Meta has bought Conductor, a startup whose Mac app lets a developer run several AI coding agents side by side. Axios reported the deal on 4 November and Conductor confirmed it the same day. Meta acknowledged it to TechCrunch but gave no price or other terms.
“We have some big, crazy plans for the next interface.”
Charlie Holtz, Conductor founder and CEO · conductor.build ↗
In the app, each agent works in its own isolated copy of the codebase, and the developer then reviews and merges what they produce. The agents come from other labs, among them Claude Code and Codex, paid for through the user's own subscriptions or keys. Conductor says more than 100,000 people use it, and a cloud version runs agents in sandboxed virtual machines for hours at a time.
Founded in 2024 as Melty by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos, the company raised a $22m Series A in March 2026 from Spark Capital and Matrix. Holtz said he looks forward to working with Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, and Nat Friedman, who heads product at Meta Superintelligence Labs. People familiar with the deal told SiliconANGLE that Meta hopes the team's speed will help build its next coding tools.
About Conductor
Conductor, built by Melty Inc., is a Mac app that lets a developer run a team of coding agents, each in an isolated copy of the codebase, and review and merge their work. It was founded in 2024 by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos and is backed by Y Combinator.
The app launched in July 2025. Before its $22m Series A in March 2026 from Spark and Matrix, it had a seed round also led by Matrix's Ilya Sukhar, who joined its board. At the Series A it said usage had grown tenfold since January 2026, with engineers at Google, Meta, Spotify and others using it. In April 2026 it bought cmd, an AI-in-Xcode tool, and cmd's maker joined the team.
The products are being wound down in stages. New sign-ups and downloads stopped on 4 November, Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November and closes on 20 November, and local Mac copies keep working until early 2027, when user data is deleted. Active subscribers are refunded. Conductor says it has never sold or trained on user data.
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