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January 12, 2026
Ona Automations
AI can be infuriating.
Because, at large organizations generating code is what, 3% of the work? The rest is maintaining what already exists, like firefighting CVE remediations, migrating from GitHub to GitLab (and back again next year) and the like! And this brownfield work wasn't making much headlines in the latest AI tools… or at least until now.
We've now released Automations. With Automations, Ona AI software engineers work on your legacy codebases as a fleet, operating in parallel, 24/7, across thousands of repositories validating changes in isolated environments, and opening mergeable pull requests.
Let me give you an example workflow I love: I have Ona periodically open pull requests to bump my test coverage and refactor tricky parts of my codebase, in small reviewable chunks. I then have Ona 'wake up' to review the pull request that Ona just raised. If Ona hits any snags I open it (you guessed it) in Ona, and prompt a fix which is pushed back to the branch. With this my projects are now almost(!) entirely being refactored on autopilot 24/7.
Here's a 60 second video of how that looks in practice:
What you just saw
You watched an AI software engineer do what would normally take weeks of manual work, spanning multiple repositories. Here's what's actually happening:
Step 1: Define your automation.
You specify what you want Ona to do (only once), such as update a dependency, migrate a test framework or patch a vulnerability.
Step 2: Choose your trigger.
For how often it runs, either on a schedule, e.g. every Monday, fire it from events in response to a pull request, or just launch a fleet manually when you need.
Step 3: Let Ona work in the background.
Ona AI software engineers wake up and work 24/7. You can see every step they've taken in a single dashboard, like an air traffic controller.
Step 4: Review and merge.
When work is done, you get an open pull request. Ona will even run all your tests and builds before it makes changes so your CI doesn't fail.
Automations gives you a set of primitives to start to seriously automate your SDLC. If you want to go deeper than the 60s video I shared, I also interviewed Matt, our head of product engineering, in this more in-depth webinar.
The era of the hybrid workforce is here, so there's no reason to be doing work you hate anymore. Just let Ona handle it.
Automating the boring stuff so you don't have to,
Lou (Field CTO)
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