SOFTWARE FACTORY

Turn your backlog into shipped software

An AI software factory where autonomous agents do the work and humans control the critical decisions.

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BEYOND CODING AGENTS

Faster coding does not fix software delivery.

Coding agents accelerate individual tasks. The wider system of planning, testing, review, security and deployment still determines what reaches production.

Access control

Local productivity

Individual developers move faster, while the wider delivery system remains unchanged and skills are managed locally.

Quota management

Fragmented context

Institutional knowledge is lost when engineers leave, forcing teams to rediscover solutions and repeat mistakes.

Invisible economics illustration

Cognitive load

Constant switching between agents, tools and tickets drains engineers' focus, leaving less time for high-value work.

Invisible economics illustration

Autonomy & control

Without proven safety and control, every step requires human intervention, limiting the ability to scale autonomous AI.

A NEW OPERATING MODEL

From specification to production.

Turn approved backlog items into coordinated production runs. Coding agents execute each stage together with you. The control plane governs access, models and spend.

AI software factory run from backlog to production, paused at a human approval gate before a payments change deploys

HUMAN DIRECTION

Priorities

Requirements

Approvals

SOFTWARE FACTORY

01 Take in the work

DONE

02 Plan

DONE

03 Build

DONE

04 Test & evaluate

DONE

05 Review & approve

WAITING

06 Deploy & observe

QUEUED

STAGE 05 · HUMAN GATE

The run waits until a human approves.

Agents carry the work through planning, building and testing. A change that touches payments stops for its owner.

Add EU VAT to invoice export

ENG-2481 · coding-agent · billing-service · 5 / 6

Take in the work

Done

from Jira · priority P0

Plan the run

Done

4 steps · budget €12.00

Build the change

Done

feat/eu-vat · 8 files · +214 -38

Test and evaluate

Passed

48 / 48 tests · eval score 0.94

Review and approve

Waiting for review

touches payments/

policy owner review required

reviewer @platform-team

Request changes

Approve

Deploy and observe

queued · blocked on approval

CONTROL PLANE

Policies

Permissions

Routing

Evaluation

Observability

Cost

Audit trails

EXISTING ESTATE

Backlog · Repositories · CI/CD · Infrastructure · Models and tools

HUMAN-GUIDED BY DEFAULT

Autonomous where it should be. Human-controlled where it matters.

Teams define where agents can act independently, where review is required and where a human must approve the next step.

MORE AGENT AUTONOMY

MORE AGENT AUTONOMY

01

01

Autonomous

Autonomous

Agent acts

Agent acts

Update docs and tests

Update docs and tests

docs/ · tests/

02

02

Review required

Review required

Human checks after

Human checks after

Refactor an internal module

Refactor an internal module

billing-service/internal

03

03

Approval required

Approval required

Human approves before

Human approves before

Change payment logic

Change payment logic

payments/

WAITING FOR APPROVAL

ENG-2481 changes payments/. Owner: @platform-team

Request changes

Approve

Approve

04

04

Human-owned

Human-owned

Human decides

Human decides

Run a production data migration

Run a production data migration

prod/db

MORE HUMAN OVERSIGHT

MORE HUMAN OVERSIGHT

CONTROL PLANE

Policies · Permissions · Model routing · Tool governance · Evaluation · Observability · Cost · Auditability

Orq.ai Software Factory autonomy spectrum: autonomous, review required, approval required and human-owned agent actions

SOFTWARE ECONOMICS

Measure outcomes. Not generated code.

Make the financial and operational performance of the Software Factory visible at every layer. Track what each run consumes and connect it to what reaches production.

WHAT A RUN CONSUMES

HRS

Human effort per run

TOK

Model and token cost

CPU

Compute costs

WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THERE

LTD

Lead time per accepted change

RWK

Rework and failed runs

STG

Cost by pipeline stage

WHAT REACHES PRODUCTION

THL

Backlog throughput

CPO

Cost per production outcome

INC

Production incidents

Compare models and infrastructure strategies, identify expensive stages and decide where more autonomy creates value, and where human involvement still pays for itself.

BUILT AROUND YOUR ESTATE

Your repositories, policies and permissions.

The Software Factory operates inside your existing engineering environment. Connect the backlog, repositories, delivery pipelines, infrastructure, approved models and tools your teams already use.

Your repositories and skills

Agents work against the codebases and skills already in place.

Policy and permissions

Define which agents can access specific systems, data, models and tools.

Your delivery pipelines

Connect the Software Factory to your existing CI/CD, testing and deployment workflows so changes move through the systems your teams already use.

Infrastructure

Run it on our cloud or bring your own.

START WITH ONE WORKFLOW

Prove the model before you scale it.

You do not need a fully agentic SDLC on day one.

01

Pick one workflow

Choose a scoped slice of your backlog, such as test coverage, dependency upgrades or a migration.

02

Set the guardrails

Connect the repositories involved, then decide where agents act on their own, where review is required and where a human approves.

03

Measure, then scale

Track throughput, lead time and cost per accepted change. Expand autonomy once the numbers hold.

01

Pick one workflow

Choose a scoped slice of your backlog, such as test coverage, dependency upgrades or a migration.

02

Set the guardrails

Connect the repositories involved, then decide where agents act on their own, where review is required and where a human approves.

03

Measure, then scale

Track throughput, lead time and cost per accepted change. Expand autonomy once the numbers hold.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is an AI software factory?

An AI software factory is an AI-powered system that automates and coordinates the software development lifecycle, from planning and coding to testing and deployment. Specialized AI agents handle the work, while humans set the direction and approve critical decisions. The result: faster delivery of production-ready software, with governance, security and control built in.


How is the Software Factory different from a coding agent?

A coding agent helps one developer write code faster. The Software Factory automates the whole path from ticket to production: picking up work from the backlog, writing and testing the code, opening pull requests, and handing finished work to your team for review. It’s not a smarter autocomplete. It’s an extra production line running alongside your engineers.


Does the Software Factory replace software engineers?

No. It takes over the work your engineers would rather not do: backlog tickets, maintenance, migrations, bug fixes, and test coverage. That frees your team to focus on architecture, product decisions, and the hard problems only they can solve. Same team, more output.

Where do humans remain involved?

At every point that matters. Your engineers decide what goes into the Software Factory and set the standards it works to. For each type of change, your team chooses the level of control: agents act on their own for low-risk work such as docs and tests, a human reviews after, a human approves before the next step, or the work stays human-owned. Your team stays in control of priorities, code quality and release decisions.

How does it connect to our existing SDLC and infrastructure?

It plugs into the tools you already use, including your repositories, issue tracker, and CI/CD pipelines. Work flows through your existing review and deployment process, so there’s no new workflow for your team to learn. Run it on our cloud or bring your own. Either way, access to code, data, models and tools follows your policies and permissions.

How do we measure its cost and return?

Every task the Software Factory completes is tracked, so you can see exactly what was delivered and what it cost. We measure return in terms your leadership already uses: backlog reduction, cycle time, engineering hours freed up, and cost per delivered change compared to doing the same work manually. Most teams start with a scoped pilot so the numbers are proven before scaling.

See what the Software Factory would look like in your environment.

Bring us one workflow. We’ll help map the agents, controls, human gates and economics required to run it safely.