How One Founder Manages 20 AI Coding Agents at Once - Ryan Carson, Untangle

Ryan Carson

Talks worth your time · AI in business · 2026-11-10 · 15 min · 7 pages

Ryan Carson, founder and CEO of Untangle and a four-time founder, shows how his team runs software development with agents in the cloud. One "engineering manager" agent, which he mostly talks to by voice, manages up to 20 builder agents through a ticket board, with an automation that checks every builder every 15 minutes, capped review loops, QA agents and a merge queue manager. The human step he won't skip is watching the video of each feature before it ships. He also explains how Untangle now hires: candidates record themselves shipping a real feature with an agent, an agent ranks the videos, and the top five do a paid trial. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:12 What Untangle does 1:02 Managing agents like managing people 1:55 The org chart in the age of agents 2:40 Talking to your manager agent 3:29 One manager, 20 builders 5:05 Review agents and QA 6:24 Watch the video before you ship 8:22 Stop coding locally 8:43 Running it across a team 9:46 The merge queue manager 11:07 How hiring changes 12:24 Ranking candidates with an agent 13:24 A paid trial project 14:50 Wrap-up Ryan Carson https://untangle.us Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!

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