What Poolside does
Poolside is a frontier model and agentic-coding company focused on building foundation models and the enterprise-grade systems that deploy them “inside your boundary” (VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped). Its products target software engineering teams that need AI-assisted development workflows—writing, understanding, testing, refactoring, and operating complex codebases—while maintaining control over model weights, data, governance, and auditability. The company’s current public platform includes open-weight Laguna-family coding models (for on-device/enterprise use) and an enterprise Poolside Platform for running agent workflows with containerized, policy-enforced execution and recorded “trajectories.”
Poolside’s flagship model family branding on its site includes Laguna XS.2 (a lighter, faster agentic coding model positioned for on-device use) and Laguna S.2.1 / Laguna M.1 (larger reasoning-focused variants for long-horizon coding). Poolside also describes a set of internal “Model Factory” systems that it uses to train and iteratively improve its models, including components for data pipelines, automated evaluations, reinforcement learning from code execution feedback, and large-scale code execution environments. Recent customer-facing expansion emphasizes enterprise deployments and offline/air-gapped capabilities, plus a growing desktop/IDE experience via Poolside Assistant that runs agent workflows with integrations into common developer tools.
Business model: Poolside’s enterprise offering is positioned as a deployment-first alternative to token-priced third-party API usage. The company describes predictable subscription planning along with full model-weight control, deployment modality options (bare metal/turnkey hardware via partners, VPC, and on-prem), and enterprise governance features (telemetry, auditability, redaction/encryption, and centrally defined boundaries).