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2.3Score#554 of 999 agents#24 of 40 in Software engineer
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Why it ranks #554

Conductor, an AI software engineer from YC S24, ranks #554 of 999 AI agents and #24 of 40 in Software engineer, with a score of 2.3 of 10. Data as of .

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

  1. Proof

    Do customers use it? 30% of the score

    0

    No public claims of customers or revenue yet.

    Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)

  2. Scale

    Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score

    3

    8 people.

    • +3
      8 people on its YC page5 to 9 people

    Not found: funding round in its news (+3)

  3. Momentum

    Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score

    2

    Shows hiring.

    • +2
      Hiring: 3 open rolesProduct Engineer, Design Engineer, Backend EngineerYC page

    Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), funding news in the last year (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Summer 2024) (+1)

  4. Autonomy

    How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score

    6

    Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

    • +6
      Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
    What the model read
    • Acts in other systems: 77% likely
    • Finishes whole tasks: 25% likely
    • Calls itself an agent: 85% likely

    Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Conductor

Run parallel agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they’re working on, then review and merge their changes.

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Launches and news

  1. News30 Mar 2026Conductor’s Series A | Conductor Blog
  2. Launch YC27 Aug 2025Conductor — Run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallelConductor lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes all at once, on your Mac.
  3. Launch YC2 Sep 2024Melty: Open source AI code editor for 10x engineersMelty is the first editor that’s aware of what you’re doing from the terminal to GitHub and collaborates with you to write production-ready code.

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