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Dark Factory
Governed Autonomous SDLC
The agents were never the hard part.
Governing them at scale is.
Dark Factory is a licensed platform for governed autonomous software development. It integrates with the tools your teams already use, runs autonomous AI agents with a human approval gate before every merge, and delivers tamper-evident, audit-ready evidence powered by Reign.
5–7×
Effective engineering output
~21 hours
Median cycle time
0 reverts
across 922 merges
100%
Human-approved merges
● LIVE · Click the console to watch the 75-second walkthrough. Every agent action observable, every merge human-approved, all activity recorded for audit.
Why now
Everyone has agents.
Almost no one can govern them.
The real challenge isn't building with agents. It's running them at production scale with control, evidence, and compliance.
Pilot purgatory
Most teams can't move agentic work into production while meeting governance and audit requirements.
Tool sprawl & cost
Enterprises run 300+ SaaS tools at under 50% utilization, creating massive hidden spend.
Regulation is here
OSFI E-23 and the EU AI Act now require runtime governance and evidence for autonomous systems.
How it works
File a ticket. Agents build it.
You approve. It ships.
Work is pulled from the trackers you already use. A Supervisor routes each ticket to an AI worker running in an isolated sandbox. The worker completes the change and runs every quality gate. A finished merge request waits for one required human approval before shipping, with full evidence captured by Reign.
From tracker to production, each ticket goes to an AI worker in its own isolated sandbox (reproducible, contained, zero blast radius); the finished change arrives as a merge request and waits on a human before it merges. Every step governed by Reign, with tamper-evident evidence.
Velocity
Ship in hours, not weeks
Control
Human approval on every change
Cost
Integrate now. Consolidate later.
See it run on your toolchain.
Open by design
Your stack, governed.
Your choice of coding agents, flexible, independent and open, never locked into one vendor, model or cloud. Dark Factory integrates with the toolchain you already run via open APIs, webhooks and MCP, and governs it end to end with Reign.
Coding agents
CursorClaude CodeCodexCopilotDevinFactory
Source control
GitHubGitLabBitbucket
Trackers
JiraLinearPlane
Artifacts
JFrog ArtifactoryNexusContainer registries
CI/CD & security
JenkinsGitLab CISonarQubeSnyk
Runtime & isolation
Isolated agent sandboxesReproducible · contained
Deploy
SaaSYour cloudAir-gappedAny model, any agent
Governed by Reign
Every change, provable.
Reign is the governance layer beneath the factory: it enforces your policy at runtime and records what happened as tamper-evident, examiner-ready evidence. The audit becomes a question you've already answered.
- ✓ Human approval gate. Nothing reaches production without a person.
- ✓ Runtime policy enforcement on every model and agent action.
- ✓ Tamper-evident evidence. A sealed ledger for every change.
- ✓ Deploy anywhere. SaaS, your cloud, or fully air-gapped.
Evidence ledger · reign-x4
✓ ticket dispatched · worker claimed✓ code + tests · all gates passed
✓ AI review · fixer cleared
· merge to main → human approved
(sealed to audit ledger)
sha-256 9f2a…c71e · examiner-exportable
Aligned to the rules that now govern AI
OSFI E-23EU AI ActISO 42001NIST AI RMFFINOS AIGF
Proof
Not a demo. A factory we run ourselves.
Our production apps already ship through Dark Factory, governed, audited and faster. We're now opening it to a selective 2026 cohort of regulated enterprises, by application.
21 Years
Operating regulated infrastructure
SOC 2 Type II
Independently certified
AWS Advanced
& Validated MSP
Sovereign
Your data, models and agents stay yours
Built on open foundations
Member and contributor in the open standards behind governed AI. The Linux Foundation, FINOS, and the Agentic AI Foundation.
Questions, answered
The questions a regulated buyer actually asks.
What is Dark Factory?
Dark Factory is a licensed platform for governed autonomous software development. It integrates with the trackers and tools your teams already use, runs AI coding agents in isolated sandboxes, and requires explicit human approval before any change merges to production. Every action is recorded as tamper-evident, examiner-ready evidence, powered by Reign. Dark Factory is part of the Forge portfolio from iTmethods.
How is Dark Factory different from AI coding tools like Copilot or Cursor?
Coding assistants help one developer write code. Dark Factory runs the whole delivery workflow: a Supervisor pulls tickets from your tracker, dispatches agents that build, test, and security-scan in isolated sandboxes, and holds every finished change at a human approval gate before it ships. It is open by design and works with agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Devin, and Factory rather than replacing them.
Does Dark Factory keep a human in the loop?
Yes. Nothing reaches production without explicit human approval. Every merge waits for one required human sign-off, and that approval is sealed to a tamper-evident evidence ledger. The model is governed autonomy, not full autonomy.
How does Dark Factory support compliance and audit?
Reign, the governance layer beneath the factory, enforces policy at runtime and records every change as examiner-ready evidence. Output is aligned to OSFI E-23, the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the FINOS AI Governance Framework, so the audit becomes a question you have already answered.
Which tools and agents does Dark Factory work with?
Dark Factory is open by design and integrates through open APIs, webhooks, and MCP. It works with coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Devin, Factory), source control (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), trackers (Jira, Linear, Plane), CI/CD and security (Jenkins, GitLab CI, SonarQube, Snyk), and artifact registries (JFrog Artifactory, Nexus). You are never locked into one vendor, model, or cloud.
What results does Dark Factory deliver?
On suitable work, teams see 5 to 7x effective engineering output with a median cycle time of about 21 hours from ticket to production. In production use, Dark Factory has delivered 0 reverts across 922 merges, with 100% of merges human-approved.
How is Dark Factory deployed?
Dark Factory deploys as SaaS, in your own cloud, or fully air-gapped. Your data, models, and agents stay yours, with customer-owned model keys. It is delivered and operated with you, forward-deployed by iTmethods.
What ongoing support and guidance does iTmethods provide?
Dark Factory is forward-deployed. iTmethods experts stand it up alongside your teams, tune it to your workflows, and operate it with you. The relationship does not end at go-live: our engineers provide ongoing guidance as your delivery needs, toolchain, and regulatory obligations evolve, keeping the factory and the evidence it produces aligned to the business. You get a dedicated team, not a ticket queue.
How is Dark Factory priced?
Dark Factory is licensed, not sold per seat. Pricing is an annual platform license scoped to your deployment model (SaaS, your own cloud, or air-gapped) and the volume of governed work it runs. Most engagements begin with a fixed-scope pilot that proves the model on your own workflow before an annual commitment. We share specific numbers in the briefing, once we understand your environment and scope.
How do we get started?
Start with a 30-minute briefing. From there we scope a pilot on one of your own workflows. iTmethods runs a selective 2026 pilot cohort with regulated enterprises, by application.
Pilot cohort · 2026
See it run on your toolchain.
A selective 2026 pilot cohort for regulated enterprises, by application. Start with a 30-minute working session.
Limited 2026 cohort, by application only.