A managed Windows desktop that keeps Claude Code, Cowork, Dispatch, and your scheduled tasks running 24/7 — in a data center, on a machine that never sleeps.
Independent infrastructure — not affiliated with Anthropic. You bring your own Claude account.
your_standby_desktop
Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Chrome, Git, Node — all pre-installed, signed in to your own Anthropic account, working on your projects 24/7.
// Illustrative mock-up. The actual desktop is a stock Windows Server 2022 install with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Chrome, Git, and Node pre-configured — your projects and Claude account replace these examples.
what_it_does
A scheduled task scans your inbox, news, Slack, and Substack queue at 5 AM. On your laptop it doesn't fire — the machine was asleep. On Standby it fires every day. You wake up to a brief, not an empty alarm.
Kicked off a 4-hour refactor at 11 PM. Closed the RDP window. Went to bed. Branch pushed, PR opened, tests green. Five-minute review and you ship before 9 AM.
iPad on the seatback. Spotty wifi. Open the Claude app, tap Dispatch, prompt your live Cowork session running on a real Windows desktop somewhere in Texas. It just works.
You left the laptop home. Hotel wifi + iPad + Microsoft Remote Desktop is enough — your real workstation is in a data center, still doing the heavy work while you walk back to the cabana.
privacy
We host the infrastructure. We don't peek at what runs on it. Single-tenant VMs. No monitoring agents. No screen recording. No Claude activity logs. Your Anthropic credentials never touch our systems.
We see what we have to see to run the business — your email, the plan you bought, the region you picked, support tickets you send us. That's it. Everything else stays on your desktop, which only you can sign into.
Read the Privacy Policy →One Windows Server instance per customer. Nobody else's processes run on your VM.
No monitoring agents installed. No screen recording. No Claude prompt or output logging — ever.
RDP traffic is TLS-encrypted end-to-end by Windows. We can't read it in transit. Neither can anyone else.
Cancel and the VM is destroyed, the disk wiped within 7 days. Then you're a closed Stripe customer record. Forever.
vs_your_laptop
Same job — keep Claude running 24/7. By the time you load in setup, electricity, the lid you're scared to close, and the night you lost a refactor, the math is closer than it looks. We just don't make you do any of it.
// the honest line — $39/mo is about $1.30 a day — less than a coffee, less than the electricity you'd burn leaving your laptop on, less than the morning you lose chasing a missed run. Full math →
$39/mo, 10-minute setup, Always-On Guarantee. The cheapest hands-off way to keep Claude running 24/7.
how_it_works
We provision a private Windows cloud desktop in your region. Credentials in your inbox within hours.
Open Claude Desktop (already installed). Log in with your own Anthropic account. We never see it.
Scan the QR with your phone. Close the RDP window. Cowork, Code, scheduled tasks, Dispatch — all keep running.
pricing
Infrastructure only. Bring your own Claude Pro, Max, or Team — your subscription stays yours. We never resell.
Totally fair — and you can. We even wrote the free DIY guide. Standby is for people who'd rather not spend the ~2 hours of setup, the ongoing Windows-Update babysitting, the auto-login + power-policy tweaks, and the time debugging it when something breaks. $39/mo is for never thinking about any of that again.
About 10 minutes. The moment your payment clears, we provision your Windows desktop, configure it for Claude, and email you credentials plus a one-page setup video. Most people are signed into Claude and running their first task within 15 minutes of paying.
Solo · one agent at a time.
Power users · multiple agents · phone bridges.
Heavy agents · small teams · large repos.
60-min screenshare. We sign you into Claude on your Standby desktop, configure your first Cowork workflows, pair Dispatch, and wire up Telegram (or Slack / Discord on request). You leave the call with a working 24/7 AI workstation and zero to-dos.
no_hype
I kept kicking off Claude Code refactors at night, closing my laptop, and waking up to nothing — the machine had slept and killed the run. Scheduled tasks that just… didn't fire. So I built the boring fix: a Windows desktop in a data center that never sleeps, pre-configured so Claude actually keeps running, that I could check from my phone.
That's the whole product. No magic. It's a well-set-up always-on machine — and you don't have to be the one setting it up or babysitting it. I answer every email myself.
Standby is independent infrastructure — not affiliated with Anthropic. You sign into your own Claude account; I never see your screen.
Totally fair — you can. A raw Windows VPS runs ~$15/mo, and about 2 hours of setup plus ongoing babysitting gets you most of the way. We even wrote the guide. $39/mo is for the people who'd rather never think about it again.
We email when new features ship — bigger tiers, new regions, war stories from real customers. Subscribe and we'll drop your LAUNCH15 code in the welcome.
faq
Yes — that's the headline feature. Scheduled tasks only run when Claude Desktop is alive. Standby keeps it alive 24/7 on a data-center machine that doesn't sleep, so your 6 AM brief runs at 6 AM — Bali, Brooklyn, or your bed.
Yes. Kick off a 4-hour refactor at 11 PM, close the RDP window, go to bed. Standby keeps the agent running, branch pushed, PR opened. Five-minute review and you ship before 9 AM.
Three ways. (1) Pair Dispatch in the Claude phone app for quick prompts. (2) Use any RDP app — Microsoft Remote Desktop, AnyDesk, Jump Desktop — for full screen control of the desktop. (3) Set up the pre-installed Telegram MCP on Pro and text Claude like a friend. Slack and Discord MCPs available on request — both have clean official APIs.
No. Single-tenant VMs, no monitoring agents, no screen recording, no Claude activity logs. RDP is TLS-encrypted end-to-end by Windows. We can see what we have to to run the business — your email, your plan, support tickets — and nothing else. Full details in the Privacy Policy.
No. Standby is independent infrastructure. You sign into your own Anthropic account on your desktop — we never see your screen or your Claude account. We're an Illinois LLC (Standby Cloud LLC). I built this because I kept losing my own overnight Claude runs.
Yes — you're the audience. Standby is the real Windows workstation that lives in a data center so you don't carry one. Hotel wifi + iPad + Microsoft Remote Desktop is enough on the road. Cancel us when you're home if you stop needing it. Spin up again next trip.
Yes. Switch tiers any time in your Stripe portal and we'll migrate you to the bigger spec. Pro adds parallel Cowork agents + Telegram MCP, Max adds the heaviest workloads + custom MCPs on request + priority support. Need something specific? Email and we'll spec it.
Always-On Guarantee — 7 days, no questions. If Claude isn't running 24/7 within your first day, we fix it on a call or refund you in full. Email hello@trystandby.com. No setup required to qualify. No retention pitch.
Install anything that runs on Windows. We pre-install Claude Desktop because most people want it; the box is yours. Cursor, Aider, Continue, VS Code with any extension — all fine.
No. Claude Desktop is Windows and macOS only — there's no Linux build. Cowork, Dispatch, and Claude Code's desktop integrations all require it. Full breakdown here.
contact
Every email lands in Kamber's inbox — not a ticketing system, not a tier-1 filter. Median reply during US business hours: under 4 hours.
One inbox, one human, no ticketing system. Pre-sales questions, technical detail, "is this right for my workflow" — write to hello@trystandby.com and you'll hear back within hours during US business hours.
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