+        let responses =
+            futures::io::BufReader::new(stdout)
+                .lines()
+                .filter_map(|result| async move {
+                    if let Ok(line) = result {
+                        if let Ok(event) = serde_json::from_str::<Response>(&line) {
+                            return Some(event);
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    None
+                });
+
+        let client = Self { child, stdin };
+
+        Ok((client, responses))
+    }
+
+    pub async fn send(&mut self, request: Request) -> io::Result<()> {
+        let mut request_json = serde_json::to_string(&request)
+            .map_err(|err| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput, err))?;
+
+        request_json.push('\n');
+
+        self.stdin.write_all(request_json.as_bytes()).await
+    }
+
+    pub async fn exit(mut self) {
+        let _ = self.send(Request::Exit).await;
+        let _ = self.child.status().await;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/service/src/lib.rs b/service/src/lib.rs
index a91a221..cbbe4f0 100644
--- a/service/src/lib.rs
+++ b/service/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 // Copyright 2021 System76 <info@system76.com>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
 
+mod client;
 mod plugins;
 
+pub use client::*;
+
 use crate::plugins::*;
 use futures::SinkExt;
 use futures_core::Stream;