Netlify

Netlify, based in San Francisco, is an AI native web development platform where developers and AI agents build and deploy together, and the company that coined the term agent experience. Founded in 2014 by chief executive Matt Biilmann and Christian Bach, it is used by more than nine million developers and teams and trusted by brands including Figma, Mattel, and Riot Games to power their digital experiences. Its thesis is that AI has made writing code fast, but that deploying and running that code has not kept up, and that the advantage now goes to platforms where creation flows directly into production.

Netlify's flagship AI capability, Agent Runners, brings leading coding agents, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini, directly into the Netlify dashboard, where they run in isolated sandboxes with full context of a project's codebase, logs, environment variables, build settings, and deploy pipeline. A user describes a change in natural language, the agent works on an automated branch, and the result flows through a preview and approval workflow so nothing touches production until a human approves, with one click rollback. Because the agent knows the environment and not just the code, it can wire up a serverless function, configure auth, or fix a broken build without extra setup, and role based access lets designers, product managers, and marketers safely contribute alongside engineers. Around Agent Runners, the platform adds an AI Gateway with built in credentials for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, a Netlify MCP server that brings the platform into tools like Cursor and Claude, observability with plain language build failure explanations and secret scanning, and prerendering that serves fully rendered pages to crawlers and AI agents. A dedicated agent onboarding flow lets autonomous agents build and deploy on Netlify with minimal friction.

Netlify is infrastructure for the agentic web, the place where coding agents run against live projects and ship to production, rather than a single vertical agent, which is how its scoring should be read. Its strengths are rich production context, human in the loop approval and sandboxing, model and agent choice, observability, and extensibility through MCP and a deep developer platform, and it hosts agents rather than driving a browser itself. For a team that wants AI coding agents working safely on live web projects with previews, approvals, and production infrastructure built in, Netlify is a strong and differentiated fit; a team wanting an on premise platform, or a turnkey vertical business agent, will find it an AI native build and deploy layer rather than a finished application.