Both run a fleet. Only one of them builds the fleet a workplace.
Conductor and intentic answer the same first question: how do you run five agents at once without them writing over each other. Then they diverge on what an agent needs around it.
“Run parallel Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor agents in isolated workspaces on your Mac.”
Conductor is a native Mac app that orchestrates agents on the machine you are sitting at. If that is the whole job, it may be all you need.
intentic gives each agent a container of its own: an image you approve, credentials for your systems, events that wake it, and a browser that reaches it from anywhere.
Where we agree
Agents run in parallel, each in its own git worktree, on your hardware and your own subscription. Nothing merges until you have read the diff.
Where they differ
A sandbox, not your laptop as it already is
Conductor runs agents in your existing local environment, so what an agent can do is whatever you happen to have installed. In intentic each gets a container whose image is an overlay Dockerfile you read and approve.
Credentials the agent operates, not credentials in your shell
Capabilities wire a sandbox to GitHub, PostgreSQL, Sentry, Stripe, Discord, SSH or any MCP server. The secret is written inside the sandbox and injected each turn, with no path from the platform to it.
The machine and the screen come apart
The sandbox is Docker, so it runs on a workstation, a VPS, a Mac or WSL2 and dials out over a private tunnel. The machine doing the work need not be the machine you are looking at.
Agents that run when you are not there
Automations wake an agent on a schedule, a push, an alert, a payment, an email or a chat message, each as a fresh session with its own guard command.
Two different answers to “what about remote?”
Conductor's is Pro's cloud workspaces, and their own privacy note is straight about the consequence: they must store your session inputs and outputs. intentic's answer is that your machine was already remote.
Head to head
| Dimension | intentic | Conductor |
|---|---|---|
| Where the agent runs | a Docker sandbox on hardware you own | your Mac, or their cloud workspace on Pro |
| Host operating system | macOS, Linux, Windows via WSL2 | macOS |
| How you reach it | any browser over a private tunnel, phone included | the Mac it is running on |
| What you can change about the environment | the image, the capabilities, the context loaded each turn | your local machine, as it already is |
| Where credentials live | inside the sandbox, injected per turn | your local shell |
| Runs without you at the keyboard | automations on cron, webhook, push, alert, email, chat | you start each session |
| Isolation | one git worktree per agent | one git worktree per agent |
| Native desktop app | browser workspace, plus two-way desktop sync | ▸ a real macOS app |
| A machine you do not have to provide | you bring the hardware | ▸ cloud workspaces, nothing to host |
| Source you can read | sandbox and CLI are MIT on GitHub | closed source |
Pick Conductor when
You work on one Mac and want a native app rather than a browser, your agents only ever need the toolchain already on that Mac, and you would rather rent a cloud workspace than provide a machine.
Every claim above is checkable on www.conductor.build and in this repo. Where we have it wrong, open an issue and it gets fixed in the next build.