OpenAI says Gondola doubled revenue while building with Codex
Original title: Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex
OpenAI’s customer story credits Codex with 25% more engineering output and a 50% rise for the lead engineer.
OpenAI published a customer story about startup Gondola, which helps creatives get credit and get hired. The company says Codex raised monthly engineering output 25% with no headcount change and the lead engineer’s merged changes 50%, while revenue more than doubled year over year. Business staff prototyped features such as Programs and a World Cup Creator Map with Codex before engineers finished them. The team used GPT-5.4, then mostly GPT-5.5, and GPT-6.1 for later work, plus ChatGPT for daily operations.
Unconfirmed: Output, hiring and revenue figures are Gondola and OpenAI’s claims in a vendor customer story.
- OpenAI says creators hired through Gondola rose 2.5 times year over year.
- Non-engineers Jared Kleinstein and Jojo Hesketh merged their first code contributions.
- Engineers use Codex in the CLI, editor tools and GitHub pull-request review.
- Engineers remain responsible for architecture, security, data handling and production readiness.
From the original article
7 min read at openai.comGondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer’s output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.
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