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| # **Hal9: AI-Powered Platform** |
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| [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. |
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| > Vercel is the cloud a team deploys Next.js to. |
| > Cloudish is the cloud an agent deploys a container to. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| ### How it works |
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| 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 |
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| ### Key features |
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| - **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 |
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| ### Pricing (per-second, scales to zero) |
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| | Size | vCPU | Memory | Hourly | |
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| | 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 | |
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| Datacenters: Seattle (testing) · New York (live) |
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| **Agents:** read [cloudish.ai/skill.md](https://cloudish.ai/skill.md) for the full API. |
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| ## About Hal9 |
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| 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. |
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| ### Specifications that never changed |
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| - **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 |
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| ### Founders |
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| - **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 |
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| - [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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