Industrializing software creation
From craft to industrial production
Software is still built by hand, one team at a time. We think it should be built like everything else the modern economy depends on: on a production line.
Organizations need far more software than their teams can ever produce. The bottleneck is structural, and it does not go away by hiring faster or working longer.
AI made writing code faster, but it did not make shipping real software faster. A snippet is not an application. Maleus closes that gap by industrializing the whole chain: specialized agent-operators, production-grade code, governance and deployment included.
Our vision
Maleus exists to accelerate development, reduce cost, and increase the value delivered to customers.
We are at the very beginning of a revolution in how software gets made. Maleus is built to be the production system for that new era.
Software as craft
One team, one keyboard, a permanent backlog.
Software as production
A chain of specialized agent-operators.
Need
Plain language
Design
Working interfaces
Build
Agents in parallel
Operate
Deployed software
Why we started Maleus
The personal reason this company exists, told in four beats.
Five years on the front line
I spent five years working to accelerate software development. I lived the bottleneck from the inside, and the productivity illusion of AI: code written can jump 500%, while what the team actually ships barely moves by 11%. Writing code was never the real constraint.
The shift
Then LLMs and agents arrived. For the first time, a machine could not only write code but reason about a system, plan work, and act on it. The ground moved. The question was what to build on top of it.
The click
I tested the tools the market was getting excited about. My first reaction: this can't be it. My second: wait, there is something here. The raw building block is not enough. What matters is everything around it: architecture, quality, governance, deployment. The factory, not the prompt.
Maleus
So we decided to build the factory rather than ship one more tool. A production system that turns a plain-language need into production-grade software, and treats software creation as an industrial discipline, not an experiment.
Adrien Maret, Founder & CEO
A dense engineering team, rare in Europe
The founders come from Kuzzle, an open-source backend built for large organizations since 2016, with deep AI expertise and a pass through HuggingFace. This concentration of engineering is an asset, not a detail.
Adrien Maret
Founder & CEO
Ex-Kuzzle. Five years industrializing software delivery.
R&D Engineer
Agentic Engineering
AI background, ex-HuggingFace. Deterministic agent graphs.
R&D Engineer
Agentic Engineering
Context engineering and hybrid AI systems.
Backend Engineer
Platform
Ex-Kuzzle. Open-source backend for large organizations.
Full-stack Engineer
Product
End-to-end product engineering, from interface to deployment.
Go-to-market
Growth & Customers
Working with large-account decision makers across Europe.
Collective expertise built over a decade of shipping for large organizations.
Trusted in the field
Maleus is already in the hands of engineering teams inside large organizations, and the verdict is consistent: a far more finished product than the vibe-coding tools.
Large organizations
Already running pilots with enterprise teams.
Production-grade
Security, observability and governance built in.
Sovereign by design
Built to deploy on your own terms and infrastructure.
Let's talk about what Maleus can industrialize for you
A focused conversation about your software delivery challenges, no pitch deck required.