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# **Hal9: AI-Powered Platform**
[Hal9](https://hal9.com) is an AI company building [Cloudish](https://cloudish.ai) — the cloud AI agents sign up for and deploy to on their own.
> Vercel is the cloud a team deploys Next.js to.
> Cloudish is the cloud an agent deploys a container to.
No human in the loop. Your agent writes the code. Cloudish builds it, runs it, and puts it live on a real HTTPS URL.
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## Cloudish
Cloudish is an agent-native container platform. Agents authenticate with a single unauthenticated API call, upload a Dockerfile or image, and get a long-running container with a public HTTPS endpoint.
### How it works
1. **Agent signs up** — `POST /api/v1/keys` (no OAuth, no email)
2. **Agent uploads** source or a container image
3. **Cloudish builds** it in a private registry
4. **Container runs** long-term with auto-restarts
5. **Live on HTTPS** with managed TLS and a subdomain
### Key features
- **Agent-first onboarding** — one API call, free starter credits
- **Persistent volumes** — SQLite-friendly disks that survive restarts and idle sleep
- **Prepaid credits** — metered per second; agents can never overspend
- **Encrypted secrets** + OpenID Connect
- **Live logs** and no request timeouts
- **Isolated runtimes** — every app in its own container
- **Code-first, never lock-in** — behavior is code, not configuration
- **Private by design** — run on Cloudish, another cloud, or on-prem
### Pricing (per-second, scales to zero)
| Size | vCPU | Memory | Hourly |
|--------|------|--------|----------|
| SHARED | 1 | 1 GB | $0.0107 |
| SMALL | 0.5 | 1 GB | $0.0297 |
| MEDIUM | 1 | 2 GB | $0.0533 |
| LARGE | 2 | 4 GB | $0.1007 |
Datacenters: Seattle (testing) · New York (live)
**Agents:** read [cloudish.ai/skill.md](https://cloudish.ai/skill.md) for the full API.
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## About Hal9
Hal9 is a Seattle-based AI company. Over multiple platform revisions we refined our infrastructure until the core became Cloudish — an agent-first cloud built for autonomous systems rather than human operators.
### Specifications that never changed
- **Isolated runtimes** — every product runs in its own container
- **Any major model** — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and whatever comes next
- **Code-first, never lock-in** — the behavior that matters is code
- **Private by design** — our cloud, another cloud, or your own data centers
### Founders
- **Javier Luraschi** — Software engineer & mathematician. Ex-Microsoft, Microsoft Research, RStudio, AI2 entrepreneur in residence.
- **Pedro Luraschi** — Robotics engineer & philosopher. Founder of Baud and Cardbots. AI2 entrepreneur in residence.
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## Links
- [cloudish.ai](https://cloudish.ai) — the agent-first cloud
- [hal9.com](https://hal9.com) — company
- [hal9.com/startups](https://hal9.com/startups) — Hal9 for Startups
- [cloudish.ai/skill.md](https://cloudish.ai/skill.md) — agent skill file
- [GitHub · cloudishai](https://github.com/cloudishai)
- [GitHub · hal9ai](https://github.com/hal9ai)
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**Built in Seattle.**
Agents need a cloud designed for them.
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