LaunchDarkly Feature Management

LaunchDarkly is a runtime control layer for software development that enables teams to ship code and AI agents with confidence through feature flags, progressive delivery, experimentation, and automated remediation. Founded in 2014 by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal and headquartered in Oakland, California, the platform has evolved from a feature flag service into a comprehensive release management platform with two core products: CodeControl for managing code deployments with feature flags, targeting, progressive rollouts, automated rollbacks, error monitoring, session replay, and self-healing capabilities; and AgentControl for governing AI agents in production with online and offline evaluations, adaptive triggers, agent observability, custom judges, LLM tracing, A/B/n testing, and approval workflows. Enterprise customers include Savage X Fenty (15 percent improvement in site performance), Veeam, epilot, Poka, Dior, Paramount, and Hireology. According to the Forrester Total Economic Impact study published in 2026, LaunchDarkly delivers significant ROI through reduced deployment risk and faster release cycles. The platform supports multi-armed bandit experimentation, holdout groups, warehouse-native analytics integration, and progressive delivery patterns including canary releases and dark launches. LaunchDarkly provides SDKs for over 20 languages and frameworks, with sub-50-millisecond flag evaluation and real-time streaming updates.