HumanLayer
Multiplayer control plane / IDE and cloud for AI coding agents, with workflow orchestration, artifacts, and collaboration for engineering teams.
Company profile
Overview
Multiplayer coding agent IDE and cloud for collaborative software development with agent sessions, artifacts, and code diffs.
HumanLayer appears to be a productized enterprise AI/coding-agent workspace. Its public site describes a multiplayer coding agent IDE and cloud that brings agent sessions, plan artifacts, and code diffs into one place, with a local daemon, cloud daemon, and HumanLayer API. Public sources also indicate it is operated by QueryTale, Inc. d/b/a HumanLayer and was founded in 2023 by Dexter Horthy. Evidence suggests the company is focused on collaborative AI coding workflows rather than contact-center AI, governance, or communication intelligence.
At a glance
Key facts
- HQ location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Founded
- 2023
- Employee range
- 1-10YC public profile snippet says HumanLayer has 2 employees based in San Francisco; PitchBook snippet says 5 total employees.
- Funding stage
- Seed
- Company type
- Private
- Pricing model
- SubscriptionPublic homepage snippet indicates a Starter plan free for small teams and a Pro plan at $100/user/mo; enterprise pricing not verified.
Business context
Financials
- Revenue estimate
- Unknown
- Valuation estimate
- Unknown
- Investments
- Public search snippets indicate Y Combinator and Preface Ventures as investors; Crunchbase snippets also mention two investors. No reliable public round details were verified from primary sources in this pass.
Market context
Relationships
- Target customers
- Production software teams, engineering teams, technical founders, and teams building or using AI coding agents.
- Key competitors
- Cursor, GitHub Copilot Workspace, Replit, Continue, Codeium/Windsurf, Devin-like agentic coding tools, and adjacent AI developer platforms.
Source context
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- AI coding agents, collaborative agent workflows, codebase context management, and task/artifact orchestration.
- Core industry
- Software development / developer tools / enterprise AI.
- Core category
- AI coding agent workspace / agentic IDE and cloud.
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Market taxonomy