What 8090 Solutions does

8090 Solutions is a private AI-native software development platform founded in 2024-2025 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, led by co-founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya and co-founder and CTO Sina Sojoodi. The company sells a unified orchestration platform for the software development lifecycle, organized around a Knowledge Graph substrate that connects customer requirements, architectural blueprints, work orders, code, and feedback into a single bidirectional traceable system. Its flagship product, 8090 Software Factory, ships five core modules (Requirements, Blueprints, Work Orders, Feedback, plus an Artifacts input layer and Codebase Connection GitHub App integration) and exposes the underlying work-order graph to external AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Codex CLI) via the Model Context Protocol. The platform was developed in partnership with Ernst & Young LLP as the founding technology partner for EY.ai Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), which EY plans to deploy to tens of thousands of US consultants serving regulated-industry clients.

8090 operates a dual-track business model. The self-serve Software Factory tier is priced at $200 per user per month (with AI tokens billed separately at published rates across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Groq models) and is targeted at small engineering teams with a 30-day free trial. The 8090 Enterprise tier is a fully managed custom-delivery service starting at $1M/year, in which 8090's engineers design, build, host, and maintain purpose-built applications on behalf of regulated-industry customers (healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, federal government), with the customer retaining ownership of business logic and 8090 retaining codebase intellectual property. Named enterprise customers include EY (flagship partner and distribution channel), Dompé (life sciences), adapthealth (home medical equipment), and Palmetto (clean energy); case studies disclose outcomes ranging from $21M in insurer savings to $50M/year in Medicare Advantage compliance value.

The company ships Software Factory at a high cadence (41 versioned releases between July 2025 and June 2026) and pursues a developer-relations-led go-to-market anchored on a public roadmap, public changelog, Discord community, GitHub presence, and an installable MCP-based Agent Skill. Disclosed unit-economics risk is significant: the CEO publicly stated in March 2026 that AI infrastructure costs were trending toward $10M annually and more than tripling every three months, with revenue not keeping pace, prompting an internal migration from Cursor to Anthropic's Claude Code to reduce token spend. No funding round size, valuation, or ARR is publicly disclosed.

Name

8090 Solutions

Legal name

8090 Solutions, Inc.

Website

https://www.8090.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

8090 Solutions is a private AI-native software development platform that sells the Software Factory, an SDLC orchestration product built on a Knowledge Graph linking requirements, blueprints, work orders, and code with specialized AI agents, to engineering teams and regulated-industry enterprises, alongside a $1M+/yr managed custom-delivery service and a flagship EY US distribution partnership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI-native Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Platform

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ), iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG), Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK)

Keywords

• AI-native SDLC platform
• AI software development lifecycle
• Enterprise software delivery
• Knowledge graph traceability
• Managed custom software

Headquarters

HQ city

Menlo Park

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Factory self-serve subscription: Recurring per-seat subscription for the self-serve Software Factory product, priced at $200/user/month with tokens billed separately; users must select a subscription plan before accessing the platform (per release notes 0.19.0).
2. Token consumption (usage-based AI inference): Usage-based AI inference billed separately from seat fees; priced per 1M tokens across Claude (Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4), Gemini (3.1 Pro/Flash/Flash Lite), GPT-5.4/5.4 Mini/5.2/5, and Groq/GPT-OSS-120b. Includes cache write/read pricing tiers.
3. 8090 Enterprise managed custom-delivery: Fully managed SaaS offering starting at $1M/yr in which 8090 designs, builds, hosts, and maintains purpose-built enterprise software while the customer retains ownership of business logic; 8090 owns codebase IP and delivery responsibility; includes dedicated account management and multi-year contracts.
4. Enterprise professional services & custom builds: Embedded delivery services (Learn & discover, Build & iterate, Deploy & manage phases) bundled with Enterprise contracts; project outcomes disclosed in case studies include payment integrity systems, clinical recommendation engines, document authoring tools, and investment management platforms.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

8090 Solutions builds and sells an AI-native Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) orchestration platform called the 8090 Software Factory, where product managers, designers, engineers, and QA collaborate with specialized AI agents to author requirements, blueprints, and traceable work orders connected by a proprietary Knowledge Graph. The company also offers 8090 Enterprise, a fully managed custom-software service in which 8090's engineering team uses its own Software Factory to design, build, host, and maintain purpose-built enterprise applications for regulated-industry customers.

