CI/CD Has Outgrown 2 Pillars. The Future Runs on 4.

CI/CD has been stuck on 2 pillars, performance and price.

That made sense… until now.

⚡ Faster builds meant more productive teams.
💸 Lower costs meant you could scale.

But fast and cheap isn’t enough anymore.

Modern teams also need:

🌐 Resilience - no single point of failure, multi-cloud by design.
🌱 Sustainability - cut emissions by 90% without cutting performance.

That’s 4 pillars instead of 2.

This is the future of modern CI/CD platforms.

And here’s the kicker: you don’t have to trade one for the other. We’ve seen enterprise teams save $21,600 per year (25% cheaper than GitHub Actions) while also reducing emissions by 90%.

And it’s not just us seeing this shift.

YC and Jared Friedman (Managing Director at YC) just backed Blacksmith with a $3.5M investment in CI/CD, also a smaller round in BuildJet.

Why? Because CI/CD is the beating heart of software — and it’s overdue for reinvention.

The future of CI/CD won’t stop at fast and cheap. But, It will run on all 4 pillars:

• Performance
• Price
• Resilience
• Sustainability.

We’re building CarbonRunner to make that the default; good for business, great for the planet too.