HeyBoss AI’s first prompt reaches an agent that is already running
HeyBoss promises a small business it can launch in minutes, which leaves no room to boot a machine in front of the customer. AgentSky has the cloud computer running before the first task arrives, and bills nothing for the agents that are parked.
HeyBoss AI
- Company size:
- Growth
- Region:
- North America
- Industry:
- AI software
- Products:
- Agent API, prewarmed cloud computer, session persistence
250,000
agents launched*
0
Provisioning steps inside the customer’s first turn
The promise is on a clock
HeyBoss is an all-in-one website and business builder: a small business describes what it wants and gets a site, a store, a portal, or an internal tool, with SEO, hosting, CRM, and email attached. Its public promise is a business launched in ten minutes.
That number is the product, and it decides what the first screen is allowed to do. The person watching it is not a developer waiting on a build — they are a shop owner deciding whether signing up was worth it. “Preparing your environment” is not a stage they have agreed to sit through.
The work behind that screen is real, though. An agent that produces a working site needs an actual computer, and a cold one has to be created, booted, and loaded before it can make anything a customer can see.
“Startup work is real work. The only question is whose minutes it spends.”
The preparation happens before the turn
On AgentSky that preparation runs ahead of HeyBoss’s call. The cloud computer is booted and the harness is running, so the request that starts the build reaches a worker that is already alive.
The visible effect is the entire point: the customer types a request and files start appearing. There is no spin-up stage in the waiting path, and no progress copy invented to cover one.
Everything the customer touches stays HeyBoss’s — the prompt, the editor, the project, the business features, the published result. What moved is the moment the runtime gets ready.
And the second visit, too
A customer who reopens a project days later resumes the same session, with the repository, the dependencies, and the build history intact. Persistence is served on the same call as the agent, so a returning worker arrives as prepared as a new one.
That matters more than it sounds. A hand-built system usually grows one path for cold starts and a second for resumed sessions, and the second one is the one nobody load-tests — while being the one that decides whether a customer comes back at all.
What a warm pool costs to own
Prewarming is one sentence to describe and a standing system to run: a pool per harness, a health model for idle workers, an eviction policy, a spend ceiling, and a fresh warm-up path every time another agent is added.
It is also the version of this that is expensive when it is doing nothing. A pool you keep hot is a pool you pay for whether or not anyone shows up, which is why homegrown prewarming tends to get tuned down until it stops working.
AgentSky owns provisioning, prewarm, persistence, and recovery behind the same API for new and returning workers. Compute is metered by the second while an agent is awake, and a parked agent bills none — so readiness is not a bill HeyBoss pays for the sessions nobody opened.
“The customer-facing turn reaches a prepared runtime, instead of owning every step that prepared it.”
Results at a glance
- Launched 250,000 agents with provisioning moved ahead of the customer’s first prompt
- Removed cloud-computer spin-up from the waiting path, so visible build work starts on the first turn
- Resumes returning projects on the same session, with repository, dependencies, and build history intact
- Keeps warm pools, eviction policy, and recovery out of HeyBoss’s codebase and off its on-call rotation
Lessons for builders
- Ask whose minutes the startup cost spends before trying to shorten it. Moving the work usually beats optimizing it.
- Treat the first turn as a product surface. A customer reads a provisioning stage as the product being slow, not as infrastructure being honest.
- Make the second visit as prepared as the first. It is the one that decides whether they come back, and the one nobody tests.
- Price readiness before you build it. A warm pool bills for the sessions that never happen, which is how prewarming quietly gets turned off.
Minutes spent on the build, not on the machine
HeyBoss sells the feeling that a business can be built by asking for it, and that feeling is decided in the first few seconds — before any of the product’s real capability has had a chance to show.
Moving preparation ahead of the customer’s turn, and keeping returning sessions ready to resume, is how those seconds get spent on the build rather than on the machine behind it.
Build on AgentSky
One call serves the agent, its model, the cloud computer it works on, and the workspace it keeps between visits. Your UI, your brand — AgentSky runs the agent.
