Thanks to Daytona's detailed documentation and simple API, AfterQuery replaced their GKE setup with fully managed sandbox infrastructure in a single day. This turnkey onboarding process not only accelerated time-to-value but also ensured the AfterQuery team could retain its focus on building high-fidelity simulations.

Now, AfterQuery uses Daytona to provision hundreds of pre-configured sandboxes on demand. Through Daytona Snapshots, Sam and Agustin build, refine, and version every task’s sandbox, preserving updated agent toolkits, API keys, and evaluation criteria to sharpen simulation quality. With this workflow, sandboxes start instantly warm from stored states, eliminating hours of setup time.

Daytona's built-in Port Forwarding strengthens this iteration cycle, enabling Sam and Agustin to run development servers inside sandboxes and preview them in the browser. That way, they validate that simulations perform as designed before locking in a new snapshot version.

These sandboxes run fully isolated in parallel, so they don’t compete for resources or allow one agent’s actions to bleed into another trial. Because this process runs seamlessly in the cloud, AfterQuery’s team drives higher trial throughput with minimal overhead. At the same time, customers benefit from faster trials and model iterations.

As agents run commands and call APIs across hours-long trials, Daytona’s sandboxes support stable execution for the full duration of their run. That reliability gives Sam's team the confidence to focus on refining the next agent simulation.

While Daytona handles the runtime layer end-to-end, Sam and his team stay in full control of agent trials. Daytona's Pseudo Terminal capabilities give the team direct command-line access to any running sandbox. With this connection, they can tail logs, inspect agent state, or manually trigger a command to test a hypothesis, compressing the feedback loop between runs.

The depth of Daytona’s feature set is matched by an intuitive developer experience. When Sam and Agustin implement new tools or fine-tune their sandbox infrastructure, Daytona’s team support and comprehensive guides provide instant guidance. For a team pushing the frontier of autonomous agents’ capabilities, that clarity accelerates every step of the research cycle.