ASCII
Ascii builds a 'Pocket CTO' for software factories, spawning and orchestrating AI agents on persistent cloud sandboxes to automate end-to-end development.
At a Glance
- AI Research Engineers
- Software Developers
- AI Agent Startups
AI Tools by ASCII
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Cloud VMs for AI Agents
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Latest News
Launch of box: Simple, powerful, and affordable sandboxes for agents.
Ascii Update: Grid view for swarm of cloud agents.
Ascii raises $500,000 to build the future of coding agents.
Ascii ships File Vault for managing JSON, Excel, and other file types in agent workflows.
Products & Services
A 'Pocket CTO' agent orchestrator that spawns and manages agents on cloud environments to automate software development workflows.
High-performance, persistent Linux (Ubuntu) virtual machines designed for AI agents and programmatic use, featuring Docker support, SSH/SCP access, and a 60fps virtual desktop.
Market Position
Positions itself as a more affordable and powerful alternative to E2B, GitHub Codespaces, and Vercel Sandbox, specifically optimized for long-running AI agents.
Leadership
Founders
Anicet Nougaret
Founder and CEO. Previously an AI researcher and 'Black holes hunter' at the European Space Agency (ESA). Founder of Obside AI and Haavi.
Kirill Makarov
Co-founder and CTO. Won the Mistral AI worldwide hackathon in Paris. Graduate of INSA Lyon.
Executive Team
Anicet Nougaret
Founder & CEO
Ex-ESA, former founder of Obside AI.
Kirill Makarov
Co-founder & CTO
Winner of Mistral AI hackathon, software engineer.
Founding Story
Founded by Anicet Nougaret and Kirill Makarov to eliminate bottlenecks in software development by providing agents with their own persistent, fully-equipped cloud environments.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based for the Ascii orchestrator and usage-based (billed by the second) for the box sandbox infrastructure.
Pricing Tiers
1 environment, 50 agents per billing period, all core features. Includes 7-day free trial.
3 environments, 1,000 agents per billing period, priority support.
10 environments, 10,000 agents per billing period, priority support.
Billed by the second. $20/mo covers approx. 555 hours of machine time (4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM).
Target Markets
- AI Research Engineers
- Software Developers
- AI Agent Startups
- Autonomous software development
- Agent-based CI/CD
- Cloud-based coding environments
- Agent sandboxing
- Engineers from Airbnb, Datadog, Google, BlackRock, Asana, Yandex, ESA, Volvo, Mistral, Hugging Face