Dataset·Catalogue

Software Factories

Name: Software Factories
Creator: Hermosa AI
Published: 2026-10-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Plenty of catalogues list the tools. This one lists the production lines: named programmes that industrialise software production, what their operating model is, where a human still has to sign, and the gap between what each organisation claims and what anyone else can observe. Browse it below, or take the raw files.

Snapshot: 2026-10-17
Coverage: 12programmes·10publish a figure·4carry an outside signal·8published a downside
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About this dataset

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Unit: One row = one named programme or organisation that industrialises software production. Not a tool: if you could buy it, it belongs in the agentic developer tools, autonomous agents or AI infrastructure datasets. If somebody is running a production line with it, it belongs here.
Sense: The term carries several meanings whose rows are not comparable: agentic, agent platform, government DevSecOps unit, integrator delivery platform, secure build pipeline, and the historic industrial factories. The GPU-datacentre sense of “AI factory” is excluded outright.
Claims vs signals: Claims are what the organisation says, and every figure carries the denominator it divides by, the date it was stated, and whether it is self-reported. Independent signals are what anyone can observe, and each carries the query that produced it so it can be re-run. The two are never mixed.
Denominators: Percent of code written, percent of pull requests opened by an agent, and percent of merged pull requests authored by an agent are different quantities, reported as if interchangeable. Figures that look comparable usually are not.
What is missing on purpose: Per-programme throughput, budget and defect rates are not fields here. An audit of named programmes found them published in almost no case, so leaving the columns out keeps them from being filled with marketing. The absence is the finding.
Status: Live, restructured, renamed, closed, or unknown, each with the date it was last confirmed. Unknown with a date is a correct value here, not a gap: most named programmes stop publishing long before they stop existing.
Public footprint: Independent signals measure what is visible in public repositories. Private repositories were roughly four fifths of recent activity on the dominant host, so a zero means nothing observable, never no agent use. Cloud agents also leave visible pull requests where local command-line agents do not.
License: Free to use, distribute, and reproduce with attribution to Hermosa Labs LLC (CC BY 4.0).
Cite: Hermosa Labs LLC, “Software Factories,” 2026-10-17.

The catalogue

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12 of 12 programmes

Software Factories carries no numeric fields -- showing its fact columns instead, and no median footer (a median of text is not a median).

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1	Accenture: GenWizard and reinvention.AIAccenture plc [Live]	2026-10-16	Accenture plc (Ireland)	?	no, uses other wording	?
2	Army Software FactoryUnited States Army, Transformation and Training Command (T2COM) [Live]	2026-01-13	United States Army, Transformation and Training Command (T2COM) (United States)	?	Army Software Factory (ASWF)	?
3	Cloudflare internal AI engineering stack (AI Code Reviewer, Engineering Codex, AGENTS.md generator)Cloudflare, Inc. [Live]	2026-08-04	Cloudflare, Inc. (United States)	?	no, uses other wording	OpenCode (open-source coding agent)
4	Dropbox: NovaDropbox, Inc. [Live]	2026-09-23	Dropbox, Inc. (United States)	?	no, uses other wording	multiple coding agents behind one interface, providers not named in the launch post
5	Duolingo agent platform (AgentWorkflow)Duolingo, Inc. [Live]	2026-08-04	Duolingo, Inc. (United States)	?	no, uses other wording	Claude Agents SDK, Codex CLI
6	Monzo Bank: Agent ChipMonzo Bank Ltd [Live]	2026-08-13	Monzo Bank Ltd (United Kingdom)	2025	no, uses other wording	in-house platform, model provider not disclosed
7	Roblox: Prompt to ProdRoblox Corporation [Live]	2026-08-24	Roblox Corporation (United States)	?	no, uses other wording	in-house agents, model providers not stated in the sources read
8	Shopify: River on AquiferShopify Inc. [Live]	2026-09-28	Shopify Inc. (Canada)	?	no, uses other wording	in-house platform (Aquifer), model provider not stated in the fetched text
9	Spotify: HonkSpotify AB [Live]	2026-03-18	Spotify AB (Sweden)	?	no, uses other wording	internal CLI that switches between agents and LLMs; providers not named in this post
10	Stripe: MinionsStripe, Inc. [Live]	2026-02-19	Stripe, Inc. (United States)	?	no, uses other wording	in-house platform (Minions)
11	USAF: Kessel RunUnited States Air Force [Restructured]	2026-10-16	United States Air Force (United States)	2017	formerly software factory, renounced 2026-10-16	?
12	Vercel: ai-sdk-factoryVercel Inc. [Live]	2026-10-15	Vercel Inc. (United States)	2026	software factory	in-house (ai-sdk-factory)

Software Factories

Snapshot

2026-10-17

Coverage

12programmes·10publish a figure·4carry an outside signal·8published a downside

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Accenture: GenWizard and reinvention.AIAccenture plc

[Live]

2026-10-16

Accenture plc (Ireland)

no, uses other wording

Army Software FactoryUnited States Army, Transformation and Training Command (T2COM)

[Live]

2026-01-13

United States Army, Transformation and Training Command (T2COM) (United States)

Army Software Factory (ASWF)

Cloudflare internal AI engineering stack (AI Code Reviewer, Engineering Codex, AGENTS.md generator)Cloudflare, Inc.

[Live]

2026-08-04

Cloudflare, Inc. (United States)

no, uses other wording

OpenCode (open-source coding agent)

Dropbox: NovaDropbox, Inc.

[Live]

2026-09-23

Dropbox, Inc. (United States)

no, uses other wording

multiple coding agents behind one interface, providers not named in the launch post

Duolingo agent platform (AgentWorkflow)Duolingo, Inc.

[Live]

2026-08-04

Duolingo, Inc. (United States)

no, uses other wording

Claude Agents SDK, Codex CLI

Monzo Bank: Agent ChipMonzo Bank Ltd

[Live]

2026-08-13

Monzo Bank Ltd (United Kingdom)

2025

no, uses other wording

in-house platform, model provider not disclosed

Roblox: Prompt to ProdRoblox Corporation

[Live]

2026-08-24

Roblox Corporation (United States)

no, uses other wording

in-house agents, model providers not stated in the sources read

Shopify: River on AquiferShopify Inc.

[Live]

2026-09-28

Shopify Inc. (Canada)

no, uses other wording

in-house platform (Aquifer), model provider not stated in the fetched text

Spotify: HonkSpotify AB

[Live]

2026-03-18

Spotify AB (Sweden)

no, uses other wording

internal CLI that switches between agents and LLMs; providers not named in this post

Stripe: MinionsStripe, Inc.

[Live]

2026-02-19

Stripe, Inc. (United States)

no, uses other wording

in-house platform (Minions)

USAF: Kessel RunUnited States Air Force

[Restructured]

2026-10-16

United States Air Force (United States)

2017

formerly software factory, renounced 2026-10-16

Vercel: ai-sdk-factoryVercel Inc.

[Live]

2026-10-15

Vercel Inc. (United States)

2026

software factory

in-house (ai-sdk-factory)