About Boardwalk

Our mission

Agents are quickly becoming part of how software gets built and run. We believe the foundation underneath them, the technology to build, run, and operate agents in production, should be open: something you can read, self-host, and own, not a black box rented from a handful of model labs. Our mission is to build that open source agentic technology and put it in as many hands as possible.

Open source is not a distribution tactic layered on top of a closed product for us. It is the mission itself. We want the core tools of the agentic era to belong to the people who depend on them.

What we're building

The first expression of that mission is Boardwalk: the control plane for agent workflows. A workflow is a TypeScript program that calls models, runs on a schedule or a webhook, and keeps a permanent record of every run. Boardwalk is where a team builds, versions, triggers, runs, and observes them, with one contract for the manifest and one place for the runs, logs, artifacts, secrets, and spend. The same program runs identically on your laptop, on your own hardware, and hosted on Boardwalk.

We route inference rather than serve it. A workflow can call any model through our managed lane, your own provider keys, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so you are never locked to a single lab or a single runtime. It is one piece of the larger goal: open infrastructure for the whole agent lifecycle.

Open by default

The SDK (@boardwalk-labs/workflow), the CLI (@boardwalk-labs/cli), and the runtime engine are open source under permissive licenses (Apache-2.0 and MIT). You can read the code, run the whole platform yourself, and move your workflows between local, self-hosted, and our hosted platform without rewriting them. The source lives at github.com/boardwalk-labs. Building in the open keeps us honest: if the hosted product is worth paying for, it is because it is genuinely better to run, not because you are trapped.

The company

Boardwalk is built and operated by Robot Networks Inc. If you want to talk, send us a message, and see Help for documentation, status, and support.