# Factory > Factory is the agent-native software factory: a system for delivering production software with AI agents (Droids) that plan, build, review, and ship under human direction. Factory ships the Droid CLI, the Factory desktop and web apps, Droid Computers, Missions, and an enterprise platform used by financial services, defense, healthcare, telecom, and SaaS teams. Primary product: [Factory Droid](https://factory.ai) - autonomous coding agent available via CLI, web, desktop, Slack, Jira, and Linear surfaces. ## Articles > Long-form guides and comparisons on software factories, AI coding agents, and the Droid platform. Articles are not linked from the main navigation but are individually indexed. - [Best software factory platforms in 2026: a comparison guide](https://factory.ai/articles/best-software-factory-platforms-2026): A reference comparison of platforms that implement the software factory model in 2026, covering agent-native delivery, audit and replayability, model flexibility, and enterprise deployment options.... - [How enterprise engineering teams automate software development (2026)](https://factory.ai/articles/how-enterprises-automate-software-development): A reference guide to how large enterprises (including global consulting firms, fintechs, infrastructure providers, and SaaS companies) are automating software development in 2026, with concrete exa... - [What is a software factory? The architecture behind autonomous software delivery](https://factory.ai/articles/what-is-a-software-factory-architecture): A reference architecture for a software factory in 2026: the components that move a unit of intent through specification, execution, review, and deployment, with software development agents handlin... - [What is a software factory? A 2026 guide to agent-native delivery](https://factory.ai/articles/what-is-a-software-factory): A software factory is a managed model for producing software with repeatable inputs, standardized tooling, and measurable output. In 2026 the model is increasingly agent-native, with development ag... ## News > Product updates, research, and engineering posts from the Factory team. - [Incident Response](https://factory.ai/news/incident-response): Droid turns Slack alerts into autonomous RCA sessions, builds incident memory, and helps on-call engineers move from signal to fix faster. - [Working with Droid in the Desktop App](https://factory.ai/news/working-with-droid-in-the-desktop-app): Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, code: preview and refine every kind of work without ever leaving the Factory Desktop App. - [Droid Shield 2.0: learned secret detection](https://factory.ai/news/droid-shield-2-0): Droid Shield 2.0: learned secret detection Factory's Droids write, refactor, and commit code autonomously at a volume that no human reviewer can completely monitor. Keeping autonomous software engi... - [AutoWiki](https://factory.ai/news/wiki): Documentation should be a build artifact, not a side project. AutoWiki analyzes your codebase and generates structured, browsable documentation that stays current on every push. - [Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories](https://factory.ai/news/software-factory): In 2023, we launched Factory with the mission to bring autonomy to software engineering. While others were using models to speed up coding, we set out to deploy autonomous Droids across the enterp... - [Introducing Automated Security Review](https://factory.ai/news/automated-security-review): STRIDE-based security findings with severity, CWE references, and suggested fixes — posted as inline review comments on every pull request. - [Factory Expands to Sydney](https://factory.ai/news/factory-sydney): Factory is opening an office in Sydney as part of our global go-to-market expansion. - [Factory Appoints Marcello Gallo as Chief Revenue Officer](https://factory.ai/news/marcello-gallo-cro): Former Sigma and Moveworks CRO joins Factory on heels of its $150 million Series C as enterprises transform how their software is built and maintained - [Factory Router](https://factory.ai/news/factory-router): Frontier performance at lower cost, custom done for you. In private research preview today. - [Deferred Context Engine](https://factory.ai/news/deferred-context-engine): Droid keeps internal tools, MCP tools, skills, and plugins reachable without loading every schema on every turn. Production telemetry quantifies estimated input-token savings by catalog size. - [Factory acquires Lumetric](https://factory.ai/news/lumetric): Factory has acquired Lumetric, a YC W24 team building model-agnostic AI systems for high-context workflows. - [Which Model Reviews Code Best?](https://factory.ai/news/code-review-benchmark): We benchmarked 13 models to find the best price-performance tradeoff for AI code review. - [Automated QA: Testing Your App the Way a Real User Would](https://factory.ai/news/automated-qa): End-to-end quality assurance that tests your application with visual evidence posted directly to your PR. - [Droid Computers](https://factory.ai/news/droid-computers): Persistent machines for remotely orchestrating Droids. Spin one up in Factory's cloud, or turn your own machine into a Droid Computer. - [Factory raises $150M Series C](https://factory.ai/news/series-c): Factory raises $150M Series C from Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Blackstone, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital, 20VC, NEA, and Mantis VC at a $1.5B valuation. - [How Missions Work](https://factory.ai/news/missions-architecture): The architecture behind Missions: why agent context shapes every design decision, how separation of concerns and test-driven