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Introducing Sites in Codex
TL;DR
OpenAI has introduced Sites in Codex, enabling teams to rapidly build and share secure internal applications without managing infrastructure.
KEY POINTS
Rapid app creation inside Codex
Sites allows users to turn ideas into functional applications within minutes directly inside Codex. Teams can generate tools through conversational prompts, eliminating the need for traditional coding workflows or deployment pipelines.
Built-in infrastructure and security
Each Site includes integrated hosting, authentication, storage, and database capabilities. This removes the need for separate infrastructure setup, enabling teams to focus on functionality and content while maintaining secure access controls.
Integration with existing tools
Through Codex plugins and skills, users can pull in context and data from existing team tools. This allows applications to incorporate real-time insights, analytics, and structured information without manual data handling.
Internal use cases across teams
Organizations are using Sites to replace static documents and slide decks with interactive tools. Examples include Account Lens, which provides customer insights and financial metrics for business reviews, and event preparation hubs that centralize agendas, messaging, and attendee information.
Decision-making and planning tools
Another example, Compass Memo, consolidates proposals, budgets, risks, and supporting evidence into a single interactive interface. This helps leadership quickly identify gaps and make informed decisions without navigating fragmented documents.
Continuous refinement through conversation
Sites can be iteratively improved via natural language interaction. Teams can update functionality, content, or structure without rewriting code, enabling rapid iteration and collaboration.
Flexible sharing and access
Applications can be shared with individuals or entire workspaces as managed assets. Users access them by signing in with their ChatGPT accounts, ensuring controlled distribution and ease of use.
Broad potential applications
The platform supports a wide range of use cases, including forecasting dashboards, onboarding hubs, product briefs, and interactive data storytelling tools. This positions Sites as a general-purpose layer for lightweight internal software.
CONCLUSION
Sites in Codex streamlines the creation of secure, shareable internal applications, reducing reliance on traditional development workflows while expanding how teams build and use software.
Full transcript
We launched Sites in Codex. Anyone on your team can turn an idea into a secure application and publish it in minutes, right from Codex. At OpenAI, we've used Sites to build internal tools, mini apps, and shareable resources that might otherwise live as docs or slides. Sites gives these apps hosting, authentication, storage, and database support out of the box. With Codex plugins and skills, I can bring context and analysis from the tools my team already uses and ask Codex to build the application and publish it for others to open. From there, we can keep refining it through conversation without setting up infrastructure or writing deployment code. Let's take a look at an example. Here is Account Lens. Before an executive business review, the account team can open the site with customer context, approved talking points, and a clear chart of financial metrics. This is the kind of focused internal app a team can build from trusted material to prepare them for their meetings. Another example is preparing your team for an upcoming event. For an external energy summit, your team organizes the agenda, attendees, approved messages, conversation starters, and a before-you-go plan. Everyone heading to the event can work from the same useful document. And thirdly, this is Compass Memo. Imagine your team is considering an internal investment. You can build an executive memo that brings the proposal, budget, guardrails, risk, reviewers, and evidence into a central place to help them move work forward. Leaders can see what needs resolving without missing any detail. The possibilities are endless. Your teams can build a forecasting dashboard, an onboarding hub, a product council brief, or an interactive data story. We're excited to see what you can do with Sites and Codex. Sites are built to be shared and managed like workspace assets. I can share a site with specific users or my whole workspace, and viewers just sign in with their ChatGPT account to open it. From trusted context to an application your team can actually use, that's Sites.