The Toys
→ Heroku, Railway, Render
Convenience at the cost of physics. Latency taxes of 50–200ms baked into the abstraction.
/ the post-hyperscale cloud
Deploy in 60 seconds.Scale on physics, not promises.
The cloud platform for engineering teams who refuse the trade-off between Heroku's simplicity and AWS's power. Backed by a kernel-bypass, microVM-grade infrastructure stack.
60-second deploys · git push to live URL.
Glass-box transparency · Real-time metering. Live logs. Zero bill shock.
Polymorphic runtime · Containers, microVMs, Wasm — the right physics per workload.
/ built on the open-source primitives we trust
We don't reinvent what's already correct. The Madness Stack composes battle-tested open source.
Talos Linux
Kamaji
Cilium (eBPF)
Cloud Hypervisor
LINSTOR
Pingora
Vector
ClickHouse
ConnectRPC
01/ problem
The impossible choice — solved.
Today, every team chooses between three flawed archetypes. Each forces a real trade-off you shouldn't have to make.
The Bureaucracies
→ AWS, GCP, Azure
Power at the cost of sanity. 200+ services, opaque billing, weeks of onboarding for a single workload.
The Naked Metal
→ Bare metal providers
Raw power, zero intelligence. Every developer becomes a sysadmin.
Avahana abstracts the machine without amputating its capabilities. Simple button for the novice, raw primitives for the expert.
02/ solution
Code → live in 60 seconds.
One CLI command. One web action. Either way, your database is accepting connections inside a minute.
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03/ pillars
Four non-negotiable principles.
If a feature does not support one of these, it does not ship.
Zero-friction developer experience
→ From git push to live URL in under 60 seconds.
- Smart Buildpacks — auto-detect Node, Go, Python, Rust. No Dockerfile required.
- service.yaml — one declarative file. Replaces Terraform, Helm, and K8s YAMLs.
- Instant preview environments for every pull request.
Glass-box transparency
→ Eliminate bill shock and black-box debugging.
- Real-time metering. Billing metrics update every minute.
- Telemetry as a service: Logs, metrics, and traces pre-configured. Powered by ClickHouse.
- Deep introspection: secure web terminal into running containers, with audit logging.
Polymorphic infrastructure
→ Run the right workload on the right physics.
- Web apps in native containers — speed and density.
- Databases and AI in microVMs — hardware isolation, line-rate IOPS.
- Edge functions in Wasm — millisecond cold starts.
Intrinsic security
→ Security by default, not by configuration.
- Zero-trust networking: mTLS via SPIFFE, WireGuard service-to-service.
- Supply chain: every build signed by Cosign; unsigned images refused.
- Runtime defense: eBPF probes (Tetragon) kill prohibited syscalls in the kernel.
04/ the stack
The Madness Stack.
Twelve layers, ruthlessly chosen. Each one rejects a legacy abstraction in favor of a primitive that respects the hardware.
L0
The Substrate
→ Talos Linux
An immutable, API-driven OS that boots in RAM. No SSH. No console. No package manager.
L1
The Factory
→ Kamaji (Control Plane as a Service)
Tenant control planes run as lightweight pods sharing a hyper-optimized multi-tenant etcd backend.
L2
Virtualization
→ Polymorphic Isolation Engine
Adaptive runtime: microVMs on metal, hardened containers on cloud, Wasm for edge functions.
L3
The Fabric
→ Cilium (eBPF) + Gateway API
Adaptive networking: BGP on metal for line-rate routing, accelerated overlays in the cloud.
L4
Storage & State
→ LINSTOR + OpenEBS LocalPV
Dual-engine NVMe plane: replicated DRBD for stateful pets, raw passthrough for cattle.
L5
The Edge
→ Pingora (Rust)
Programmable, self-hosted edge proxy with auth, billing, and WAF compiled into the binary.
The numbers we're chasing.
<0ms
VM cold start
Cloud Hypervisor
<0ms
Network overhead
eBPF / XDP
<0s
Build → deploy
BuildKit + Dragonfly
<0s
Telemetry latency
Vector + ClickHouse
05/ use cases
Built for what you ship today — and what comes next.
06/ pricing
Pricing that respects your time and your wallet.
Three tiers. No hidden egress. Scale-to-zero on idle. Real numbers, no contact-sales gates.
Builder
Pay-as-you-go
Developers, freelancers, early startups.
Scaler
Subscription + usage
Growth startups, SMB engineering teams, BYOC.
Sovereign
Annual license
Regulated industries, government, air-gapped.
07/ compare
Coming from somewhere else?
We wrote honest, side-by-side comparisons. They include where the other platform is the right call.
Ready to skip the trade-offs?
Join the waitlist. We'll send one email when the beta opens — that's it.
09/ faq
Frequently asked questions
We're targeting public beta in the second half of 2026. Database deployments (Postgres, Mongo, Redis) ship first; web services, AI, and edge follow. Join the waitlist for an invite.