diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240112-230236.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240112-230236.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1470ac6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240112-230236.yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Implement unit testing in CI
+time: 2024-01-12T23:02:36.630106-05:00
+custom:
+  Author: mikealfare
+  Issue: "10"
diff --git a/.github/actions/publish-results/action.yml b/.github/actions/publish-results/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b6e1a1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/publish-results/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+name: Publish results
+
+inputs:
+  file-name:
+    description: File type for file name stub (e.g. "unit-tests")
+    required: true
+  python-version:
+    description: Create an environment with the appropriate version of python and hatch installed
+    required: true
+  source-file:
+    description: File to be uploaded
+    required: true
+
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:
+    - name: Get timestamp
+      id: timestamp
+      run: echo "ts=$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H_%M_%S')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT #no colons allowed for artifacts
+      shell: bash
+
+    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+      with:
+        name: ${{ inputs.file-name }}_${{ inputs.python-version }}-${{ steps.timestamp.outputs.ts }}.csv
+        path: ${{ inputs.source-file }}
diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-environment/action.yml b/.github/actions/setup-environment/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..649fddb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-environment/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name: Setup `hatch`
+
+inputs:
+  python-version:
+    description: Create an environment with the appropriate version of python and hatch installed
+    required: true
+
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ inputs.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ inputs.python-version }}
+
+    - name: Install hatch
+      run: python -m pip install hatch
+      shell: bash
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9716b1f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: Unit Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - "main"
+      - "*.latest"
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions: read-all
+
+# will cancel previous workflows triggered by the same event and for the same ref for PRs or same SHA otherwise
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name }}-${{ contains(github.event_name, 'pull_request') && github.event.pull_request.head.ref || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  unit:
+    name: Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Check out repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Setup environment
+        uses: ./.github/actions/setup-environment
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - name: Run unit tests
+        run: hatch run unit-tests
+        shell: bash
+
+      - name: Publish results
+        uses: ./.github/actions/publish-results
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          source-file: "results.csv"
+          file-name: "unit_results"
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7a59e8ad..efd6a515 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -119,3 +119,5 @@ testpaths = [
     "tests/functional",
     "tests/unit",
 ]
+color = true
+csv = "results.csv"