8090

8090 (also referred to as 8090 Solutions Inc. and 8090 Labs) develops an AI-native software development platform aimed at enterprises in regulated sectors including healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing, financial services and the US federal government. Its flagship product, Software Factory, is positioned as an "SDLC control plane" that brings human teams and AI agents into one system: users define intent in plain-language documents, coordinate execution, and retain visibility and auditability over decisions from requirements through production.

The platform is organized around modules that cover the lifecycle rather than code generation alone — a collaborative workspace for defining and refining requirements (Refinery), capture of system-level engineering decisions (Foundry), translation of product intent into structured work orders (Planner), and conversion of feedback from any source into actionable tasks (Validator) — all fed by a knowledge graph of requirements, decisions and context. In press coverage of the platform, projects begin with "Requirements" documents describing an application's purpose and features, followed by more technical "Blueprints" describing individual components such as a database or a payment processing engine; third-party AI agents then turn these documents into code, assisted by an "Agent Skill" toolkit of coding instructions, scripts and related resources. Updates are made by editing the underlying natural-language documents, and the platform tests changes before rollout and can analyze user feedback to surface the most commonly requested features.

8090 goes to market through two surfaces: a self-serve Software Factory subscription and 8090 Enterprise, a fully managed offering in which 8090 designs, builds, hosts and maintains purpose-built applications. Published customer stories include work with CMS on making Medicare claims-system legacy code readable and with BISSELL on automating a parts-naming approval process.

Founding story

Palihapitiya announced the venture in January 2024 and initially self-funded it, framing the opportunity around a decades-long enterprise pattern in which companies write their own software, outsource it to a commercial vendor, then offshore maintenance while costs rise and quality falls; he has said Software Factory was built to break that cycle. The company's thesis is that nearly every enterprise will replace or modernize the software running its business within two years. The Series A marked Palihapitiya's return to a full-time operating leadership role for the first time since his early tenure at Facebook.

Business model

8090 sells access to its Software Factory platform on a self-serve subscription basis at $200 per user per month plus token-based usage, with teams above 50 seats directed to sales, and offers 8090 Enterprise as a custom-priced, fully managed engagement starting at $1M per year in which 8090 designs, builds, hosts and maintains applications; under the Enterprise tier 8090 retains ownership of the codebase IP while the customer owns the business logic and workflows.

Recurring per-seat software subscription plus consumption-based token usage for the self-serve product, and annual custom contracts for the managed 8090 Enterprise offering.

Traction

EY.ai PDLC, powered by Software Factory, is planned for deployment to tens of thousands of EY US consultants, with EY citing an internal use case showing a 70% increase in software development productivity and cost efficiency, 80x faster delivery and 95%+ automated test coverage. Named customers listed publicly include EY, Dompé, AdaptHealth and Palmetto, alongside case studies with CMS (18 million lines of Assembly and COBOL analyzed; 100,000+ business rules to be extracted and traced) and BISSELL (automated approval of parts-naming requests). Palihapitiya has said legacy system replacement for large enterprises is the fastest-growing part of the business, and the company has reported AI spend on track for $10M per year, more than triple its November 2025 level.

Latest developments

In June 2026 8090 raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from WndrCo, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH and angel investors including Nikesh Arora and Adam D'Angelo, saying it would use the proceeds for corporate and technical hiring and for high-performance compute and infrastructure. Earlier in 2026, EY launched EY.ai PDLC on top of Software Factory for deployment across its US consulting organization.