NiteShift

Hand an AI coding agent root access to your live stack and your secrets, and you are trusting the runtime underneath it completely. NiteShift wants to be that runtime for every agent at once — Claude Code, Codex, and the rest — and two ex-Datadog founders raised a Greylock-led $7M seed to build it, a round TechCrunch and FinSMEs both reported. The pitch reads clean: a neutral, $50-to-$250 cloud where any agent works against your real environment. Five partners spent a single day on 58 public sources, every claim traced back to where it came from and no founder narrative taken on faith. What none of that settles is whether NiteShift is the layer the whole category ends up running on or a convenience the platforms eventually absorb — and that gap turns on something the public record simply does not show. The teardown closes it. Read it before the next round sets the price.