You have the agents. Now run the Software Factory around them.

Vibe Coding, The unfinished step

You have lived one of these three, and you know which one.

1. Just you

   You started vibe coding on your own machine, a model and nothing around it, and you really were fast.

2. Your team joined in

   Everybody shipped into one repo with no rules. So you moved to a generic harness and never asked your user, and your engineers became harness engineers, work nobody pays you for.

3. It scaled out of control

   Now all your teams hold the same tooling your organization gave them. No two of them ship the same way, so nobody can compare them, steer them, or improve them together.

Your people did everything right, and Vibe Coding kept its promise on speed. Scaling it beyond the prototype raised a new organizational challenge: AI Governance.

What the Factory is

Your teams keep the way they work today, and with us they shape the Factory around it, until it holds across every team.

When we leave they run it alone, on an AI augmented way of working that is now yours.

Who built it

Meet who built it

A Software Factory carries somebody's judgement about what good software costs. Here is whose.

Two software engineering veterans built this. They had spent years on craftsmanship, then on machine learning, then on AI applied to code, and when the three converged they gave the result away on Valentine's Day. Not a launch. A gift to the generation of developers who will inherit what AI does to this craft.

Michele Brissoni

Co-creator of nWave

He has practised martial arts since he was six, and teaches them still. That is where the Dojo takes its name, and it is not a borrowed word.

He found the same discipline in a Formula 1 pit, where a rehearsed movement is worth more than a clever one, and has spent the twenty years since putting that standard into software.

The SW Craftsmanship Dojo® is that standard taught: small steps, tests first, honest feedback. Fourteen years of it became a paper for XP 2024. More than twenty thousand engineers have come through the Dojo.

Machine learning from 2015. AI applied to code from 2019, with Tabnine, Sourcery and Kite, when the tools finished your line and understood nothing. One obsession the whole way through: build agents good enough to sit in a product team and raise the humans, not replace them.

Alessandro is the other half of it.

Alessandro Di Gioia

Co-creator of nWave

He learned it as a child practising kung fu, where precision was never the point but served a larger design: many small correct movements add up to something great.

Twenty years of software in Milan, Stavanger and London, for startups, for asset managers like M&G and retailers like ASOS. He co-founded Alcor Academy and has taught the craft to engineers across Europe, from CSS Insurance in Switzerland to Bouvet in Norway.

When AI began writing code he saw teams moving faster and trusting their own software less, engineers spending their days checking work they had not written and could not quite believe. He wanted to end that, not describe it. nWave works the way a careful engineer does: one verified step at a time, and it stops to ask when it is not sure.

Michele is the other half of it.

Proof

You won't be the first.

Rippily.comopens in a new tab was our zero user.

We helped Claudio Perrone, its founder, stand up his own Software Factory, and then we shaped it around the one thing he refuses to compromise: a product worthy of Apple. That obsession is now a gate inside his factory, held by his own agent, Steve, who questions every screen, every word and every interaction. Nothing ships until Steve is satisfied.

That gate is why he can still vibe code when he is spiking an idea. He and Steve can build a prototype, throw it away and build another, until the one in front of a user is the one that wins. The mess is safe: he knows the winning spike gets thrown away too, and rebuilt properly by nWave.

Today Rippily is live. From the first sketch to a full MMP took him less than two months.

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“Superhuman quality at vibe coding speed.” Rippily is where that sentence stopped being a promise.

Dave Farley opened AI Briefings, his new series on AI assisted software development, with us. His goal for the series is to talk to people doing interesting things in that space, so we walked him through nWave. Then he tried it on a project of his own.

“I have tried it … and I do think it helps to focus us on good small steps.”

“Hexagonal architecture, deployment pipelines, double loop test-driven development with acceptance test-driven development, and so on are all built into the approach.”

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Pick your version

Start free when it is just you. Your team, then every team, needs the Factory.

There is nothing to risk. Start with nWave OSS on your own. When your organization scales AI software development and needs AI Governance, your version expands into the Software Factory, on the same kernel.

Take the advantage

You already brought Vibe Coding. Now bring the Factory.

Start the conversation. We're going to run the AI-Readiness assessment when your company needs it, plan your install, and bring a kickoff team of your own when your plan includes one, until your teams run it alone.

1. one conversation
2. the assessment, if needed
3. the install
4. a kickoff team by plan, until
5. your teams run it alone

Because you have already seen what Vibe Coding costs at scale.