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Northflank, worked by an AI employee

Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Northflank account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.

  • Developer Tools
  • Connects with a key
  • 21 ready-made tools
  • Asked in Slack or Teams
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An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.

What Northflank is

The self-service developer platform that automates and unifies deployment of any workload, on any cloud, at any scale.

You paste in a key from your own Northflank account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Northflank whenever you like.

How a run works

One message in, the work done in Northflank.

  1. 01

    You ask

    You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.

  2. 02

    It works out the step

    It decides what the job needs in Northflank. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.

  3. 03

    It does the work

    Signed in to your own Northflank account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.

  4. 04

    It reports back

    It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.

21 tools it already has

What it can do in Northflank

These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Northflank. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.

  • Create or Update ProjectTool to create a new project or update an existing project in Northflank (upsert operation). Use when you need to ensure a project exists with specific configuration, regardless of
  • Create or Update SecretTool to create or update a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to store encrypted runtime variables or build arguments that can be inherited by services and job
  • Create ProjectTool to create a new project in Northflank. Use when you need to set up a new project with specific ID, name, region, and configuration.
  • Create SecretTool to create a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to store encrypted environment variables that can be inherited by services and jobs.
  • Delete ProjectTool to permanently delete a Northflank project and all associated resources. Use when you need to remove a project including all builds, deployments, jobs, addons, secret groups,
  • Get DNS IDTool to retrieve the DNS identifier for the authenticated account. Use when you need to get the DNS ID used for generating DNS entries for services and domains.
  • Get ProjectTool to retrieve detailed information about a specific Northflank project. Use when you need to get project configuration, region, networking settings, or metadata.
  • Get SecretTool to retrieve a secret from a Northflank project including its contents. Use when you need to view the actual secret values and metadata for a specific secret.
  • Get Secret DetailsTool to view a secret with details about its linked addons from a Northflank project. Use when you need to understand addon dependencies and detailed metadata for a specific secret
  • List Addon TypesTool to retrieve information about available addon types in Northflank. Use when you need to understand what addon types are supported and their features.
  • List Cloud Provider Node TypesTool to retrieve supported cloud provider node types available on Northflank. Use when you need to see available node types across various cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure
  • List Cloud Provider RegionsTool to retrieve supported cloud provider regions available on Northflank. Use when you need to see available regions across various cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, Civo
  • List PipelinesTool to list all pipelines for a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve all pipelines configured in a project.
  • List PlansTool to retrieve available billing/resource plans in Northflank. Use when you need to see available plan options and their specifications.
  • List ProjectsTool to list all projects in your Northflank team with pagination support. Use when you need to retrieve projects for the authenticated user or team.
  • List RegionsTool to retrieve available project regions in Northflank. Use when you need to see which geographic regions are available for deploying projects and resources.
  • List SecretsTool to list all secrets belonging to a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve secret groups configured in a project. Supports cursor-based pagination with default 50 re
  • List ServicesTool to list all services belonging to a Northflank project. Use when you need to retrieve services configured in a project. Supports cursor-based pagination with 50 results per pa
  • Patch SecretTool to partially update a secret group in a Northflank project. Use when you need to modify specific properties of an existing secret without providing all fields.
  • Update ProjectTool to update a project in Northflank. Use when you need to modify project settings such as description, color, or advanced networking configuration.
  • Update SecretTool to update a secret in a Northflank project. Use when you need to modify existing secret variables or add new variables to an existing secret.
Access, and who is in charge of it

You stay the boss of your Northflank account.

Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.

How we handle your data
  • It signs in to your own Northflank account. You are not moving anything into ours.
  • You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
  • Everything it does in Northflank is written down, with what it did and when.
  • Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
Other apps in the same corner of the business

It works in Northflank and the rest of your software in the same job

A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.

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Questions people ask about Northflank

Can an AI employee really work inside Northflank?
Yes. It signs in to your own Northflank account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
Do I have to move anything out of Northflank?
No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Northflank, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
How does it get into my Northflank account?
You paste in a key from your own Northflank account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Northflank whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
What can it actually do in Northflank?
It has 21 ready-made tools in Northflank today, among them Create or Update Project, Create or Update Secret and Create Project. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
Can it use Northflank and the rest of my software in the same job?
Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Northflank and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
Who decides what it is allowed to do in Northflank?
You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Northflank is written down with what it did and when.