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010 · 17 August 2026

Factory

The category from 1969


Move
Category creation
Lens
Positioning
Category
Dev tools
Stage
Series C
Lane
Anthropic lane
GTM motion
PLG, Bottoms-up to enterprise, Sales-led

The rule

A new category name makes buyers learn something. An old one makes them remember something. Learning takes three years you don't have, so go find the word that's already sitting in their budget and claim you're the version that finally works.

The copy, then and now

Regression

Then · September 2024

Bringing Autonomy to Software Engineering

Factory helps organizations automate and optimize their software development lifecycle with autonomous, AI-powered systems called Droids.

Now · 4 September 2026

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

No hero subheadline exists on the live page. This space is left empty on purpose.

Why it matters

They stopped describing and went straight to naming, and the name they picked is one anybody can use. Every AI company on earth can claim an industrial revolution. Nobody else could have said Droids. The rule from Cold Open 018 is to own the one word your competitors cannot put in their own headline. Factory had that word and removed it.

Sources

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