Tessl Launches Software Factory Platform to Support AI Coding’s Transition from Assistance to Execution
NEW YORK — Tessl, the AI-native software development firm, has launched an open standards platform for building software factories to support the transition from individual developers using coding assistants to systems for agents to fulfill a greater share of the software development lifecycle.
To date, the promise of increasingly agentic software development hasn’t been matched by reality. Concerns over poor-quality “AI slop” outputs, potential security risks of increased agent access and unpredictable costs have slowed the pace of delegation to agents.
Tessl solves that impasse with an agent-agnostic, model-agnostic platform to connect ticket implementation, code review and vulnerability remediation, helping developer and engineering teams start delegating to agents with confidence.
A Software Factory to Trust
The Tessl platform acts as an open, composable solution for building workflows that automate software development tasks. Engineering teams running on Tessl can define reusable “skills” that capture how agents should perform particular tasks, combine them into repeatable workflows, referred to as “loops”, and add verification and feedback to check the resulting work. Over time, loops will become self-improving based on those verification and feedback inputs. Importantly, Tessl builds and evolves the agent skills customers already own through composable open standards.
Tessl is already using the platform internally. 80% of a week’s pull requests (PRs) required no human hand-editing when handled by the platform. Separately, it reports slashing cost per PR from $75 to $13 across implementation, review, security fixes and other workflow steps.
Enterprises running on Tessl can get started themselves with ready-to-configure platform workflows:
- Ticket to PR: Implement a scoped issue and open a pull request for the team to review.
- Code Review: Check changes against the team’s engineering standards.
- Vulnerability Remediation: Use scanners including Snyk to identify vulnerabilities introduced by a PR. Tessl proposes or applies fixes, then rescans to check whether findings are resolved.
Verifiers check repository rules, while evaluations help teams test improvements to agent context. The launch also comes with an offer of $200 in Tessl usage credits running until November 30th to support teams trying Factory for the first time. The credits will be valid for 30 days from activation.
Factories of the AI-Native Software Development Future
The launch marks a significant new chapter for Tessl, founded in 2024 by Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, which has raised over $120 million to date. It’s a step towards a future where software development is dominated by software factories in which people define and oversee outcomes, while agents increasingly execute the work.
“Engineering and developer teams aren’t finding it difficult to assign work to agents. The challenge is getting agents to understand the boundaries of work, and when to stop,” said Podjarny. “Verification is the fundamental accompaniment of increased agent autonomy. Tessl Factory strikes the right balance to get agent delegation off the ground with an appropriately gradual approach set by the pace of teams running on Tessl.”
Get started at tessl.io.
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