Conductor says it is joining Meta; cloud service to close November 20
Conductor's Meta announcement sets November 13 and 20 cloud deadlines. Local support continues into early 2027, with no firm successor launch date.
Conductor said on November 4 that it is joining Meta and will shut down its cloud coding service on November 20. Customers lose the ability to send new cloud messages a week earlier, making November 13 the nearer deadline for keeping work moving.
For users of the AI coding workspace, the announcement comes with a migration calendar. Preserving the work already inside the product now has a deadline, regardless of what the team builds next.
Two deadlines for cloud users
The company's announcement and FAQ set out the changes:
| Date in 2026 | Announced change |
|---|---|
| November 4 | New sign-ups and app downloads stop. Existing Pro users keep Pro features free. |
| November 13 | Cloud becomes read-only. Old chats and exports remain accessible; new messages stop. Active subscribers are promised refunds. |
| November 20 | Cloud shuts down and deletion of cloud user data begins. The company asks users to export before this date. |
Read-only access is useful for retrieving information, but it ends the service's role as an active workspace. A team planning its transition around November 20 alone would overlook the earlier interruption.
The local app provides a temporary path
Conductor says local users will continue receiving new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. Its FAQ says the local app will then start winding down.
The company provides instructions for transferring cloud workspaces and chats to a Mac, as well as exporting an archive through account settings.
Moving data and replacing a working environment are separate tasks. A useful transition preserves the context people need and gives them somewhere to resume work. Temporary local support creates time for that process; it does not promise indefinite continuity.
Meta's next interface remains unspecified
For investors following Meta Platforms, listed on Nasdaq as META, this is a developer-tooling announcement without a disclosed price or quantified earnings impact. The notice also supplies no legal closing details.
Conductor hopes to offer something new early next year, but provides no firm launch date or detailed product specification. That leaves an important distinction for both customers and investors: the cloud shutdown has a published timetable, while the replacement remains a plan.