We build you a dark factory that ships your software.
You don't need more engineers. You need yours shipping far more. A factory in your codebase that ships tickets as preview deploys, run by your team as Forward Deployed Engineers.
A dark factory for your software.
Tickets and specs flow in. Agents plan, build, and ship the code. Pull requests flow out. Your engineers steer it, instead of typing it.
Plans
Turns a ticket into a plan.
Builds
Writes and tests the code.
Ships
Reviews and opens the PR.
Your backlog grows faster than you can hire.
You need to ship more software, sooner. The usual ways to add capacity all cost more than they return.
Hire more engineers
Months to find, months to ramp. Fixed cost, slow to change.
Outsource a team
A body shop learns your codebase, then bills you to keep knowing it.
Hand out Copilot
Faster typing, same process. The senior review bottleneck does not move.
Wait for AI to mature
Your competitors already ship with agents. The gap compounds.
From assessment to Forward Deployed.
Find where agents win
We map your stack, your team, and the work agents can take. You get a build-ready plan for your factory. Fixed price.
Build it into your codebase
We build the dark factory alongside your engineers, wired into your repo and tools. Fixed scope. You own all of it.
Your team runs it
Your engineers operate the factory at high leverage, like architects. We step back. Nothing rented.
You see the factory we would build before we build it.
Every engagement opens with the Plan. Your stack, the work agents can take, the factory we would build, and what your team gains. Yours to keep, whether you build with us or not.
See who we have built for- Company
- B2B SaaS · Series B · 25 engineers
- Owner
- Theodora K., VP Engineering
- Camplight
- Boris D., 14 yrs shipping production software
- Codebase
- TypeScript monorepo, 1.2M lines.
- Turns tickets into reviewed pull requests.
- Writes the tests and the docs.
- Handles migrations and refactors.
- Keeps every change reviewed by your team.
- About 60% of routine PRs handled by agents.
- Engineers move to design and review.
- Three Forward Deployed Engineers trained.
We have built the software behind real exits.
Not a new shop testing ideas on you. Here is some of what we have shipped, and where it went.
- Software engineering of the entire product
- $11M seed raised
- Acquired by Tulip
- Designed and built the entire platform, vision to product
- 10+ years as tech partner
- 250,000 patients per year
- Acquired by Haelan
- Marketing site development
- Lead-gen infrastructure
- Form system migration
- Security tooling
- Localization across 4 locales
- Acquired by Cision for $450M
- One of the first investors
- CTO and engineering
- $4.5M financing from San Francisco
- 4.9/5 on G2
Then it ships. Every day.
Once it is live, the factory turns tickets into reviewed pull requests around the clock. Your engineers approve, direct, and deploy. This is one month in.
See the math- Codebase
- TypeScript monorepo, 1.2M lines.
- Mode
- Agents build, engineers steer.
- Team
- 3 Forward Deployed Engineers.
| Metric | Before | Now | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRs merged / week | 18 | 64 | +3.5x |
| Routine PRs by agents | 0% | 61% | Up |
| Eng time on design | 20% | 70% | Up |
Three engineers ship like a much larger team. They design and decide. The factory does the rest, and all of it is theirs.
Three ways to ship more. One compounds.
| Hire engineers | Outsource a team | Darklight factory | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to impact | Months to hire and ramp | Weeks to onboard | Assessment in days, factory in weeks |
| What you get | More salaries | Rented hands and knowledge | A factory your team owns |
| The knowledge | Walks out the door | Theirs, you rent it back | Your engineers, leveled up |
| Leverage over time | Linear with headcount | Linear with spend | Compounds as the factory grows |
| When we leave | Nothing changes | It stops | It is yours, your team runs it |
Tell us what your team is struggling to ship.
We reply with whether a factory makes sense for you, usually within a day. If it does, the next step is a fixed-scope assessment. No SDR, no deck.
- A senior engineer reads this, not a bot.
- Fixed-scope assessment. You keep the plan either way.
- We build with your team, not instead of them.
- You own the factory and the code. Nothing rented.
Got it. We'll be in touch.
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