Anomaly Innovations

Anomaly Innovations Inc. is a developer-focused software company building open, composable infrastructure for the modern cloud and AI-native era. The company is best known for creating SST (Serverless Stack) and a growing family of open-source tools that emphasize clarity, ownership, and long-term maintainability over black-box abstractions.

Founded by experienced infrastructure and developer tooling engineers, Anomaly’s work consistently revolves around a simple belief: developers should understand and own their systems, not fight them. This philosophy shows up across every product the company ships.

Rather than building isolated tools, Anomaly maintains a cohesive open-source ecosystem designed to work well together while remaining useful independently. This includes SST for defining cloud infrastructure using real programming languages, OpenNext for deploying and owning Next.js infrastructure, OpenAuth for composable authentication primitives, OpenTUI for building rich terminal interfaces, Models.dev for understanding and comparing AI models, and OpenCode — a privacy-first, local-first AI coding agent built primarily for terminal workflows.

Across these projects, Anomaly follows a consistent set of principles: open-source first, escape hatches over lock-in, minimal magic, and deep respect for production reality. Tools are designed to be auditable, self-hostable, and understandable, even as systems scale in complexity. Where abstractions exist, they are meant to simplify without hiding how things actually work.

Anomaly’s approach to AI reflects this same mindset. Instead of treating AI as a closed platform, the company treats it as infrastructure — something that should be model-agnostic, swappable, cost-transparent, and under developer control. OpenCode, for example, runs locally by default, does not retain user code or context, and allows developers to bring their own models or providers. Optional services like OpenCode Zen layer curated model access on top without compromising the core open-source workflow.

The company is backed by Y Combinator and notable technology investors including Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Steve Chen, and its tools are used by startups, scale-ups, and independent developers worldwide. Despite this backing, Anomaly has maintained a strong indie-infrastructure mindset: build things that last, prioritize trust over lock-in, and optimize for long-term developer confidence rather than short-term growth tactics.

At its core, Anomaly Innovations builds tools for developers who care about owning their infrastructure, understanding their AI systems, and building software that will still make sense years down the line. It is not a platform company chasing dependency — it is an infrastructure company betting that clarity scales better than complexity."