Snapdragon Partners is a startup studio and consultancy specializing in human-centered applications of AI.
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Maestro App Factory™
An AI-powered development tool that builds full applications using structured workflows and professional software engineering principles. Maestro organizes AI agents like high-performing human teams—with a PM, Architect, and Coders—to produce better results than single agents. The community edition is free and open source. Available for free download on Mac and Linux. Want Maestro as a managed service or with support? Order the Premium Edition.
brew tap SnapdragonPartners/tap && brew install --cask maestro
Announcing the General Release of Maestro App Factory
Today we’re excited to announce the first general release of Maestro App Factory.
Maestro App Factory is a framework for building, composing, and operating AI-native applications by organizing models into structured, collaborative teams rather than treating a single model or agent as the system.
You can find the repository here: https://github.com/SnapdragonPartners/maestro
The Big Idea Behind Maestro
Large language models are trained on human artifacts and exhibit recognizably human behaviors: reasoning, creativity, bias, blind spots, and occasional overconfidence.
Two Philosophies of LLM Context: Recursive Decomposition vs. Selective Retrieval
How different approaches to the “context problem” reveal fundamental trade-offs in AI system design
The context window limitation of large language models has spawned an entire subfield of research. How do you get an LLM to reason about information that doesn’t fit in its working memory? A recent paper on Recursive Language Models (RLMs) proposes an elegant solution: let the model recursively examine and decompose long inputs. Meanwhile, in the trenches of building production AI coding agents, we’ve taken a completely different path with “knowledge packs”—curated, graph-structured knowledge delivered at exactly the right moment.
Introducing Cloud Maestro App Factory™
The Maestro App Factory is the simplest, easiest-to-configure AI-based software development tool. But to take full advantage of its capabilities, continuous high-speed internet access is essential. And if you want to use large, open-weight models for development, you’ll need access to cloud-based instances of the Maestro App Factory.
Good news! Starting January 13, 2026, we’re launching Cloud Maestro App Factory—a fully-managed, hosted version of the Maestro App Factory. Just fill in the order form and one of our representatives will reach out to design a plan that fits your needs.