The Factory Guild
A community of engineers who ship with Factory, share their work, and rise from Apprentice to Artisan. Contribute, climb the ranks, get recognized.
The Guild rewards consistent, public builders. Every rank you climb unlocks more credits, deeper mentorship, and bigger opportunities.
Contribute, climb, get recognized
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- Ranks to master
- Unlimited
- Droid credits at the top rank
- Vetted
- Every member reviewed by the Council
Droid Credits
A full Max plan as an Apprentice, Ultra as a Craftsman, and unlimited credits as an Artisan. Your builds never wait on a budget.
Mentorship
Group sessions with your cohort, monthly 1:1s at Craftsman, and coaching to level up your craft and your content.
Guild Swag
A welcome kit when you join, a premium kit on advancement, and the elite kit reserved for Artisans.
Early Access
Private Guild Slack, early feature access, roadmap previews under NDA, and invites to Factory events.
Apprentice
Tier 1 · Entry rank
Every member starts here on day one. Learn Factory’s surface area, find your voice, and build a track record of consistent, public contributions.
Full Max plan credits
Guild Slack access
Early feature access
Welcome kit
Group mentorship
Resume & portfolio review
Craftsman
Tier 2 · Points + review
Sustained contributors making real impact. You create higher-quality content, mentor newcomers, and feed valuable product signal back to the team.
Full Ultra plan credits
Premium kit
1:1 monthly mentorship
Coaching session
Factory events access
Artisan
Tier 3 · Highest rank
Long-term members who shape the program’s direction, co-create launch content, and represent Factory at flagship events. Reviewed annually.
Unlimited credits
Elite kit
Hiring fast-track
Conference travel stipend
Roadmap previews under NDA
Co-author Factory blog posts
What great submissions look like
What to submit for each format, what to skip, and real examples from the community. Pick your format when you apply.
Writing
Blog posts & articles
The best write-ups walk through a real workflow end to end, so a reader could reproduce it. Show what you built, how you used Droid, and what changed.
Do
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Walk through a concrete project or task from start to finish
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Show the exact Droid features, commands, or setup you used
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Include screenshots, diffs, or a short clip
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Add before/after results or a real metric where you can
Don't
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Generic "AI is amazing" takes with no hands-on detail
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Thin listicles or paywalled posts
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Unverifiable claims or invented benchmarks
Events
Talks, demos & workshops
Whether it is a conference talk, a live demo, a hands-on workshop, or a recorded video, the best sessions show Droids doing real work on screen. Let people watch a genuine task get done and follow along, live or on video.
Do
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Ground it in a real team, project, or task
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Show Droid working live on screen, or screen-record a real task and narrate it
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Get to the demo fast and give the audience steps they can reproduce
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Show the outcome: the shipped feature, PR, or fix, plus lessons learned
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Link the recording, video, slides, or repo when you submit
Don't
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Pure theory or slide-only sessions with no Factory usage
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Pre-baked demos with nothing running live
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Clickbait titles the video does not deliver on
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Long unedited sessions with no highlights
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No shareable recording, deck, or artifact
Good examples
Unleashing the droids on software development
Sequoia
Incident review with Factory / Sentry (livestream)
Sentry
Live AI coding: new workflows
Cole Medin
This AI agent made my code better the longer it ran
Ray Fernando
These Factory droids built my app in minutes
AI LABS
Adding a new feature with the Factory CLI
Ian Nuttall
The coding agent that outperformed OpenAI & Anthropic
The Neuron
Open source
Open-source projects
Show something people can actually use with Factory: a tool, template, integration, or workflow, with a clear README.
Do
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Ship a public repo with a clear README and license
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Explain what it does and how it uses Factory / Droid
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Include a quickstart so others can run it
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Keep it maintained enough to work today
Don't
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Empty repos or abandoned experiments
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No README or setup instructions
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Copies of existing projects with no added value
Other
Other submissions
Built something that does not fit the categories? Great. The bar is the same: it is public, it is real, and it shows Factory doing meaningful work.
Do
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Make it public and linkable
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Show the real work and the outcome
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Explain how Factory / Droid was involved
Don't
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Private or unfinished work
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Vague descriptions with no proof
The Guild in action
Builders shipping with Factory, in public. A sample of the videos and articles coming out of the community.
Videos
The most underrated AI agent for coding and product
Peter Yang · Feb 2026
Your code gets better after this agent
Ray Fernando · Mar 2026
The multi-agent architecture that actually ships
AI Engineer · 2026
Incident review with Factory / Sentry
Sentry · Jul 2026
The coding agent that outperformed OpenAI & Anthropic
The Neuron · Jan 2026
This AI agent made my code better the longer it ran
Ray Fernando · Feb 2026
Live AI coding with Ray Fernando: new workflows
Cole Medin · Dec 2025
How Droid handles 7M tokens
Ray Fernando · Nov 2025
Coding with Droid: Minimax M2 & GLM 4.6
Francesco Oddo · Nov 2025
Adding a new feature with the Factory CLI
Ian Nuttall · Sep 2025
Exploring Factory droids: your AI coding agents
Dan Mac · May 2025
These Factory droids built my app in minutes
AI LABS · Jun 2025
Unleashing the droids on software development
Sequoia · 2025
Articles
Stack Overflow · Feb 2026
Code smells for AI agents: Q&A with Eno Reyes of Factory
ReadEvery · Oct 2025
I canceled two AI Max plans for Factory’s coding agent Droid
Readbuckhouse · Jan 2026
How to code with droids: if you can play Oregon Trail, you can
ReadExponential Operator · 2026
Building a Factory: inside the software factory
ReadRay Fernando · 2026
GLM 5.2 easy setup with the Droid harness
ReadThe Generalist · Jun 2026
The token budget problem nobody is talking about
ReadSiddharth Bharath · Dec 2025
A guide to building a software development droid army
ReadSequoia · Nov 2025
Factory unleashes the droids on software development
Readmlearning.ai · Sep 2025
100+ Factory.ai droid tips & tricks: the copy-paste playbook
ReadShow us what you've built
Accepted members earn credits, gear, and early access.
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Build something with Factory
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Post it publicly
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Submit the link. New candidates interview with the Guild Council; returning members earn points toward their next rank
We curate for quality and don't accept every submission by default.