diff --git a/ui/.vercel/build.sh b/ui/.vercel/build.sh
index 87890944feb..2b33792da4d 100755
--- a/ui/.vercel/build.sh
+++ b/ui/.vercel/build.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright (c) HashiCorp, Inc.
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BUSL-1.1
 
+# Vercel seemingly has a bootstrap timing issue which causes the build to fail
+# when we do not have this delay.
+sleep 2s
+
 ember build
 mkdir -p ui-dist/ui
 mv dist/* ui-dist/ui/