NEW YORK, NY, August 18, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- Warp today announced Warp Factories: open, flexible infrastructure for engineering organizations to build and run their own cloud software factories, automating software development at scale. Teams retain full control of their data, inference, and compute.
While interactive coding agents have increased developer productivity over the past year, they are not the right end state as organizations scale their use of AI. Today, most agents are deployed as individual developer tools, with each developer installing, configuring, and operating them on their laptop.
"I hear again and again from engineering leaders that interactive agents have created two major problems. The first is measuring and improving coding agent ROI over time. The second is governance and control. In both cases, cloud software factories are the solution," said Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp.
Cloud software factories are automation loops around the software development lifecycle that enable cloud agents to manage work from triage through verification, while humans weigh in at key decision points. Software factories give engineering organizations a way to increase software throughput, optimize the cost and quality of agentic development, and improve how coding agents are governed over time.
Warp Factories include:
- Open, flexible infrastructure: Build customizable software factories around your existing codebases, tools and workflows, with factories defined as version-controlled code.
- End-to-end SDLC automation: Automate triage, specification, implementation, review and verification with configurable agents and human oversight at key decision points. Set up a factory on your codebase in less than five minutes.
- Multi-model, multi-harness support: Use the models and coding harnesses that work best for your workflows, including open-weight models, Claude Code and Codex.
- Built-in measurement and self-improvement: Measure throughput, cost, quality and ROI with metrics, evals and benchmarks on your own workflows, then use self-improvement loops to continuously optimize factory performance. Built-in memory helps factories improve over time.
- Extensible agent infrastructure: Create custom agents, skills and automations, and connect factories to Slack, Teams, Linear, Jira, GitHub, GitLab and other tools through APIs, SDKs, CLI and the Factory MCP.
- AI sovereignty and control: Own and control your factory’s data, inference, compute and configurations, with flexible options to bring your own infrastructure or use Warp’s. Warp provides the infrastructure and control plane while teams retain the flexibility to customize and extend their factories.
As organizations scale their use of coding agents, software factories are emerging as the next layer of engineering infrastructure. Just as CI/CD became foundational to modern software development, software factories are poised to become a standard part of the engineering stack, and a critical piece of infrastructure for organizations to own and control. Warp Factories give teams the foundation to achieve that. Teams can adopt automation incrementally, starting with individual workflows or agents and expanding over time, with humans able to step into the process at any point.
Warp Factories is available in closed beta today. Warp is onboarding a limited number of companies, and qualified organizations receive $10,000 of factory usage to get started.
Warp is already automating roughly 30% of its own engineering tasks through Warp Factories and expects that share to increase significantly in the coming months. Apply to try it yourself at warp.dev.
About Warp
Warp is the open platform for agentic development. Warp is used by nearly one million developers at companies including Docker, Ramp, and Peloton, as well as leading AI labs, Big Tech, and over half of the Fortune 500. Warp was founded by Zach Lloyd, former Principal engineer for Google Sheets and the Google Docs suite, and is backed by Sequoia Capital, GV, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, and Dylan Field. The company is based in New York and can be found online at warp.dev.
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