About NOFire

Meet the team building the Context & Control Model for AI operations.

Mission

A new substrate for production.

The reliability of an AI operator depends entirely on the runtime context it has.

Production context (every deploy, dependency, incident, rollback, spike, decision) is fragmented across logs, tickets, dashboards, Git history, Slack threads, and human memory. No system turns it into a live model an agent can reason over.

So agents operate with partial context. Humans stay in the approval loop for every meaningful action. Autonomy stalls.

NOFire is the Context & Control Model: a live, time-versioned model of how production actually behaves, with runtime enforcement that constrains every action taken on top of it. Causal, not probabilistic. Live, not snapshotted.

Founders

Three operators. One conviction.

Spiros and Panos met in Athens a decade ago, working opposite ends of the same problem. Spiros ran cloud operations at Mattermost and co-authored Argo CD in Practice, because the GitOps tooling needed a real book. Panos spent nine years at Elastic as a Distinguished Engineer, running the observability and infrastructure products that enterprises depend on.

Every incident, every team rebuilt production context from scratch. The deploys, the dependencies, the last rollback: none of it lived anywhere a system could reason over. It lived in engineers' heads, and when they left, the context left with them.

Tassos came at it from underneath. Two decades on the runtime primitives cloud runs on (unikernels, container runtimes), and his project urunc is a CNCF sandbox project. Three people, same diagnosis: production needs a live model, not another dashboard.

Anastasios Nanos

Co-founder · Chief Scientist

Spiros Economakis

Co-founder · CEO

Panos Moustafellos

Co-founder · CTO

Team

Systems engineers and runtime researchers.

CNCF maintainers, published systems researchers, and engineers who have operated some of the most demanding production environments on the planet. Operators, not pundits.