What if you could delegate an entire sprint's worth of tasks to a team of AI agents running simultaneously — no conflicts, no context-switching, no babysitting? That's the core promise of Conductor, a macOS desktop application from Melty Labs that orchestrates multiple AI coding agents like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex in parallel. With a fresh $22 million Series A and a new cloud execution mode, Conductor is quickly becoming one of the most interesting tools in the agentic development space.
What Is Conductor?
Conductor is a macOS app built by Melty Labs, founded in 2024 by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos — the team behind the open-source AI code editor Melty, which came out of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. The tool acts as an orchestration layer, letting developers spin up multiple AI coding agents and run them concurrently on different tasks within the same codebase.
Rather than waiting for one agent to finish before starting the next, Conductor lets you assign several tasks at once — think bug fixes, feature branches, and test generation all running side by side. The result is a workflow that more closely resembles managing a small engineering team than using a single AI assistant.
How It Handles Parallel Execution Without Conflicts
The obvious concern with running multiple agents on the same repo is code conflicts. Conductor solves this elegantly by automatically managing Git worktrees — generating an isolated workspace, branch, and copy of the repository for each active agent. According to The New Stack's hands-on review, this happens transparently in the background, so developers never have to set it up manually.
Each agent operates in its own sandboxed environment, meaning changes don't bleed into each other until you're ready to review and merge them. It's a clean architectural decision that makes parallel agentic work genuinely practical rather than just theoretically appealing.
Key Features Worth Knowing
Conductor packs a focused but well-considered feature set aimed squarely at professional developers who are already using AI coding tools and want to scale their output.
Multi-agent orchestration: Run Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and other supported agents simultaneously across isolated workspaces — all managed from a single dashboard.
Automatic Git worktree management: Each agent gets its own branch and workspace copy, eliminating merge conflicts during parallel execution.
GitHub and Linear integrations: Import issues directly as context for agents, monitor progress visually, and open pull requests without leaving the app.
Visual progress dashboard: Track what each agent is working on in real time, making it easy to review, approve, or redirect tasks mid-flight.
Free local app: The macOS application is free to download and use — it runs on your existing Claude Code and Codex API credentials and subscriptions, so there's no additional per-seat fee for the orchestration layer itself.
Pro Tip: Because Conductor relies on your own third-party API keys, your agent costs scale with usage — not with Conductor's pricing. Factor in your Claude and Codex API spend when evaluating the total cost of this workflow.
Conductor Cloud: Agents That Run While You Sleep
In May 2026, Melty Labs launched Conductor Cloud in early access, addressing one of the biggest limitations of local agent execution: your laptop has to stay on. With Conductor Cloud, agent workspaces run on hosted cloud VMs, meaning tasks continue executing even after you close your machine. According to The New Stack, this positions Conductor squarely in the emerging race toward persistent, remote coding agents.
This is a meaningful shift. Offloading execution to the cloud means longer-running tasks — comprehensive test suite generation, large refactors, multi-file feature builds — are no longer constrained by your local hardware or battery life. It also opens the door to async development workflows where you assign work, step away, and return to a queue of completed pull requests.
The $22 Million Series A
On March 30, 2026, Conductor announced a $22 million Series A led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners. The raise signals serious investor conviction in the agentic development category — and gives Melty Labs the runway to build out Conductor Cloud, expand integrations, and grow the team. For a product that launched as a free macOS utility, the funding round is a strong indicator that the parallel-agent workflow is resonating with developers at scale.
Bottom Line
Parallel agent execution: Conductor lets you run multiple AI coding agents simultaneously, dramatically increasing throughput on complex projects.
Conflict-free by design: Automatic Git worktree management means each agent works in isolation — no manual branch setup required.
GitHub and Linear native: Deep integrations let you pull in issues as agent context and ship PRs without leaving the app.
Free to start: The local macOS app costs nothing; you bring your own API keys for Claude Code and Codex.
Cloud execution is here: Conductor Cloud (early access, May 2026) enables persistent off-laptop agent runs, unlocking truly async development workflows.
