# North Bay Ventures > North Bay Ventures (northbayventures.com) is a venture studio in Miami that builds the companies agents depend on™: Sandboxer (sandboxer.com) gives every agent its own computer, Transformer (transformer.gg) lets agents run creator campaigns, and Flagger.gg (flagger.gg) gives agents feature flags. Founded by Jon Oringer, the founder of Shutterstock. Operated by North Bay Opco I, Inc. (a Delaware corporation), 777 Brickell Ave, Suite 500 PMB 1074, Miami, FL 33131. Contact: support@northbayventures.com. Facts about Sandboxer, Transformer and Flagger.gg on this site come from each product's own site and its llms.txt, and are checked daily. For full product documentation, see https://sandboxer.com/llms.txt, https://transformer.gg/llms.txt and https://flagger.gg/llms.txt. Every page on this site as plain text: https://www.northbayventures.com/llms-full.txt ## North Bay Ventures - [About North Bay Ventures](https://www.northbayventures.com/about/): North Bay Ventures builds the companies agents depend on™: Sandboxer, Transformer and Flagger.gg give agents computers, creator campaigns and feature flags. - [Feature flags instead of staging](https://www.northbayventures.com/feature-flags-instead-of-staging/): Why North Bay Ventures companies ship straight to production behind feature flags instead of a staging server, and the flag design we use to do it. - [How the studio uses agents day to day](https://www.northbayventures.com/how-the-studio-uses-agents/): How North Bay Ventures runs on agents: a chief-of-staff agent, worker agents for long jobs, scheduled checks, and approvals that only the founder can give. - [How we build companies](https://www.northbayventures.com/how-we-build/): How a small team at North Bay Ventures uses AI agents and shared infrastructure to take a company from a domain name to paying customers quickly. - [How Sandboxer, Flagger.gg and Transformer work together](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer-flagger-transformer-together/): One agent, three steps: build in a Sandboxer sandbox, ship behind a Flagger.gg feature flag, then launch with creator posts on Transformer. - [How do you make a product AI agents can use?](https://www.northbayventures.com/make-your-product-usable-by-ai-agents/): A practical checklist for products AI agents can use: an API, a CLI with JSON, an MCP server, scoped keys, safe retries, notes and an audit log, and llms.txt. - [Running many coding agents in parallel](https://www.northbayventures.com/running-agents-in-parallel/): How North Bay Ventures runs many coding agents at once: one task per branch, clear areas, independent review, shared resources by ID, and people on hard calls. - [How do you stop an AI agent from overspending?](https://www.northbayventures.com/stop-ai-agents-overspending/): Practical spending limits for AI agents: prepaid balances, hard stops, per-member caps, auto-stop deadlines, and paying only after the other side says yes. - [How do you write documentation AI agents can use?](https://www.northbayventures.com/documentation-for-ai-agents/): Docs for AI agents: Markdown versions of pages, an OpenAPI file, llms.txt and llms-full.txt, exact examples, clear tool descriptions and honest labels. - [How do you write instructions for AI coding agents?](https://www.northbayventures.com/how-to-write-instructions-for-ai-coding-agents/): AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are plain Markdown files coding agents read before they work. What to put in them, what to leave out, and how to keep them short. - [Is Flagger.gg the same as Flux Flagger?](https://www.northbayventures.com/flagger-gg-vs-flux-flagger/): Flagger.gg is a hosted feature-flag service for AI agents. Flux Flagger is a Kubernetes progressive-delivery operator. How they differ and when each fits. - [Jon Oringer](https://www.northbayventures.com/jon-oringer/): Jon Oringer founded Shutterstock in 2003 and now builds AI-native companies, including Sandboxer, Transformer and Flagger.gg, at North Bay Ventures in Miami. - [Our companies](https://www.northbayventures.com/companies/): North Bay Ventures companies: Sandboxer, cloud sandboxes for AI agents; Transformer, the agentic influencer marketplace; Flagger.gg, flags for agents. - [North Bay Ventures FAQ](https://www.northbayventures.com/faq/): Answers to common questions about North Bay Ventures: what the studio does, which companies it builds, who runs it and how to get in touch. - [Privacy policy](https://www.northbayventures.com/privacy/): How North Bay Ventures handles information on northbayventures.com, including Google Analytics cookies, what is collected, how to opt out and how to contact us. - [Venture studio vs incubator vs accelerator](https://www.northbayventures.com/venture-studio-vs-incubator-vs-accelerator/): How a venture studio differs from an incubator and an accelerator: who has the idea, who builds the company, and what founders give and get from each. - [What is