About CtrlOps

We ran an IT service company. We were designers and product people at heart. We understood interfaces, we understood users, and we cared deeply about how things looked and felt.

Every client we worked with had their own server. To check anything, even a simple thing like "why is the server slow? Let me check memory and CPU," someone had to open a terminal, remember the right IP, find the right credentials, and log in. Separately. Every single time. For every single client.

Servers were a black box. We had a minimum of 7 to 10 projects and 40+ servers running every month.

We had no unified view. No quick way to know what was happening across our infrastructure without pulling in the one person on our team who knew how to navigate it all. Everything ran through him. If he was unavailable, we were blind.

We wanted an answer to one question,

"Why does managing Linux servers have to feel like this? Why is there no tool that gives you full visibility across all your servers in one place, feels intuitive enough for a non-terminal person to use, and doesn't make you dependent on a single engineer to keep everything running?"

So we built CtrlOps. First we built it for ourselves, then we made it for everyone.

CtrlOps is a local-first desktop app for managing all your Linux servers from one screen with AI. 100% local. We truly value privacy and security, and that's why we made it 100% local.

Daxesh, Hiren & Parth, co-founders of TST Technology