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OpenAI released six new plugins for its Codex tool on Tuesday, targeting white-collar workers in fields including sales, investment banking, and equity investing as the company works to expand the agent's reach beyond software developers.
Each of the six plugins targets a distinct professional role — data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, or investment banking — and comes pre-loaded with integrations, instructions, and relevant context so that Codex can perform job-specific tasks, TechCrunch reported. Out of the box functionality is the stated goal, though greater user customization is expected to sharpen performance over time.
OpenAI also introduced a Sites feature that allows Codex to publish its output as a hosted interactive website rather than a local file. The company said it is partnering with Wix, Base44, Replit, Lovable, Figma, and Emergent for the service and plans to expand that partner ecosystem. A new Annotations feature will allow users to flag specific portions of a document for more targeted commands, according to TechCrunch.
The moves come alongside an internal report on Codex usage that OpenAI shared with Axios. Since OpenAI introduced its desktop app in February, Codex's weekly active user base has grown more than sixfold and now exceeds five million, the company said. Developers still make up the largest share of the platform's audience, but knowledge workers — now about one in five users — are expanding their presence at more than triple the rate of that core developer group. Within that knowledge-worker segment, data analysis has seen the steepest climb at 110% week over week, followed by research at 37% and the production of knowledge artifacts — including reports, memos, and spreadsheets — at 36%, Axios reported.
