Where is Cognition headquartered?

Cognition's headquarters is in San Francisco, California, the center for its research, engineering, and executive teams. The company has not published a specific street address, which is common for fast-growing AI labs that maintain a low public profile and a partly remote workforce.

San Francisco is unambiguously the company's main hub and where its founders and core team are based.

The city's dense AI talent market and proximity to investors and frontier-model labs make it a natural home for a research-first coding-agent company.

Cognition does not publicly operate a large network of named international offices. Its footprint is concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, augmented by the Windsurf team (Windsurf was Bay Area-based) acquired in July 2025.

Given the elite, globally-recruited engineering talent (including IOI medalists from outside the US), some staff work remotely, but the operational and decision-making center remains San Francisco.

There is no publicly confirmed standalone EMEA or APAC office; international enterprise customers are served from the US base.

For territory planning, treat Cognition as a San Francisco / Bay Area account: that is where buyers cluster, where the founders and senior team sit, and where in-person meetings, field events, and ABM will land best.

The team operates on Pacific Time, so align outreach windows accordingly.

Because the footprint is concentrated rather than distributed across many regional offices, account coverage can be run by a single Bay Area-focused team rather than split across geographies.