OpenAI Codex targets enterprise AI with Sites feature and plugins for white-collar work

OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool's uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go far beyond software engineering. "Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February," reads a blog post introducing the report. "While developers remain the largest user group, knowledge workers now represent about 20 percent of users and are growing more than three times as fast." To further court those users, OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job. Like any AI tool, the plug-ins will grow more effective with user customization, but they're meant to be effective tools out of the box. The new tools come after a similar push for agentic plugins from Anthropic, which launched its Enterprise Agents program in February. (A more specific set of finance-oriented agents launched in May.) With its traditional consumer focus, OpenAI has been slower to court enterprise customers, only introducing plugin support for Codex in March. Together with the plug-ins, OpenAI introduced a new Sites feature, which allows Codex to output its work product as a hosted interactive website, instead of just a local file. As part of that system, OpenAI is partnering with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent -- although the company plans to develop a larger partner ecosystem to support the service. A new Annotations feature will also allow users to designate a specific part of a document or file within Codex, allowing for more specific commands and context operations. The new enterprise features come just three weeks after OpenAI launched a new joint venture for enterprise clients, dubbed the OpenAI Deployment Company. The venture includes more than $4 billion in funding from global investment firms, with the aim of integrating OpenAI tools more deeply into businesses around the world. "AI is becoming capable of doing increasingly meaningful work inside organizations," OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser said in a statement at launch. "The challenge now is helping companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses."

OpenAI Codex expands to enterprise with Sites, plugins, non-dev users

OpenAI expanded Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform with Sites (hosted web apps), Annotations, and role-specific plugins connecting 62 business apps. Non-developers now make up 20% of 5 million weekly users and are adopting 3x faster than engineers. OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, and Salesforce with 110 automated skills built in. The update signals OpenAI's ambition to make Codex the default interface for knowledge work, not just software development. The most telling data point is the user composition. Non-developers, including financial analysts, marketers, operations staff, and researchers, now constitute approximately 20% of Codex's 5 million weekly users and are adopting the platform three times faster than traditional engineers. The vibe coding phenomenon, in which non-technical users build applications through natural language prompts, is no longer a curiosity. It is becoming a measurable share of a product used by millions. Sites: from spreadsheet to web app Sites, launching in preview for business and enterprise customers, lets Codex create interactive, hosted web applications that users can share via secure workspace URLs. The practical implication is that a financial analyst can take a static spreadsheet, describe what they want in natural language, and Codex will generate a live web application, a scenario planner, a dashboard, or an interactive model, that colleagues can use without downloading files or navigating spreadsheet tabs. This directly threatens the workflow layer that tools like Tableau, Power BI, and even internal business intelligence teams currently occupy. AI-native enterprise spending is surging precisely because these tools can collapse the gap between wanting an interactive application and having one, from weeks of development to minutes of prompting. Plugins and the SaaS integration play The six role-specific plugins are OpenAI's most direct assault on horizontal SaaS. By connecting 62 business applications and bundling 110 automated skills, Codex is positioning itself as an orchestration layer that sits above existing enterprise tools rather than replacing them. A marketing manager who currently switches between Salesforce, Figma, and Snowflake could theoretically manage workflows across all three through Codex's natural language interface. The strategic logic follows a pattern established by Salesforce's Agentforce and Microsoft's Copilot: build the AI agent layer that connects to everything, and capture the value of orchestration rather than competing with each individual tool. Every SaaS company is building AI features, but OpenAI is betting that the orchestration layer, the thing that connects them all, is more valuable than any single application's AI capabilities. The SaaSpocalypse accelerator The Codex update arrives in the middle of the SaaSpocalypse debate over whether AI will destroy or enhance the SaaS industry. The answer from OpenAI's product direction is clear: Codex is designed to let users build custom solutions that replace off-the-shelf software. AI coding platforms like Cognition are already producing software at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional development. Codex's expansion to non-developers accelerates this dynamic by removing the last barrier: the user no longer needs to think of themselves as a developer at all. The 3x adoption rate among non-developers is the statistic that should concern SaaS companies most. It suggests that the market for AI-powered work tools is expanding faster outside the engineering function than within it, which means the revenue opportunity, and the competitive threat, is broader than the coding use case alone. Defenders of traditional SaaS argue that enterprise software's value lies in domain knowledge, compliance, and integrations that AI tools cannot easily replicate. The plugin architecture in today's Codex update is OpenAI's response: if the domain knowledge lives in the connected applications, Codex only needs to orchestrate it. Whether that orchestration layer can match the reliability, security, and auditability that enterprises require is the question the preview period will answer.

