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Factory

Factory builds Droids, AI agents that help enterprise engineering teams implement, test, review and maintain software. Its Factory 2.0 platform connects incoming requirements and bug reports to development, deployment and monitoring, with engineers governing how much autonomy each workflow receives. Missions coordinate multiple agents on extended tasks, Droid Computers provide persistent execution, and Factory Desktop brings agents to developers’ machines. Factory Router selects models for coding tasks, supporting a platform designed to work across models.

Founded in 2023 by Matan Grinberg and Eno Reyes, Factory is led by Grinberg as CEO. Its engineering work includes anchored iterative summarization: merging newly compressed conversation history into persistent summaries of task intent, file changes, decisions and next steps. Factory also developed probes that test whether agents retain enough context to resume work, rather than measuring summary similarity alone. In 2026, it acquired Lumetric, a team building model-agnostic AI workflows, to help develop the next generation of Factory Desktop.

In April 2026, Factory reported hundreds of thousands of developers using Droids daily, including at NVIDIA, Adobe, EY, Palo Alto Networks and Adyen. That April, it announced a $150 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a stated $1.5 billion valuation.

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5 talks

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2 speakers at AIE

Affiliations reflect their AIE appearances, not necessarily current employment.

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  1. The Multi-Agent Architecture That Actually Ships — Luke Alvoeiro, Factory

    Start with the essay based on Luke Alvoeiro's talk to understand structured handoffs, milestone checks, and how different model capabilities suit different agent roles.

    Luke AlvoeiroAI Engineer Europe 2026

  2. Making Codebases "Agent-Ready"

    Learn how specification-driven workflows and reliable pull-request checks support parallel agents and codebase modernization.

    Eno ReyesAI Engineer Code 2025

  3. How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Factory

    Learn why Reyes distinguishes deployed engineering from professional services, and how customer implementation work can inform reusable product development.

    Eno ReyesAI Engineer World's Fair 2026

  4. Building Reliable Agentic Systems

    Factory speaker Eno Reyes explains lessons from building Droids, autonomous agents for code review, documentation, testing, and software-development tasks.

    Eno ReyesAI Engineer World's Fair 2024

Messages from the stage

Make correctness mechanically checkable

Reyes connects agent readiness to opinionated linters, documented interfaces, tests, and continuous validation. His reliability discussion also examines planning, inference costs, tool interfaces, and human oversight.

Coordinate agents with explicit contracts

Alvoeiro describes defining correctness before implementation and assigning separate orchestrator, worker, and validator roles. His account of Missions favors serialized code changes and selective parallel research to limit conflicts and coordination overhead.

Connect customer context to reusable software

Reyes describes using organizational information to support planning and development workflows, then connecting enterprise customer signals to reusable product improvements. His forward deployed engineering talk follows that feedback through review, security validation, deployment, and business outcomes.

Affiliations reflect each recorded session, not necessarily current employment.

Company sources · checked 2026-08-28