# CTO by 5D Labs

> CTO is an AI-powered engineering collective that deploys thirteen specialized AI agents to build, ship, and maintain your software on self-healing bare metal infrastructure. Zero cloud markup, full CLI agnosticism, bring your own keys.

## About

CTO provides a complete AI engineering team, not just another coding assistant. Our agents work together across the full software development lifecycle:

- **Morgan** - Project management, PRD intake, task breakdown
- **Rex** - Rust backend specialist (axum, tokio, sqlx)
- **Grizz** - Go backend specialist (chi, grpc, pgx)
- **Nova** - Node.js/Bun specialist (Elysia, Effect, Drizzle)
- **Blaze** - React/TypeScript frontend (Next.js, shadcn/ui, TailwindCSS)
- **Tap** - Mobile development (Expo, React Native)
- **Spark** - Desktop development (Electron)
- **Vex** - XR/Unity development (OpenXR, Meta XR SDK)
- **Cleo** - Code quality review
- **Cipher** - Security analysis
- **Tess** - Testing specialist
- **Atlas** - Integration and merge
- **Bolt** - Infrastructure setup (Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps)

## Key Features

- **CLI Agnostic**: Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Factory, Codex, OpenCode, and more
- **Multi-Agent Orchestration**: Thirteen specialists collaborate on tasks
- **Bare Metal Infrastructure**: 60-80% cost savings vs cloud providers
- **Self-Healing**: Automated recovery, scaling, and maintenance
- **BYOK**: Bring your own API keys, maintain full control
- **GitHub-Driven**: All deployments through Git PRs and reviews

## Infrastructure Providers

CTO deploys to bare metal providers including:
- Latitude
- Hetzner
- OVH
- Vultr
- Scaleway
- Cherry Servers
- DigitalOcean
- On-premises hardware

## Integrations

- GitHub (PRs, reviews, deployments)
- Linear (project management)
- MCP servers (extensible tooling)
- Prometheus, Grafana, Loki (observability)

## Links

- [Website](https://cto.5dlabs.ai)
- [GitHub Organization](https://github.com/5dlabs)
- [Join Waitlist](https://cto.5dlabs.ai/#cta)

## Contact

For inquiries about CTO, join our waitlist at https://cto.5dlabs.ai or reach out via GitHub.

## Optional

- [5D Labs GitHub](https://github.com/5dlabs): Source code and documentation