Philosophy
Mission and Vision
Spawned aims to solve primarily three issues:
- Application code should not be coupled with underlying infrastructure
- You should not be vendor-locked to a cloud platform
- You should not have to configure infrastructure for applications
Why We Exist
Spawned’s reason to be is to be the safe way for AI agents to deploy to the cloud. Providing oversight over creation and security.
Spawned under the hood
We built our own cloud-agnostic infrastructure SDK that transpiles to Terraform. Think of it as Amazon CDK meets Vercel meets Cursor: declarative infrastructure definitions, zero-config deployment experience, and AI-driven decision making, but not locked to any single provider.
Because we transpile to Terraform, you can take your infrastructure and leave at any point. No vendor lock-in. You stay because Spawned is the easiest way to manage your cloud, not because you have to.
Two Problems with AI-Generated Code
AI generates a lot of code, and much of it is suboptimal. Spawned addresses both problems:
The “a lot” problem: The infrastructure canvas gives you instant visibility into everything that was generated. AI tools that bury code as the main artifact are moving in the wrong direction. We surface complexity at a higher abstraction level so you can actually understand what’s running.
The “suboptimal” problem: Our SDK constrains AI to only make subjective, reasoning-based decisions. Whether your database should be encrypted is not a question for AI to decide. Security defaults, compliance requirements, and best practices are built into the SDK itself.
You Build, Spawned Ships
We draw a clear line between building software and shipping it. Spawned is a generalized deployment tool that works with any stack. Infrastructure is inherently custom, and AI can now solve that customization problem.
Use whatever tools you want to build. Whatever framework, whatever language. Spawned handles everything from there. You should never be locked into a specific way of deploying.
Cloud Resources
AWS has more than 240 services. GCP and Azure have their own sprawling catalogs. Most exist for specific edge cases.
But every cloud platform reduces to the same fundamentals: compute and storage. Spawned abstracts these core primitives and generates the appropriate resources for your chosen provider.