Meta Bought a 2-Year-Old Startup That Runs Teams of AI Coding Agents The startup is Conductor. It was started in 2024 by Charlie Holtz, the CEO, and Jackson de Campos, the CTO, and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Meta didn't disclose a price. Holtz said the team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs, where it will work with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang on what he calls the next interface for coding. He says there will be something new for users early next year. Conductor is a Mac app that lets an engineer run several coding agents at once. It makes an isolated copy of the codebase for each agent so they don't collide, shows what each one is working on, and lets the engineer review and merge the results in one place. The agents aren't Conductor's own. It runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode under the hood, using the user's own subscriptions and keys. It launched in July 2025. In May 2026, it added Conductor Cloud, which runs each agent in an isolated sandbox so work keeps going after you close your laptop. The site says more than 100,000 builders use it. In March, Conductor said usage had grown 10 times since January and that engineers at Google, Meta, Amazon, Spotify, Datadog, and Ramp use it. Conductor raised a $22 million Series A in late March from Matrix and Spark Capital. Matrix's Ilya Sukhar had also led the seed and joined the board. Spark's Nabeel Hyatt, Y Combinator, and the founders of Notion and Linear also invested. The product is closing down. Conductor stopped taking new users on November 4. Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20, when cloud data starts being deleted. Subscribers get refunds, and users can move cloud workspaces to the local Mac app or export their data. The Mac app keeps working and keeps adding models until early 2027. Neither company has said what replaces it, or whether it will support agents from other labs. Holtz wrote that when he launched Conductor, writing most of your code with agents, let alone a team of them, felt crazy.