Freestyle
ActiveWe run and deploy code your AI wrote
About
Ben and Jacob met in Calculus class in 10th grade, and tried founding a startup in high school — it didn’t go anywhere. During high school, Ben lead the frontend team for the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 App Team. After high school, Jacob went to Apple and Ben went to college. When there was an opening on his team, Jacob had Ben apply, and Ben left UChicago to go work at Apple. They spent about 2 years at Apple as Senior Engineers in the Conversational Engineering Department, before leaving to found Freestyle. Freestyle is directly inspired by what they saw as their failures of the tech they worked with at Apple.
From their website
www.freestyle.sh ↗Freestyle provides full Linux virtual machines and Git-backed filesystems designed for AI agents, enabling real root access, nested virtualization, and agent-specific Git workflows. It emphasizes fast VM provisioning, live forking, and bidirectional Git sync for AI agent code and data.
Freestyle offers Full Linux VMs for AI agents with real root access, nested virtualization, and a complete networking stack. It provides a Git-backed filesystem per agent, including features like commits, diffs, rollback, review, and granular webhooks with per-repo controls, plus bidirectional sync with GitHub. Key capabilities include instant VM startup (under 600ms), live forking of running VMs, pause/resume with no cost while paused, and the ability to clone a VM’s working tree into the VM. Pricing tiers cover Free, Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise, with usage-based charges for VM and Git resources and enterprise features like SAML SSO and audit logs.
Who it’s for: AI teams and developers building agent-powered applications who need real Linux VMs and Git-backed code/filesystems for agents.
- Full Linux VMs with root access
- Live VM forking with millisecond copies
- Pause/Resume with no cost while paused
- Git-backed agent filesystems with commits, diffs, rollback
- Granular repo webhooks and branch/path/event filtering
- Bidirectional GitHub synchronization
- Nested virtualization and full networking stack
Pricing page with multiple tiers; mentions of enterprise features and contact sales; ongoing beta for VMs; documentation and API references available; claims of rapid provisioning and real root access.
Founders · 2
I learned to code in elementary school. In high school I served as a code owner and technical lead for the World Health Organization COVID-19 App Collective Team. I did a year of college, then took a job as a consultant for Apple. In 3 months I became a senior. I left Apple to found Freestyle.
I dropped out of college and became an Apple senior full-stack engineer in Conversational Engineering at 19. During the year and a half I worked there, I delivered multiple projects to production at scale. I love building products that inspire and delight customers, but I'm frequently frustrated by poor back-end developer tools. My co-founder and I are building a new cloud and backend workflow so that we and others can build exceptional software in a fraction of the time.
Launch
A fundamental shift in how we approach web development
Freestyle lets developers write both frontend and backend entirely in TypeScript, removing context switching between languages and eliminating separate data stores and APIs. The launch describes deploying with a single command, npx freestyle deploy, and using @cloudstate to mark data, targeting organizations seeking a unified TypeScript–driven web development workflow.
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