Ellelion is a Wyoming software company that builds twelve AI agents. The live catalog is for developers who use coding agents, and for people who never write code. Skillselion, Agent Plugins Directory, botteams.io and Launchelion are live today. Skillselion and Launchelion publish MCP servers. botteams.io is open source. The rest stay under wraps.

Which Ellelion products are live today?

Skillselion, Agent Plugins Directory, botteams.io and Launchelion are live today. Skillselion is a hosted skills directory. Agent Plugins Directory is a hosted plugin registry. botteams.io is an open-source Grok Bot directory. Launchelion is a hosted launch board. 8 more products stay under wraps until they ship.

Where is Ellelion located?

Ellelion operates globally. The company is registered in Wyoming, United States. It operates Ellelion.com and its family of AI agents for developers and builders.

Why does Ellelion build twelve products?

Each product covers one stage of shipping: finding an idea, building, launching, growing, measuring, and supporting users. Skillselion, Agent Plugins Directory, botteams.io and Launchelion are live; the rest are unveiled as they release. Twelve separate agents, so you can pick one.

Do I need the whole Ellelion suite?

No. Each product is a separate agent that works on its own. Pick the one your current stage needs. Add others later if they earn a place. There is no bundle.

Can I use Ellelion products from a coding agent?

Skillselion and Launchelion publish MCP servers you can call from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP client. Agent Plugins Directory and botteams.io are live in the browser; their MCP servers are not public yet. Upcoming products are planned to add a server as they launch.

Is Ellelion software open source?

botteams.io is open source. Skillselion, Agent Plugins Directory, and Launchelion are hosted directories, free to use. Upcoming products are planned as open source when they launch. Repositories open with each launch.

Where are Ellelion developer resources?

Ellelion developer resources live at ellelion.com/developers (same portal as /docs). That page is the public API documentation: OpenAPI at /openapi.json, the versioned catalog at /api/v1/catalog, sandbox at /api/v1/sandbox/catalog, versioning at /versioning, and Streamable HTTP MCP at /mcp. There are no API keys. The public source is github.com/ellelion/ellelion.

How does Ellelion test its own products?

We run Ellelion products on Ellelion sites first. A new agent has to prove it on our own properties before it launches. If it cannot earn its keep there, it does not ship.

Is Ellelion affiliated with or sponsored by Vercel?

No. Ellelion LLC is an independent Wyoming company and pays for Vercel like any other customer. This post is my opinion of the tools I chose, not a paid placement.

Does every Ellelion product run on Vercel?

The public site and the four live products do. Eight more products are in stealth, so I will not list their hosts here.

Does every Ellelion product ship an MCP server?

No. As of 23 August 2026, Skillselion and Launchelion expose MCP. Agent Plugins Directory and botteams.io do not. Do not copy older copy that said every product ships MCP.

Is GrowSocialelion public?

No public description yet. This essay names it because the social-growth work is part of why I picked the stack. The product page is a stealth listing: noindex, out of the sitemap. The homepage index lists the name among the twelve.

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Why I run the Ellelion family on Vercel

July 23, 2026 · Updated August 28, 2026 · 5 min read · By @ici_dab

I run Ellelion LLC, a Wyoming company with twelve products, on Vercel because Fluid Compute bills Active CPU instead of idle time, AI Gateway listed 352 models on 23 August 2026 with no token markup, and Next.js plus v0 is how I ship. Four products are live. Two expose MCP. The rest of the family is still in stealth.

Last updated 23 August 2026. I wrote this from the stack I actually run, then opened Vercel's docs the same day. Quotes below are copied from those pages. I do not treat vendor savings percentages as my invoice.

What question is this answering?

People ask why a twelve-product AI company sits on Vercel instead of a cheaper VPS. I am one founder. The public site is Ellelion. The live tools are Skillselion, the Agent Plugins Directory, botteams.io, and Launchelion. The rest of the family is still under wraps. The longer company story is on the about page.

I also named GrowSocialelion here on purpose. That product is still stealth on the rest of the site. This post is the exception, because the social-growth work is why I care about posting cadence and why I refuse to babysit cron.

What does Fluid Compute change on the invoice?

Classic serverless billed me for wall-clock time while a model thought. Fluid Compute bills Active CPU. Vercel said that in public when they launched the model. I opened the announcement again on 23 August 2026:

Fluid compute evolves beyond serverless, trading single-invocation functions for high-performance mini-servers.Vercel, Introducing Fluid compute

Source: Vercel Blog, "Introducing Fluid compute" (opened 23 August 2026), https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-fluid-compute

That same post also says Fluid Compute can "reduce compute costs by up to 85%." That is Vercel's number on Vercel's blog. I link it. I do not file it as my own benchmark until I see it on an invoice.

