Your CI is the bottleneck.
We fix it in one line.
Monk CI gives engineering teams 10x faster builds and 4x faster cache, with zero migration. Change one line in your YAML, ship the rest of your roadmap faster. Trusted by engineering teams shipping at speed across the US.
15-minute call · No demo theatre · Walk away with your specific build-time benchmarks
One line in your .github/workflows/*.yml
Rollback in 30 seconds. Zero workflow changes.
Sound familiar?
Your engineers are waiting more than they're shipping.
You bought larger runners. You optimised your test suite. You parallelised what you could. The build is still 18+ minutes, and the team feels it every day. The cost is real, even when it does not show up on a single line item.
20-Minute Builds Are Killing Focus
Every interrupted build costs your engineer 10+ minutes of focus reconstruction. At 100 builds a week across your team, that is 17 hours of pure context-switching cost. It does not show up in your sprint velocity. Your team is tired and you cannot point to why.
Your CI Bill Doubles Every 9 Months
Series A: maybe $1,500/month. Series B with larger runners: $4,000+. Series C: $8-12K. Filed under "engineering tooling," nobody owns it, nobody tracks unit cost per build. The bill keeps growing because nobody is watching.
Hotfixes Get Stuck Behind CI
Production has a bug. The fix is three lines. CI queue is 30 minutes deep. By the time it lands, support has been firefighting all afternoon. The dramatic outage gets a retro. The slow normalcy that caused it does not.
How it works
Three structural fixes. One line of YAML.
We do not optimise your workflow. We replace the runner architecture underneath it. The wins compound at three layers, all from a single config change.
FIX
10x Faster Per-Core Compute
The standard GitHub-hosted runner gives you 2 vCPUs on commodity cloud hardware. Monk CI runs your same workflows on infrastructure with 10x faster per-core performance. No code changes. No workflow rewrites. Same YAML, faster machines underneath.
- 10x faster compute at equivalent vCPU count, benchmarked on real GitHub Actions workloads
- Higher single-core performance for CPU-bound steps like compilation and linting
- Unlimited concurrency, no queueing during sprint pushes or release windows
FIX
40x Faster Cache Pipeline
Most teams discover the bottleneck is cache restore, not test execution. GitHub-hosted runners have a 1 Gbps cache pipe. Monk CI delivers 20 Gbps. Your dependency install and Docker layer pulls drop from minutes to seconds. The compounding effect is significant: faster cache means faster builds means lower minute consumption means lower bill.
- 20 Gbps cache bandwidth (vs 1 Gbps on GitHub-hosted runners)
- Up to 40x faster Docker layer caching with our in-house Docker builder
- Managed Docker layer cache, zero configuration required
FIX
AI-Powered Log Summaries + Real-Time Cost Visibility
When a build fails, Monk CI's AI summarises the failure in seconds, so your engineers stop scrolling 4,000 lines of logs to find the actual error. Real-time spend dashboard shows cost per workflow, per repo, per team. Your platform team stops getting blindsided by month-end CI bills. Your CTO can defend the line item without reconstructing it from three sources.
- AI log summaries pinpoint failure causes in seconds
- Real-time spend dashboard with per-team, per-repo, per-workflow attribution
- Predictable per-minute pricing with no surprise invoices
Why Monk CI
Built for teams who tested vendors and picked us.
Every paying customer we have benchmarked us against Blacksmith, Depot, Namespace. They had funded options. They picked us. Three reasons keep coming up.
Honest Benchmarks, Not Marketing Claims
Most vendors in this space claim 10x faster. The honest market reality is closer to 2x. We claim 10x compute and 40x cache because that is what we deliver, benchmarked on real GitHub Actions workloads. We will run the benchmark on your slowest workflow before you commit to anything. The numbers are the conversation.
"We had heard the 10x claims from three vendors. Monk CI was the only one who showed up with a number we could verify on our own pipeline."Senior Platform Engineer, Series B SaaS
Founder-Led Engineering, Not Sales-Led Demos
You will talk to Ujjwal (CEO) and Nitin (CTO) directly during evaluation. The engineering decisions, the cache architecture, the security model — they will explain it themselves. No sales engineer translating, no SDR scheduling around their calendars. Founders sit in your evaluation calls because the engineering trust signal matters more than the sales motion.
"They sent the CTO to debug an edge case in our pipeline on a Saturday. That is not a sales process. That is what good engineering culture looks like."DevOps Lead, Series A consumer tech
Zero-Risk Migration, Not a Lock-In Trap
One line of YAML to switch in. One line to switch out. Your existing GitHub Actions workflows, secrets, integrations, and policies do not change. If Monk CI is not measurably better on your specific workload after a 30-day pilot, your config rolls back in 30 seconds. We earn your renewal by what we deliver, not by friction in the contract.
"The migration was a YAML diff in a PR. We had a senior engineer review it and merged. Total time: 12 minutes. Including the coffee break."CTO, Series B fintech
Your roadmap
From audit to faster builds in three phases.