Product overview

8090 Solutions offers a unified AI-native software development platform built around a single core product — the 8090 Software Factory — augmented by 8090 Enterprise, a managed custom-delivery service. Software Factory is an SDLC orchestration platform composed of named core modules (Requirements, Blueprints, Work Orders, Feedback) tied together by the Knowledge Graph, supported by raw-materials input layers (Artifacts, Codebase Connection) and an integration layer (MCP server, GitHub App, Stripe billing, multi-provider AI model support). The Requirements module feeds the Blueprints module, which feeds the Work Orders module; customer signals close the loop through the Feedback module; and the whole graph is exposed to external coding agents (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex CLI) via MCP and to the public via the Feedback Integration REST API. 8090 Enterprise wraps this same Software Factory in a managed service where 8090's engineers design, build, host, and maintain custom enterprise applications. The joint EY.ai Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) — co-launched with Ernst & Young and powered by the Software Factory — is the most prominent enterprise deployment of the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Software Factory: 8090's self-serve AI-native SDLC orchestration platform where PMs, designers, engineers, and QA collaborate to ship high-quality software; priced at $200/user/month.
• 8090 Enterprise
• EY.ai PDLC

Products and services

• 8090 Software Factory AI-native Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) orchestration platform where PMs, designers, engineers, and QA collaborate with specialized AI agents to ship software. Priced at $200/user/month with tokens billed separately and a 30-day free trial; deployments above 50 seats are routed to inside sales.
• 8090 Enterprise Fully managed custom-software service in which 8090's engineering team uses the Software Factory to design, build, host, and maintain purpose-built enterprise applications around a customer's workflows; the customer owns business logic while 8090 owns codebase IP and delivery responsibility. Starting at $1M/year under multi-year contracts.
• Requirements module (formerly Refinery) Collaborative, agent-assisted workspace for defining and refining requirements, organized as Product Overview Documents and Feature Requirements Documents with version history; backed by a Requirements Agent that drafts, reviews for ambiguity/gap/conflict, and suggests reorganization.
• Blueprints module (formerly Foundry) Module for human-readable technical specification documents organized around the C4 model as Container Blueprints, Component Blueprints, and Feature Blueprints; the Blueprints Agent generates Mermaid diagrams, monitors drift against requirements and code, and produces structured edit suggestions.
• Work Orders module (formerly Planner/Assembler) Module that turns blueprints into structured, traceable implementation tasks. Each work order bundles title, status, assignees, phase, rich description (Purpose, Acceptance Criteria, Out of Scope), Knowledge Graph connections, optional file-level implementation plan, and activity/comments; supports roadmap and board views, parent-child relationships, dependency chains, versioning, PR links, and MCP-driven execution from Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and Codex CLI.
• Feedback module (formerly Validator) Central inbox for customer and end-user feedback with attachments; provides individual feedback items (FB-N), Themes for grouping related feedback into product signals, a v2 reporting REST API with Feedback Integration API keys, and optional triage automation that runs the Feedback Agent on every new submission.
• Software Factory MCP Server & Agent Skill Model Context Protocol server and installable Software Factory Agent Skill (npx skills add 8090-inc/software-factory-plugin) that give external coding agents project-scoped access to work-order context; supports listing, reading, updating, and executing work orders from Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and Codex CLI, with OAuth-based authentication.
• EY.ai Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) Co-branded AI-native software delivery platform with Ernst & Young, powered by 8090's Software Factory, that replaces traditional linear development with a dynamic, AI-driven collaborative model; joint claims include 70% productivity and cost-efficiency gains, 80x faster delivery, and 95%+ automated test coverage.

Quantifiable outcome

• 70% increase in software development productivity and cost efficiency (EY.ai PDLC / 8090 Software Factory joint claim)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability14 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship — founding technology partner for the joint ey.ai pdlc platform, with planned deployment to tens of thousands of ey us consultants., minor — listed as a homepage/custom-delivery customer logo alongside ey, adapthealth, and palmetto; relationship otherwise undisclosed in the source., minor — listed as a homepage logo in the customer/reference carousel; relationship details otherwise undisclosed., strategic — primary model provider referenced in usage-based billing and named as 8090's planned migration target from cursor., core — required integration for the software factory codebase-connection module; powers indexing, reindexing, and drift detection. and core — integrated billing and seat-management processor for software factory subscriptions..

