
Conductor
Run a team of coding agents on your Mac
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 ·
- Proof 0 × 30% 0.0
- Scale 3 × 30% 0.9
- Momentum 2 × 25% 0.5
- Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
- = 2.3
- 0
Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
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)
- 3
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
8 people.
- +38 people on its YC page5 to 9 people
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
- +3
- 2
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
Shows hiring.
- +2
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)
- 6
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6Level 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.
- +6
About Conductor
Run parallel agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they’re working on, then review and merge their changes.
Founders
- Charlie HoltzFounder/CEO
- Jackson de CamposFounder
Launches and news
- Conductor’s Series A | Conductor Blog
- Conductor — Run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallelConductor lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes all at once, on your Mac.
- Melty: 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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