diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_next_server.yml b/.github/workflows/test_next_server.yml
index d7201e03..892566d6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_next_server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_next_server.yml
@@ -42,11 +42,4 @@ jobs:
       run: pnpm install
 
     - name: Run tests
-      run: pnpm test
-      env:
-        NEXT_PUBLIC_IS_CI: true
-
-    - name: Build
-      run: pnpm build
-      env:
-        NEXT_PUBLIC_IS_CI: true
\ No newline at end of file
+      run: pnpm test
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/www/app/lib/apiClient.tsx b/www/app/lib/apiClient.tsx
index d8d95deb..8ba11c6a 100644
--- a/www/app/lib/apiClient.tsx
+++ b/www/app/lib/apiClient.tsx
@@ -10,11 +10,8 @@ import {
 } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import createFetchClient from "openapi-react-query";
 import { assertExistsAndNonEmptyString } from "./utils";
-import { isCI } from "./next";
 
-const API_URL = !isCI
-  ? assertExistsAndNonEmptyString(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL)
-  : "http://127.0.0.1:1250";
+const API_URL = assertExistsAndNonEmptyString(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL);
 
 // Create the base openapi-fetch client with a default URL
 // The actual URL will be set via middleware in AuthProvider
diff --git a/www/app/lib/authBackend.ts b/www/app/lib/authBackend.ts
index 45548054..f091cd6d 100644
--- a/www/app/lib/authBackend.ts
+++ b/www/app/lib/authBackend.ts
@@ -17,16 +17,15 @@ import {
   deleteTokenCache,
 } from "./redisTokenCache";
 import { tokenCacheRedis } from "./redisClient";
-import { isCI } from "./next";
 
 // REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_BEFORE because refresh is based on access token expiration (imagine we cache it 30 days)
 const TOKEN_CACHE_TTL = REFRESH_ACCESS_TOKEN_BEFORE;
 
 const refreshLocks = new Map<string, Promise<JWTWithAccessToken>>();
 
-const CLIENT_ID = !isCI
-  ? assertExistsAndNonEmptyString(process.env.AUTHENTIK_CLIENT_ID)
-  : "noop";
+const CLIENT_ID = assertExistsAndNonEmptyString(
+  process.env.AUTHENTIK_CLIENT_ID,
+);
 const CLIENT_SECRET = !isCI
   ? assertExistsAndNonEmptyString(process.env.AUTHENTIK_CLIENT_SECRET)
   : "noop";
diff --git a/www/app/lib/edgeConfig.ts b/www/app/lib/edgeConfig.ts
index cd0e5a47..2c06dd06 100644
--- a/www/app/lib/edgeConfig.ts
+++ b/www/app/lib/edgeConfig.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import { get } from "@vercel/edge-config";
 
-import { isBuildPhase, isCI } from "./next";
-
 type EdgeConfig = {
   [domainWithDash: string]: {
     features: {
@@ -30,12 +28,6 @@ export function edgeDomainToKey(domain: string) {
 
 // get edge config server-side (prefer DomainContext when available), domain is the hostname
 export async function getConfig() {
-  if (isCI) {
-    // "noop"
-    // TODO sometime later we may have proper config if we have bigger test suite that requires values from the config
-    return require("../../config-template").localConfig;
-  }
-
   if (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_ENV === "development") {
     // helps to stop nextjs build from eager loading. don't inline it.
     const configPath = "../../config";
diff --git a/www/app/lib/next.ts b/www/app/lib/next.ts
index bdc58eb4..91d88bd2 100644
--- a/www/app/lib/next.ts
+++ b/www/app/lib/next.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,2 @@
 // next.js tries to run all the lib code during build phase; we don't always want it when e.g. we have connections initialized we don't want to have
 export const isBuildPhase = process.env.NEXT_PHASE?.includes("build");
-// useful for "next build" conditional executions
-export const isCI =
-  process.env.CI === "true" ||
-  process.env.IS_CI === "true" ||
-  process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_IS_CI === "true";
diff --git a/www/app/lib/redisClient.ts b/www/app/lib/redisClient.ts
index 1be36538..c85c0e9e 100644
--- a/www/app/lib/redisClient.ts
+++ b/www/app/lib/redisClient.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import Redis from "ioredis";
-import { isBuildPhase } from "./next";
 
 export type RedisClient = Pick<Redis, "get" | "setex" | "del">;
 
@@ -27,20 +26,4 @@ const getRedisClient = (): RedisClient => {
   return redis;
 };
 
-// next.js buildtime usage - we want to isolate next.js "build" time concepts here
-const noopClient: RedisClient = (() => {
-  const noopSetex: Redis["setex"] = async () => {
-    return "OK" as const;
-  };
-  const noopDel: Redis["del"] = async () => {
-    return 0;
-  };
-  return {
-    get: async () => {
-      return null;
-    },
-    setex: noopSetex,
-    del: noopDel,
-  };
-})();
-export const tokenCacheRedis = isBuildPhase ? noopClient : getRedisClient();
+export const tokenCacheRedis = getRedisClient();