• Ernst & Young LLP (EY US)flagship — founding technology partner for the joint ey.ai pdlc platform, with planned deployment to tens of thousands of ey us consultants.Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026Co-developed EY.ai PDLC, an AI-native software delivery framework powered by 8090's Software Factory, replacing traditional linear development with an AI-driven collaborative model. Jointly claimed outcomes include 70% productivity/cost-efficiency improvement, 80x delivery acceleration, and 95%+ automated test coverage. EY plans to deploy EY.ai PDLC to tens of thousands of US consultants serving internal teams and client engagements. 8090 is the founding technology partner in this open ecosystem.
• Dompéminor — listed as a homepage/custom-delivery customer logo alongside ey, adapthealth, and palmetto; relationship otherwise undisclosed in the source.GTM or Marketing PartnerFeatured as a customer/customer-logo partner on 8090's homepage and on the 8090 Enterprise custom-delivery page; specific deal scope, integration, or co-marketing details are not disclosed in the source.
• adapthealthminor — listed as a homepage logo in the customer/reference carousel; relationship details otherwise undisclosed.GTM or Marketing PartnerFeatured as a customer/customer-logo partner on 8090's homepage alongside EY, Dompé, and Palmetto; used as a reference brand but with no further partnership details disclosed.
• Palmettominor — listed as a homepage logo in the customer/reference carousel; relationship details otherwise undisclosed.GTM or Marketing PartnerFeatured as a customer/customer-logo partner on 8090's homepage alongside EY, Dompé, and adapthealth; used as a reference brand but with no further partnership details disclosed.
• Anthropic (Claude / Claude Code)strategic — primary model provider referenced in usage-based billing and named as 8090's planned migration target from cursor.Technology or IntegrationClaude family models (Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4) are billed via Software Factory's usage-based pricing table; 8090 plans to migrate its own internal coding-agent usage from Cursor to Anthropic's Claude Code to reduce token costs.
• GitHubcore — required integration for the software factory codebase-connection module; powers indexing, reindexing, and drift detection.Technology or IntegrationSoftware Factory connects to customer repositories via the "8090 Software Factory GitHub App" with read-only access, webhook-triggered reindexing, and OAuth-based user identity linking; powers reverse engineering, code search, and Driftbot code-vs-blueprint analysis.
• Stripecore — integrated billing and seat-management processor for software factory subscriptions.Technology or IntegrationIntegrated Stripe billing powers Software Factory subscription plans, seat allocation enforcement, and the Organization Console "Manage Billing" portal; only the original payer can open the Stripe billing portal.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Linear: Modern product/engineering work management tool with growing AI features; comparable to the Work Orders and Roadmap modules of Software Factory at the planning layer, though without 8090's Knowledge Graph traceability.
• Cline: Open-source autonomous coding agent that runs in VS Code and competes for the AI-native developer workflow that 8090's Work Orders and MCP integrations target.
• Poolside AI: Foundation-model and AI software engineering platform targeting enterprise code generation and developer productivity; comparable in its AI-native SDLC ambition and enterprise distribution focus.
• Replit: AI-native software development platform with Agent that plans and builds applications end-to-end; overlaps with 8090's PLG self-serve motion and AI-generated application positioning, though more consumer/indie skewed.

Broad incumbents

• Atlassian (Jira): Incumbent SDLC, issue-tracking, and project-management suite; competes for the enterprise software delivery workflow that 8090 orchestrates and is even integrated with 8090 via a Dual-MCP Agent Bridge.
• GitHub Copilot: Microsoft-owned AI coding assistant integrated into the dominant developer platform; competes with 8090 as the incumbent default for AI-assisted software development and is increasingly expanding into workspace/agent capabilities adjacent to Software Factory.

Direct peers

• Augment Code: Enterprise-focused AI coding agent with deep codebase context and team-aware features; competes for the same engineering-team buyer as 8090's Software Factory with similar emphasis on continuity and context.
• Sourcegraph: Code intelligence platform with codebase search, Cody AI assistant, and Amp coding agent — directly overlaps 8090's codebase indexing, multi-repo code search, and AI-assisted development positioning for enterprise engineering teams.
• Cursor (Anysphere): AI-native coding IDE and agent environment; competes directly with 8090 in the developer-facing AI coding workflow and is even integrated into 8090 via MCP. Highly comparable on core technology and target developer user.
• Cognition AI (Devin): Autonomous AI software engineer agent that plans, codes, and ships end-to-end, directly competing with 8090's specialized AI agents and work-order execution model for enterprise software delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/8090solutions
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@8090SoftwareFactory
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/8090solutions

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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