//CI for AI-native engineering teams

Your agents ship faster than your CI.

AI made writing code cheap. It did nothing to make building and testing it cheap. WarpBuild runs GitHub Actions 2x faster at half the cost, with instant autoscaling so the queue never becomes the bottleneck.

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//The problem

Developer velocity went up. CI capacity didn't.

The constraint on shipping used to be how fast people could write code. With assistants and agents in the loop, it is how fast your pipelines can validate it.

Code generation outran code validation

Assistants and autonomous agents produce review-ready branches in minutes. Nothing about that made compiling, testing, or packaging that code any faster.

Every change fans out into a matrix

One PR is rarely one job. Push, rebase, fix a lint error, retry a flake - each round trip re-runs the full matrix across every OS and architecture you support.

Agents don't wait for business hours

CI load used to follow a workday curve with quiet nights and weekends. Agent-driven pipelines run flat out around the clock, so peak capacity is now the baseline.

The bill scales with output, not headcount

When minutes are billed at GitHub-hosted rates, CI spend grows with how much code your team and its agents generate. Budgets planned around engineer count stop holding.

//What changed

The bottleneck is compute-bound, not human-bound

Every assumption CI capacity planning was built on assumed a human typing on the other end. That assumption is gone.

Before agents

  • -Throughput was capped by how fast engineers could write code
  • -CI load followed a 9-to-6 curve with quiet nights and weekends
  • -A 20-minute build cost one context switch per developer
  • -Runner spend was a rounding error next to salaries

With agents in the loop

  • +Throughput is capped by how fast runners return a verdict
  • +Pipelines run flat out, 24/7, driven by agents and humans together
  • +A 20-minute build stalls every agent loop waiting on that result
  • +Runner spend is a line item leadership asks about by name
//The solution

CI built for the pace of AI

Drop-in GitHub Actions runners that are faster per job, cheaper per minute, and elastic enough that a burst of agent-driven builds never forms a queue.

Build wall-clock time

GitHub-hostedBaseline
WarpBuild~2x faster

Cost per minute

GitHub-hostedBaseline
WarpBuild~50% lower

Cache throughput

GitHub-hostedBaseline
WarpBuild3-10x faster

Concurrency at peak

GitHub-hostedPlan-capped
WarpBuildUnlimited
//Getting started

One line of YAML, then stop thinking about it

WarpBuild is a drop-in replacement for GitHub-hosted runners. Existing workflows, actions, and preinstalled tooling all keep working.

-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest+    runs-on: warp-ubuntu-latest-x64-2x
1

Change one line of YAML

Swap runs-on in your workflow file. No workflow rewrites, no migration project, no change to how your agents open PRs.
2

Watch the queue disappear

Runners boot on demand with unlimited concurrency, so peak load from agents and humans lands on capacity instead of a waiting line.
3

Track the numbers

Per-workflow timing and spend in the WarpBuild dashboard, so you can see which pipelines your AI throughput actually moved.
//Proven at scale

Running the pipelines behind teams that ship constantly

From solo open-source projects to thousand-developer organizations, on SOC2 Type 2 attested infrastructure with ephemeral, fully isolated VMs.

Sonar
Comcast
Sky
Braintrust
Adaptive
OxCaml
DDEV
Kintsugi
Bitcoin
LanceDB

Run times went down from ~25 mins to ~9 mins. Even bazel cache load time was faster by 30%

Going from GitHub standard runners to your cheapest runners will save 30-40% time off the average workflow at half the price, and the workflow I care most about is staying the same price but 60% time savings

I get to save the company money and save us on build times. Making me look good to my management team.

//FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do we have to change how our agents or assistants work?

No. WarpBuild sits underneath GitHub Actions. Whatever opens the PR - a developer, Claude Code, or an autonomous agent - hits the same workflows. The only change is the runs-on label, so tooling that generates or reviews code is unaffected.

Why does faster CI matter more with AI in the loop?

An agent's iteration speed is gated on how quickly CI returns a verdict. A 20-minute pipeline caps how many correction loops an agent can complete in an hour, and that cost is paid on every retry. Halving build time compounds across every loop, for humans and agents alike.

How much does this actually reduce our CI bill?

WarpBuild runners are priced at roughly half the per-minute rate of equivalent GitHub-hosted runners, and jobs finish in about half the time. Teams that also adopt faster caching and Docker layer caching typically see larger reductions. See https://www.warpbuild.com/pricing for current rates.

What happens when a burst of agent-driven builds hits at once?

Runners are provisioned on demand with unlimited job concurrency, so a burst of parallel workflows starts immediately rather than queuing behind your own jobs. There is no fixed pool to size or pre-warm.

Which platforms and architectures are supported?

Linux on x86-64 and ARM64, macOS on Apple silicon including M4 Pro, and Windows. GPU runners are coming soon. Runners can be hosted in WarpBuild's cloud or deployed into your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account with BYOC.

Is this safe for code our agents wrote but nobody has reviewed?

Yes. Every job runs on an ephemeral, fully isolated VM that is destroyed after the run, and WarpBuild never retains your source. WarpBuild is SOC2 Type 2 attested with SSO and access controls. See https://www.warpbuild.com/docs/ci/security for details.

Stop making your agents wait. Go Warp.