Gondola says Codex lifted engineering output 25% as revenue more than doubled

Nov 13, 2026
The creator-credit platform's founder and a partnerships manager now ship code themselves, according to an OpenAI customer story.

Gondola, a platform that helps creatives get credit for their social media work, says its small team now uses OpenAI's Codex to build software and ChatGPT for daily operations, in a customer story published by OpenAI. Gondola says monthly engineering output is up 25% across the team and 50% for its lead engineer, and that company revenue has more than doubled from a year earlier.

Founder and chief executive Jared Kleinstein and a partnerships manager merged their first code into the main codebase after prototyping in Codex Cloud. The team built a tool called Programs, which helps companies find creatives, review applicants and track budgets, using GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5 and GPT-6.1. The figures come from Gondola, in a story published by OpenAI, which sells the tools.

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