Exclusive: Office workers embrace OpenAI's Codex

Why it matters: AI has made it easier to crank out documents, emails, decks and dashboards, and OpenAI is now betting agents can help workers make sense of them. The big picture: Previous waves of workplace software encouraged workers to produce huge volumes of files and messages, but those "workplace artifacts" largely remain siloed inside different software programs. * The report argues that Codex can round up the important context from all of those artifacts no matter where they are. By the numbers: Codex now has more than 4 million weekly active users, up more than five times since OpenAI launched the desktop app in February, the company says. * The fastest-growing tasks among knowledge workers are data analysis, up 110% week over week; research, up 37%; and knowledge artifacts -- reports, memos, docs, contracts, multimedia assets, PDFs and spreadsheets -- up 36%. * More than 60% of users now run more than one Codex task at the same time at some point during the day, up from less than half in mid-April. Case in point: Codex can connect to your email, calendar, documents, spreadsheets, design apps and messaging apps like Slack and Teams. * It only takes one click to set up a daily automation that can send a morning brief that includes what's on your calendar, important unread emails, and anything else that Codex thinks needs your attention. Catch up quick: Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork were the first agentic tools to attract non-coders at scale. * Anthropic released Claude Code in October 2025. Over the winter holidays, dabblers used their extra hours to experiment with it. * Claude Code went viral in the new year and Claude itself coded the more office-focused app called Cowork. OpenAI released the Codex desktop app the following month. The other side: A growing number of power users say agentic tools are leaving them mentally fried, as they try to supervise several fast-moving AI workstreams at once. * OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, now at Anthropic, told the "No Priors" podcast he had been in a "state of AI psychosis" since December, trying to figure out what was possible and "pushing it to the limit." * Quentin Rousseau, CTO and co-founder of incident management platform Rootly, says using agents like Codex and Claude Code means getting more done. But, he says, the satisfaction that comes from a typical hard day's work is a lot different than the stress of managing agents. * "It's kind of like the difference between running a marathon and watching, a really gripping TV series," he told Axios in March. "One tires you out and the other keeps you up all night." Zoom in: Andrew Hall, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, tells Axios that he and his students use coding agents like Codex and Claude Code to help with boilerplate academic tasks, data collection, statistical analysis and running code to process data. * Earlier this year Hall asked Claude Code to update a paper he'd published five years ago on universal vote by mail. "We figured papers like this should be updated over time, but no one ever does that," he says. The tool gathered new data, ran analyses, produced figures and tables and drafted a new paper, "with not very much prompting," Hall said. * But when Hall hired a graduate student to audit the work manually, the agent's limits became clear. "It didn't do everything right," Hall said. "It did a lot right, which is kind of remarkable, but it made a number of errors." * The tool failed to collect all the data it needed and didn't quite code all the data correctly, he said, meaning it "very much needed an expert, PhD-level student to oversee it quite closely." The bottom line: OpenAI is trying to reframe Codex from a tool for developers into something closer to an operating system for knowledge work.

