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// design partners

Help us build the factory.

We're signing our first commercial design partners: teams who put Infrared to work on real Products, with us beside them, and decide with us where it goes next.

Whether you want to host nothing or run your own control plane in your own cloud, there's a place for you. What you build with us sets the direction of the agentic software and infrastructure factory.

book a call →

Rather write? hello@darkshift.io

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// what you get

What a design partner gets.

Infrared, running for youOn the control plane we host, or installed in your own cloud with us, in the first week.
The founders beside youDirect time with the people who built it, on your Products, not in a ticket queue.
A real Change in productionWe take one of your own issues from a sentence to production together, early on.
A say in the roadmapWhat you need shapes what we build next, starting with 0.2.
Early termsCommercial terms set with you, before there's a price list.
A direct lineFeedback goes straight to the founders, and changes land in releases you'll see.
// how it starts

Four steps.

  1. 01A callTell us what you build and how you ship it today.
  2. 02A scopeHosted or self-hosted, which Products, and what success looks like.
  3. 03An installInfrared running for you, with your forge, sign-in and model key.
  4. 04A first ChangeOne of your issues, from a sentence to production, with us beside you.
// which story is yours

Design partners come in every shape.

Tell us which of these sounds like you when you book; it helps us bring the right people.

01 / you built an app

Ship your app. Host nothing.

You built something with an AI assistant and people are using it. Upload a zip, get a private preview, and put it in production with a person on the button. No cluster, no YAML, no pager.

runs on the control plane we hostread the story →02 / a small team

A platform team in a box.

A handful of engineers, more repos than people, and no platform team. Agents clear the backlog, every push deploys zone by zone behind a release guard, and you see your delivery figures without building a dashboard.

hosted, or on your own GKE or EKSread the story →03 / a team inside a big org

The agent your security team will approve.

Agents run in your account, on your model key. Your platform team writes the opinions every agent follows, a person approves every merge, and every step leaves a record you can show an auditor.

your own control plane, your rulesread the story →04 / the enterprise

Your own factory, in your own cloud.

One install puts the control plane on your GKE or EKS. It reaches your clouds without stored keys, builds the clusters your Products run on, and keeps all of it in a gitops repo you own.

self-hosted, licensed, on your termsread the story →
← host nothingeverything in betweenyour own control plane, in your own cloud →
// partners

Bring us in. Or bring us along.

Beyond design partners, we're open to working with anyone whose customers need a platform or an agent they can trust.

Agencies and consultanciesDeliver Infrared to your clients, with darkshift behind you when a project needs platform depth.
MSPs and hostingRun Infrared control planes for your customers, on your infrastructure or alongside ours.
Cloud and tooling partnersCo-build, integrate and co-sell around the gitops, Kubernetes and agent stacks your customers run.
Open source and communityMaintainers, meetups, livestreams and talks. We've done it since Kubefirst.

Let's talk.

Thirty minutes is enough to know whether we fit. Pick a time that works for you.

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