CI/CD for the age of AI

Before Avrea, both of us spent years building and scaling technology companies successfully under real pressure. We’ve experienced the late nights before launches, when the team is ready to ship, and everything depends on moving fast. But too often, the pipeline became the bottleneck. Builds got stuck. Tests suddenly failed. What should have taken minutes took hours, and the team spent more time waiting than building.

For years, this has been the accepted way of doing software development.

But recently, something fundamental changed.

Software is no longer written only by humans

Developers now build side by side with AI, generating and iterating on code faster than ever before. What used to take days now happens in minutes.

And that changes everything.

While code creation has accelerated dramatically, the infrastructure responsible for testing, validating, and shipping that code has barely evolved. Traditional CI/CD systems were never designed for a world where humans and AI continuously produce changes at massive scale. If teams generate five times more code, they also need to run five times more tests, pipelines, and validations, and with today’s systems, that simply doesn’t scale.

The bottleneck in software development is no longer writing code. It is shipping it.

That realization became the starting point for Avrea. 

We retreated to a cottage in the Finnish countryside to rethink the problem from first principles and explore what a fundamentally new approach could look like. We spent hours talking not only about the technology, but also about the kind of company we wanted to build around it. Both of us had seen firsthand how much organizational culture shapes a company's outcomes and success. The best teams move fast because they trust each other, communicate openly, and they take ownership, while having fun along the way.

From the beginning, we wanted Avrea to have a culture where ambitious people can do the best work of their careers together. Because building the future of software delivery is essentially about building the kind of team capable of creating it.

Rebuilding the delivery layer

We started Avrea because we believe the entire software delivery layer needs to be rebuilt for the AI era.

Our mission is simple:

Help software teams ship faster, more often, and with higher quality.

Avrea is designed for a future where humans and AI agents collaborate continuously. It works with existing CI/CD workflows, is adopted by changing a single line of code, and allows AI agents to be first-class users of the system themselves, becoming a native part of how software gets built, tested, and shipped.

Beyond faster pipelines

As AI-generated code increases, maintaining software quality becomes dramatically harder. More code means more regressions, more flaky tests, more dependency problems, and more engineering time spent debugging pipelines and infrastructure instead of building products.

The future of CI/CD isn’t just faster infrastructure. For too long CI/CD systems have been black boxes that have left you wondering what’s happening inside them. 

Because Avrea operates inside the actual CI environment, it sees what traditional tools often can’t: build logs, cache behavior, failing tests, dependency mismatches, infrastructure bottlenecks, and the exact conditions that make pipelines succeed or break.

This allows Avrea to do something fundamentally different. Instead of only reporting problems, Avrea will solve them for you.

Avrea can identify flaky tests, detect regressions and environment drift, surface inefficient workflows, analyze cache performance, and pinpoint slow or unreliable jobs automatically. It can also generate pull requests with proposed fixes, helping teams resolve issues before they become recurring problems.

We’re also building capabilities that continuously improve software quality over time: automated dependency upgrades validated against real CI runs, modernization of outdated tooling, AI-assisted test improvements, and documentation that evolves alongside the codebase itself.

Every proposed change is automatically validated against the full pipeline before developers ever need to review it.

Our vision is that, in the future, CI/CD systems won’t just execute pipelines. They’ll actively improve the health, reliability, and maintainability of software continuously in the background.

Announcing our funding round

Alongside today’s launch, we’re also excited to announce that Avrea has raised $4.7 million in total Pre-Seed funding led by Earlybird. They immediately shared our conviction that the bottleneck in software is moving from writing code to shipping it and that the delivery layer needs to be rebuilt for this new era. Over the years, they have backed category-defining technology companies including UiPath, N26, Peak Games, and Aiven, and we’re excited to build the future of software delivery together with them.

The new funding will help us scale the engineering team, expand the platform, and continue building the delivery layer for the AI era.

This is just the beginning

Software delivery has entered an entirely new era. One where AI fundamentally reshapes how software is created. The infrastructure around software delivery needs to evolve just as dramatically.

We’re here to help make that happen.

Welcome to Avrea.

— Hannu Valtonen & Juha Valvanne, Founders of Avrea

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