Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We've grown 10x since January and raised $24M from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley. We're used by engineers at leading companies like Linear, Vercel, Ramp, Notion, Stripe, and many more.
We're looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with us in SF.
Our plan
Coding agents are doing work that junior engineers used to do. Soon they'll be doing senior-engineer work. In response, humans are becoming full-time AI-managers.
What software will these AI-managers use? Conductor has already created a narrow new product category, the "AI orchestrator," and it's already changing how people work. As one engineer at Ambrook told me on a call:
A huge amount of my work now is wildly parallelized, in a way I've never had to worry about before. It's been a while since a dev tool has changed my life [like Conductor did].
Right now, AI-managers use many tools alongside Conductor. They'll probably use existing coding software (Cursor, Warp, GitHub) and tools for human managers (Linear, GitHub, Slack).
Of all those tools, we think it's the AI orchestrator that has the best shot at becoming the primary UI that the AI-managers will use. Although it's the newest and least-established of those tools, it's the only one built ground-up with AI in mind.
Designing the first AI orchestrator from the ground up as we build it has been a ton of fun. It feels like a perfect match for the skillset of our team: technical chops, customer focus, taste, and speed. And if we win the category, Conductor will be a massive company.
Our team
One reason we started Conductor was to create a place where we could do the best work of our lives: in person, with incredible people, toward a formidable goal, holding each other to the highest standards. Conductor feels like an elite sports team.
We work in person about five days a week in San Francisco. Learn more about what it's like working at Conductor and see what we've been building.
Before Conductor, Charlie worked as a quantitative researcher at a hedge fund, and led growth at Replicate where he created apps that were used by millions. One time he accidentally struck fear into the heart of Hollywood.
Charlie started Conductor with Jackson in the summer of 2024 to build the best interface for managing your AIs, eat lots of ice cream, and do the best work of our lives.
Jackson first learned to code in Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, and he's been hooked ever since. Before starting Conductor, he built ML infrastructure at Netflix, researched automated negotiating agents at Brown, and, with Charlie, built Shindig, the first, best, and only way to host a party from the command line. In his free time he enjoys reading Garner's Modern English Usage.
Lewis worked at YC. Before that he was at Pave. He likes penguins.
Tywen is an artist turned engineer. He has imaged data centers and wondered about worlding. He has worked in VR, AI, and GovTech.
Kaden is studying at the University of Chicago and was previously at Replit. He also co-created the card game Race to Kepler.
Sam wore many hats before donning his Conductor cap. He (literally) built a craft brewery in Seattle before serving as Chief of Staff at a $10B RIA. He then took a brief detour to get his MBA at MIT Sloan, before spending the next four years as a VC. He also moonlights as one of the top coaches in the sport of Ultimate Frisbee (he met Charlie and Jackson playing Ultimate at Brown). At Conductor, Sam leads all things operations, ensuring there is always plenty of yogurt in the fridge.