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Fleet power, founder scale.
Factory brings agent droids to enterprise engineering orgs, from ticket to reviewed PR inside company process. Loom puts a six-session fleet on one desktop, for the person who is the whole engineering org.
The difference
Built for different buyers.
Org versus individual
Factory is built for teams: work arrives as tickets, leaves as pull requests, and flows through the systems an engineering org already runs. Loom is built for one person conducting six real Claude Code sessions from a desktop app.
Platform versus app
Factory is a platform you adopt. Loom is a Tauri app of about 13 MB you download for macOS, Linux, or Windows. Terminals, editor, git graph, and web preview all run locally, with no server, no admin, and no account beyond your Claude login.
Contract versus zero
Enterprise software is priced like enterprise software, and for an org that can be the right trade. Loom is free and Apache-2.0. The fleet rides your existing Claude login, the Conductor is bring your own key, and you pay providers directly.
An honest comparison
If you run an engineering organization, Factory's approach makes sense. Process integration, ticket queues, and review gates are how teams keep dozens of contributors coherent, and a product that meets those systems where they live is solving a real problem well.
Loom solves a different problem. When the org is you, there is no queue to integrate with. You type a goal, the Conductor plans it into a mission DAG, dispatches tasks across six Claude Code sessions, answers permission prompts with the safe affirmative, recovers rate limits and stalls, rotates pooled accounts, and verifies work before it counts as done. Then you review everything in the full git graph and push.
Where that fits:
- Solo founders who want six engineers without payroll.
- Startups that want velocity without seat pricing.
- Small teams where each dev conducts a personal fleet, no shared server.
Questions
Common questions.
Can Loom still work if I am on a team?
Yes. Loom has no central service to administer, so each developer runs their own fleet against the repos they are authorized for, and the team coordinates the way it already does, through git. See for small teams.
Hand it the work.
Walk away.
macOS, Linux, and Windows. Around 13 MB. Free and open source.