Blacksmith

Blacksmith, a San Francisco-based company, specializes in offering Continuous Integration (CI) solutions that are designed to be both cost-effective and high-performance. Founded by Aayush, JP, and Aditya, who bring extensive systems and product knowledge from their experiences at Cockroach Labs and Faire, Blacksmith addresses the common challenges in engineering productivity due to slow CI processes. The company’s services include colocated warm caches and optimizations for common CI tasks such as building and pushing Docker images. Blacksmith’s CI solutions run on high-performance gaming CPUs and offer features like isolated, ephemeral VMs for each job, unlimited concurrent jobs, and fast I/O with NVMe backed volumes. Additionally, the company provides a free trial with 3000 free minutes and plans to introduce enhanced features such as lightning-fast Docker builds and custom runner images. As part of Y-Combinator’s W24 batch, Blacksmith is poised to support companies in the United States and Canada looking for reliable and efficient CI services.