llms.txt?](https://www.northbayventures.com/what-is-llms-txt/): llms.txt is a plain-text file at a site's root that tells AI assistants and agents what the site is and where the details are. What goes in it, with examples. - [What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?](https://www.northbayventures.com/what-is-mcp/): MCP is an open standard that lets AI assistants and agents use outside tools and services. How it works, how sign-in works, and real examples. - [What makes a company AI-native?](https://www.northbayventures.com/ai-native-companies/): An AI-native company uses agents as part of the team from day one and builds products agents can use directly. Here is what that looks like in practice. ## Sandboxer - [What is Sandboxer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/): Sandboxer runs cloud sandboxes for AI agents: full Ubuntu microVMs with root, Docker, pause with memory, forks and per-second billing. - [Agent swarms: running many agents in parallel](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/agent-swarms/): How to run many AI coding agents at once on Sandboxer, one microVM each, started from a template and limited by your plan's concurrency. - [CI and testing](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/ci-and-testing/): Use Sandboxer in CI: run each GitHub Actions job in a fresh microVM, shard test suites across sandboxes, and post a preview URL per pull request. - [Forking sandboxes](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/forking-sandboxes/): How sbx fork copies a Sandboxer sandbox's disk into a new, independent microVM, what it keeps, what it leaves out, and when to use templates. - [Getting started with Sandboxer](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/getting-started/): Install the sbx CLI, sign in, and create, use, stop and fork your first Sandboxer sandbox, using the commands from Sandboxer's quickstart. - [How do you give a sandbox port an HTTPS URL?](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/https-urls-for-ports/): How Sandboxer turns any port in a sandbox into an HTTPS URL with TLS and WebSockets, private with a token by default or public with one flag. - [MicroVMs vs containers: why each sandbox is a microVM](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/microvms-vs-containers/): Why every Sandboxer sandbox is a Cloud Hypervisor microVM with its own kernel rather than a container, and what that changes for agents. - [Agent evaluations and benchmarks](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/agent-evaluations/): How eval and research teams use Sandboxer: one fresh microVM per task from a named snapshot, run in parallel, with results copied out. - [Pause and resume with memory](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/pause-and-resume/): How Sandboxer stops a sandbox with its memory saved, so processes keep running after resume, and why a stopped sandbox costs nothing. - [Root, Docker and nested virtualization](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/docker-and-nested-virtualization/): Every Sandboxer sandbox has passwordless sudo, Docker with Compose, and /dev/kvm, so Kubernetes, QEMU and the Android emulator run inside. - [Coding agents in the cloud](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/coding-agents/): Sandboxer sandboxes come with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Kimi Code and Mistral Vibe installed. How to prompt, steer and keep them running. - [Running untrusted code](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/run-untrusted-code/): How to run LLM-written or user-submitted code in a disposable Sandboxer microVM that holds none of your secrets, then throw it away. - [Sandboxer FAQ](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/faq/): Short answers to common questions about Sandboxer: what a sandbox is, pricing, regions, stop and resume, agents, Docker, security and limits. - [The Sandboxer MCP server](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/mcp-server/): Sandboxer's hosted MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor tools to create cloud VMs, run commands and publish ports. - [Sandboxer pricing](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/pricing/): Sandboxer pricing as published: per-second billing from $0.018/h, plans from $20/month that come back as machine time. No free trial. - [Sandboxer regions](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/regions/): Sandboxer runs in two regions, us-east in Ashburn, Virginia and eu-central in Helsinki, Finland. How a region is picked and how to choose one. - [SDKs, CLI and API](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/sdks-and-cli/): The ways to drive Sandboxer: the sbx CLI, the sandboxer-sdk packages for TypeScript and Python, the REST API and a Daytona-compatible API. - [Security and isolation](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/security-and-isolation/): How Sandboxer isolates each sandbox: one