Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that lets developers run several artificial intelligence coding agents at the same time. The deal was announced on 4 November, first reported by Axios and confirmed by the startup on its blog. Meta confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch and gave no further details. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, and neither company has said what was paid.
Conductor was founded in 2024 and launched its main product in July 2025, so the sale comes barely a year after the product reached users. The tool gives each coding agent a separate workspace, which lets several agents work on different parts of a project at once instead of waiting in line for a shared session. The agents themselves come from other companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI. Conductor supplies the layer that organises them and keeps their work apart, so one developer can oversee several streams of work at the same time.
Founder and chief executive Charlie Holtz announced the move himself. "I have big news: Conductor is joining Meta," Holtz wrote on Wednesday. He said he looks forward to working with Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang. Holtz also said Conductor plans to ship a new interface for customers by early next year, though he gave no details about what it will do.
The acquisition brings a fast end to part of the product. Conductor stopped new user sign-ups and app downloads on 4 November, the day the deal was announced. Its cloud service becomes read-only on 13 November, when users will no longer be able to send new messages in cloud workspaces. The service shuts down on 20 November, after which the company will begin deleting user cloud data. Customers who rely on the cloud service need to move their work before that date, and Conductor says it has built a way to transfer cloud workspaces for local use. Past chats will stay visible for export until the shutdown.
Meta adds Conductor to its coding tools
Meta launched its own coding agent, Muse Code, in August, and Meta has reported more than 10 million users for its Muse agents. Conductor adds an orchestration layer to that work, since it is built to run agents from different providers side by side. Holtz said the startup's core features would keep working as before until early next year, apart from the cloud service. The local desktop app stays supported through that period, with new AI models and fixes for critical bugs. The deal was first reported by Axios, which cited people familiar with the matter.
The product itself is young. Conductor launched in July 2025, after the company was founded in 2024, and its first version focused on a single idea: give each agent its own workspace. A developer could hand one agent the front end, another the database, and a third the tests, then watch the work come back in parallel. The agents came from Anthropic and OpenAI, and Conductor's software kept their edits apart so they did not overwrite each other. That design appealed to teams that already used coding agents and wanted to run more of them at once without losing track of who changed what.
Meta keeps the local app running into 2027
The local version of Conductor will outlive the cloud service. The company said it will keep supporting new AI models and fixing critical bugs in the local version through early 2027. Holtz has promised a new interface for customers by early next year, though he has not said what it will contain. Users who work locally will see little change in the short term, since the core features keep working as before until early next year. The change hits cloud users hardest, because their workspaces become read-only on 13 November and shut down a week later. Anyone with work in Conductor Cloud has until 20 November to move it or export it.
No price given for the Conductor deal
Meta has not said what it paid for Conductor, how many of the startup's staff will join, or how the technology will be used inside the buyer. The startup was founded in 2024, and its product reached users only last summer, which makes the sale a quick exit for a young company. Conductor's blog post gave no detail beyond the move itself and the dates for the cloud shutdown. The clearest facts for users are the two November dates: read-only on 13 November and shutdown on 20 November, with deletion of cloud data to follow. What happens to the orchestration technology after that is a question only Meta can answer.