An AI-powered server mechanic for the people who keep the internet running but never signed up to be sysadmins.
Most small-team servers aren't unmonitored because people don't care. They're unmonitored because existing tools are too complex, too expensive, or require too much ops knowledge.
A freelance developer managing a client's VPS doesn't have time to learn Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty. A startup founder running their own infrastructure doesn't want to spend $50/month per host on Datadog. A small agency with a handful of servers just needs to know when something is wrong and what to do about it.
These “accidental sysadmins” are everywhere. They deserve tooling that meets them where they are.
Tink installs on any Linux server with a single command. It continuously monitors system health — CPU, memory, disk, services, certificates, and network — and uses AI to explain problems in plain English.
When something needs fixing, Tink proposes specific commands, explains why each is necessary, and waits for your approval before executing anything. Every scan, diagnosis, and action is logged in an immutable audit trail.
Think of it as a knowledgeable mechanic who watches your server 24/7, speaks your language, never runs commands without permission, and learns your server's personality over time.
Read-only by default. Explicit approval for all writes. Destructive commands are blocklisted. The default is always to ask before acting.
Tink has a five-level trust system. At the lowest level, it only observes. You choose how much autonomy to grant, per-machine and per-category.
Tink's primary interface is a conversation — via Telegram, CLI, or soon Slack and Discord. The dashboard is for overview and history, not daily operation.
Full audit trail. No hidden actions. Every decision, command, and outcome is logged and visible from your dashboard.
The agent compiles to a single binary with no dependencies. No package manager, no config files, no YAML. Thirty seconds from curl to first scan.
Tink is built by DBH Ventures, an independent software company focused on building tools that make infrastructure accessible to everyone — not just teams with dedicated ops staff.
We believe the next wave of infrastructure tooling won't look like more dashboards and more YAML. It will look like a conversation with an AI that understands your specific setup and can act on it responsibly.
Free for your first machine. Install in 30 seconds.