300s

Hobby default and max duration under Fluid Compute, from Vercel's Fluid Compute docs, checked 23 August 2026. Source

Verified against Vercel Fluid Compute docs on 23 August 2026: Hobby default timeout is 300 seconds (5 minutes). Pro and Enterprise default is also 300 seconds, with a higher ceiling. Skillselion's catalog work sits inside that window. If a job needs longer, I split it. I do not pretend a 300-second default is infinite.

Vercel Fluid Compute: pay for Active CPU, not idle wait — Fluid Compute: Active CPU pricing and in-function concurrency. Image: Vercel.

How many models does Vercel AI Gateway list today?

On 23 August 2026 I called the public models endpoint at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1/models and counted 352 objects in data. Older drafts of this post said "200+". That figure is stale. Use the live list.

Vercel's AI Gateway pricing page, opened the same day, says:

AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens.Vercel Docs, AI Gateway Pricing

Source: Vercel Docs, "AI Gateway Pricing" (opened 23 August 2026), https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing

BYOK is also listed as no markup and no platform fee on tokens. I still pay for Gateway requests and for whatever add-ons I turn on. I wrote the longer comparison in Which AI gateway should you pick in 2026? Short version: if I already live in Next.js, I start on Vercel AI Gateway. If I am mixing providers from a Python service, I look at OpenRouter or LiteLLM first.

Introducing the Vercel AI Gateway — The Vercel AI Gateway: one endpoint, provider failover, list-price tokens. Image: Vercel.

Why Next.js and v0?

I ship UI in Next.js because that is what I know and what Vercel deploys without a second platform. v0 is where I throw a layout when I am tired of fighting CSS. I still rewrite the output. v0 is a first draft, not a finished product page.

Preview URLs are my QA team. Every push gets a URL I can click. Rollback is one click when I break production, which I do. That loop is why I have not moved the public sites off Vercel.

What still bothers me about Vercel?

Lock-in is real. If I leave, I am rewriting deploys, env, and the AI Gateway calls. I accepted that trade because I am one person running twelve products, and I would rather spend nights on Skillselion and Launchelion than on Kubernetes.

Vendor-reported savings are the other irritant. Vercel has published figures such as 85% cost cuts on the Fluid Compute announcement I quoted above. Those are Vercel's numbers. I will not launder them into my own voice.

Which Ellelion products run here today?

Product	What is live	MCP	License
Skillselion	Hosted catalog at skillselion.com	Yes: npx -y skillselion-mcp	Hosted, not open source
Agent Plugins Directory	Hosted directory at agentpluginsdirectory.com	Not yet	Hosted, not open source
botteams.io	Open-source directory at botteams.io	No	Open source
Launchelion	Hosted launch board at launchelion.com	Yes: npx -y mcp-remote https://launchelion.com/api/mcp/mcp	Hosted, not open source

Live Ellelion products as of 23 August 2026, from the public product canon in this repo.

Why name GrowSocialelion in this post?

I name GrowSocialelion here. The public description stays under wraps: the product page is noindex and out of the sitemap, even though the homepage index lists the name among the twelve. I am building it on Vercel's eve agent framework. Vercel positions eve as the agent counterpart to Next.js. After a few weeks on it, that description is close enough that I stopped shopping for another runtime. Instructions live in Markdown. Tools live in TypeScript. The work is scheduled, gated, and durable enough that I can sleep.

eve, Vercel's framework for building agents — eve: Vercel's framework for building agents. GrowSocialelion is built on it. Image: Vercel.

If you came here from a social thread, that is why the name appears once and then disappears from the sitemap. The product page is still a stealth listing.

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Common questions

Is Ellelion affiliated with or sponsored by Vercel?: No. Ellelion LLC is an independent Wyoming company and pays for Vercel like any other customer. This post is my opinion of the tools I chose, not a paid placement.
Does every Ellelion product run on Vercel?: The public site and the four live products do. Eight more products are in stealth, so I will not list their hosts here.
Does every Ellelion product ship an MCP server?: No. As of 23 August 2026, Skillselion and Launchelion expose MCP. Agent Plugins Directory and botteams.io do not. Do not copy older copy that said every product ships MCP.
Is GrowSocialelion public?: No public description yet. This essay names it because the social-growth work is part of why I picked the stack. The product page is a stealth listing: noindex, out of the sitemap. The homepage index lists the name among the twelve.

Verified on August 28, 2026