Meta buys Conductor, a start-up whose app lets engineers run several AI coding agents side by side

Conductor's founder and chief executive, Charlie Holtz, announced on 4 November that the company is joining Meta. Meta confirmed the purchase to TechCrunch and gave no terms.

Conductor's app lets engineers run several AI coding agents at once, each in its own workspace. The agents come from labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI rather than from Conductor itself.

From 4 November new users cannot sign up or download the app, Conductor says, and existing pro users keep pro features for free. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, when data deletion begins, and active subscribers get refunds. The local app keeps getting new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, when it starts winding down.

On X, Holtz said he looks forward to working with Alexandr Wang and Nat Friedman at Meta Superintelligence Labs, TechCrunch reported. The deal brings Meta a team that built its product around other labs' coding agents rather than its own models, and it ends Conductor as a product for outside customers.

• Confirmed Conductor's founder announced the company is joining Meta. Conductor announcement, 4 Nov 2026
• Confirmed Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November and shuts on 20 November; the local app is supported until early 2027. Conductor changelog 0.93.0
• Reported Meta confirmed the deal to TechCrunch and gave no terms. TechCrunch