OpenAI is expanding Codex beyond software development with a new set of role-specific plugins, annotation tools, and a preview feature that allows businesses to generate and share interactive websites and applications.
The company said more than 5 million people now use Codex every week, with non-developers accounting for roughly 20% of users and adopting the platform more than three times faster than developers.
The update introduces six role-specific plugins aimed at analysts, marketers, designers, sales teams, investors, and bankers.
According to OpenAI, the plugins package together applications, workflows, instructions, and skills tailored to specific job functions, requiring no coding knowledge to use. The initial set combines 62 applications and 110 skills.
The data analytics plugin connects Codex to tools including Snowflake, Databricks Genie, Hex, and Tableau, enabling users to analyse business data, investigate changes in key metrics, and generate reports and dashboards.
A creative production plugin integrates services such as Figma, Canva, Shutterstock, Picsart, and Fal for campaign asset creation and image generation. Other plugins target sales operations, product design, public equity investing, and investment banking, drawing on platforms including Salesforce, HubSpot, FactSet, LSEG, Moody’s, PitchBook, and Hebbia.
OpenAI said organisations can customise existing plugins or build and distribute their own internally. Additional plugins covering corporate finance, private equity, marketing strategy, management consulting, and legal workflows are planned.
The company also said it is working toward an open plugin ecosystem that would allow partners to deploy integrations directly into Codex and ChatGPT.
Alongside the plugin rollout, OpenAI introduced Sites, a new feature entering preview for Business and Enterprise customers. Sites allow users to generate and host interactive web applications directly within Codex and share them with colleagues through a URL.
OpenAI said the feature can create dashboards, planning tools, project hubs, review workspaces, galleries, and other lightweight applications from prompts, with content that can be updated through ongoing interactions with Codex.
The company said Sites are designed to transform documents, analyses, and planning materials into collaborative interfaces.
Example use cases include customer review portals, financial scenario planners, launch management hubs, operational dashboards, and internal knowledge repositories. OpenAI is also working with partners including Vercel, Wix, Replit, Figma, Webflow, and Emergent as it develops a broader Sites ecosystem.
OpenAI is also extending Codex’s annotation capabilities beyond software projects. Users can now highlight specific elements within documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and websites to request targeted revisions.
The company said annotations can be used to update interface elements, trace the source of claims, revise charts, or modify selected content without regenerating an entire document.
The launch comes as OpenAI positions Codex as a broader platform for knowledge work. In a separate report published alongside the announcement, the company said Codex has surpassed 5 million weekly active users, up more than sixfold since the launch of its desktop application in February.
Knowledge workers now represent around 20% of users, while personal users account for more than 5%, with both groups growing faster than the platform’s developer base.
OpenAI said data analysis, research, and knowledge-artifact creation are among the fastest-growing Codex use cases. The company reported week-over-week growth of 110% in data-analysis tasks, 37% in research activities, and 36% in the production of reports, presentations, contracts, spreadsheets, PDFs, images, audio, and video. More than half of users in these categories now work with PDFs and spreadsheets through the platform.
The company also reported a shift toward parallel task execution. Around 50% of Codex users now run multiple tasks simultaneously during the day, up from less than one-third in mid-April.
OpenAI said the trend reflects how users increasingly use Codex to coordinate several workstreams at once, from data analysis and reporting to scripting, research, and application development.
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