Sailhouse - Agent Control Plane

Product Introduction

1. Sailhouse is an event-driven infrastructure platform designed to serve as a control plane for AI agents and asynchronous systems. It enables developers to define dynamic workflows in code that automatically respond to events and data changes across distributed systems. The platform provides production-grade coordination, real-time visibility, and reliable event delivery without requiring complex infrastructure management.
2. The core value of Sailhouse lies in its ability to simplify the deployment and management of event-driven architectures at scale. It eliminates the need for heavyweight orchestration frameworks while ensuring guaranteed message delivery and system-wide observability. Developers can focus on business logic rather than infrastructure complexity, with native support for multi-cloud and serverless environments.

Main Features

1. Sailhouse offers time-based triggers and scheduled events that enable automated workflows through cron-like job scheduling and delayed event processing. Developers can programmatically define event patterns that trigger actions at specific intervals or after predetermined delays, supporting use cases like payment retries or scheduled notifications.
2. The platform provides hybrid push/pull messaging models, allowing events to be delivered via HTTP webhooks or consumed by workers through persistent subscriptions. This flexibility enables integration with serverless functions (AWS Lambda, Vercel Edge Functions) and long-running services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud providers.
3. Sailhouse implements advanced coordination primitives like wait groups, enabling parallel task execution with automatic synchronization. Developers can fan out events to multiple agents, wait for collective completion using sailhouse.wait(), and trigger subsequent actions through programmatic workflows without manual state tracking.

Problems Solved

1. Sailhouse addresses the complexity of implementing reliable, cross-cloud event coordination for distributed AI agents and microservices. Traditional solutions require stitching together multiple services (message queues, workflow engines, monitoring tools), leading to increased development time and infrastructure overhead.
2. The platform primarily targets developers building AI agent systems, asynchronous SaaS applications, and event-driven serverless architectures. It is particularly valuable for teams deploying across hybrid cloud environments who require consistent event handling between platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and traditional cloud providers.
3. Typical use cases include real-time payment processing systems requiring guaranteed delivery, AI document analysis pipelines with parallel processing stages, and multi-service e-commerce platforms needing coordinated inventory updates across distributed subsystems.

Unique Advantages

1. Unlike traditional message brokers or orchestration frameworks, Sailhouse combines event streaming with workflow control logic in a unified API surface. This eliminates the need for separate workflow engines (e.g., Temporal) and message queues (e.g., Kafka), reducing architectural complexity.
2. The platform introduces innovative features like cloud-agnostic wait groups, which provide distributed synchronization capabilities without requiring developers to manage low-level coordination logic. These are implemented through automatically managed state tokens and deadline-aware event correlation.
3. Competitive advantages include zero-configuration multi-cloud deployment, with built-in support for 12+ hosting providers and automatic retries with exponential backoff. Sailhouse outperforms alternatives through its lightweight SDKs (sub-50ms latency) and granular retention policies configurable per topic (3-90 days).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. How does Sailhouse differ from traditional message queues like RabbitMQ? Sailhouse provides higher-level workflow coordination primitives like wait groups and scheduled triggers out of the box, while maintaining message queue functionality. Unlike RabbitMQ, it handles cross-cloud deployment and automatic dead-letter queuing without additional configuration.
2. What cloud providers does Sailhouse support? The platform natively integrates with AWS, Azure, GCP, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io, and Cloudflare Workers. It uses provider-specific optimizations, such as Vercel Edge Functions for low-latency event processing and AWS SQS-compatible fallback channels.
3. How do wait groups work in practice? Developers define a group of related events (e.g., security-review and style-review topics) using the sailhouse.wait() API. The platform automatically tracks completion across all specified events and triggers a callback when all conditions are met, with configurable timeouts and error handling.
4. Can I use Sailhouse for free in production? The free tier allows non-commercial use with 1,000 monthly events and 3-day retention. For commercial applications, the Starter tier ($9/month) provides 100,000 events and global availability across all supported cloud regions.
5. What SLA does Sailhouse offer for the Pro tier? The Pro plan guarantees 99.95% uptime with 90-day event retention and prioritized event processing. It includes Slack-based support with 2-hour response times for critical issues and custom webhook rate limit configurations.