When engineers push code, a set of automated checks runs to confirm nothing broke. Those checks run on machines called runners, and they cost time and money. Monk CI builds fast, GPU-optimized runners and a dashboard for the teams using them: developers watch which checks failed and why, managers watch how fast everything runs and what it costs.
I had never worked in this domain. Before I designed a single screen, I had to learn what a workflow run is, what a job is, what failure looks like, and how developers actually live inside GitHub. I read docs, watched competitor walkthroughs, and talked through the system with the founder until I understood it well enough to design for it. As it turned out, well enough to catch a problem the team had missed.
