Meta Buys Conductor; Its Cloud Shuts Down Nov 20

If you run your coding agents through Conductor, put November 20 in your calendar. Meta has bought the startup, and Conductor's hosted service is being switched off within the next two weeks. Your local setup survives for a while longer, but cloud workspaces won't.

Update (Nov 11): No change to the dates. Conductor's changelog still says the cloud turns read-only on 13 November, this Friday, and shuts down on the 20th. If you haven't moved your workspaces yet, do it this week.

What happened

Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, November 4, and Meta later confirmed it to TechCrunch without sharing a price. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz announced it on X and in a post on Conductor's site. According to The Next Web, the team is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs, where Holtz says it will work with Nat Friedman and Alexandr Wang.

Conductor only shipped its app in July 2025. It doesn't make its own models. It lets you run several agents from labs like Anthropic and OpenAI side by side, each one working in its own copy of your project, so you can split a big job into parallel pieces and review the results.

The shutdown timeline

Conductor's own 0.93.0 changelog spells out the wind-down:

• November 4: No new sign-ups or downloads. Free users can't upgrade anymore, and Pro users keep Pro features at no charge.
• November 13: Conductor Cloud turns read-only. You can still open old chats and export, but you can't send new messages. Active subscribers get a refund.
• November 20: Conductor Cloud shuts down and the company starts deleting cloud user data.
• Early 2027: The local app keeps getting new models and critical bug fixes until then, after which it starts winding down too.

Holtz says the team will have "something new" for people to use early next year. There are no details yet on what that is or whether it will be free.

Why it matters

Agent tools are getting bought up fast, and when that happens the hosted part usually goes first. Anything you only kept in Conductor Cloud, like long agent chats, half-finished branches or notes on why a change was made, has a hard expiry date now. Code that's already pushed to GitHub or GitLab is safe. The context around it might not be.

My take: what to do before November 13

I'd treat November 13 as the real deadline rather than the 20th. After that you can't keep working in the cloud, and nobody wants to be exporting things at the last minute. Here's the order I'd go in:

1. Move active cloud workspaces to your Mac. Right-click a workspace in Conductor and pick Transfer to local. That brings the workspace and its chats over.
2. Grab a full export as a backup. Go to Settings > Account > Export data and keep the archive somewhere outside Conductor.
3. Push any open branches. If an agent left work in a worktree you never committed, commit and push it now so it lives in your repo, not in an app that's on its way out.
4. Check your refund. If you were paying, keep an eye on your card statement after the 13th. Conductor says active subscribers will be refunded, and support@conductor.build is the address it gives for help.
5. Start testing a replacement. The local app works until early 2027, so there's no rush to rip it out. Still, I'd try your next setup on a small project now instead of being forced into it later.

One more thing worth doing during the move: look at what your agents saved along the way. I recently wrote about how Claude Code's "don't ask again" file can leak passwords, and exported agent data can carry the same kind of thing. Skim the archive for tokens and keys before you drop it into a shared drive.

For readers in India, the money side is small, since Pro users are getting the remaining time free and active subscriptions are being refunded. The cost here is time, so spend ten minutes on the export this weekend and you're done.

If you're choosing a new agent setup, check what it can reach before you trust it. My Claude Code extension backdoor check shows why that matters, and my free-plan comparison of ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude helps if you're weighing up the big three.