Shipyard
New York, US · 61 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
Shipyard automates the provisioning and management of software environments across the development lifecycle, from development to production. It targets engineering teams and developers looking to ship software faster.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Shipyard is an environment management platform that creates ephemeral, on-demand copies of an application each time a pull request is opened. Each environment is a full-stack, near-production replica hydrated with a fresh copy of the customer's data, and runs in a single-tenant, sandboxed Kubernetes cluster. Environments are created automatically on push via GitOps, scale to zero when idle, and are torn down when a pull request is merged or closed.
Onboarding is based on configuration a team already maintains: Shipyard transpiles a Docker Compose file (or accepts Kubernetes manifests) into its own Kubernetes manifests, after which users select services, routes, environment variables and secrets in a dashboard and connect their CI pipeline using provider templates. Additional capabilities include build, deploy and run logs for all containers, SSO-gated shareable environment links, storage of environment variables as encrypted secrets, terminal access into containers, and support for private container registries.
The platform is positioned for both human and automated users. Shipyard states its environments are fully accessible to AI coding agents, which can manage them through a Shipyard MCP server and CLI and use the Playwright MCP and CLI for visual testing and debugging, allowing agents to deploy code, retrieve logs, run tests and iterate on a pull request without manual intervention.
Business model
Shipyard sells a managed, cloud-hosted environment platform to engineering organizations, offering a 30-day free trial with no credit card required alongside a sales-assisted demo path.
Traction
Shipyard's site cites aggregate customer outcomes of 62% cloud cost savings, 3.2x developer velocity and 8.7x DevOps productivity, and states teams typically see 30-62% savings on pre-production cloud spend. A published case study with healthcare software company Healthie reports a 68% reduction in QA cycle time, 3.4x more bugs caught pre-merge and a 52% reduction in cloud spend; Healthie's director of engineering is quoted on reduced release-branch and staging coordination overhead.
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Market position
Shipyard operates in the ephemeral or preview environment segment of developer infrastructure, adjacent to CI/CD and internal developer platform tooling, and markets itself to teams that would otherwise rely on shared staging environments.
Shipyard emphasizes full-stack, production-like environments rather than partial or mocked stacks, adoption without retooling by reusing existing Docker Compose or Kubernetes configuration, single-tenant isolation per environment, automated lifecycle management including scale-to-zero and auto-teardown, and first-class access for AI coding agents through MCP and CLI interfaces.
Technology
Shipyard converts Docker Compose files or Kubernetes manifests into its own Kubernetes manifests and provisions each environment in a single-tenant, fully sandboxed Kubernetes cluster; customer code and data do not reside on Shipyard's internal infrastructure. Data is transmitted over SSL/TLS and encrypted end to end, environment variables are treated as secrets and encrypted at rest and in transit, and the underlying infrastructure is hosted in data centers described as ISO 27001, FedRAMP, SOC 1 and HIPAA compliant. Environments integrate with CI/CD systems, expose build/deploy/run logs and container terminal access, support private registries, and are programmatically usable by AI agents through a Shipyard MCP server and CLI.
Go-to-market
Self-service product-led entry via a 30-day free trial and quickstart documentation, complemented by booked demos, a customer case study, a developer Slack community, a technical blog and a monthly newsletter.
Software engineering organizations of varying sizes, specifically developers, DevOps and platform teams, QA testers, product teams and stakeholders reviewing feature branches, and AI coding agents operating on behalf of developers.
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Key figures
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In the news
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primary sources listed
- Shipyardshipyard.build · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Shipyard do?
- Shipyard is a managed ephemeral environment platform that spins up full-stack preview environments for every pull request.
- Who are Shipyard's investors?
- Shipyard's investors include Contour Venture Partners, Heavybit, Work-Bench.
- Where is Shipyard headquartered?
- Shipyard is headquartered in New York, US.