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The orchestration platform for teams who ship.
Hatchet is an orchestration platform for managing and observing AI agents, background tasks, and mission-critical workflows. Our mission is to provide developers with a simple, powerful, and reliable orchestration layer, enabling them to focus on building great applications.
Hatchet is an orchestration platform for teams that ship, enabling orchestration of AI agents, task scheduling, and mission-critical workflows. It provides a single platform with built-in observability, retries, and state persistence to improve reliability.
Hatchet runs two components: a central orchestration engine (managed or self-hosted) and workers running on your own infrastructure. Tasks are written as code (in TypeScript, Python, or Go) and can be composed into workflows with automatic retries and dependency handling. You invoke tasks/workflows via API, schedule them, or trigger on events; workers deploy on Kubernetes, Docker, or other container platforms and connect to Hatchet, scaling automatically. Hatchet includes centralized observability (traces, logs, metrics), OpenTelemetry tracing, and a primitive library to build and compose production-ready patterns.
Who it’s for: Teams building, deploying, and scaling AI-driven or data-intensive workflows who need reliable orchestration and observability.
Hiring/traction mentions implied by product depth and self-hosted/open-source options; explicit funding/hiring signals not provided in the text
Co-founder & CEO at Hatchet (W24), previously co-founder & CTO at Porter (S20). M.S. in Physics, B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Always happy to chat anything devtools, OSS, infrastructure!
Co-founder & CTO at Hatchet (W24), previously co-founder & CTO at ClearMix (S20). Masters in CS/AI from Cornell. Always game to chat anything dev tools, OSS, AI Architecture!
We help engineers run fast and reliable background tasks
Hatchet is an open-source, end-to-end platform for task orchestration with a web UI, API, and SDKs (Python, Typescript, Golang) aimed at scalable, reliable background tasks. It provides retries, timeouts, cron schedules, and features for durable execution, fairness/concurrency patterns, and result streaming, plus an invite-only cloud offering.
From the original launch (Mar 2024) — may be outdated.
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