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CloudThinker for Startups: The Lean Stack You Run On | CloudThinker
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Your agents write the code.
Five agents stand between them and production.
Four engineers and a coding agent now ship like a company of twenty. The platform team that used to check all of it was never hired. These five are that team.
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Your environment
Agents can write anything. AgenticOps decides what reaches production.
For Startups
One journey, from first deploy to enterprise.
One journey, from
first deploy to enterprise.
One journey, from
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Credits, expert consulting, and agents cover every stage a startup goes through — so a lean team gets the leverage of a much larger one.
Your Startup
Seed
Ship
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WHAT WE BRING — WITH PROOF
Launching on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Need architecture guidance
Want startup credits
01
Deploy on the cloud, the right way
STARTUP PROGRAM
What we bring
Start with thousands in CloudThinker credits, hands-on architecture consulting, and a free Well-Architected baseline — so your foundation is right on day one, not refactored a year in.
Small team, big roadmap
AI writes more code than you can read
Want agents but can’t build them yet
02
Ship your product fast
What we bring
Move fast without breaking production. AI Code Review guards every merge request, and a forward-deployed engineer can build agents for your workflows and hand them over.
No DevOps hire on the roadmap
Founders are the on-call
3AM pages with no one to answer
03
Operate 24/7 without an ops team
What we bring
Run production around the clock without hiring. Our Managed Service pairs operators with agents on a written SLA, and Resolve resolves routine incidents while you sleep.
Cloud bill outpacing revenue
Burn rate is a mystery
Runway shorter than the plan
04
Keep burn down, runway long
What we bring
Every dollar back is more runway. CostOps finds idle resources, rightsizing, and model-tiering wins across AWS, Azure, and GCP — typically 15–25% on the first pass.
Enterprise prospect demands SOC 2
A security questionnaire is blocking the deal
Annual pentest is your only test
05
Get secure, get compliant, close the deal
What we bring
Turn security from a blocker into a sales asset. Continuous Cyber pentesting on every release, plus compliance consulting that readies you for SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.
Growth is straining the team
Enterprise SLAs on the horizon
Ops can’t scale with headcount
06
Scale to enterprise
What we bring
Grow without linear hiring. The AgenticOps Platform brings agents into your Slack and console — 325+ ready-made operations with graduated autonomy — so the team’s leverage scales with you.
Product — self-serve, starts read-only
Service — delivered by our engineers
Not sure where you are?
Start at Deploy for credits and a free baseline — the map shows what comes next.
The Program
What every founder in the program gets
Startup credits & priority access
Qualifying startups get thousands of dollars in CloudThinker credits and priority onboarding — put agents to work across cost, code, incidents, and security before it touches your budget.
Expert consulting, not just software
A cloud engineer helps architect your deployment, run a Well-Architected baseline, and stand up the agents that fit your stack — the leverage of a senior ops hire without the headcount.
A partner as you scale
Early access to new agents and models, a written path from credits to standard pricing, and a team that treats your runway like its own — from seed to your first enterprise contract.
Eligibility
Who it’s for, and how the credits work
You likely qualify if
You’re an early-stage startup building on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Founded within the last five years
Backed by an institutional investor or accelerator — or bootstrapping toward it
Haven’t received CloudThinker startup credits before
How the credits work
Credits apply across every product — CostOps, Code Review, Cyber, Managed, and more
A short application, with approval within days
Priority onboarding and rate limits while you’re on credits
When credits run out, standard pricing kicks in — with CostOps keeping the bill honest
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What can I spend the credits on?
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to enterprise
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