What they do
open source platform to build and run long-running AI agents and workflows
How close to us
3, close
Runs agent workflows with retries, queues and observability; infrastructure for developers, not a managed agent team.
Wedges
- W2 Seeing whether your AI agents actually produce adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 0, none
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 2, clear
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light
Who buys
- Firm size
- sme
- Buyer type
- developer
- Role
- head of engineering
- UK
- not known
Their own description (from YC)
Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling.
Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.
Full teardown
No full teardown yet. On the deep list.
Technical detail
- Slug
- trigger-dev
- Lens hash
- 179096c479
- Pass
- screen
- Stale
- no