Factory

Product Introduction

1. Factory is a state-of-the-art AI-powered software development platform centered around its flagship agent, Droid, which outperforms competing agentic coding tools in terminal-bench evaluations. It enables developers to delegate complex tasks like refactoring, incident response, and migrations across integrated environments such as IDEs, web browsers, Slack, CLI, and project management tools. The platform supports multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Claude, Google, and custom models, while maintaining instant session synchronization and workflow continuity.
2. The core value of Factory lies in its ability to embed AI agents (Droids) directly into developers’ existing workflows without requiring tool or process changes. It parallelizes development tasks across interfaces, automates code-level solutions from plain English requests, and ensures enterprise-grade security and extensibility through its SDK for building custom agents.

Main Features

1. Terminal/IDE Integration: Factory operates natively within any code editor or terminal, including VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, and others, allowing developers to delegate tasks without disrupting their workflow. It preserves existing shortcuts, toolchains, and debugging practices while executing AI-driven code changes, dependency fixes, or API updates.
2. Web Browser Interface: Developers can instantly run Droids via a browser-based UI optimized for clarity and speed, enabling complex coding tasks, refactors, or debugging with zero setup. This feature supports rapid prototyping and agent-driven development for users who prefer a visual interface.
3. CI/CD Automation via CLI: Factory’s command-line interface allows scripting and parallelizing Droids at scale for migrations, code reviews, and self-healing builds. It integrates with CI/CD pipelines to automate maintenance tasks, enforce coding standards, and resolve build failures autonomously.

Problems Solved

1. Fragmented Workflow Management: Factory eliminates the need to switch between disparate tools by embedding AI agents directly into IDEs, communication platforms (Slack/Teams), and project management systems. This reduces context-switching and ensures task continuity across development phases.
2. Target User Groups: The platform serves engineering teams, DevOps professionals, and enterprise organizations seeking to automate repetitive coding tasks, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents, and maintain traceability from tickets to code changes.
3. Typical Use Cases: Factory is deployed for large-scale refactoring of legacy systems, real-time incident triage with code fixes, automated migration scripting, and PR generation from project management tools like Linear. It also enables non-technical teams to request code solutions via natural language in Slack.

Unique Advantages

1. Agent-Native Architecture: Unlike AI coding assistants limited to specific interfaces, Factory’s Droids operate as first-class citizens across all stages of development, from IDE-based coding to CI/CD pipelines. This ensures consistent context retention and task execution regardless of the environment.
2. Multi-Model Flexibility: Factory supports OpenAI, Claude, Google, and custom models, allowing teams to switch or combine models based on task requirements. The SDK extends this flexibility, enabling organizations to build domain-specific agents trained on proprietary codebases.
3. Enterprise-Grade Security: Factory implements state-of-the-art security protocols, including IP protection, compliance with data residency requirements, and audit trails for AI-generated code changes. Its vendor-agnostic design ensures compatibility with existing devtools without exposing sensitive data to third-party APIs.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. What IDEs and terminals does Factory support? Factory integrates with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm), Vim, and any terminal environment. It does not require plugins for most editors and maintains native keyboard shortcuts and debugging tools during agent operations.
2. How does Factory ensure security for enterprise codebases? The platform uses encryption for data in transit and at rest, supports private model deployments, and provides granular access controls. AI-generated code undergoes audit logging, and all agent activities are traceable to specific users or tickets.
3. Can Factory integrate with our existing Jira/GitHub/Linear setup? Yes, Factory automatically pulls context from project management tools like Linear, Jira, or GitHub Issues to generate PRs, implement fixes, and maintain bidirectional traceability between tickets and code changes. Custom integrations are possible via its API.
4. Is there a limit to the number of parallel Droids we can run? Factory enables unlimited parallelization of Droids through its CLI and CI/CD integrations, designed for large-scale tasks like mass dependency updates or cross-repository refactoring. Resource allocation is configurable based on workload priorities.
5. Do we need to retrain models to use Factory with our codebase? No—Factory’s base Droids work out-of-the-box with general coding tasks. For domain-specific needs, the SDK allows fine-tuning agents using proprietary code, documentation, or API schemas without requiring ML expertise.