OpenAI's Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins

Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex, introducing domain-specific workflows, a rapid, semi-private web hosting feature within it for enterprises called "Sites," and an in-place editing tool named "Annotations". The release marks a deliberate strategy to transform Codex from a specialized programming assistant into an everyday operating environment for business professionals. Non-developers -- including financial analysts, marketers, operators, and researchers -- now constitute approximately 20% of the platform's 5 million weekly users and are adopting the technology three times faster than traditional engineers, according to research shared by OpenAI with VentureBeat and other outlets. OpenAI is capitalizing on this shift to position Codex as the premier application for white-collar task automation. The timing of the announcement is highly strategic, arriving precisely as its own primary investor turned business rival Microsoft this week kicks off its annual BUILD developer conference in San Francisco -- where a slate of competing enterprise productivity tools is expected -- and hot on the heels of Anthropic's rapid adoption among knowledge-workers via its Claude Cowork and Claude Code platorms. Annotations enable more precise agentic AI spreadsheet edits and updates For business users, the most critical technical upgrade is the elimination of full-document regeneration. Previously, instructing an AI to update a specific chart or spreadsheet calculation often meant the model had to rewrite the entire file, which frequently broke custom formatting or introduced hallucinations. OpenAI addresses this through Annotations, a localized context-scoping mechanism. As demonstrated in the company's release materials, the platform maps a document's underlying data schema. When a user highlights a specific segment -- such as a block of cells in a financial model -- Codex isolates those exact data arrays. If an analyst prompts the system to "Add a chart of revenue, EBITDA, and net income over the selected years," the model executes the code strictly within that boundary, generating the visualization while leaving the surrounding cell dependencies, styles, and unselected formulas completely untouched. New role-specific Plugins for enterprise functions that bundle skills and external SaaS app connections To further anchor Codex in daily enterprise operations, OpenAI has introduced modular software bundles and a rapid-prototyping hosting environment. The company is rolling out six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications (including Snowflake, Figma, and Salesforce) and 110 automated skills straight out of the box. * Data Analytics: Unifies cloud environments like Snowflake, Databricks Genie, Hex, and Tableau to translate natural language inquiries into data reports and change-analysis dashboards. * Creative Production: Connects Figma, Canva, Shutterstock, Picsart, and Fal to generate and iterate on ad variations, campaign boards, and e-commerce assets directly from text briefs. * Sales: Integrates pipeline infrastructure across Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Outreach, Clay, Rox, and Actively to automate follow-up communications, close plans, and account risk reviews. * Product Design: Bridges Figma and Canva environments to audit live user journeys and transform static wireframes into clickable prototypes. * Public Equity & Investment Banking: Syncs institutional market feeds -- including Moody's, Daloopa, Datasite, FactSet, LSEG, S&P, PitchBook, and Hebbia -- to streamline financial modeling, competitive landscaping, and pitch book preparation. These integrations allow distinct departments -- from data analytics and creative production to sales and investment banking -- to automate complex, multi-step workflows without requiring IT to build custom API connections. Sites allow users to spin-up dynamic, hosted webpages they can share with their colleagues Concurrently, the new Sites feature introduces an interactive canvas that converts static data inputs or text documents into functional, web-hosted internal applications. Rolling out in preview for Business and Enterprise tiers, Sites allow cross-functional teams to bypass front-end development. Financial leaders, for example, can transform a static spreadsheet into an interactive scenario planner shared via a secure workspace URL, allowing executives to tweak assumptions in a live web app rather than clicking through document tabs. Instead of static decks, Sites promise to keep enterprises updated on their latest metrics and important information in an easily digestible way. Availability & deployment A critical operational distinction in this rollout centers on exactly where these new features can be executed. Codex's existing infrastructure runs natively across multiple surfaces, including IDE extensions and the terminal command line. However, the release documentation notes that Sites are rolling out "through the Codex app" and that plugins are managed via a "Codex plugin directory". An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that Plugins and Sites are available int he CLI and desktop app, while Sites are hosted by OpenAI. Licensing and pricing These updates operate entirely within OpenAI's closed, proprietary enterprise licensing model. Unlike open-source frameworks, enterprise clients do not maintain code-level ownership over Codex's integration nodes. Instead, system administrators manage deployment through centralized workspace settings, giving them explicit authority to enable or disable hosted "Sites" and restrict underlying application permissions. These new capabilities deploy seamlessly on top of Codex's existing commercial framework. Users will continue to access the agent via established baseline subscription tiers -- such as the individual "Plus" plan ($20/month) or the high-volume "Pro" plan ($100/month) -- or through a separate, seat-free pay-as-you-go model that draws down pre-purchased utility credits.

OpenAI expands Codex with enterprise plug-ins and new Sites feature

OpenAI released a new set of capabilities for Codex on Tuesday, targeting enterprise users and expanding the tool's applications in the workplace. An internal report indicated that Codex's uses extend beyond software engineering. Codex now has over 5 million weekly active users, marking a sixfold increase since the launch of the desktop app in February. Knowledge workers account for about 20% of users and are growing more than three times faster than developers, according to the report. To attract knowledge workers, OpenAI introduced six plug-ins focused on specific roles: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Each plug-in is designed to be effective out of the box, while also allowing for user customization to enhance performance. This launch of plug-ins follows a similar initiative from competitor Anthropic, which introduced its enterprise agents program in February. OpenAI's slower trajectory toward enterprise customers includes the introduction of plug-in support for Codex in March. OpenAI also launched a new Sites feature that enables Codex to produce work as hosted interactive websites rather than just local files. This feature is supported by partnerships with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent, with plans for a broader partner ecosystem to develop around it. An additional Annotations feature allows users to specify parts of a document or file within Codex, facilitating more precise commands and operations. This set of enterprise features emerged shortly after OpenAI announced the OpenAI Deployment Company, a joint venture aimed at enhancing enterprise integrations. The venture received over $4 billion in funding from global investment firms to embed OpenAI tools into various business infrastructures. OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser emphasized the growing capabilities of AI in organizations, stating, "The challenge now is helping companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses."

