OpenAI is making a major push to win over enterprise customers. On Tuesday, the AI lab unveiled a fresh set of capabilities for Codex, designed to broaden the agentic tool’s workplace applications. Alongside these new features, the company released an internal report detailing how Codex is being utilized for knowledge work, revealing that its use cases extend well beyond software engineering. According to a blog post announcing the report, "Codex now has more than 5 million weekly active users, up more than 6x since the launch of the desktop app in February. 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 appeal to these users, OpenAI introduced six plug-ins tailored to specific roles: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Accessible directly from the Codex app, each plug-in bundles integrations, instructions, and context to help Codex approximate a particular job function. Like any AI tool, these plug-ins will become more effective with user customization, but they are designed to be functional right out of the box.

This move follows a similar push for agentic plugins from Anthropic, which launched its Enterprise Agents program in February, followed by a more specialized set of finance-oriented agents in May. Historically focused on consumers, OpenAI has been slower to target enterprise clients, only introducing plugin support for Codex in March. In addition to the plug-ins, OpenAI unveiled a new Sites feature, which allows Codex to output its work as a hosted interactive website rather than just a local file. As part of this system, OpenAI is partnering with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent, though the company plans to expand its partner ecosystem to support the service further. A new Annotations feature also enables users to highlight specific parts of a document or file within Codex, allowing for more precise commands and contextual operations.

These new enterprise features arrive just three weeks after OpenAI launched a joint venture for enterprise clients called the OpenAI Deployment Company. This venture has secured over $4 billion in funding from global investment firms, with the goal of more deeply integrating OpenAI tools into businesses worldwide. "AI is becoming capable of doing increasingly meaningful work inside organizations," OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser said in a statement at the launch. "The challenge now is helping companies integrate these systems into the infrastructure and workflows that power their businesses."