Coldstart DevOps

A DevOps engineer that never sleeps, never pages you at 3am, and fixes it itself.

We deploy an AI agent onto your infrastructure that watches your logs around the clock, diagnoses what’s wrong, takes corrective action through the AWS CLI, SSH and your existing tools — and when the fix is in the code, writes it and ships it through GitHub. Autonomous end-to-end DevOps, with guardrails you control.

Design + implementation from $15,000 · Monthly usage for tokens · Built on your stack

24/7 Eyes on your logs, every minute
Seconds From alert to first corrective action
End–to–end Detect, diagnose, fix, deploy
Your stack AWS, SSH, GitHub — whatever you run

Why you’re tired

The pager doesn’t care what time it is.

3am incidents, human response times

Something breaks at the worst possible hour. By the time someone wakes up, reads the alert, VPNs in and finds the log line, you’ve already burned twenty minutes of downtime.

Alerts nobody reads anymore

A firehose of warnings, 95% noise. The real signal is buried, so it gets ignored — until the one that mattered becomes an outage.

The fix lives in the code

Half your incidents aren’t infra — they’re a bad deploy, a leak, an unbounded query. Restarting buys time; someone still has to write the fix and ship it. Usually you.

What the agent does

It doesn’t just alert. It acts, then tells you.

We give the agent the same access a senior engineer would have — read your telemetry, run commands, open pull requests — scoped exactly to what you approve. It runs the full loop autonomously and reports what it did.

  • Watches logs, metrics and traces across your services, continuously
  • Takes corrective action via the AWS CLI, SSH, kubectl, or your own scripts
  • Writes code fixes and ships them through GitHub — PR, checks, deploy
  • Runs your runbooks — restarts, rollbacks, scaling, cache flushes
  • Escalates to a human on Slack or PagerDuty when it should
  • Writes the post-incident summary so you don’t have to

How it works

Consulting to build it right, then it runs on its own.

01

Design & instrument

1–3 weeks

We map your infrastructure, your failure modes and your existing runbooks. We wire the agent into your telemetry and define exactly what it’s allowed to touch — which commands, which repos, which environments, what needs a human. This is the part that makes autonomy safe.

Consulting scoped per engagement
02

Implement & prove

2–4 weeks

We build the automations, connect AWS, SSH and GitHub, and run the agent in shadow mode — it proposes actions, you approve them — until you trust it. Then we hand it the reins on the low-risk actions first and widen scope as confidence grows.

Included in build from $15,000 total
03

Run 24/7

ongoing

The agent runs around the clock on your infrastructure. You get a Slack summary of everything it handled, a full audit log, and a monthly review where we tune its scope and cut token cost. You pay for the compute and tokens it actually uses.

Monthly usage tokens + hosting

Autonomy you can trust

Full access. Full control. Nothing hidden.

Handing an agent production access is only reasonable if you decide exactly what it can do — and can see everything it did. That’s how we build it.

You set the blast radius

Every command, repo and environment the agent can touch is allow-listed. High-risk actions wait for a human. You widen scope on your terms.

Every action logged

A complete, timestamped record of what it saw, what it decided, and what it did — with the reasoning attached. Auditable after every incident.

A kill switch that works

Pause it, revoke its access, or drop it back to shadow mode instantly. It runs on your infrastructure, under your credentials.

It shows its work

Before it acts autonomously, it’s earned it in shadow mode. Every fix comes with a diff, a PR and a rationale — not a black-box change.

What it costs

Scoped up front. No surprises.

This is consulting to design and implement it right, then metered monthly usage — because every environment is different. The smallest engagements start at $15,000; complex, multi-service infrastructure runs higher. You’ll get a fixed quote before you commit.

Running it
Monthly usage-based

You pay for the tokens and compute it uses.

  • Metered AI tokens — pay for what it does
  • Runs on your infrastructure
  • Monthly review & scope tuning
  • Model tuning to cut cost over time
  • A direct line, not a ticket queue
  • No per-seat fees, no lock-in

The questions you’re actually asking

Fair questions.

You want to give an AI production access?

On your terms. It starts in shadow mode — proposing actions you approve — and only earns autonomy on the actions you sign off on. Everything it can touch is allow-listed, and you can pull the plug instantly.

What if it makes a bad change?

High-risk actions require human approval, code fixes ship as pull requests through your normal checks, and rollbacks are one of its first-class actions. Every step is logged with its reasoning, so nothing is a mystery.

Does it work with our stack?

If a senior engineer could operate it from a terminal, the agent can too — AWS, GCP, bare-metal over SSH, Kubernetes, GitHub, your own scripts. We wire it into what you already run rather than making you switch.

Why is pricing a range instead of a number?

Because a single web app is a different job than twelve microservices across three accounts. We scope it during the design phase and give you a fixed quote — starting at $15,000 — before you commit to anything.

Do you replace our on-call team?

We take the toil off them. The agent handles the repetitive, well-understood incidents automatically and escalates the genuinely novel ones to a human — with the context already gathered. Your engineers stop getting paged for the boring stuff.

Who owns it?

It runs on your infrastructure under your credentials, and the automations we build are yours. Same principle as everything Coldstart does — no vendor holding your operations hostage.

See it in action

One incident, start to finish, handled itself.

Watch the agent catch a 3am incident, trace it to a bad deploy, ship the fix through GitHub, and confirm recovery — while everyone’s asleep.

Stop getting paged for the boring stuff.

Book a scoping call. We’ll walk through your infrastructure and failure modes, tell you honestly what an agent can take off your plate, and give you a fixed quote — starting at $15,000 — before you commit to anything.

Usually scheduled within 48 hours · Referral partners welcome