Meta has acquired Conductor, the startup behind a Mac app that lets developers run several AI coding agents at the same time, each in its own workspace. The deal was first reported by Axios on 4 November, confirmed the same day by founder and chief executive Charlie Holtz, and confirmed by Meta to TechCrunch. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Conductor was founded in 2024 and launched its main product in July 2025. Its app creates separate copies of a codebase, runs a different agent in each one — such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor — and lets the developer watch their progress from a single view before reviewing and merging the changes. The company raised a $22 million Series A round in March 2026 from Spark Capital and Matrix.

The team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs, where Holtz says it will work with chief AI officer Alexandr Wang and product head Nat Friedman on a new interface promised for early 2027. It fits Meta's wider coding push: its own agent, Muse Code, entered beta in August 2026.

For existing Conductor users, the deal means a wind-down. New sign-ups and app downloads stopped on 4 November. Conductor Cloud becomes read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, when the company will begin deleting cloud user data. Users can export their data beforehand. The local Mac app will keep receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027, when it too begins winding down.

The deal is part of a busy week for developer-tooling acquisitions: on the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, another startup building infrastructure for coding agents. The race in AI coding is no longer only about which model writes the best code, but about who controls the workspace where teams of agents do the work.