Alstead · Answers

What is ALSTEAD?

ALSTEAD is a bounded hosted workspace for builders running coding agents. An owner runs AI agents there in a bounded loop. It is a control plane for agent work, with memory and connectors. Sandbox and cloud computer time aren't available in this alpha, and agents messaging on your behalf over iMessage is listed as coming soon. Customers bring their own AI keys. The pitch is plane-first.

This page stops at that definition. A launch date is unset, and the staged prices are not live checkout.

What the sentences are based on

That description covers: a hosted workspace, a bounded loop, a control plane, memory, connectors, and customer-supplied AI keys. Sandboxes and cloud computers are planned for the Pro plan once they're verified, and iMessage messaging is coming soon. Neither is in this alpha. The pitch line in both files is plane-first.

A separate page, "What is a plane-first agent workspace?", keeps that pitch from being stretched. The sandboxes page states the only compute hours in the allowed facts, which are planned for Pro and aren't available in this alpha. The keys page states how model billing is described. None of those pages add a second definition of the product.

Qualifications

ALSTEAD is for builders running coding agents who want a bounded hosted workspace. This page does not name a job title, an industry, or a company size beyond that locked ICP.

This page does not give a user count, a revenue figure, or an uptime figure. It does not give a fixed monthly cost for running agents. Model use is on the customer's own key, and that spend is not estimated here. It does not list connectors, memory limits, or key storage. Those details are not in the facts this draft may use.

The loop is called bounded because that is the wording of the product fact. The bounds this draft can point at are the named parts of the workspace and the compute hours listed for the planned Pro plan on the sandboxes page, which aren't available in this alpha. Other bounds are not specified here.