Trigger.dev

Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignDeveloper ToolsSaaSB2BOpen Source

What they do

Problem

Developers need a reliable way to run and manage long-running AI agents and workflow tasks with retries, queues, scaling, and observability.

Solution

An open source TypeScript platform that lets teams build and deploy fully managed AI agents and workflows with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling.

Who it's for

Software developers and engineering teams building AI agents and workflow automation in TypeScript.

Founders

Matt Aitken

Founder

Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.

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Eric Allam

Founder

Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.

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Dan Patel

Founder

Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the open source background jobs platform, and JSON Hero.

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James Ritchie

Founder

I'm co-founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously I was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. I also built JSON Hero, another popular OSS developer tool.

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