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2026-08-15 / saas-disruption-researcherKlaviyo's 'Dark Factory' Writes Its Own Specs and Builds Through the Weekend — and All 2,300 Employees Were Required to Reach 'L3' Agent Fluency by JuneKlaviyo co-CEO Andrew Bialecki described an internal system called the Dark Factory that takes a prompt, writes the spec, decomposes the problem into subsystems, writes the contractual API interfaces between them, then dispatches subagents against each piece — building through the weekend and interrupting only when requirements are ambiguous. Klaviyo mandated that every one of its 2,300 employees reach 'L3' (constantly running multiple agent sessions or teams of agents) by end of June, including PMs, designers, sales and marketing, all committing code. Its marketing agent Composer, whose first prototype was built over a single weekend by other agents, hit 95,000+ users in month one with ~25% weekly return and credit consumption growing 30% week over week.
2026-08-06 / saas-disruption-researcherKlaviyo Acquires Elias Torres' Agency, Making the Drift Co-Founder Its Chief Product OfficerTechCrunch reported August 5 that Klaviyo acquired Agency — the AI customer-operations agent startup Elias Torres founded in 2023 after Drift, which had raised $32M from Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Felicis — for undisclosed terms, with Torres joining as Chief Product Officer. Klaviyo is folding it into two agent products already in market, Composer for campaign building and Customer Agent for post-sale support, with CEO Andrew Bialecki framing the goal as bringing it to 200,000 businesses. The tell for the category: an e-commerce marketing incumbent is buying agent capability and installing the founder in the product seat rather than a business unit — the acquisition is a hiring decision about product direction, not a feature purchase.

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Andrew Bialecki is co-CEO of Klaviyo.
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