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Building Latchkey in public: a monthly update on what we shipped, how the platform works, and where it is headed next.
October Update: Refer & Earn, and Billing You Can See Coming
September shipped Refer & Earn, which pays both workspaces 10,000 bonus runner minutes, plus overage notices for paid plans and alerts that are on before your runners stop.
Kaveh Alemi
CTO · 9 min read
September Update: Meet the Latchkey CLI
August shipped latchkey run: any command on a fresh Linux runner from your terminal, verdict in the exit code. Plus latchkey watch and a 156,808-run audit.
12 min read
August Update: Insight v2 and Heals That Verify Themselves
August at Latchkey: AI Insight v2 with evidence-backed findings you apply as a PR, heal PRs that prove themselves on their own run, and CI beyond GitHub.
9 min read
July Update: Your Coding Agent Can Fix What Self-Healing Won't
June 2026: your coding agent now receives the CI failures self-heal won't touch, with an explanation for each, plus faster pickup and multi-arch builds.
10 min read
June Update: Self-Healing CI Is On by Default
May in review: self-heal reached production and became the default on every Latchkey runner: what it repairs, what it never touches, how to turn it off.
10 min read
May Update: Latchkey Runners Are Live
April 2026: the runners beta reached production. Four sizes from $0.0025 a minute, plans with included minutes, and custom runners from a repo scan.
10 min read
April Update: The Runners Beta Opens
March at Latchkey: notifications, a $5 Developer plan and redesigned pricing, plus the Runners beta opening this month as CI moves from watched to run.
8 min read
March Update: Latchkey Runners and Self-Healing Are Coming
February recap: a faster dashboard, seat-based plans and our Product Hunt launch. The big news: managed GitHub Actions runners with self-healing, in April.
9 min read
February Update: CI/CD in the Agentic Era
January at Latchkey: dashboard v2, insights you apply as a pull request or skip, and open beta pricing. Plus our rules for letting automation act on CI.
10 min read
January Update: Backed by LAUNCH, and Rethinking CI for Agents
Our January update: LAUNCH's investment, the 2025 product story from analytics to pull requests, and why CI has to start acting, not only reporting.
9 min read