CI Debt Audit

Your agents ship more code every week.
Your CI was priced for humans.

We build your CI Debt Audit from your public footprint: the hours your engineers lose waiting on CI, what those hours cost at loaded salaries, and what coding agents do to that number over the next twelve months.

90%lower CI spendGrid

45%faster feedbackHoneycomb

67%shorter runtimesTropic

“Fast, reliable CI is a necessary part of a well-functioning engineering team, especially with the amount of code being generated today.”

Dean Strelau, Staff Engineer at Honeycomb

Backed by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins.

ci-debt-audit · example

northwind.io

CI Debt Audit

Estimated from public footprint · Sept 2026

1,386

engineer-hours a month waiting on CI

$1.8M

a year at a loaded rate

pipeline runs on an agent cadence

Assumptions

~150 engineers (estimated)
6 pipeline runs per engineer per workday
12 min average pipeline, 50% of it blocking
$110/hr fully loaded

Example output. Yours is built for your domain.

What it reads

Public signals only.
Nothing from inside your build.

Three deterministic scans feed the model before any estimate is calculated. Every claim on the finished audit carries the source it came from.

Stack

Your CI provider

Detected from your public web and DNS fingerprint, then labelled as detected, inferred, or assumed. We show you which one it was.

Org size

Engineering headcount

Estimated from live engineering job postings and public company data. The basis line on the audit tells you exactly how the number was reached.

Load

Pipeline volume

Modeled from team size and typical run frequency, then projected forward against an agent-driven cadence.

Where the time goes

Same build.
Better runtime.

Most CI bills are not paying for work. They are paying to redo work that has not changed, on machines sized for the largest step in the pipeline.

Typical run, every commit

clone48s

install-deps3m 12s

build4m 05s

jest (flake, attempt 2)4m 28s

Every push pays the full cost again.

The same run on RWX

clone2s

install-depsCached

buildCached

jestretry, 22s

Unchanged work is never re-run. The flaky step replays on its own.

Proof

Fall in love with your build platform.

Every number below is published on rwx.com with a named customer behind it.

lower CI/CD costs

Grid

faster CI feedback loops

Honeycomb

shorter CI runtimes, off GitHub Actions

Tropic

RWX is super fast. It executes jobs quickly, caching works incredibly well, and it's all very hands-off. But most importantly, the cost savings have held as our usage has scaled.

Mickey ReissHead of Engineering, Grid

Fast, reliable CI is a necessary part of a well-functioning engineering team, especially with the amount of code being generated today. With RWX, the tools have been there to keep the feedback loop moving.

Dean StrelauStaff Engineer, Honeycomb

Deployments that once took multiple hours, even up to an entire day, and required multiple engineers are now 20-minute, one-person workflows.

Nate VickVP of Platform Engineering, ClickFunnels

RWX was built by engineers for engineers, and it shows in how fast and hands-off CI feels day to day. Our runtimes are down to 10 minutes.

Pedro CoronelPrincipal Engineer, Tropic

Switching to RWX for CI not only enabled us to accelerate feedback loops, it helped our developers regain confidence shipping larger, more ambiguous changes.

Mike McCuneVP of Engineering, Coalesce

RWX singlehandedly changed how our team approaches the development cycle. Our engineers fully trust the platform, and our CI/CD pipeline has never been faster.

Jeremy ThomasSVP of Engineering, Bonusly

Migrating CI is the part nobody wants to do

So most teams do not do it in one move. Tropic ran RWX alongside GitHub Actions until they trusted the results, then cut over. ClickFunnels got their starting config delivered as a single file to commit. If your pipelines are deeply wired into another platform, the honest answer is that the port takes real work, and the parallel run is how you find out whether it is worth it before you commit to anything.

Who built this

Dan Manges has run CI at scale twice before.

RWX is named after the read, write, execute permissions in computer file systems. Dan founded it after two tours as a CTO, where he spent years on the wrong side of a build platform that could not keep up with the team using it.

CTO, Root InsuranceThrough to IPO in 2020

CTO, BraintreeThrough the PayPal acquisition in 2013

He wrote publicly about how hard the CI/CD problem turned out to be, and why RWX shipped later than planned. That is the person on the second call.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi Creator of Jenkins. An investor in RWX.

Your agents ship more code every week. Your CI was priced for humans.

Public signals only.Nothing from inside your build.