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Blacksmith helps companies run their continuous integration (CI) up to twice as fast, at half the cost. We do this by running their CI on high performance gaming CPUs. - Engineering productivity is often marred by slow CI that grows quadratically with the size of the engineering organization. - On top of this, companies pay high markups to run CI on the hyperscalers. - Consequently, companies have to run their CI on spot instances to keep costs in check. Since spot instances can get pre-empted at any point, running CI reliably on them requires [significant engineering investment](https://www.rippling.com/blog/how-rippling-used-spot-instances-to-save-and-scale-ci-cd). Blacksmith offers CI compute that is more performant, cheaper, and reliable. With Blacksmith, companies do not have to think about CI as they scale. We are starting with GitHub Actions - today's most popular and fastest-growing CI system. With a one-line change, companies can run their CI up to twice as fast on our high-performance hardware. In addition to this, Blacksmith provides colocated warm caches along with optimizations for common CI workloads (like building and pushing Docker images). Aayush, JP and Aditya have gained deep systems and product knowledge from their time at Cockroach Labs and Faire respectively. Both these companies, with several hundred engineers, were spending in the order of millions of dollars on their CI. Yet they were riddled with slow CI and actively seeking out cheaper and faster alternatives. Blacksmith offers exactly this alternative, at a time where being lean is table-stakes for most companies.

Kenley is an AI-powered workspace for consulting firms. With Kenley, firms can use their institutional knowledge to power critical workflows—from drafting proposal decks to scaling due diligence research—so consultants can focus on excellence. *AnswerGrid, Inc. doing business as Kenley ⸻ Kenley was founded by Bolu Ben-Adeola and Noah Ohrner. Bolu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he built ML infrastructure for the fixed-income markets at Bloomberg and led teams at Palantir, South Korea, tackling problems in heavy industry manufacturing. Noah is the Co-Founder and CTO of Kenley. Before Kenley, he graduated with a first class degree from the University of Cambridge and was a tech lead on Foundry Security at Palantir.