OpenAI Unveils Plans to Move Codex Beyond Coders | PYMNTS.com

The company announced Tuesday (June 2) that it is rolling out new plugins for its Codex agent designed for jobs in public equity investment, banking and sales, with plans to add features related to legal, marketing strategy and corporate finance down the road. In addition, the artificial intelligence firm says it is working on an "open ecosystem" that lets partners develop and deploy their own plugins directly within Codex and OpenAI's ChatGPT bot. "More than 5 million people now use Codex every week," the company said. "Codex started as a tool for software development, but it's increasingly useful for more kinds of work. Non-developers -- including analysts, marketers, operators, designers, researchers, investors, and bankers -- make up about 20% of overall Codex users⁠ and are growing more than 3x as fast as developers." Last month saw reports that OpenAI had generated nearly $6 billion in first-quarter revenue due in part to Codex, business sales and tests of advertising on ChatGPT. "The numbers show how quickly OpenAI is turning AI usage into revenue," PYMNTS wrote. "They also show how the business is shifting. ChatGPT remains the company's consumer anchor, but Codex and enterprise AI are becoming more important growth engines." This is happening as a growing share of U.S. hourly workers are encountering AI on the job before they feel prepared for it, as recent PYMNTS Intelligence research has shown. That study, "The Resilience Deficit: Labor Workers in an Automated Economy," looks at how automation is reshaping confidence, job security and financial resilience for Labor Economy workers, or hourly workers earning up to $25 an hour and generally less than $50,000 per year. "While AI is spreading across workplaces of every type, low-income workers are receiving less training, reporting lower confidence and showing fewer financial buffers to absorb disruption," PYMNTS wrote last month. The research found that 37% of Labor Economy workers had seen their employers introduce new AI or automation tools within the prior 12 months. Close to 60% of these workers said that they had received no training on the new technology, compared to 42% who said they had gotten instruction on the tools. "AI investment is accelerating across industries, and companies are increasingly framing automation as a productivity tool rather than an experimental technology," PYMNTS wrote. The report added that the data "suggested the bigger divide may not be about who encounters AI first. It may center on who has the resources to adapt once workplace changes begin."

OpenAI is giving 10x Codex usage limits to select users: How to get it

For those unfamiliar, Codex is OpenAI's AI-powered coding agent which was launched last year. OpenAI has announced a new initiative for Codex users that could significantly increase their access to the AI coding tool. Over the next 100 days, the company plans to reward one user every day with 10 times higher Codex usage limits for a month. The offer is aimed at people who are doing impressive or useful work using Codex. The announcement was made by Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead for Codex at OpenAI, on X (formerly Twitter). In his post, he wrote, "I have a new kind of big button that I can press for Codex. Over the next 100 days, we will select one person per day who does impressive or incredibly useful work with Codex and give them 10X usage limits for a month to see what they can do with it." "First one tomorrow." Soon after the post went live, users began asking questions about how the selection process would work. One user asked, "So how can we participate?" To this, Sottiaux replied, "Build stuff." Also read: Apple WWDC 2026 to kick off tonight: From iOS 27 to Siri AI overhaul, here is what to expect and how to watch live Other users were also curious about how winners would be chosen. One person asked, "Will that person know or be notified?," while another questioned, "How will you guys choose what's the metric." OpenAI has not yet shared additional details about the selection criteria or notification process. What I would suggest is to share your work in the comment section of the announcement post. For those unfamiliar, Codex is OpenAI's AI-powered coding agent which was launched last year. OpenAI has continued to expand Codex with new capabilities. Last week, the company announced several updates, including six role-based plug-ins focused on data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing and investment banking. Also read: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI agents need identities, permissions and policies like employees The company also introduced a feature called sites. With this addition, Codex can turn ideas, documents, plans and data into interactive websites and lightweight applications. OpenAI describes sites as a "new kind of canvas for your ideas." The generated sites can be shared through a URL, making collaboration easier for teams.

OpenAI Codex can now create interactive websites and apps, gets other new features

One of the key additions is a new set of plug-ins designed for specific professions. OpenAI has announced several new updates for Codex, its AI-powered coding agent. The company says Codex is now being used by more than 5 million people every week, with a growing number of users coming from non-technical backgrounds. According to OpenAI, around 20 per cent of Codex users are professionals such as marketers, analysts, designers, researchers, bankers and investors. To support these users, the company has introduced new role-specific plug-ins, the ability to create interactive websites and apps and more. New role-based plug-ins for different jobs One of the biggest additions is a new set of plug-ins designed for specific professions. OpenAI has introduced six plug-ins focused on data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing and investment banking. These plug-ins combine instructions, integrations, and relevant context to help Codex handle tasks related to each profession. Also read: Microsoft AI chief says future artificial intelligence should help humans, not replace them Codex can now create interactive websites or apps OpenAI has also introduced a new feature called sites. With this update, Codex can turn ideas, documents, plans and data into interactive websites and lightweight applications. OpenAI describes sites as a "new kind of canvas for your ideas." The sites can be shared through a URL, making it easier for teams to collaborate. Easier editing with annotations Another new feature is annotations. This allows users to highlight a specific section of a document, slide or spreadsheet and ask Codex to make changes only to that selected area. "Codex focuses the update on the part you selected, so you can refine your work without starting over or reworking the parts you already like," the company explained. Also read: Microsoft Build 2026: New homegrown AI models, always-on agent, Project Solara and other key announcements Availability The new role-specific plug-ins are rolling out in supported regions and can be installed from the plug-in directory. Meanwhile, the sites feature is currently available as a preview for Business and Enterprise customers.