Block Inc. launches Builderbot AI orchestration tool
Block Inc. (NYSE:SQ) announced the launch of Builderbot, an artificial‑intelligence‑driven orchestration platform that coordinates multiple AI agents across the company’s entire codebase and operates inside Slack to automate software development tasks.
Builderbot executes more than 200,000 operations each day and merges approximately 1,500 pull requests per week, which accounts for about 15 % of all production code changes at Block. Engineers initiate work by tagging the bot in Slack with a description of the required task; the system then researches, plans, and implements the code while team members collaborate in real time.
The tool differs from typical coding assistants by maintaining full awareness of Block’s codebase, including every service, API, and internal convention. It automatically ingests tickets from Linear and Jira, creates new branches, writes the necessary code, opens pull requests, monitors continuous‑integration pipelines, and iterates based on feedback. Builderbot operates solely on source code and system configuration and does not access customer data, payment information, or personally identifiable information.
Brad Axen, Head of AI Capabilities at Block, described Builderbot as “the missing layer between AI coding tools and how engineering actually works at scale,” emphasizing its role in handling orchestration, context, and environment so engineers can focus on higher‑value problems.
Builderbot is built on Goose, an open‑source agent framework that Block contributed to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Block also co‑developed the Model Context Protocol with Anthropic, which has become an industry standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data sources.