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Company Overview
About Depot
Depot is a remote Docker build cache and layer storage service that dramatically accelerates Docker image builds in CI/CD pipelines — providing a shared, persistent build cache that allows consecutive builds to reuse unchanged layers across different machines and parallel runners, turning 10-minute Docker builds into 2-minute builds. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in the United States, Depot targets engineering teams running Docker-based CI/CD on GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or other cloud CI platforms where each build starts from scratch without access to previous build cache.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
Depot's shared remote cache stores Docker build layers in cloud infrastructure and makes them available to all CI runners across a team — when a build starts, it checks Depot's cache for previously built layers and only rebuilds what has changed. This is particularly impactful for large monorepos and multi-stage Dockerfiles where base dependency layers (npm install, pip install, Maven dependencies) represent significant build time but rarely change between commits. Depot also provides native ARM build support (building ARM64 images without slow emulation).
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In 2025, Depot competes with Docker's own Build Cloud, Buildkite Depot, and engineering teams' self-managed BuildKit caching solutions for CI Docker build optimization. The Docker build performance market has grown as teams running microservices in containers experience significant CI cost and time from slow Docker builds. Depot's managed service eliminates the infrastructure management burden of self-hosted build cache. The 2025 strategy focuses on expanding GitHub Actions integration (native action available in GitHub Marketplace), growing ARM native build adoption as teams adopt Apple Silicon development, and building build analytics that help teams identify slow Dockerfile patterns.
Recent Activity
View all →AI can produce code faster than you can review it, but you're still the one on call when it breaks. You need an AI-assisted workflow you trust: linter guardrails, reference tests the agent can copy, tight AGENTS.md files, and PRs small enough to review. The goal isn't to avoid AI, it's to stay in control of what it ships.
The same fast, isolated VMs that run Depot CI are now a programmable primitive you can drive from TypeScript. Boot a real microVM, run commands, and work with its filesystem, all from a few lines of code. The Sandbox SDK is in private beta.
Depot container builds can now generate SOCI (Seekable OCI) v2 index metadata at build time, so a compatible runtime can lazy-load your images and start large containers in seconds instead of waiting on a full pull.
Speeding up CI isn't one heroic refactor, it's a hunt for the next bottleneck, and for most teams the first one is the test suite. Here's how to attack it with parallelism, sharding, prebuilt images, and a job-density rule that keeps wider sharding from quietly torching your bill.
You can now tell Depot CI ahead of time that a step might need a retry. Add retry to a known-flaky step and Depot reruns just that step, not the expensive work before it.
Durable Lambda functions break most of the tracing assumptions you carry over from regular code. They replay from the top every time they wake, so spans get emitted twice, parent spans lose their children, and queue wait time hides in the gaps. Here's how we restored end-to-end visibility into Depot CI's durable functions.
Paranoid hardening has always been with us: aggressive kernel customizations for bug classes without a proven exploit, while Linux itself had a good-enough disclosure track record. Some of these hardenings became the default, some stayed controversial for a long time. AI-assisted vulnerability research made finding obscure vulnerabilities fast and cheap. So what does good enough even mean in this new era?
macOS 26 (Tahoe) is now available for Depot GitHub Actions runners. The `depot-macos-26` label runs on Apple M4 hardware with Xcode 26 and the macOS 26 SDKs preinstalled.
The Depot CI API and CLI are now generally available, so everything you could do in the dashboard you can now do from your terminal or hand off to an agent.
The Depot CI dashboard shows you what ran, what failed, and where to look next. Follow recent workflow runs, browse activity by repository and workflow, and open any run to see exactly what happened.
Material Event filed 2026-06-01
Quarterly Report filed 2026-05-28
Key Differentiators
Emerging Innovator
Depot is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the Infrastructure market.
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