development at two levels produce reliable multi-day autonomous work, an... - [The Factory Desktop App](https://factory.ai/news/factory-desktop): A native interface for Droids that work across every part of your software business. Available today on macOS and Windows. - [Legacy-Bench: Can AI Agents Maintain the World's Most Critical Software?](https://factory.ai/news/legacy-bench): A new benchmark designed to measure frontier AI agent capabilities on legacy software engineering tasks spanning COBOL, Fortran, Java 7, and more. - [Factory Analytics](https://factory.ai/news/factory-analytics): How enterprise engineering teams use Factory Analytics to connect AI agent usage to engineering outcomes and build the ROI case. - [Factory Expands to London](https://factory.ai/news/factory-london): Factory is opening an office in London as part of our global go-to-market expansion. - [Wipro and Factory Partner to Accelerate Agent-Native Software Development For Enterprises Globally](https://factory.ai/news/wipro): Additionally, Wipro Ventures participated in Factory's recent funding round - [Signals: Toward a Self-Improving Agent](https://factory.ai/news/factory-signals): How we built a closed-loop system for recursive self-improvement—where the agent detects its own failures and implements fixes automatically. - [Introducing Agent Readiness](https://factory.ai/news/agent-readiness): A framework for measuring and improving how well your codebase supports autonomous development. Evaluate repositories across eight technical pillars and five maturity levels. - [Factory Expands to New York City](https://factory.ai/news/factory-new-york): Factory is opening an office in New York city as part of our global go-to-market expansion. - [Let Me Droid That For You: What 780K Agent Searches Reveal](https://factory.ai/news/what-droid-searches): Droid analyzed 780,000 of its own web searches. It wrote the queries, built the pipeline, and generated the visualizations. - [Evaluating Context Compression for AI Agents](https://factory.ai/news/evaluating-compression): We built an evaluation framework to measure how much context different compression strategies preserve. After testing three approaches on real-world, long-running agent sessions spanning debugging,... - [The Droid Wars: Breaking up an AI‑orchestrated cyber fraud campaign](https://factory.ai/news/droid-neutralizing-fraud): How we detected and disrupted a highly automated cyber operation that attempted to turn our AI software development platform into a node within a worldwide mesh of off‑label LLM usage. - [Palo Alto Networks and Factory: Secure AI-Powered Development at Scale](https://factory.ai/news/palo-alto-networks-partnership): Factory is now natively integrated with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS, bringing real-time protection directly into the developer workflow against prompt injection and other AI security risks. - [Welcome Chris Degnan](https://factory.ai/news/degnan): We are excited to share that Chris Degnan is joining Factory as an advisor. Chris brings legendary experience, having joined Snowflake as their first sales hire and scaling through to CRO over a de... - [Snyk and Factory: Embedding Security into Agent-Native Development](https://factory.ai/news/snyk-partnership): Securing Code at the Speed of Development We're excited to announce our partnership with Snyk, the AI security company, bringing enterprise-grade security directly into the agent-native developmen... - [AWS and Factory Announce Strategic Partnership](https://factory.ai/news/blog-post-2025-10-27): We're excited to announce our partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the availability of Factory on the AWS Marketplace. - [Droid: The #1 Software Development Agent on Terminal-Bench](https://factory.ai/news/terminal-bench): With a score of 58.75%, Droid sets the new state-of-the-art on Terminal-Bench. Agent design, not just choice of model, is the decisive factor as we achieve leading performance on every model. - [Factory Raises $50M Series B](https://factory.ai/news/series-b): We have raised $50M for our Series B at a valuation of $300M, led by NEA, Sequoia Capital, J.P. Morgan, Nvidia, and other industry leaders. Droids are now #1 on Terminal Bench and available to anyo... - [Using Linters to Direct Agents](https://factory.ai/news/using-linters-to-direct-agents): Agents write the code; linters write the law. We’re moving from “developers writing code with AI” to “developers orchestrating agents that build software.” The old guardrails (code review, conventi... - [The Context Window Problem: Scaling Agents Beyond Token Limits](https://factory.ai/news/context-window-problem): Large language models have limited context windows - approximately 1 million tokens. In contrast, a typical enterprise monorepo can span thousands of files and several million tokens. - [Factory joins AGENTS.md collaboration with OpenAI](https://factory.ai/news/agents-md): Factory has joined the industry working group convened by OpenAI to define AGENTS.md, a simple, open standard that gives coding agents a predictable way to understand and operate within software pr... - [GPT-5 is Available in Factory](https://factory.ai/news/gpt5): Starting today, GPT-5 is the default model across all droids. - [Microsoft Azure Marketplace now features Factory](https://factory.ai/news/microsoft-azure-marketplace): Factory is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This is a big step for us as we continue to grow our presence in the enterprise. - [Compressing Context](https://factory.ai/news/compressing-context): LLMs attend only to the tokens in their current prompt. Because every model