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Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent | OpenAI

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Data powers how systems learn, products evolve, and how companies make choices. But getting answers quickly, correctly, and with the right context is often harder than it should be. To make this easier as OpenAI scales, we built our own bespoke in-house AI data agent that explores and reasons over our own platform. Our agent is a custom internal-only tool (not an external offering), built specifically around OpenAI’s data, permissions, and workflows. We’re showing how we built and use it to help surface examples of the real, impactful ways AI can support day-to-day work across our teams. The OpenAI tools we used to build and run it (Codex, our GPT‑5 flagship model, the Evals API⁠ (opens in a new window) , and the Embeddings API⁠ (opens in a new window) ) are the same tools we make available to developers everywhere. Our data agent lets employees go from question to insight in minutes, not days. This lowers the bar to pulling data and nuanced analysis across all functions, not just by o

January 29, 2026 Engineering Inside OpenAI’s in-house data agent By Bonnie Xu, Aravind Suresh, and Emma Tang Loading… Data powers how systems learn, products evolve, and how companies make choices. But getting answers quickly, correctly, and with the right context is often harder than it should be. To make this easier as OpenAI scales, we built our own bespoke in-house AI data agent that explores and reasons over our own platform . Our agent is a custom internal-only tool (not an external offering), built specifically around OpenAI’s data, permissions, and workflows. We’re showing how we built

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