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Boat

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Founded 2024Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

**Problem**

Humans used to need laptops to do their work. Now they prompt agents instead, and those agents need computers too: always-on, in large quantities, and with unlimited capabilities.

Building and maintaining that yourself is far from trivial.

**Solution**

Boat provides powerful, simple, permissive Ubuntu VMs in the cloud. In a sandbox, an agent can work for long periods on code or on knowledge work like legal, research, reporting, and auditing.

**Why Boat and not any other cloud VM?**

1. It is ready out of the box: every sandbox ships with a desktop, chrome, languages, docker, snapshots, and templates, plus a CLI, SDK, API, and control pane for your fleet.

2. It is permissive and paradigm agnostic: any number of agents can use any number of sandboxes. Agents can run inside or use sandboxes as an external tool.

3. It is expertly crafted: we manage everything from the individual CPU to the orchestration software, which makes sandboxes stable, persistent, scalable, and secure.

4. It is the best performance and price in town: our CPUs rank first on HPC benchmarks, and sandboxes are typically 9x to 18x cheaper than other leading sandboxes.

**Further notes**

Sandboxes are hosted in Europe, which keeps prices low, and more regions are coming. Unless compliance requires it, agents don't notice the region they run in.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously Ascii box, Ascii

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2024 · Source

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Location · source statedParis, Île-de-France, France; Remote
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