{"id":3128585,"date":"2026-06-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=3128585"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:57:49","slug":"openai-launches-new-codex-tools-for-white-collar-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/02\/openai-launches-new-codex-tools-for-white-collar-work\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex<\/a>, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n

Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report<\/a> on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go far beyond software engineering.<\/p>\n\n

“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<\/a>. “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.”<\/p>\n\n

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<\/a>, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

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A Chart from OpenAI’S Knowledge Work Report.<\/a><\/a><\/span>Image Credits:<\/strong>OpenAI report<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

The new tools come after a similar push for agentic plug-ins from Anthropic, which launched its enterprise agents program<\/a> in February. (A more specific set of finance-oriented agents launched in May<\/a>.) With its traditional consumer focus, OpenAI has been slower to court enterprise customers, only introducing plug-in support for Codex in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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 \u2014 although the company plans to develop a larger partner ecosystem to support the service.<\/p>\n

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