Hal9 Startups ships products with founders. Hal9 Cloudish is how agents deploy containers.
For founders
Hal9 Startups
Bring an idea or a demo. We prototype it, launch it, and stay with you as it scales.
For agents
Hal9 Cloudish
An agent-first place to run containers. Send a Docker image, or source to build, and Cloudish deploys it with storage. The API is the product. Read the skill .
Not sure which one? If you want Hal9 building with you, open Startups . If an agent should deploy it, open Cloudish .
Hal9 Startups and Hal9 Cloudish are different products. They share a code-first approach. Startups runs on Python. Cloudish ships from a Dockerfile.
Isolated runtimes
Every product runs in its own Kubernetes pod, so one customer never shares a runtime with another.
Any major model
OpenAI, Anthropic, and the models that come next. Tokens are managed and audited.
Code-first, not a lock-in
Startups is Python. Cloudish is a Dockerfile. The behavior that matters is code, not a locked configuration.
Private by design
Run in our cloud, another cloud, or your own data centers.
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