Founded in 2023, Factory builds AI-powered autonomous agents known as Droids. The agents work alongside developers inside the tools they already use—the IDE, the terminal, Slack and project management software—and take on repetitive software engineering work such as refactors, incident response and migrations. The company's stated aim is to bring autonomy to software engineering while augmenting developers rather than replacing them or forcing changes to how they work.
The technical scope spans autonomous agents, machine-learning research, software engineering automation and developer tooling integrations. Droids is the firm's principal product; no usage metrics have been disclosed. Factory is venture-backed, with Sequoia, NEA and J.P. Morgan among its investors.
The team is a lean group of engineers and researchers drawn from companies including Nuro, Glean and MongoDB. Staff work from an office in San Francisco five days a week, and the firm hires people who want to shape how software gets built.