You will know exactly what is happening, when, and why. No demo theatre. No "let me get back to you with a custom proposal."
Day 0 · 15 minutes
Build-Time Audit Call
You walk us through your current CI setup. We look at your slowest workflow, your monthly minute consumption, your cache hit rate. By minute 15 you have a specific projected build-time and cost number for your workload on Monk CI. No commitment. No demo of features you do not care about. A clean read on whether the math works for your team.
Days 1-7 · Pilot setup
Single-Workflow Pilot
You pick one workflow to test. We run a one-line YAML change on a feature branch. Side-by-side benchmarks against your current GitHub Actions setup. Real numbers on your real workload. If the numbers do not beat your current build by a meaningful margin, we tell you and the pilot stops.
Days 8-30 · Full rollout
Full Migration with Engineering Support
Your CTO and platform team lead the rollout to all workflows. Founders are on Slack-equivalent for any questions. Mid-pilot review at Day 15, decision review at Day 30. Exit clause built in. No auto-renewal. You earn your way to keeping us.
Day 0 · 15 minutes
Build-Time Audit Call
You walk us through your current CI setup. We look at your slowest workflow, your monthly minute consumption, your cache hit rate. By minute 15 you have a specific projected build-time and cost number for your workload on Monk CI. No commitment. No demo of features you do not care about. A clean read on whether the math works for your team.
Days 1-7 · Pilot setup
Single-Workflow Pilot
You pick one workflow to test. We run a one-line YAML change on a feature branch. Side-by-side benchmarks against your current GitHub Actions setup. Real numbers on your real workload. If the numbers do not beat your current build by a meaningful margin, we tell you and the pilot stops.
Days 8-30 · Full rollout
Full Migration with Engineering Support
Your CTO and platform team lead the rollout to all workflows. Founders are on Slack-equivalent for any questions. Mid-pilot review at Day 15, decision review at Day 30. Exit clause built in. No auto-renewal. You earn your way to keeping us.
Is this for you?
Monk CI is built for a specific kind of engineering team.
This is for you if:
- ✓You're a Series A, B, or C funded company with 10+ engineers
- ✓You ship multiple times a week (consumer tech, ecommerce, SaaS, dev tools)
- ✓You're using GitHub Actions as your primary CI
- ✓Your build times have crossed 15 minutes and your team is feeling it
- ✓You're the CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Platform, or DevOps Lead with budget or recommendation authority
- ✓You want to evaluate vendors with real benchmarks, not marketing decks
This is probably not for you if:
- ✕You're pre-seed or pre-revenue with under 10 engineers
- ✕You're using GitLab CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, or Bitbucket as your primary CI (we're GitHub-only)
- ✕You need SOC 2 Type 2 compliance today (we're Type 1 in progress, Type 2 on roadmap)
- ✕You're at fintech enterprise scale with strict compliance thresholds (RBI, HIPAA, FedRAMP)
- ✕You're looking for the cheapest CI option regardless of performance (we charge for value)
- ✕You want a self-hosted product (we're a managed runner replacement only)
Our offer
5,000 free minutes. No credit card. 30-day pilot.
We are confident enough to put the math in your hands before asking for a contract.
Three things we put on the table
Before you commit to anything, you get to see the numbers on your own workload.
5,000 Free Minutes
Run Monk CI on real workloads. No credit card. No commitment. Cancel any time.
Side-by-Side Benchmark
Run Monk CI alongside GitHub Actions on the same workflow. We give you the data, you make the call.
30-Second Rollback
If Monk CI is not measurably better on your workload, your YAML reverts in 30 seconds. No support tickets, no friction.
Proof
Numbers, not adjectives.
Where we are right now, honestly stated. The numbers grow as our customers grow.
Your point of contact
Built by engineers who lived this problem.
Monk CI was born inside Deutsche Bank's CI infrastructure. The founding team built this because they had the same problem you do, and didn't want to hire more DevOps to solve it.
Ujjwal Prashant
CEO + Co-Founder
The idea for Monk CI was born during my time as a software developer at Deutsche Bank. We faced a daily 30 to 40-minute build bottleneck. With 10 developers sharing a single test environment, every deployment blocked the team for 45 minutes. Stakeholder demos got derailed. Engineers context-switched continuously. Productivity collapsed quietly under what everyone treated as "just how CI works."
Nitin and I realised the math was simple. If we could cut deployment time to 5 minutes, three developers could test per hour instead of one. We built Monk CI to fix exactly that: eliminate the deployment queue, maximise shared resources, give engineering teams their momentum back.
Every engagement is personally architected by Ujjwal and Nitin. Not handed off to a junior account manager. The conversation you book is the conversation you get.
Book your audit
15 minutes. Real numbers on your workload. No demo theatre.
You walk away with your specific build-time projection, your projected monthly cost on Monk CI, and an honest answer on whether we're the right fit. Whether you work with us or not.
Typically books 3-5 days out. Book now to secure a slot this week.
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