Meta Acquires Conductor to Coordinate Multi-Agent AI Coding
Meta bought Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, as it pushes deeper into developer tools.
Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform lets developers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces, as the social-media company pushes deeper into software development tools.
Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced the deal on Wednesday, writing that the company was joining Meta and that they had big plans for a new interface, teasing something new for customers by early 2027. Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch but declined to comment further or disclose financial terms.
Conductor, founded in 2024, launched its core product in July 2025. Its platform deploys agentic teams in the cloud, locally, or via a user's phone, letting software engineers work on separate, compartmentalized parts of a project in concert. The agents it runs are not developed in-house but come from major labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, including Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
Under the transition plan, Conductor's core features will keep working until early 2027. Its cloud service shuts down on November 20, after which the company will begin deleting cloud user data. Existing customers can transfer their cloud workspaces to the local application or export their data before that date. The local version will continue receiving new AI models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, when it winds down.
The deal fits a broader push by Meta into AI coding. In August the company launched Muse Code, its own coding agent, and its Muse agents recently surpassed 10 million users. Meta also acquired Moltbook, an AI agent social network, earlier this year.
Analysts at Omdia and Pareekh Consulting said Conductor could help Meta establish itself as a provider of AI development platforms rather than competing solely through its own models, since the product sits above individual coding agents. But they cautioned that Meta still lacks enterprise-grade security, governance and integration capabilities to challenge established players such as Microsoft, which owns GitHub, or AI coding providers OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta shares were down about 4.0% in delayed trading.
What customers face
Existing Conductor users must decide whether to preserve their cloud workspaces by transferring them to the local app or exporting data before November 20. It remains unclear whether the new interface planned for early 2027 will support the AI coding tools they currently use.