SOFTWARE FACTORY ARCHITECT

Software that
builds itself

Your team could be shipping what AI agents build: safely, reviewably, and faster than any hiring plan allows. I’m Westley Bonack, a software factory architect. I design and stand up the system where AI agents plan, build, test, and ship software while your engineers direct and approve the work. I don’t just advise on it. I run a factory like this every day, on tools I built myself.

Get your factory running See the factory tools I built

For engineering teams ready to move past AI pilots and get autonomous output into production

Agentic SystemsBuild it.
Run it.
Understand it.REAL-WORLD ENGINEERING →

✳ AI WORKFLOWS

◇ INFRASTRUCTURE

40° 42′ N / SYSTEMS IN MOTION

01 / WHAT I DO

Most teams have AI assistants. Very few have AI that ships. The gap is the system around the agents: how work is assigned, sandboxed, verified, and reviewed. That system is a software factory, and designing one is what I do. No hype and no slideware. You end up with a working factory your team owns and trusts.

02 / THE FACTORY TOOLS

Proof, not slides.

I built these tools to run my own software factory. The lessons behind them are what I bring to yours.

01AI / DEVELOPER TOOLS

Agent Starbase

Why I built it I wanted to give coding agents real work, autonomously, while still seeing what they were doing and reviewing the result.

The control room of a software factory: a self-hosted workbench for running coding agents in the cloud in Docker sandboxes, following their progress, and reviewing their work from a browser or phone.

Live terminals, job queues, scheduling, and task tracking
Explicit capability boundaries and visible human review
Built for real projects, multiple agents, and ongoing operations
Works across LLM providers, so you are never locked into one vendor

Visit Agent Starbase Read the docs

02VIRTUALIZATION / CLI

● ● ●nbr / terminal

$ nbr init

✓ nbr.yaml created

$ nbr up

✓ VM created and started

$ nbr ssh▌

Nebrelo

Why I built it My projects and AI automation needed more infrastructure, and I kept hitting resource limits and losing time to migrations.

A Ruby CLI that turns a Linux KVM host into a fleet of virtual machines defined in a small nbr.yaml, wrapping libvirt’s power in straightforward commands.

Create, inspect, SSH into, and export VMs from one CLI
Declarative nbr plan / nbr apply workflows for repeatable fleets
Use a consistent interface across OSes
Build disposable VMs for autonomous agents

Visit Nebrelo

03AI BOOK PROOFREADING (MECHANICAL)

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RedPen Robot

Why I built it I wanted authors to spend less time on routine proofreading and more time writing.

An AI proofreading service that checks book manuscripts for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style mistakes.

Upload a manuscript as a PDF or Word document
Review the findings and download a PDF report

Email me for access and pricing

03 / FACTORY PRINCIPLES

Deep expertise
No nonsense

The principles behind every factory I design, learned from running one in production.

01 / CLARITY

Keep autonomy legible.

When agents work on their own you need to see what they did, what changed, and what needs a human decision.

02 / ITERATE

Automate by iterating on a real line

A factory is discovered, not planned. Run one real workflow end to end, then widen it.

03 / FOLLOW-THROUGH

Own the whole loop, including QA.

Design, build, test, review, deploy, observe, and improve. Autonomous output is only worth shipping if the system verifies it.

04 / WORK TOGETHER

Where I can help.

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Software factory consulting

You want AI agents shipping real work, not another stalled pilot. I assess where you are, design the architecture, stand up your first working line, and train your team to run it without me. $500/hour, with lower rates for larger engagements.

See how an engagement works

05 / FIELD NOTES

Field notes on software factories.

Have something
worth building?

Tell me what you’re building, where it’s stuck, and what success would look like. You’ll get a candid read on what to automate first, whether or not we end up working together.

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Software thatbuilds itself