Conductor
conductor.build · $22M Series A funded
What it is
Section titled “What it is”Commercial Claude Code orchestrator. Two-mode parallelism: parallel workspaces (⌘+N for new branch, separate files) vs parallel work inside one workspace (multi-tabs, same branch, compare approaches).
What we kept
Section titled “What we kept”- Two-mode parallelism. Borrowed verbatim. Our
parallelWorkers.mode: "lane"is their parallel-workspaces mode (different features in parallel). OurparallelWorkers.mode: "competition"is their parallel-inside-workspace mode (same feature, compare approaches). - Workspace abstraction. Our
.harness/worktrees/<fid>/is the same idea as their workspace.
What we dropped
Section titled “What we dropped”- Commercial deployment model. Conductor is hosted. We’re self-hosted bash + claude.
- GUI-first. We have a UI but the source of truth is files.
Differences in philosophy
Section titled “Differences in philosophy”| Conductor | Papercup |
|---|---|
| Commercial hosted product | Self-hosted bash supervisor |
| GUI-driven (⌘+N etc) | API + UI + bash |
| Closed-source backend | Fully open code |
Honest take
Section titled “Honest take”Conductor’s two-mode parallelism is one of the cleanest design ideas in the ecosystem. Once you grasp it, every other framework’s parallelism story feels under-baked.
If you’re a team that wants this without the bash, Conductor is the polished version. We pay zero per month and run our own.