Missions

How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Factory — Eno Reyes

Jul 28, 2026 · 21:21

Factory's forward deployed engineers serve as the tip of the spear, embedding with customers to build software factories where signals flow through validation stages and ship outcomes autonomously. Co-founder and CTO Eno Reyes stresses a model-independent harness the customer owns, enabling air-gapped operation in finance, healthcare, or government. The autonomy maturity model scores codebases on agent readiness: linters, type checkers, and verifiable tasks let agents work longer without humans—enabling migrations of 30–50 million line codebases at banks. Reyes uses Disney's Epcot analogy to warn: build achievable future cities, not theme parks, or adoption stalls. Factory runs with an autonomy ratio in the upper 80%; legal Droid is fully autonomous, and the role demands business judgment, systems thinking, and communication skills as much as engineering.

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

May 6, 2026 · 18:31

Luke Alvoeiro from Factory presents Missions, a multi-agent architecture that combines delegation, creator-verifier, broadcast, and negotiation into a three-role system of orchestrator, workers, and validators. The central claim is that human attention, not AI intelligence, is now the bottleneck in software engineering. Missions uses validation contracts written before any code to define correctness independently, structured handoffs to maintain context across 16-day runs, and serial execution with targeted internal parallelization to reduce errors. Strategic model selection per role—planning, implementation, validation—compounds advantages across model generations. Production data from building a Slack clone shows 60% of time and tokens spent on implementation, validation never succeeds on first go, and 50% of final code lines are tests with 90% coverage. The system is designed to improve with each model release by keeping orchestration logic in prompts and skills rather than hard-coded state machines.