Nightshift

Building the infrastructure to power the sovereign agent era

Agents should run on your infrastructure, under your control. We build the open-source platform that makes that possible.

Our mission

We build the infrastructure that powers the next generation of software. Agents cannot solve what they cannot see. They need sandboxed, reproducible, and consumable environments to do their best work.

Our stance

Build for the model 6 months from now. The infrastructure of the future will support agents as first-class citizens. Open source, Kubernetes-native, and secure by default.

Team

Meet the team

Ethan Henley

Ethan Henley

CEO

Ethan has a background in computer vision research at Virginia Tech and worked with regulated customers in public and private sectors to build out machine learning systems.

Gianni Crivello

Gianni Crivello

CTO

Gianni has a deep background in systems engineering and infrastructure with years of experience building out AI Centers of Excellence at various commercial customers.

Our journey

  1. Apr 2025

    The experiment

    We pointed a computer use agent at a snapshot of a customer's database to see if it could answer real questions about their business. It could. It could also take actions, build internal tools, and automate the small tasks that quietly eat hundreds of hours every week.

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    Gianni Crivello

    Co-Founder, CTO

  2. May 2025

    Nightshift founded

    We kept seeing the same pattern: AI that looked brilliant in a demo and broke down in production. We assumed the bottleneck was cost and inference, so we spent months chasing cheap GPUs and optimizing token throughput. We were wrong.

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    Ethan Henley

    Co-Founder, CEO

  3. Jun 2025

    The pivot

    We decided the harness and application layer wasn't strong enough. We spent months building more sophisticated orchestration, more app features, more scaffolding around the model. Yet more failed user experiences. More demos that didn't scale.

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    Gianni Crivello

    Co-Founder, CTO

  4. Aug 2025

    The breakthrough

    As a last resort, we stripped all of that away. We connected every piece of data we could directly into Claude and just asked it to do the work. It exceeded every expectation. The infrastructure between the model and the work was the bottleneck.

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    Gianni Crivello

    Co-Founder, CTO

  5. Jan 2025

    Open source launch

    We released Nightshift as Apache 2.0. The core insight was simple: stop building around the model you have today. Build for the model six months from now. Give it secure, sandboxed access to real systems and get out of the way.

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    Ethan Henley

    Co-Founder, CEO

  6. Mar 2026

    Cr0n

    Launched Cr0n, our opinionated managed offering for agent work orchestration. Teams can provision isolated compute and schedule recurring agent work from a single control plane. Check it out here

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    Ethan Henley

    Co-Founder, CEO

  7. Apr 2026

    Where we are now

    Production teams are running agents on Nightshift daily: procurement automation, financial reporting, compliance auditing. The infrastructure is invisible. The agents just work. That's the whole point.

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    Gianni Crivello

    Co-Founder, CTO

Careers

We're growing the team

We're looking for systems engineers, researchers, and infrastructure builders who are excited about the agent era. If you care deeply about open source, systems, and coding, we want to hear from you.

We're a small, focused team based in Pittsburgh and Miami. We move fast, ship often, and build in the open.

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