Software Factory

Today we're excited to announce the launch of PDLC with EY, powered by Software Factory. This collaboration will allow enterprises to break free from slow, costly and failure-prone software development. Launch Announcement: ey.com/en_us/newsroom…

We are thrilled to work with EY to address the toughest challenges in enterprise software. If you are a leader looking to solve your largest software headache (Brownfield or Greenfield projects), we think you should try this. 8090.ai

Software Factory - Version 0.29.0 Release date: March 16th, 2026 Major Features • Planner Module v2: Planner delivers the core 80% of project management functionality without the complexity of traditional tools. While platforms like Jira offer hundreds of customization options to cover the remaining 20%, Software Factory prioritizes simplicity—making it easier for agents to operate effectively while still covering essential workflows. Users can now track work orders in roadmap (Gantt) and board (Kanban) views, establish parent-child relationships, map dependency chains, view and restore previous versions of work orders, link pull requests, and many more powerful capabilities. Phase date ranges can now be configured in the project settings to align with your release schedule. • Global Search: Cross-module search dialog with Cmd+K shortcut, module filter chips, keyboard navigation, result prioritization, and recent activity. • New MCP Tool: Users can now create work orders via MCP with their coding agent of choice. • Improved Code Search: Software Factory agents have improved code search capabilities with improved auditability of the code search operations performed. Minor Updates • Draft Comments: Pending comment text is cached when the user navigates away before finalizing the comment. • Agent Module Switch Warning: Users are warned before stopping active agent runs when switching modules. • Agent Engine Resilience: Fixes for mid-stream error handling with retry and resumption, cancel/retry stalls, premature tool call validation, content block filtering, and tool call ID normalization. • Raw Paste Shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + V renders pasted markdown in editors, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+V pastes plain text without formatting in editors. • Quickstart Polish: Toggleable checklist items, auto-refetch on codebase indexing, and improved completion logic. Our next release will include: • In-app notification system • Document interaction modes: Edit, Suggest, View

Software Factory Stories - Episode 3. Meet @jonathankopnick , CTO at @meet_tie. Here's his story.

@gokulr @FactoryAI @gokulr Have you tried Software Factory? We'd love to give you a demo.

The third party platform I’m hearing more and more about to build your own software factory is @FactoryAI

“In 2026, AI is driving a 10x increase in the productivity of the individuals who know how to leverage it. But that’s not enough. We’ve swapped the motor; we have not yet redesigned the factory. Because of a simple fact: productive individuals do not make productive firms. The wide majority of AI products evoke the feeling of being productive, but they haven’t moved the needle on driving value. The majority of publicized AI use is individuals self-indulgently “productivity-maxxing” on Twitter or in company Slack channels, with zero real impact.” I couldn’t agree more. This is why we built Software Factory. Try it here: 8090.ai

Great week of feature updates. Try it here: 8090.ai

@gsivulka The electricity analogy is exactly right. Individual AI made developers faster. It didn't make software better. That's the problem Software Factory was built to solve. Try it here: 8090.ai

@gokulr The "with the right human approvals" part is the whole game. That's exactly what we built Software Factory around. The agents move fast. The humans stay in control.

BUILD YOUR OWN SOFTWARE FACTORY The best companies in the world are all building their own software factories, using a combination of first party and third party tools. The software factory is a set of background coding agents running in the cloud. Anyone at the company, engineering or otherwise, can invoke it from their phone or laptop. Different agents spec out the feature, submit a PR, do the review, and merge it into the target branch. (With the right human approvals based on the repo) As @ericwilliamrea, CEO of @PodiumHQ , says: “one of our customers was having a problem; I tagged our software factory in the feedback on Slack; it went and cut a PR and built it and 15 minutes later we had a fix”. CEOs: THIS is the best way to get your entire team - your PMs, designers, sales, marketers, execs - involved in the product development process. Put a small dedicated team on building and continually improving your own software factory. The improvement in your team’s product velocity will be palpable.

@GergelyOrosz We built an AI-native factory for businesses to build software with quality, control, and consistency. 8090.ai

When it comes to AI agents / AI tooling + coding, I hear an awful lot of talk about: Efficiency Iteration speed / PR output rate / lines of codes produced I hear zero mentions about: Quality Customer obsession This will bite back, and it probably already is...

@B_16_S @ravenlabs_ai We will DM you a link to our most recent demo.

@8090_Factory Considering this for us at @ravenlabs_ai. We build products and also help businesses move from legacy systems to new ones. We have a small team of Devs and PMs. Is there a way to test, see or speak to someone? One of my co founders is based in SF I’m in Melbourne Australia.

Introducing Simultaneous Editing in Software Factory. Try it here: 8090.ai

@chamath Introducing Simultaneous Editing.