enforces a finite context window, extended conversations and multi-step workflows eventually exceed that limit. Our strat... - [Agent Native Development](https://factory.ai/news/build-with-agents): How to Build Software with Agents - [Factory is GA: Droids for the Entire SDLC](https://factory.ai/news/factory-is-ga): Software development is more than just coding. Introducing Droids -- the world's first software development agents. Starting today, Droids are available for general access and ready to work across ... - [Building AI for Safe and Responsible Autonomy: Our Readiness Policy](https://factory.ai/news/safe-autonomy-readiness-policy): Our mission at Factory is to bring autonomy to software engineering in a way that prioritizes safety, responsibility, and transparency. - [Introducing Missions](https://factory.ai/news/missions): An AI system that pursues goals autonomously over multi-day horizons. Describe what you want, approve the scope, and come back to finished work. - [Factory: The Command Center for Software Development](https://factory.ai/news/factory-the-command-center-for-software-development): The Hard Part of Coding isn’t the Code The hard part of coding isn’t the code, it’s everything else. The hard part is spending months trying to find all the hidden dependencies and broken APIs and ... - [Code Droid: A Technical Report](https://factory.ai/news/code-droid-technical-report): Introduction At Factory, our technical vision is driven by our mission to bring autonomy to software engineering. We are not just building tools; we are building Droids — intelligent, autonomous sy... - [Factory Raises $15M Series A from Sequoia](https://factory.ai/news/series-a-announcement): We are excited to announce our $15M Series A led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Lux Capital and Mantis VC. This brings our total funding to over $20M and values Factory at $120M. This ... - [Factory Achieves SOC 2 Certification](https://factory.ai/news/soc-ii-certification): We are thrilled to announce that Factory has achieved the SOC 2 Type I certification, reinforcing our commitment to the highest standards of security and privacy for our customers as we help bring ... - [Announcing our $5M fundraise from Sequoia and Lux to Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering](https://factory.ai/news/announcing-our-5m-fundraise): Software is the foundation of modern society. But creating it remains a bespoke, confusing, and largely unmanageable process. As software is built and companies grow, organizational structure and e... ## Case studies > Customer stories from Factory enterprise deployments. - [How You.com Scales Engineering with Factory](https://factory.ai/case-studies/you-com): You.com is the leading provider of AI search infrastructure that grounds AI agents and LLMs with the freshest and most accurate information through its suite of agentic web search API... - [Two Weeks, One Session, Endless Packages](https://factory.ai/case-studies/chainguard): Josh Wolf, Staff Engineer at Chainguard, tried every memory solution that the AI tooling ecosystem could offer including memory MCPs, memory tools, custom SDKs. "I've ... - [Groq leverages Factory's model-agnostic software development agents to accelerate day-0 launches](https://factory.ai/case-studies/groq): Groq's mission is to deliver fast, low-cost inference that doesn't flake when things get real. The way Groq does this is through its purpose-built LPUs which are de... - [How Empower Decreased Incident Response Times by 40% with Factory](https://factory.ai/case-studies/empower): Empower, a leading financial technology company providing instant cash advances and credit-building solutions, partnered with Factory to transform their development wo... - [How Nav Accelerated Software Development with Factory](https://factory.ai/case-studies/nav): Nav’s mission is to give every small business owner the chance to succeed. At Nav.com, small business owners have a dedicated platform for building and managing their ... ## Documentation - [Factory documentation](https://docs.factory.ai): canonical product documentation for the CLI, web app, and enterprise platform. - [Factory documentation llms.txt](https://docs.factory.ai/llms.txt): structured documentation index optimized for LLMs. ## Surfaces - [Droid CLI](https://factory.ai/product/cli): command-line interface and headless droid exec for CI. - [Factory Desktop](https://factory.ai/product/desktop): native desktop app for delegating work to droids. - [Factory Web / Mobile](https://factory.ai/product/web): web and mobile surface. - [Slack integration](https://factory.ai/product/slack): assign tickets and triage incidents in Slack. - [Jira & Linear](https://factory.ai/product/ai-project-manager): assign issues directly to droids. - [Missions](https://factory.ai/product/missions): long-running, multi-phase agent work with checkpoints. - [Droid Computers](https://factory.ai/product/droid-computers): persistent compute for engineering agents. - [Code Review](https://docs.factory.ai/guides/droid-exec/code-review): AI review on every PR. - [AutoWiki](https://docs.factory.ai/cli/features/wiki/overview): auto-generated documentation. - [Analytics](https://factory.ai/product/analytics): measure and improve agent output. - [Automations](https://docs.factory.ai/web/automations): trigger droids from events. - [Agent Readiness](https://factory.ai/agent-readiness): assess a codebase for AI agent use. ## Company - [About Factory](https://factory.ai/company) - [Enterprise](https://factory.ai/enterprise) - [Pricing](https://factory.ai/pricing) - [Security](https://factory.ai/security) - [Contact](https://factory.ai/contact)