# Charles Muehlberger

> Charles Muehlberger is co-founder and CTO. Parallax on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-27

Co-founder and CTO.

Charles 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.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmuehl/
- X: https://x.com/charles_v11

## What Charles builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Michael Jeffords](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-jeffords/), Co-founder and CGO

## Questions

### Who is Charles Muehlberger?

Charles 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.

### What does Conifer Solutions, Inc. make?

Anchor 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.

### How are Charles's tools graded?

Parallax is graded E, 38.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conifer
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/2679506-charles-muehlberger
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmuehl/
- https://x.com/charles_v11
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/3664042-michael-jeffords
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bryan-jeffords/
- https://x.com/michaelbjeff
- https://www.conifer.build/parallax/
- https://x.com/coniferbuild
- https://www.conifer.build/contact/

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