Waymaker Host · The build layerUnlock the box. Keep the guardrails.
Website builders put small business online, inside a template. Host gives you real code in your own repository, written with your own AI agent, and runs it with the guardrails a business needs: releases, isolation and roles. Your app, its database, files, email and AI, as one Solution.
Host comes with every paid seat. No setup needed to start building.
The small-business development revolution
The web came to small business in a box.
Templates and website builders let anyone get online without a developer. The price was the box: you get what the template allows. When the business needs more, it needs a developer, a dozen vendors and a pipeline to hold them together. Host takes the box away and keeps what made it safe.
Unlocked
Build anything your business needs
Real code, in your own repository
Not a template’s idea of your business. Any app you can describe, in code you own and can take anywhere.
Written with your own agent
Open the repository in Commander Desktop and work with Claude, or the AI tool you already use, to build it.
Everything a real app needs
A database you can branch, functions, background agents, storage, email and AI, without opening a dozen accounts.
Guardrails
Run it like a business, not a side project
Releases that refuse to break things
Plan shows what will change; migrations run before the app that needs them; a step that would break stops the release before anything is touched.
Isolation
Each Solution is its own unit: every app, database, bucket and domain belongs to exactly one, in the region you choose.
Roles
Viewers, releasers and owners per Solution, so a contractor can ship your work without a seat, and lose access the moment you say.
The whole loop: open your repository in Commander Desktop, bring your agent, build the Solution in Host, release it. No pipeline to write, and no dozen accounts.
The Solution is the product
Most platforms rent you parts. Host gives you the whole.
An app is never alone. It has a database, a scheduled job, a bucket of uploads, a domain, emails to send and, more and more, an AI to call. Host keeps all of it together as a Solution, so it ships together and stays secure together.
One place
The app, its database, functions, files, domains, email and AI, grouped as one Solution in the region you choose.
One release
Plan, migrate, deploy, verified. The database changes before the app that reads it, every time.
One bill (coming soon)
Per-Solution billing is coming, so a client’s app will be the client’s cost. Today, hosting, builds, SSL and bandwidth are included.
The right people
Viewers, releasers and owners per Solution, including a contractor who ships your work without a seat.
The tools
Everything a Solution is made of
Build
The software itself: the app, its data, and the code that runs behind it.
Push your code. It’s live, everywhere, in minutes.
A website or web application, built from your GitHub repository and served at its own URL, as part of a Solution.
Learn moreReal Postgres you can branch like code.
A managed Postgres database for your Solution, in the region you choose.
Learn moreBackend code that runs itself, on demand or on schedule.
Serverless functions triggered by a request, a schedule, or a webhook, running in 300+ cities.
Learn moreServerless that remembers, and keeps working.
Long-running AI workers that keep their state between runs and can act on a schedule.
Learn moreServices
What every app needs around it: files, domains, email and AI.
Store anything. Serve it everywhere. No download fees.
Object storage for images, uploads, exports and media, read and written by your apps, functions and agents.
Learn moreYour brand on every app, secured automatically.
Your own domain names on your apps and buckets, with certificates issued and renewed for you.
Learn moreEmails from your app that actually arrive.
Email your app sends as itself (receipts, sign-in links, notifications) from its own sending domain.
Learn moreOne key for the leading models. No provider accounts.
An OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoint at ai.waymakerone.com that gives your app Claude, GPT and Gemini with one key per Solution.
Learn moreWithout Host
What you’d otherwise stitch together
AI can write a real app in an afternoon. Running it still means ten or twelve vendors, each with its own account, keys and bill, plus a deployment pipeline you write and maintain yourself.
| What a real app needs | Usually | On Waymaker Host |
|---|---|---|
| Front-end hosting | A separate vendor | Apps |
| A database | A separate vendor | Databases |
| Sign-in for your users | A separate vendor | Built into Databases |
| Serverless functions | A separate vendor | Ambassadors |
| Background jobs and schedules | A separate vendor | Ambassadors and Agents |
| File storage | A separate vendor | Storage |
| Email from your app | A separate vendor | Transactional Email |
| AI model accounts and keys | A separate vendor | AI Gateway |
| Domains and certificates | A separate vendor | Domains |
| Secrets and environment variables | Copied into every vendor | Set once on the Solution |
| Deploying it all in the right order | A CI/CD pipeline you write yourself | Releases |
| To run one app | 10–12 accounts, 10–12 bills, a pipeline to maintain | One Solution, one account |
How releases work
Plan. Migrate. Deploy. Verified.
Because Host owns the database as well as the app, it can put the migration in front of the deploy, and refuse a release that would break, before anything is touched.
- 1
Plan
See what the release will do before anything runs. If any step would refuse, nothing runs.
- 2
Migrate
Schema changes apply before the app that needs them, so nothing boots against a database it doesn’t know.
- 3
Deploy
Everything ships in dependency order, and each step records what actually happened.
Build with what you use
Built for the way software gets made now
Write it yourself, or have Claude write it. Either way, Host is where it runs, with the database, secrets and sign-in already in reach.
Git
Connect a repository once; every push builds and deploys, with a preview per branch.
Claude, Cursor and any MCP client
Build and deploy from the conversation you’re already in. Your AI tool can create the database, set the secrets and ship.
The Waymaker CLI
Create, deploy, migrate and release from your terminal, and script it into CI.
The foundation
Commander
The tools your business runs on every day.
The build layer
Host
What you build for the parts of your business no one sells you.
The intelligence
One
The AI that already knows your business.
The way to make your business OS. Design. Make. Own.
Included with your licence
Host comes with any paid Waymaker licence, and every tier gets the same Host. Hosting, builds, SSL, bandwidth and custom domains are included. Compute, storage and email sent are metered and, today, draw on your plan’s credits. Per-Solution billing, with its own bill for every Solution, is coming soon.
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All guides and articlesQuestions
What is Waymaker Host?
Waymaker Host is where you build and run the software your business needs: apps, managed Postgres databases, serverless functions, AI agents, storage, domains, transactional email and AI model access. Everything one product needs is grouped into a Solution that is released as one.
What is a Solution?
A Solution is everything one product needs, grouped: the app, its database, its functions, files, domains, email and AI. It lives in one region, releases in one movement (migrations before deploys) and has its own members.
Do I need a Waymaker plan to use Host?
Yes. Host comes with any paid Waymaker licence, and every tier gets the same Host. Hosting, builds, SSL, bandwidth and custom domains are included; metered usage draws on your plan’s credits today, and per-Solution billing is coming soon.
Where should you deploy something you built with Claude Code?
Somewhere it can reach your business data without rebuilding that data first. AI coding tools produce the code quickly; what remains is a database, a scheduler, authentication and API keys. A platform supplying those removes most of the work left.
What does it cost to host a small custom business app?
Less than the wiring around it. Hosting a low-traffic internal app is close to free on most platforms; the recurring cost is the managed database, the job scheduler and the identity provider - which is why the bill rarely resembles the hosting quote.
Why do serverless functions struggle with business logic?
Because they start with no context. A function knows the request it received and nothing about the company it serves - no goals, no projects, no people - so every useful behaviour begins by fetching and re-deriving that state from somewhere else.
Should you build or buy internal tools?
Buy anything that is not specific to how your business works, and build the part that is. The mistake runs both ways: buying a generic product for the one process that differentiates you, or rebuilding something already commoditised.