Magna CI
For Software Teams Without Dedicated DevOps

We guarantee your team spends 80% less time on deployments — in 90 days or full refund.

2 to 3 hours per release cycle becomes under 10 minutes, unattended. Zero failed deployments caused by pipeline issues. One-click automated rollback to last stable state. If we don't hit these metrics in 90 days, you pay nothing.

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The Problem

Let me be direct with you.

If you're running a software company with multiple developers but no dedicated DevOps engineer, you are bleeding money every single release cycle — and you probably don't even realize how much.

Your senior engineers are SSHing into servers, running scripts by hand, copying files manually, and babysitting every single deploy. Every release night is an anxiety event. Your team avoids Friday deploys because the process is too fragile to trust. And when something breaks in production, recovery is manual, slow, and stressful.

Here's the math you're not seeing: A team of 15 engineers at a blended $150/hour fully loaded cost, losing 2 hours per release cycle, burns $300 to $400 per deploy in wasted senior time. That's before you count the downstream cost of bugs caught in production instead of the pipeline — which cost 10 to 20 times more to fix.

If you're deploying twice a week, that's $600–$800 per week. $2,400–$3,200 per month. $28,800–$38,400 per year — just in wasted senior engineering time on deployment overhead. And that's a conservative estimate.

You have three options to fix this:

Option 1
Hire a dedicated DevOps engineer

Cost: $250,000–$390,000 fully loaded in year one, after a 4 to 5 month search. No guarantee they'll actually solve the problem. No guarantee they'll stay. And if they leave, you're back to square one.

Option 2
Hire a contractor

Cost: $150–$300 per hour with no outcome guarantee and no ongoing ownership. They'll bill you for time, not results. And when the project is "done," they hand it off and disappear — leaving your team to maintain something they didn't build.

Option 3
Magna CI

Cost: $6,995/month — under $84,000 per year — with a defined delivery spec, a 90-day money-back guarantee, and ongoing ownership included. We build it. We maintain it. We handle incidents. We onboard new services as your team grows.

Why It Matters

CI/CD is the only way to scale a software company.

Every software company that scales past 5 developers hits the same wall: manual deployments become a bottleneck. When you're a 2-person team, manual deploys are annoying but manageable. When you're a 10-person team, manual deploys are a tax on every release. When you're a 20-person team, manual deploys are actively preventing you from shipping features fast enough to compete.

Developers waste 10 to 20 hours per week on deployment overhead instead of building product.

Every release is a risk event — teams avoid Friday deploys because the process is too fragile to trust.

Bugs caught in production cost 10 to 20 times more to fix than bugs caught in the pipeline.

Staging doesn't match production — "it worked on my machine" is a real problem on every deploy.

There's no rollback plan — when something breaks in production, recovery is manual, slow, and stressful.

Nobody was hired to own this — the pipeline is everyone's problem and no one's responsibility.

CI/CD is not a nice-to-have. It is the only way to scale a software company past 10 developers without burning out your senior engineers. The companies that win treat CI/CD as a competitive advantage. The companies that lose keep telling themselves they'll "fix it later."

Track Record

Built across real engineering teams.

Magna CI is a new standalone service — but the methodology behind it was built over 13+ years inside engineering teams at real companies.

CBOE / Hanweck — 30+ Pipelines Across 7 Products

Owned Jenkins engineering for an entire department for two years. Came in with zero automation — developers were manually deploying every release. Built 30+ pipelines across 7 products, automated the entire build, test, and deploy process, and built rollback mechanisms so recovery was one click instead of a multi-hour manual process.

Result: Deploys went from 2–3 hours to under 10 minutes, unattended.
OSI — Full Test Suite and Pipeline from Scratch

Came in with zero automation — no test suite, no pipeline. Built a pytest automation framework from scratch, established the full test suite, built the entire CI/CD pipeline, and set up automated quality gates so code couldn't go to production unless it passed the full test suite.

Result: Bugs caught in the pipeline instead of production. Manual, multi-hour deploys became automated sub-10-minute processes.
50+
Pipelines built and maintained
13+
Years of CI/CD experience
2
Pipeline foundations built from scratch
The ROI

The math is straightforward.

Example: 15-engineer team, 2 deploys/week, $150/hour blended fully loaded cost.

