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Blackstone runs Factory's coding agents inside its own data centre with a choice of models

Blackstone wants AI to make its people more effective while keeping security and enterprise controls. Two requirements shaped its choice of Factory: agents had to run inside its own data centre under its control and observation, and it needed to keep its choice of models. Factory's Droid runtime can run in Factory's cloud, on a customer's own infrastructure, or in a fully air-gapped environment.

Agent or tool
Factory Droid
Topic
Software Development
Reported on
Case study (Factory)
Added
2026-11-13

Why it matters

Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to doing whole tasks: reading a codebase, making a plan and changing many files. This case is a concrete example of where that works in practice. It is one of 221 sightings filed under Software Development on Agent Sightings (number 19 by interest), and one of 3 involving Factory Droid.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Factory Droid or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

I want a coding agent to take on work like this across our repositories, show its plan, and wait for review before anything merges. The tool in the source case was Factory Droid.

Saved

Tip: Work on a fresh branch, ask for a plan before edits, and review the diff and test results before merging.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Case study (Factory): https://factory.com/case-studies/blackstone. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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