About Nexlayer

The Agentic Cloud.

Your coding agent builds the app. Nexlayer ships and runs the production system.

The Agentic Cloud

AI agents have changed the rate at which software is created. A single founder, engineer, or product team can now generate a full-stack application in minutes. But generating code was never the whole job. Every real product needs infrastructure it can deploy to, run on, debug, scale, and operate.

Production is the bottleneck.

Every major cloud was designed around the same assumption: a human operator would be there. A human would read the docs, wire the services, manage the secrets, debug the failures, and wake up when production broke. That assumption is breaking. The next generation of software will be built by humans working with agents, and those agents will produce software at a velocity and volume no human operations team can absorb.

Nexlayer is the production infrastructure layer for that world. Not another hosting platform. The Agentic Cloud.

Two agents, one production system

Your coding agent writes the software. Nexlayer's production agent ships it and runs it.

A coding agent describes the application once: services, routes, private networking, secrets, volumes, domains, and compute requirements. Nexlayer turns that description into a running production system. From that point on, the production side is Nexlayer's job: deployment, observability, diagnostics, scaling, and repair.

Agents should not have to reason about infrastructure primitives like orchestration, ingress, volume mounts, and scheduling decisions.

They declare production intent. Nexlayer converges the system.

Why this requires a different cloud

Most platforms answering the AI moment are retrofitting serverless infrastructure built for stateless functions and human dashboards. That architecture cannot do what agent-built software needs.

Nexlayer is always-on by design. Every application runs in its own isolated environment with autoscaling compute: no cold starts, no execution time limits, no stateless ceiling. That is what makes persistent services, long-running agent workloads, durable storage, private service-to-service networking, and GPU-backed compute possible on the same platform.

It is also what makes the platform operable by agents, not just deployable by them. An agent on Nexlayer can inspect a live service, hold a shell session, query a database, read logs, and scale a workload, because there is a real, persistent environment to operate on. Platforms built on serverless primitives cannot offer this without rebuilding their foundation.

The production contract

If agents are going to build real products, they need more than a place to host code. They need a production environment with clear semantics: what is public, what is private, what persists, what is secret, what talks to what, and what should happen when something fails.

Nexlayer gives agents that contract.

The launchfile is not deployment config. It is a machine-readable model of a production system, the shared language between the agent that built the software and the agent that operates it. That model is what lets agents deploy and run real software today, and it is the foundation for production systems that diagnose, repair, and optimize themselves with increasing autonomy.

What works today, and where it goes

Today, a human or coding agent can turn an AI-built application into an isolated, always-on production environment on Nexlayer. When builds fail, Nexlayer's production agent diagnoses the failure and repairs the deployment, on real-world build failures, not demos.

From here, the production agent's autonomy expands: detecting failures before users do, root-causing incidents, optimizing workloads, and operating long-running systems with less and less human intervention.

Nexlayer: the cloud that agents can run on, and that agents can run. We're building it now. Join us.

Who's behind it

The team

Sal Stabler
Sal Stabler
Co-Founder & CEO

18+ years building and shipping products across multiple ventures. 2x founder and IBM Innovator of the Year. International gold medalist in the Ocean-to-Ocean Canoe Race through the Panama Canal.

Armond Honoré
Armond Honoré
Co-Founder & CTO

20+ years in cloud infrastructure, AI, and DevOps. First engineer at Bridge2 Solutions (acquired by ICE, now Bakkt). Built mission-critical platforms for Experian, ADP, The Weather Channel, ACI Worldwide, and DaVita. Holds 2 patents in mobile UI and call-tracking automation.

Frank Honoré
Frank Honoré
COO

Former VP of Engineering at Alio and co-founder of Webline (acquired by Cisco). Ex-Google X tech lead and MIT Engineering PhD, with 20+ patented technologies.

Katie Harris
Katie Harris
Founding Engineer

Senior software engineer. 2+ years building Nexlayer and its AI/LLM systems; award-winning VEX & FIRST robotics.

Why this company

Every major technology wave needed a new computing platform. The internet needed web infrastructure. Mobile needed app infrastructure. AI agents need agentic infrastructure, and many of the heaviest users of cloud infrastructure in the coming decade will not be human.

A new cloud category is a once-a-decade company. The problems are foundational: designing infrastructure semantics for non-human operators, building production systems that repair themselves, and defining how an entire generation of agent-built software reaches the world. Nothing about this is incremental.

EWORGoogle for StartupsNVIDIA InceptionHubSpotIFC

Backed by the EWOR fellowship, Google's GenAI Startup Program, and NVIDIA Inception, with angel investors from HubSpot and IFC.

Build with us

Current clouds expose low-level infrastructure to humans.

Nexlayer exposes production intent to agents.

Build the cloud that agents run on. And that agents run.

We're hiring. For roles, partnerships, and investment.

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