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Hatchet

Background task orchestration and visibility

hatchet.run
HQ: New York, NY, USA
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

Hatchet is an MIT-licensed orchestration platform for AI agents, background tasks, and durable workflows, offered as self-hosted open source plus a managed cloud service with built-in observability, scheduling, retries, and replay.

Primary product

Orchestration engine / platform for AI agents, background tasks, and durable workflows

Founded

2023

Headquarters

Dogpatch, San Francisco, California, United States

Team size

1-10 employees

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Developer platform / workflow orchestration / task queue

Offices

Dogpatch, San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
1111B S Governors Ave, Suite 7493, Dover, Delaware 19904, United States
New York City, New York, United States

Business model

open source
self-hosted software
managed cloud/SaaS
usage-based pricing

Funding

Stage

seed

Total raised

$6.2M

Latest round

Seed

Latest amount

$5.7M

Pre-seed

Feb 2024 · Y Combinator

$500K

Seed

$5.7M

People & investors

Leadership

Alexander Belanger

CEO and Co-founder

Gabe Ruttner

Co-founder & CTO

Megan O’Leary

Head of Growth

Investors

Agile Angel
Hawk Hill Ventures
Liquid 2 Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public hiring copy describes a transparent, collaborative, fast-paced, flat organization that focuses on building for engineers, works closely with customers in Slack, and emphasizes rest, productivity, and reliability. The company also signals a remote-first culture with optional in-person access and regular on-call rotations.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public roles advertise roughly $160K-$200K base pay plus 1.0% equity for Founding Engineer, and $130K-$190K base pay plus 0.3%-1.0% equity for Growth roles, alongside premium healthcare, unlimited PTO, and travel/event budgets.

Benefits

premium healthcare
unlimited PTO
equity
remote-friendly with optional NYC office access
conference/travel budget

Product & market

Pricing

Tiered subscription pricing with usage-based task-run fees; free developer tier, paid Team and Scale tiers, and custom Enterprise pricing.

Differentiators

  • —MIT-licensed open source core
  • —managed cloud plus self-host option
  • —durable execution with retries and replays
  • —built-in observability, logging, and alerting
  • —PostgreSQL-backed orchestration
  • —global rate limiting and fair scheduling
  • —per-worker slot controls
  • —multi-tenant and enterprise features such as SSO, audit logs, and dedicated shards

Technology

PostgreSQL
OpenTelemetry
Python
TypeScript
Go
Ruby
Docker
Kubernetes
ECS
Cloud Run

Customers

Greptile
Aevy
Distill
Moonhub
Happenstance

Competitors

Celery
BullMQ
Temporal
Airflow
Prefect
Dagster
Sidekiq
DBOS

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

≈$440K ARR

Estimated monthly visits

51K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

info@hatchet.run

Latest news

Launching Multi-Team and Enterprise Readiness Features

Hatchet · Jul 2026

Hatchet launched SSO, SSO enforcement, tenant tagging, dedicated shards, tenant region selection, an audit logs API, org-level billing, and tenant-scoped Prometheus metrics.

Hatchet v0.94.10 is out: no-auth local development, use-case quickstart templates, and tenant tagging on Hatchet Cloud

Hatchet LinkedIn · Jul 2026

The release added no-auth dev images, use-case quickstart templates, tenant tagging in Hatchet Cloud, independent retention settings, Prometheus tenant metrics, and RSS feeds for docs updates.

Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres

Hacker News · Apr 2025

Hatchet announced a major v1 rewrite with durable execution, broader DAG support, fairness/rate-limiting controls, and a Postgres-centric architecture.

Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version

Hacker News · Jun 2024

Hatchet launched self-serve cloud and described use cases such as RAG pipelines, notifications, agentic LLM workflows, and GPU scheduling.

Reflecting on two years of building an open-source startup

Hatchet

Hatchet reaffirmed a 100% MIT licensing philosophy, said cloud revenue grew 9x in 2025, and described v1, Terraform provider, webhooks, and roadmap goals.

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