Illuminate
your Linux
estate.
Discover, understand, secure and operate Linux infrastructure across datacentres and cloud from one control plane.
Know what you own.
A lightweight agent calls out from each host and Lantern builds the inventory for you — hostname, distribution, kernel, packages, provider, state. The machines nobody wrote down stop being invisible.
One estate.
One operational mesh.
A rack, a VM, a box in the office, a cloud instance — if it runs Linux, it joins the same operational layer. Almost any distribution qualifies; Linux is the only requirement. Every connection runs one way: the host dials the Engine on its own schedule.
See what is happening.
Health, resource use, services, kernel versions, inventory drift and system events keep arriving. Not another dashboard to babysit — continuous awareness, so the first time you hear about a problem isn't from a customer.
Operate without jumping between tools.
Patch a set of hosts, restart a service, install a package, run a controlled command, work through a maintenance window. An operator triggers the work; the hosts pick it up on their next call out. Nothing consequential happens unattended.
Turn signals into action.
A vulnerability, a configuration finding, a suspicious log line. Lantern names the affected host, explains the exposure and hands you the remediation guidance and the evidence. Then a person decides — approval is the point, not the friction.
From a handful of servers to a fleet you actually understand.
Lantern gives a small team the same operational clarity a much larger organisation would need a platform team to build — without pretending to be hyperscale infrastructure software.
The story above is the software.
Screens from the current build, unretouched. Small host counts because these are real machines in a real test estate — not a rendered fleet.
Inventory across on-premises and Hetzner cloud VMs, with discovered hosts awaiting enrollment.
One machine in full: services, containers, packages, interfaces, drift and last heartbeat. Actions are operator-triggered.
Findings by severity, status and detection layer, with the hosts carrying the most exposure.
Understand clearly.
Act confidently.
SNOWBIRD builds dependable infrastructure software for small teams operating Linux systems. Complexity should be made clear, not made invisible.
A team of ten to fifty people can easily end up running twenty Linux servers with no dedicated ops team. Nobody has a full picture of what's actually running. Security is a feeling, not a fact. Backups report success but have never been tested. Every midnight fix is invisible. The knowledge lives in one person's head.
SNOWBIRD builds Lantern because that team is not well served today. Enterprise infrastructure tools assume a platform team and a budget with a comma in it. The team with twenty servers gets nothing that fits.
Begin with real work, before reaching for a solution.
Reduce noise, not context.
Keep people in command; automation supports judgment, it doesn't replace it.
Let evidence lead. Test assumptions, be candid about what's still unproven.
Grow in the open where it improves trust and learning.
Make focused promises, follow through, improve through real use.
SNOW1987 LLP (LLPIN: ACG-5903), operating as SNOWBIRD. Five people: Chethan Daniel Joseph and Anirudh Kaushik, joined by three early-collaborator software architects.
Early. Lantern is our first product — the vehicle through which we're proving our engineering, product and commercial model. We are not overstating traction we don't have.
A complete three-volume technical build record backs the product. The codebase is live and version-controlled.
Customers & pilots
Run a focused proof of concept in a real environment and tell us honestly where it breaks.
Talk to us →Investors
We'd rather show exactly where SNOWBIRD is than oversell where it's going.
Talk to us about the thesis →Partners & advocates
Point us to teams running 5–100 Linux servers without a dedicated platform team. A warm introduction is worth more than anything we can write here.
Introduce us →See your Linux estate clearly.
Built for teams of ten to fifty running five to a hundred Linux servers with no dedicated platform team. If that's you, we'd like to hear how your estate actually looks.