One engineer manages your Yocto or Buildroot builds on one machine. That works — right up until they walk out the door or the laptop dies.
Build Vault makes your product buildable by anyone, on any machine, permanently — so it survives the engineer who owns it today and the laptop it runs on. We capture your embedded Linux build exactly as it exists, get it running in a portable, versioned virtual machine, and document it so any engineer can rebuild it from a clean checkout.
"Only Dave cuts the release, and Dave just gave notice."
One engineer is responsible for the build: the environment, the build order, the local tweaks, and the fixes that make it work. Not everything is documented, and what isn't lives only with them. When they leave, that knowledge walks out the door and the build goes with it.
"The build environment is on a laptop in the corner."
If that machine dies, is lost, or reclaimed by IT, the product becomes unbuildable and the team starts from scratch, reconstructing a working build environment from memory. You would never keep your source code on one un-backed-up laptop. The build environment usually is exactly that, and nobody notices until it is gone.
"We hired a second firmware engineer and lost three weeks just getting them able to build."
Because the build isn't portable or documented, every new hire, contractor, or second site starts with an archaeology dig. A build that can't be handed off can't scale, and can't survive a handoff you didn't plan for. Onboarding becomes a project instead of a checkout.
"A customer asked which components are in our firmware, and we couldn't answer."
Auditors, customers, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act increasingly expect you to state exactly what went into a shipped image and prove you can rebuild it. A build that lives on one machine has no reliable record: no reproducible source of truth, no SBOM, no traceability from source to shipped binary. Reconstructing that after the fact is expensive, and sometimes impossible.
Same product. But now it can't be lost, and it doesn't need any one person.
The release ships whether or not Dave is still here. The build no longer depends on one person's memory, and their notice period stops being a countdown to a problem.
Versioned, snapshotted, and reproducible — on infrastructure you don't have to pray for. The build environment finally gets treated like the source code it is.
Clone a development version of the VM, run, done. Onboarding a hire or a contractor stops being a three-week archaeology and becomes a checkout.
An SBOM and a rebuildable source of truth, ready for any customer, auditor, or the EU Cyber Resilience Act. You can answer the question instead of scrambling to reconstruct the answer.
Your existing Yocto or Buildroot build captured into a portable virtual machine, running whatever Linux your build requires. Designated as the canonical source of truth: versioned and snapshotted.
Your build, freed from the one machine it was trapped on.
A confirmed working build from a clean checkout inside that VM, with step-by-step documentation.
Proof it actually works, and the instructions so any engineer can do it again.
How to rebuild, what is in the image, what is vulnerable, and honest notes on anything fragile or broken in the build.
The knowledge that lived in one person's head, written down.
An SBOM for the resulting image (SPDX or CycloneDX) and a CVE baseline against it, ranked by severity.
The answer ready before the customer or auditor asks.
The vulnerability-handling artifact the EU Cyber Resilience Act will require, in the box.
Capturing your exact image means we can also produce a Software Bill of Materials and a CVE baseline for it, even if you don't currently generate one, all included in the capture.
Under the EU Cyber Resilience Act, vulnerability and incident reporting obligations begin September 11th 2026 and apply to products already in the field.
We can build the new machine in parallel with your existing build system. No down-time required.
Same core work, two clean exits.
You receive the VM image (OVA or equivalent), you host it, you own it. Clean exit, no ongoing relationship, no lock-in.
The environment lives snapshotted on CLI infrastructure, kept reproducible, with access for your team. We offer a BSP Maintenance service if you want the build kept current over time, not just captured once.
32-bit hosts, end-of-life distributions, dead toolchains — that's the normal case, not the exception.
Build environments have a way of freezing in time. Yours might only run on a 32-bit machine from 2009, on a Linux release that hit end-of-life a decade back, with a compiler and a vendor SDK that refuse to install on anything modern. That is exactly the kind of build we capture.
Fixed price per engagement, quoted after the scoping call. No surprises.
Single board, clean-ish Buildroot or straightforward Yocto, build mostly understood.
Typical Yocto product, several custom layers, some undocumented steps.
Heavily customized, poorly documented, vendor layers, multiple images, build health unknown.
Every tier includes the full deliverable — the portable VM, the confirmed build, the documentation, the SBOM, and the CVE baseline. The tiers differ by how much archaeology the capture takes, not by what you get.
A 50% deposit begins the work, with the balance due on delivery.
Book a Free Scoping CallTell us about your build and we'll let you know if we're a fit, usually within one business day.
Captured it and want it kept patched and current? That's BSP Maintenance. Build actually broken, or the firmware itself is the problem? Start with an MCU and firmware rescue first.