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AI workforce
Factory
Autonomous coding agents ('Droids') that take on software engineering tasks across the development lifecycle.
factory.com · Data run November 13, 2026
Data note: Aviato resolves factory.com to a 1,398-person company (LinkedIn factory-hq) that we could not confirm is Factory AI; factory.ai not found. Headcount and web traffic are shown as n/a rather than risk the wrong company's numbers.
Momentum, week of November 9, 2026
95 from 3 of 5 signals
- AI workforce: #1 of 17
Signal percentiles: Tranco rank movement, ~30 days 96; Recency of last funding round 92; Launch and discussion activity, 90 days 96.
What the data says
Positive signals
- Tranco top-sites rank climbed 55.7% over about 30 days.
- Raised within the last 12 months: Funding Round (Sep 2026).
- 6 Hacker News stories linked to the company in 90 days.
Key facts
- Headquarters
- n/a
- Founded
- n/a
- Last round
- Funding Round (Sep 2026)sourceas of round date Sep 15, 2026
- Headcount
- n/a
- Headcount change
- 3m n/a · 12m n/a
- Monthly web visits
- n/a
- Web traffic change
- 3m n/a · 12m n/a
- Tranco top-sites rank
- #199,338sourceas of Nov 12, 2026
- Tranco rank, ~30 days
- +55.7%as of 2026-10-15 to 2026-11-12
- LinkedIn followers
- n/a
- Hacker News stories, 90 days
- 6source
Recent news and launches
- Nov 12, 2026 · Factory's New Cyber Defense Network Featuring Palo Alto Networks, Casco, & More (Hacker News (4 points)) · discussion
- Nov 6, 2026 · Test your defenses against a nation-state level attack (Hacker News (8 points)) · discussion
- Nov 5, 2026 · Droid 1.0: Building a Frontier Harness (Hacker News (2 points)) · discussion
- Nov 4, 2026 · Factory Acquires HumanLayer (Hacker News (6 points)) · discussion
- Sep 15, 2026 · Factory raises $200M at $5B valuation (Hacker News (1 points)) · discussion
- Aug 27, 2026 · Why coding agents stop early on long-horizon software tasks (Hacker News (3 points)) · discussion
- Jul 1, 2026 · Droid Shield 2.0: learned secret detection (Hacker News (2 points)) · discussion
- Jun 17, 2026 · Automatic LLM routing that optimizes cost and speed (Hacker News (1 points)) · discussion
n/a means our sources had no value; we do not estimate. Spot an error? Request a correction with a public source.