As coding agents start compiling English into code, the definition of WHAT to build becomes the highest leverage work. That means teams need to collaborate deeply on requirements. Some people write specs as markdown in Git repositories. But that isn’t a collaborative environment. PMs aren’t living in IDEs or PRs. Software Factory brings a Cursor-like agent experience into a multiplayer document editor. If you’ve wondered why Google Docs never built a true, agent-driven editor: it’s extremely hard. We just shipped one. Try it here: 8090.ai

Software Factory - Version 0.28.0 Release date: March 9, 2026 Major Features • Simultaneous Editing: Real-time collaborative editing for Foundry and Refinery with live cursors, user awareness indicators, and collaborative comment sync — replaces the old document ownership model. • Custom Agent Skills: Create, edit, and manage custom skills per project and module — custom prompts that merge with preset skills at runtime. • Agent Hooks: Configurable agent hooks in Project Settings with enable/disable toggles, run-now triggers, and last-run tracking — starting with Blueprint Code Analysis. • Quickstart Onboarding: Guided quickstart flow with checklist, onboarding path selection, and auto-completion signals from project activity. • Version Management for Blueprints & Requirements: Create named version snapshots, restore previous versions with automatic pre-restore backup, and rename versions. Minor Updates • Comment Badges in Refinery Navigator: Document tree nodes show open comment count badges and flagged-comment indicators with live updates. • Member Pagination & Last Login: Server-side pagination and search for the organization members table; new "Last Login" column. • Optimistic Streaming for Parallel Tool Calls: Each parallel tool call visually completes as soon as its arguments finish streaming, rather than waiting for all calls to finish. • Agent Feedback During Streaming: Users can submit agent feedback while the agent is still streaming. • Sign-In Fixes: Fixed Google sign-in and forgot-password flows. • Project-Specific MCP Server Names: MCP server names are now scoped per project, enabling agents to compare documents across Software Factory projects.

Software Factory Stories Ep 2. Meet Sam Land, COO at @ShadowTechIT. Here's his story.

Our team is hosting a dinner in San Francisco this Tuesday, March 10 for engineers exploring our Software Factory and Client Solutions Engineering roles. If you’re at PyAI conference and want to learn what we’re building, we’d like to meet you. Link to register: luma.com/7jc06a4w

Software Factory - Version 0.27.0 Core Updates • Rich Mentions in Comments: @mentions now render as interactive chips in document comments, making it easier to tag users and reference knowledge across the project. • User Feedback Ratings: Users can now rate agent responses with thumbs up/down, select feedback categories, and leave notes to help us improve agent performance faster. • Usage Dashboard Improvements: New grouped usage views with drill-down by Project, User, Agent, or Model. Includes sortable tables, summary cards, pagination, and CSV export. • Optimistic Tool Call Interaction: Users can now interact with blocking tool calls while the agent is still streaming, with optimistic UI updates and reliable cancellation. Minor Updates • Code Search Agent v2: Redesigned code search agent now returns structured summaries with markdown rendering instead of raw JSON. • Artifact Upload UX: Drag-and-drop files directly into the agent prompt. Attachments show processing indicators before sending. • Feedback Image Paste: Ctrl+V now pastes clipboard images directly into feedback uploads. • Comment Panel Auto-Open: The comments panel now opens automatically when comments are created via agent tools. • Feedback Conversation Tracking: Feedback submissions now include the conversation ID for traceability. • Codex CLI Instructions: Added setup instructions for using Codex CLI with the platform. Our next release will include: - Simultaneous editing for live, multiplayer collaboration - Many agent reliability improvements - Upgrades to the document versioning system

Introducing Software Factory Stories Ep 1. Meet @chrisstrobl, Founder & CEO of gitflash.com. Here's his story.

Before Software Factory, my team and I were building an AI SDLC manager for two years to do what 8090 offers. After using Software Factory I shut down our internal effort and am reorienting my team around Software Factory. This has already freed up two engineers. The Software Factory team gets it and delivers on the core principle: holding software representation in requirements, not in code. - @jbarseneau on Software Factory

Another week, another big Software Factory release! ---- Software Factory - Version 0.26.0 Major Features • Suggestions Upgrade: Suggestions are now persistent when you navigate away and return later. We’ve also improved how suggestions render around comment highlight anchors, Mermaid diagrams, and tables, along with visual enhancements for a cleaner, more polished design. • Table Support in Editor: Rich table editing is now available in documents and in agent chat. Minor Updates • Onboarding with Agents: Skip the static tutorials. Our agents walk you through key concepts during your first journey, providing guidance exactly when you need it. • Document Navigator: Informational tooltips added to each document category with links to our opinionated writing guides for each document type (e.g., "How to Write Requirements"). • Panel Persistence: Panel sizes now persist across sessions. • Mention Emails: Deduplicated mention notification emails. Our next release will include: - Customizable Agent Skills - Configurable Agent Hooks for background operations - Improvements to Blueprint-Code synchronization experience - Upgrades to document versioning system