Meta has acquired Conductor, a San Francisco startup whose software lets engineers run several AI coding agents at the same time and then review and merge their work. Conductor announced the deal on November 4, 2026, in a post from co-founder and chief executive Charlie Holtz. Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but declined to comment further. Axios first reported the deal.
The companies did not disclose the price or other terms. Conductor's website now carries the line Conductor from Meta, and its changelog entry for version 0.93.0 is titled Conductor is joining Meta.
The product will not continue in its current form. Conductor stopped accepting new sign-ups and downloads on the day of the announcement, and its cloud service will shut down later this month. The team will work on a new interface at Meta, which Holtz said users should be able to try early next year.
What Conductor built
Conductor was founded in 2024 under the corporate name Melty Inc. and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Its app creates isolated copies of a codebase, runs a coding agent in each one and lets an engineer see what every agent is doing before reviewing the changes, opening pull requests and merging them. The desktop app runs on Macs.
Conductor does not build its own models or agents. It runs the first-party versions of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode, and users bring their own subscriptions and API keys. A cloud version runs agents in isolated virtual machines with repositories and dependencies already installed, so they can work for hours. The company also offered a multiplayer mode for prompting agents together, an iPhone app and an API.
The product launched in July 2025. In April 2026 Conductor bought cmd, a tool for using AI inside Apple's Xcode built by Guillaume Sabran, a former Airbnb staff engineer.
“We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface. If you liked Conductor, you’re gonna love what’s coming.”
The founders and the funding
Holtz leads the company with co-founder and chief technology officer Jackson de Campos. The two met at Brown University, where Holtz studied cognitive neuroscience, according to his Y Combinator profile. Holtz previously led growth at Replicate, an AI model hosting company, and before that worked as a quantitative developer at Point72.
Conductor raised a seed round led by Ilya Sukhar of Matrix, which did not disclose the amount. In March 2026 it announced a $22 million Series A from Spark Capital and Matrix, with Sukhar joining its board. Y Combinator and the founders of Notion and Linear also took part. Y Combinator lists a team of eight people. Meta did not say how many of them will join it.
When it announced the Series A, Conductor said its user base had grown tenfold since January and that engineers at Google, Meta, HubSpot, Chime, Intercom, Ramp, Datadog, Block, Flexport, Rippling, Amazon and Spotify were using the product. Its homepage now says it is trusted by more than 100,000 builders.
What happens to users
Conductor set out a short wind-down. Since November 4, free users can no longer upgrade, and paying users keep their pro features at no charge. On November 13 Conductor Cloud becomes read-only and active subscribers receive refunds. On November 20 the cloud service shuts down and Conductor begins deleting cloud user data.
The local Mac app will keep receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027 and will then be retired, at which point all remaining user data will be deleted. Users can move cloud workspaces onto their own machines or export their data from the app's account settings. Conductor said it has never sold or trained on user data and will not do so.
Why Meta is buying
Meta is building its own coding tools. It launched Muse Code, a coding agent, in August 2026, and TechCrunch reported that its Muse agents have passed 10 million users. In October it released Muse Spark Open, an open-weights model aimed at coding and long-running agent work, while keeping its more capable Muse Wonder models closed, SiliconANGLE reported.
According to Axios, as cited by SiliconANGLE and Dealroom, Meta expects the Conductor team's speed at shipping products to help it build its next generation of AI coding tools. On X, Holtz said he was looking forward to working with Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, who leads product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, TechCrunch reported.
Conductor is not Meta's first purchase in AI agents this year; it earlier bought Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. The Conductor deal was one of three coding-tool acquisitions announced on November 4: OpenAI agreed to buy Pierre Computer Company, and Factory acquired HumanLayer.
