Factory Academy by OpenFactoryAI
Learn to build and run an AI software factory, then prove it. Lessons and practice are free. The exam is $25 and comes with a free retry.
Level 1Associate
The foundations of a software factory.
Engineers starting to work in a software factory, and product and engineering leads who work alongside them.
Level 2Professional
Building a software factory.
Engineers, forward deployed engineers and partner delivery teams who set up a factory. Associate level, or the same experience, recommended first.
Free lessons, five to ten minutes each. Sign in with Google to read them.
Free practice questions with an explanation for every answer.
Timed and multiple choice. $25, with one free retry included.
A certificate with your name, a public page anyone can verify, and a LinkedIn button.
Your name, the credential and the date, with a public page and a QR code. No score, no expiry. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.
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Certified Associate Software Factory Engineer
Associate level, Software Factory Engineer track
For Software Factory Partners
Every partner gets 25 free exams a year, for any course, to hand to their own people.
About the partner programEngineers and the people who lead them, level by level. Associate: the foundations of a software factory. Professional: building a software factory.
Lessons and practice questions are free. Each exam is $25, a one-time payment through Paddle, our merchant of record, and includes one free retry. Exam fees are non-refundable. Tax is added at checkout.
It is timed and multiple choice, drawn at random from a pool twice its length, so no two papers are the same. The pass mark is 80%. The exam watches for leaving the tab, leaving full screen, and copying or pasting; after five warnings it ends and is scored as it stands.
Your free retry opens 24 hours later, with a fresh set of questions. If you do not pass the retry, you can buy the exam again.
No. It shows your name, the credential and the date it was issued. It does not show your score. Anyone can check it at academy.openfactoryai.co/verify.
It is recommended, not required. Each level assumes you know the one before it.
No. The courses teach the software factory as a way of working, with whatever coding agents and tools you already use.
Open the course, sign in, and choose “Have a partner code?” under the exam. A code covers the exam and its free retry.