Current State (Manual Deploys)
Active time per manual deploy2 hours
Cost per deploy$300–$400
Deploys per week2
Wasted cost per month$2,400–$3,200
Wasted cost per year$28,800–$38,400
Future State with Magna CI
Active time per deploy~20 seconds (push the code)
Pipeline run timeUnder 10 minutes, unattended
Developer time cost per deployNear zero

Cost of Magna CI: $6,995/month — $83,940/year.

The question isn't whether you can afford Magna CI. The question is whether you can afford not to fix this.

How It Works

This is not a consulting project where we hand you a document and disappear.

1
Pipeline Assessment — Week 1

We audit your current deployment process, document every manual step, identify every bottleneck, and map out your current architecture. We then define the success metrics in writing — target deploy time, target failure rate, target rollback capability — before any work begins. If we don't hit them in 90 days, you get a full refund.

2
Target Model Implementation — Weeks 2–6

We build the entire CI/CD pipeline. This includes:

  • Automated build triggered on every commit
  • Unit tests and integration tests wired into the pipeline
  • Automated quality gates — nothing reaches production unless it passes
  • Staging environment that matches production exactly
  • One-click production deploys with automated rollback
  • Monitoring and alerting (Slack, PagerDuty, or Datadog)
3
Stabilization and Ongoing Ownership — Month 3+

We don't hand it off. We stay. Ongoing maintenance, incident response, new service onboarding, performance optimization, security patches, and dependency updates — all handled. You get a dedicated CI/CD team at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.

What You Get

Everything included. No surprises.

Initial Build (First 90 Days)
  • Full CI/CD pipeline built to agreed spec
  • Automated build, test, and deploy process
  • Staging environment matching production exactly
  • One-click production deploys with automated rollback
  • Monitoring and alerting setup
  • Team training and documentation
  • 90-day money-back guarantee
Ongoing Ownership (Month 3+)
  • Pipeline maintenance and incident response
  • New service onboarding as your team grows
  • Performance optimization
  • Security patches and dependency updates
  • Slack support (24-hr on Gold, 4-hr on Platinum)
  • Monthly pipeline audit report
FAQ

Common questions.

How long does this actually take?
The initial build takes 6 to 8 weeks. The 90-day guarantee includes time for your team to validate the results and for us to optimize based on real-world usage. Most clients see measurable results within the first 30 days.
What if we already have some automation in place?
We'll audit what you have, keep what works, and fix what doesn't. Most companies have some automation — but it's fragile, untrusted, or incomplete. We'll take what you have and turn it into a pipeline your team actually trusts.
What if we use a different CI/CD tool?
We're tool-agnostic. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines — we've worked with all of them. We'll use whatever makes the most sense for your stack, or help you migrate if your current tool is holding you back.
What if we have a complex architecture — microservices, containers, Kubernetes?
We specialize in complex architectures. The more complex your setup, the more value you get from a production-grade pipeline. Complexity is not a blocker — it's just a requirement we build into the spec.
What if you don't hit the metrics?
Full refund. No questions asked. We offer this because we've done this before — multiple times, from scratch — and we know what it takes.
How is this different from a full-time DevOps hire?
A full-time hire costs $250K–$390K fully loaded in year one, after a 4 to 5 month search. Magna CI costs $83,940/year with no search, no onboarding, and no risk they leave in 6 months. Plus, we've already built 50+ pipelines — we're not learning on your dime.
What if we have compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI)?
We've worked with regulated industries. We build the pipeline to meet your compliance requirements, document everything, set up audit trails, and make sure the pipeline passes your security review. Compliance is not a blocker — it's a requirement we build into the spec.
What if we want to cancel?
No long-term contract. After the initial 90-day build, ongoing ownership is month-to-month. Cancel with 30 days notice at any time. Everything built stays with you.
What if something breaks in production and we need help immediately?
We handle it. Response times: critical production issues within 1 hour, non-critical within 4 hours, optimizations within 24 hours.

Ready to fix this?

Book a free pipeline review call directly with me — not a salesperson. We'll go through your current deployment process, define what the 90-day metrics would look like for your team, and figure out whether Magna CI is the right fit. If it isn't, I'll tell you honestly — and I'll tell you what to do instead.

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We limit new client onboarding to 3 per quarter to maintain our hands-on delivery standard.

P.S. — You might be wondering: why would anyone offer a full refund if they don't hit the metrics? Simple: because I've done this before. Multiple times. From scratch. I've built 50+ pipelines across multiple engineering teams over 13+ years. I know what works. I know what breaks. I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is — because no other CI/CD provider in the market will.