# Buildkite

Buildkite is a CI/CD platform in which customers run build agents on their own infrastructure or on Buildkite's hosted agents, while Buildkite provides the cloud control plane. It covers pipeline orchestration, test splitting and flaky test handling through Test Engine, and package registries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/buildkite · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Founded: 2013
- Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia
- Employees: 51–200
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Convertible note
- Deployment: Hybrid: the control plane is hosted in AWS, and agents run on customer infrastructure or on Buildkite hosted agents
- Best for: Engineering teams that want CI to run on their own infrastructure and need it to scale to large build volumes
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II

## Products

- Buildkite Pipelines: Programmable CI orchestration with dynamic pipelines, wait and block steps, trigger steps and conditional logic.
- Test Engine: Test analytics with intelligent test splitting, performance insights, and real-time flaky test isolation and workflows.
- Package Registries: Managed registries for packages and other build assets across ecosystems.
- Buildkite Agents: Agents that run jobs on customer infrastructure or on Buildkite's hosted Linux, macOS and Windows machines.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 5 of 45 | 19.5 | 37 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 30.2 | 66.7% |
| google_ai_mode | 8.7 | 22.2% |
| perplexity | 19.6 | 48.1% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Buildkite AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/buildkite, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).