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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CTO.\n\nCharles Muehlberger is co-founder and CTO of Conifer, which routes AI model requests to reduce token spend, from Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. He is an engineering researcher at Princeton working on multimodal inference on edge devices, and previously built edge AI devices for brain injury modelling at the US Department of War.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmuehl/\n- X: https://x.com/charles_v11\n\n## What Charles builds\n\n- [Parallax](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md), graded E, 38.3/100, in Agent harnesses. Parallax, from Conifer, is a macOS app with a Linux daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side on the owner's subscriptions. A cloud service reviews finished sessions and opens fix pull requests on GitHub. Co-founder and CTO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Michael Jeffords](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-jeffords/), Co-founder and CGO\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Charles Muehlberger?\n\nCharles Muehlberger is co-founder and CTO of Conifer, which routes AI model requests to reduce token spend, from Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch. He is an engineering researcher at Princeton working on multimodal inference on edge devices, and previously built edge AI devices for brain injury modelling at the US Department of War.\n\n### What does Conifer Solutions, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Parallax from Conifer Solutions, Inc.. Parallax, from Conifer, is a macOS app with a Linux daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side on the owner's subscriptions. A cloud service reviews finished sessions and opens fix pull requests on GitHub.\n\n### How are Charles's tools graded?\n\nParallax is graded E, 38.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conifer\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/2679506-charles-muehlberger\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmuehl/\n- https://x.com/charles_v11\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/3664042-michael-jeffords\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bryan-jeffords/\n- https://x.com/michaelbjeff\n- https://www.conifer.build/parallax/\n- https://x.com/coniferbuild\n- https://www.conifer.build/contact/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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