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Ona

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Ona

@ona_hq

Run a team of AI software engineers in the cloud.

New York, London, Munich

Joined July 2018

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OpenAI Newsroom
@OpenAINewsroom
Jun 11
We’ve reached an agreement to acquire @ona_hq. Its secure cloud execution technology will help Codex take on longer-running work, even when laptops are closed, and help more organizations deploy agents securely in production. After closing, Ona will join OpenAI’s Codex team.
OpenAI to acquire Ona
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Jun 4
375 PRs merged in 10 days. 87% of them merged autonomously, with no human taking any action. Zach Malguitou spent 10 days building a "software factory" in public, livestreaming the setup of 16 background automations building a real product. The output was 68,000 lines of code
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Jun 4
Background Agents Virtual Summit | May 6–7, 2026 | Ona · Ona
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Jun 1
There are three actors on every engineering team now, and most companies are still only designing for two. For years the picture was simple: humans use your product, your product responds. Lawrence Jones from Incident.io explained at the Background Agents Summit why
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May 28
What is the best first use case for background agents? Four filters for determining a good first use case: - High-volume (savings compound) - Well-defined (agent can verify its own work) - Low blast radius (failure is recoverable) - Measurable (real before-and-after numbers)
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May 28
ona.com/guides/backgro… ona.com/templates
An engineering leader's guide to background agents
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May 27
Most regulated companies hear "AI" and reach for a blanket ban. Suhail Patel from Monzo (a regulated UK bank) said it well at the Background Agents Summit: "There's nothing in regulation that stops you from adopting AI." Regulation gives you guardrails and penalties for
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May 27
Background Agents Virtual Summit | May 6–7, 2026 | Ona · Ona
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May 26
"We're already doing AI. Our devs use Claude." Has your team shipped more actual features and is your backlog shorter? Three phases: 1. Code assistants (individual speed) 2. Background agents (org throughput) 3. Software factory (autonomous SDLC) Most teams are stuck at phase
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May 26
Read more and determine where you stand at:
An engineering leader's guide to background agents
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May 26
Every major model has written solid code for a well specified task for over a year. So why are most companies still reviewing every diff while a handful ship autonomously? Shardul Vaidya from AWS at the Background Agents Summit: it comes down to verification. Link to the full
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May 26
Background Agents Virtual Summit | May 6–7, 2026 | Ona · Ona
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May 22
Six teams built background agent infrastructure independently. All converged on the same five primitives: - Sandboxed dev environments - Context and connectivity - Triggers - Fleet orchestration - Governance and security These are a stack and the order in which you put them
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May 21
Engineers are becoming production line managers. Cole Murray at the Background Agents Summit: we're moving from software engineering to software manufacturing. The artisan model (one engineer, one task, handcrafted code) is giving way to fleets of background agents shipping the
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May 21
Background Agents Virtual Summit | May 6–7, 2026 | Ona · Ona
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May 19
Stripe and Ramp built their own agent infra. But they had cloud dev environments for years before agents were even a thing. If you're starting from scratch, here's the actual shopping list. Six systems, each with ongoing maintenance: - Sandboxed dev environments - Agent
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May 19
An engineering leader's guide to background agents
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May 18
At Stripe, designers and PMs are merging PRs without pulling in engineers. Alistair Gray broke this down at the Background Agents Summit: a PM spots a small thing that could be better, hands it to a Minion agent, gets a branch and a PR back, and only loops in an engineer for the
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May 18
Background Agents Virtual Summit | May 6–7, 2026 | Ona · Ona
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