For developers building agent and background-job infrastructure, Hatchet is an orchestration platform that runs and coordinates background tasks and AI agents at scale for growing engineering teams.
Presence & Market Position
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Measures earned, engagement-weighted share of voice across the GTM voices panel. Methodology →
Hatchet is positioning itself as the code-first orchestration layer developers reach for when background jobs and AI agents need to run reliably at scale, open-sourcing the engine itself while monetizing a managed cloud layer on top. Conversation is concentrated among the developers already building on it, tilted toward cookbook-style walkthroughs on wiring up a support agent, an automated email flow, or a PDF processing pipeline, and toward the team's own developer-experience hires and open-source contributions. The footprint so far is modest and developer-to-developer rather than broad, tracking a young, technical product still building its audience.
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Business Profile
Hatchet was founded in 2023 by Alexander Belanger and Gabriel Ruttner, who previously co-founded ClearMix, and went through Y Combinator's W24 batch. The company runs a five-person team building an MIT-licensed, open-source orchestration engine that customers can self-host or run on Hatchet Cloud, its managed offering, and reported $440K in annual recurring revenue as of September 2025. Recent releases have pushed toward larger organizations, including self-serve Prometheus metrics, an audit-logs API, and tenant-scoped tooling on Hatchet Cloud, while the company reports hundreds of millions of tasks running daily across its user base.
Agent Readiness
Measures how easily your agents can build on it — API, MCP, CLI, SDK, docs depth. Methodology →
Hatchet ships SDKs in TypeScript, Python, and Go alongside a CLI and public API, giving developers a code-first way to run AI agents and background tasks as durable, retry-safe workflows. Published cookbooks walk through building agent use cases directly, including a support agent, automated email handling, and a document-processing pipeline, on top of the same orchestration primitives used for general task queues. No MCP server is documented yet.
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