diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c8821fd77..2ea519d30 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ include_directories(${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include) # Tablegen'd files
 
 add_subdirectory(include)
 add_subdirectory(lib)
+add_subdirectory(bin)
 
 add_library(triton SHARED ${PYTHON_SRC})
 
diff --git a/bin/CMakeLists.txt b/bin/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d7fd269a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+get_property(dialect_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY MLIR_DIALECT_LIBS)
+get_property(conversion_libs GLOBAL PROPERTY MLIR_CONVERSION_LIBS)
+
+add_llvm_executable(triton-opt triton-opt.cpp)
+
+# TODO: what's this?
+llvm_update_compile_flags(triton-opt)
+target_link_libraries(triton-opt PRIVATE
+  ${dialect_libs}
+  ${conversion_libs}
+  MLIROptLib
+
+  TritonIR
+  TritonTransforms
+  
+  TritonGPUIR
+  TritonGPUTransforms
+)
+
+mlir_check_all_link_libraries(triton-opt)
diff --git a/bin/triton-opt.cpp b/bin/triton-opt.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1331badae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/triton-opt.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#include "triton/Dialect/Triton/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "triton/Dialect/TritonGPU/IR/Dialect.h"
+
+#include "mlir/IR/Dialect.h"
+#include "mlir/InitAllPasses.h"
+#include "mlir/Support/MlirOptMain.h"
+
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+  mlir::registerAllPasses();
+
+  mlir::DialectRegistry registry;
+  registry.insert<mlir::triton::TritonDialect,
+                  mlir::triton::gpu::TritonGPUDialect>();
+
+  return mlir::asMainReturnCode(
+      mlir::MlirOptMain(argc, argv, "Triton (GPU) optimizer driver\n", registry)
+  );
+}