microVM per sandbox, no network path to the host, blocked sandbox-to-sandbox traffic and scoped keys. - [What is an AI agent sandbox?](https://www.northbayventures.com/sandboxer/what-is-an-agent-sandbox/): An AI agent sandbox is an isolated computer where an agent can run code and tools safely. Here is what a good one needs and how Sandboxer does it. ## Transformer - [What is Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/): Transformer is an influencer marketplace where brands pay creators for verified posts on X, with tracked links and an MCP server, CLI and API for AI agents. - [What are AI influencers on Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/ai-influencers/): Transformer's optional AI persona add-on: synthetic creators clearly labeled as AI, $29 a month per persona with 200 generation credits included. - [How do creator payouts work on Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/creator-payouts/): Creators on Transformer keep 80% of each payout and commission, and are paid by PayPal or USDC from $10, usually within 3 business days. - [How do you get started with Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/getting-started/): Step-by-step setup for Transformer: create an account, choose a brand or creator workspace, connect X, create an API key and send or accept your first offer. - [How does Transformer work?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/how-it-works/): A Transformer deal on X: the brand sends an offer and pays when it's accepted, the creator posts, Transformer verifies it, and the payout is released. - [How should a startup do influencer marketing?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/influencer-marketing-for-startups/): Why X suits startup and developer-tool influencer marketing, how to run a first creator campaign on a small budget, and how Transformer handles it. - [Influencer marketing vs paid ads: when does each win?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/influencer-marketing-vs-paid-ads/): Paid ads buy reach on demand; creator posts bring trust and a focused audience. How they compare on cost, trust and measurement, and how to use both. - [Why work with micro and nano influencers?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/micro-influencers/): Why smaller creators on X are often the best first campaign, how nano and micro tiers are defined, and how Transformer prices and measures them. - [How does pay-per-verified-post work on Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/pay-on-verified-posts/): How Transformer holds a brand's payment once a creator accepts and releases it only after the creator's post is verified live on X with the link and #ad. - [How do you run an influencer campaign from an AI agent?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/agents-and-mcp/): How to connect Claude, Cursor or another MCP client to Transformer's MCP server and let an agent send offers, track verified posts and report sales. - [How should sponsored posts be disclosed?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/ftc-disclosure/): General guidance on disclosing paid posts with #ad, what the FTC and X expect, and how Transformer checks for a disclosure before releasing payment. - [How does Transformer track clicks and sales?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/attribution/): How Transformer attributes clicks and sales to creators: a tracked link per offer, a tf_click id on your URL, and conversions reported from your server. - [What are the Transformer CLI and REST API?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/cli-and-api/): Transformer's command-line tool and REST API: install, authenticate with a workspace key, send offers, submit posts and report conversions from code. - [Transformer FAQ](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/faq/): Answers to common questions about Transformer: what it is, what it costs, how creators get paid, how posts are verified and how AI agents use it. - [How do brands use Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/for-brands/): How brands use Transformer to send offers to X creators, hold payment until each post is verified, and measure clicks and sales per creator. - [How do creators earn on Transformer?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/for-creators/): How creators use Transformer: sign in with X read-only, accept brand offers, post in your own words with #ad, and keep 80% once the post is verified. - [How much does Transformer cost?](https://www.northbayventures.com/transformer/pricing-and-fees/): Transformer has no subscription, seats or minimums. Brands set each payout, creators keep 80%, and Transformer keeps 20% of payouts and sales commission. ## Flagger.gg - [Feature flags for AI agents.](https://www.northbayventures.com/flagger/): Flagger.gg is feature flags for AI agents: they create, flip and roll back flags through MCP, the CLI and SDKs with guardrails, audit and human approval.