ufactor.ai
Who we are

A small expert team,
augmented by AI.

ufactor.ai is a lean team of senior engineers and architects, amplified by the same AI tools and agents we build for clients. We use AI agents to build agents — which is how a small team ships production-grade systems with senior hands on every part.

Rui Brás Fernandes
Founder · Lead AI Architect

The team is led by Rui Brás Fernandes — 25+ years of technology leadership across multi-national companies including Cisco and Deloitte, two startups built and exited, and Agentic AI shipped to production.

Around that sits a deliberately small group of senior people. We stay lean on purpose and let AI carry the repetitive work — so the hands on your system are senior ones, not a junior team learning on your budget.

25+ years of leadership
Multi-national technology leadership, including Cisco and Deloitte
Startup founder, twice exited
Built, scaled, and sold two platforms
Agentic AI in production
Multi-agent platforms shipped with human-in-the-loop
Hands-on engineering
Python, React, Flutter, Google Cloud & ADK, MongoDB, AWS, local models (Gemma, Qwen)
We use AI agents to build agents.
The leverage we sell is the leverage we run on.
From u-factor.io to ufactor.ai

Same team. New loop. SDLC → ADLC.

We spent years running the Software Development Lifecycle as u-factor.io — shipping products, exits, and enterprise platforms. The move to ufactor.ai isn't a rebrand; it's a new loop: the Agent Development Lifecycle. Building agents is 90% software, 10% AI — and the 90% is exactly what we already knew how to do.

2018 — 2024
u-factor.io
Software Development Lifecycle
SDLC
PlanCodeBuildTestDeployMonitor

Two acquired SaaS spinoffs. Renault & Citroën launches. Production systems for healthcare, last-mile, and events — the boring, hard parts of shipping software, at scale.

2024 — now
ufactor.ai
Agent Development Lifecycle
ADLC
DefineComposeTrain / TuneEvaluateDeployObserve & adapt

Multi-agent systems on Google ADK, LangGraph, and CrewAI. State, tools, evals, observability — the SDLC muscle made the pivot quick; the ADLC loop keeps it learning.

8 years
shipping production software since 2018
90 / 10
agents are mostly software
Continuous
the learning cycle never closes
Proven in production
Exited · 2022
u-ride.me

Real-time event logistics — hardware, firmware, and platform — built end to end and exited to a Renault-aligned operator.

Acquired · 2023
u-find.me

Indoor positioning platform acquired by Crowdkeep, now part of Veea. The whole stack shipped to production.

In production · 2025
Telco Agentic Platform

A multi-agent platform for telco and enterprise operations — agents in production with human-in-the-loop and custom tooling.

In production
Dingoo Platform

A last-mile delivery platform powered by an AI Operations Engine — planning routes, resolving exceptions, and coordinating dispatch and drivers in real time.

Selected work. Names and dates shown for context — happy to walk through any of these in detail on a call.

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A focused starting point. We look at where your team loses time today, where AI agents are safe and valuable, and what the right first step is — with no pressure to commit to a build.

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