# Factory AI — Factory and Databricks: Building Software Powered by Data

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-19
- Category: partnership-acquisition
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://factory.com/news/databricks-partnership
- Record: https://forck.live/items/24610-factory-and-databricks-building-software-powered-by-data
- Subject: Droid

Factory is partnering with Databricks so customers can use data and models in the Databricks Data + AI Platform to power software that Factory builds or migrates. The two companies are already helping one of the largest global enterprises move a complex data platform that powers hundreds of business applications onto the Databricks Data + AI Platform, including petabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of tables. Factory's takeaway from that migration is that data modernization and software modernization need to happen together, since the applications that use the data carry dependencies that must survive the move. Factory Droids work across application code, data pipelines, SQL, tests and documentation, using access to assets governed through Databricks Unity Catalog to trace how an application depends on a stored procedure or which pipeline creates its inputs. Factory says Droids can then identify dependencies, propose an implementation sequence and define compatibility checks, with engineers reviewing the plan before implementation proceeds. The partnership covers three categories of use cases: PDLC Automation, Migration and Modernization, and Cybersecurity, the last remediating vulnerabilities in applications monitored by Databricks Lakewatch. Qualifying customers can buy Factory through the Databricks Marketplace using up to 10% of their existing Databricks commitment, and can connect Databricks in Factory under Settings, then Connectors.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://factory.com/news/databricks-partnership:

> Today, Factory is announcing a partnership with Databricks so customers can use the data and models in the Databricks Data + AI Platform to power software that is built or migrated by Factory.

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