Factory

Factory is a software company founded in 2023 that builds AI-powered autonomous software development agents. Its product, Droids, is a set of autonomous agents designed to work alongside developers in the environments they already use - the IDE, the terminal, Slack and project management tools - handling repetitive development work such as refactors, incident response and migrations.

The company's technical work spans AI agents, autonomous software engineering, developer tools, large language models and software automation. Its stated aim is to bring autonomy to software engineering, and its design principle is that AI should work with developers rather than require them to change how they work.

Factory operates as a lean team of engineers and researchers with backgrounds from Nuro, Glean and MongoDB. The company is based in San Francisco and maintains an in-office culture, building together five days a week. It recruits people interested in shaping how software gets built.