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From manual deploys to
one click to production.

We design automation for test, build and deploy to fit your existing development stack. We choose from GitHub Actions / CircleCI / CodePipeline / GitLab CI based on repository size and your team's operating model, and build a setup that lets you release more often without the fear of production incidents.

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Pain points

Does any of this sound familiar?

Manual deploys tend to cap release frequency and leave the procedure dependent on one person.

Production deploys are manual, and every release means calling on that one person.
Tests are written but never run in CI — they only get run at release time.
When an incident hits, there is no agreed rollback procedure.
Differences between staging and production cause bugs you only notice after release.
You want to release more often, but your setup can't keep up.
The CI/CD configuration is old and nobody can touch it anymore.
Why now

When CI/CD starts to pay off

You can put off CI/CD only while the codebase is small and there are just one or two developers.

01

When you add developers

As commits pile up, the risk of merging without running tests rises sharply. Without CI, everything rests on humans catching it in review, which leads to review fatigue.

02

When you want to release more often

Moving from weekly to daily, or releasing several times a day — raising the frequency while keeping manual deploys makes accidents far more likely.

03

When you want to reduce production incidents

"We write tests but still get incidents" usually means the tests aren't run in CI, or coverage is uneven. Getting CI in place is the starting line.

Scope

Scope

We look at the state of your existing repository and implement only what you need. We don't roll out a full set of features you won't use.

01 Tools

Tool selection and design

We choose from GitHub Actions / CircleCI / GitLab CI / AWS CodePipeline based on where your repository lives, your operating model, and existing assets. We don't default to "GitHub Actions and nothing else."

  • GitHub Actions
  • CircleCI / GitLab CI
  • AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Self-hosted runner design
  • Coexistence with existing assets
02 Test

Test automation

We build unit, E2E and static analysis into CI. We respect your existing test assets and design the test pyramid where coverage is missing.

  • Automated unit test runs
  • Playwright / Cypress E2E
  • Static analysis (ESLint / PHPStan / RuboCop)
  • Security scanning (Snyk / Trivy)
  • Coverage measurement and thresholds
  • Parallel execution and cache optimization
03 Deploy

Deploy automation

We deliver build artifacts automatically to production / staging / dev, and design the strategy — Blue-Green / Rolling / Canary — to fit your service.

  • Multiple environments (dev / stg / prod)
  • Blue-Green / Rolling deploys
  • Approval flow (manual approval step)
  • Automated rollback
  • ECS / Lambda / EC2 / static sites
  • WordPress / WP-CLI integration
04 Notify

Notifications and operation

We notify failures, successes and review requests to Slack / Google Chat / Chatwork so the team stays aware of the current state.

  • Slack / Google Chat / Chatwork notifications
  • Filtering failure notifications (removing alert overload)
  • Automatic PR review assignment
  • Automated release announcements
  • Error monitoring tool integration
  • Operation procedure documents
05 Migrate

Migration from existing CI

We migrate existing CI — an old Jenkins, a GitLab CI nobody can touch, a GitHub Actions setup with config scattered everywhere — to a modern configuration step by step, keeping the existing assets useful.

  • Migration from Jenkins / legacy CI
  • Configuration inventory and documentation
  • Operation during the parallel-run period
  • Diff verification and compatibility checks
  • Cutover planning
  • Documented fallback procedures
06 Cost

Cost and runner optimization

We cut CI costs through execution time, parallelism, caching and self-hosted runners. For teams whose monthly bill has crept up.

  • Assessing current execution time and per-minute cost
  • Reviewing the caching strategy
  • Optimizing parallel execution
  • Introducing self-hosted runners
  • Pruning unnecessary jobs
  • Monthly CI cost reports
Process

How we get there

  • 01Free consultation — we ask about the state of your repository and the release frequency you're aiming for (30 min).
  • 02Assessment — we take inventory of the repository, test assets and deploy procedures, and prioritize improvements.
  • 03Design and proposal — tool selection, pipeline design and migration plan, in writing.
  • 04Incremental implementation — we build in the order test → build → deploy, and hand it over in a state your developers can work with.
  • 05Operation support — we keep proposing improvements in regular meetings until the release process is running smoothly.
Plans

Engagement options

Three options depending on project size. Pricing is provided in writing once requirements are set.

Diagnose

Assessment

  • Inventory of existing CI / deploy procedures
  • Improvement priority map
  • Option to stop at the assessment
  • Report delivered as PDF
Build

Build

  • Test, build and deploy automation
  • Multi-environment support
  • Verification before production release
  • Operation procedure documents
Continuous

Continuous improvement

  • Release cycle operation support
  • Failure analysis and pipeline tuning
  • CI cost optimization
  • Scope agreed individually in the contract
Comparison

Compared with the alternatives

Option A

Do it in-house

  • Copy a template and leave it at that
  • Test, deploy and notifications only half-connected
  • No recovery design for failures
  • Operational know-how stuck with one person
Option B

Cloud vendor add-on

  • Skewed toward the vendor's own services
  • Doesn't cover building out tests
  • Notification design and operation procedure documents are a separate contract
  • Nothing left behind if you switch
SHANNON

Assess → design → build → operate

  • Designed around your existing assets and team
  • Production deploy automation paired with building out tests
  • Operation procedure documents left as a deliverable
  • Ongoing support available in the operation phase
Promises

Our promises

01 — Stack-neutral We respect your existing stack We won't tell you that you have to standardize on GitHub Actions. We propose the choice that keeps your existing assets useful.
02 — Incremental Incremental rollout Rather than rolling out to every repository at once, we go build in one repository → verify → expand.
03 — Knowledge transfer We leave operation procedure documents Because we leave operation procedure documents as a deliverable, your team can handle future handovers and incidents on its own.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

No. We read through the pipeline assets in your Jenkins and plan a step-by-step migration to GitHub Actions / CircleCI and similar. A parallel-run period keeps the risk to a minimum.
Yes. We design to your network requirements — for example, a self-hosted runner inside your internal network triggered from GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, or AWS CodeBuild running inside a VPC.
We also offer a one-off CI cost assessment. We take inventory of long-running jobs, unused caching, excessive parallelism and the like, and propose cost-cutting measures in priority order. Introducing self-hosted runners often produces a large reduction.
Yes. Where tests are thin, we design the test pyramid and propose how to add tests alongside setting up CI. We avoid the "we installed CI but have no tests to run" situation.
We support the major stacks — PHP / Laravel / Go / Node.js / Python / Ruby on Rails / Java / .NET and more. Our members have experience building these alongside containerization and Terraform / IaC.
Even on teams of three or fewer, there is usually value in at least one of release frequency, fewer incidents, or removing single-person dependence. If we judge that the return is unlikely, we propose stopping at the assessment.

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