Factory AI
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Built by Factory AI for enterprise engineering teams automating triage, coding, release, and monitoring.
Runs configurable coding agents called Droids across the full software development lifecycle, not just code generation.
Deployable as managed SaaS, hybrid cloud with customer compute, or fully on-premise and air-gapped.
Emerged around 2024 and is used in production by enterprise customers as of 2026.
Gives large organizations model-agnostic agentic automation with strict deployment and governance control.
Model-agnostic, connecting to customer-chosen large language models and existing SDLC tooling.
Commercial hosted or on-premise service, closed source, code can stay within customer infrastructure depending on deployment mode.
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