OpenAI reorganized its product organization on Friday, May 15, 2026, making president Greg Brockman the official lead of product and scaling and collapsing ChatGPT and Codex into a single agentic platform. In a memo viewed by reporters, Brockman wrote that OpenAI plans to "invest in a single agentic platform" and to "merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience for all." The move formalizes a structure that had been operating informally since last month, when AGI boss Fidji Simo went on medical leave.
Under the new chart, product splits into four pillars reporting up to Brockman. Thibault Sottiaux, previously engineering lead for Codex, takes core product and platform. Nick Turley, who ran ChatGPT, moves to critical enterprise industries.
Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's healthcare products VP, gets the consumer pillar covering health, commerce, and personal finance. Vijaye Raji, the CTO of applications, takes core infrastructure, ads, data science, and growth. The structure is unusually flat for a company OpenAI's size, with four operator-engineers each owning a slice of what used to be a tangle of ChatGPT, API, and Codex teams.
Key facts
- 01OpenAI reorganized on May 15, 2026, making president Greg Brockman the official head of product and scaling.
- 02The company is merging ChatGPT and Codex into a single agentic platform, per a Brockman memo.
- 03Product is now split into four pillars led by Thibault Sottiaux, Nick Turley, Ashley Alexander, and Vijaye Raji.
- 04AGI lead Fidji Simo remains on medical leave; Jason Kwon, Sarah Friar, and Denise Dresser continue running business operations.
- 05OpenAI is targeting a potential IPO later this year and is cutting what it calls 'side quests' to focus on coding and enterprise.
Business operations remain split among CSO Jason Kwon, CFO Sarah Friar, and CRO Denise Dresser, the arrangement put in place during Simo's leave. Simo, who joined as CEO of applications and the de facto AGI lead, is still out, and her absence is the proximate cause of Brockman's expanded portfolio. The company has not given a return timeline.
“OpenAI's goal is now to bring agents to ChatGPT scale, Brockman wrote, merging ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience for all users and organizations.”— Jaeden Schafer
Brockman wrote that the goal is to "bring agents to ChatGPT scale, in order to give individuals and organizations significantly more value and utility from our products." That phrasing is the substance of the reorg: OpenAI does not want two competing surfaces for agentic work. ChatGPT has the consumer distribution and Codex has the developer-and-coding muscle, and the company is betting that fusing them is faster than letting them evolve in parallel.
The reorganization follows a string of recent moves pointing at the same thesis. OpenAI put Codex inside the ChatGPT mobile app on iOS and Android last week, and it plugged ChatGPT into bank accounts via Plaid for Pro subscribers earlier this month — both steps toward an agent that can act, not just answer.
The strategic backdrop is OpenAI's stated focus on coding and enterprise revenue, with a potential IPO arriving later this year and investor pressure to show a path to profit. Brockman's memo language about avoiding "side quests" is the polite version of a budget directive: kill peripheral bets, ship one agent platform, charge for it. Coding is the wedge because developers convert to paid seats faster than any other vertical, and Codex is where OpenAI has the cleanest agent loop today.
Competitively, the merger is a response to how Anthropic has built around Claude Code, which has grown roughly 80x by its own account and is now the reason many engineering teams pay for Claude at all. Google's Gemini agents are similarly being threaded into Workspace. A single OpenAI agent that lives in ChatGPT and writes code, books travel, moves money, and reads enterprise data is the product these companies are all racing toward; the org chart is supposed to make OpenAI's version ship faster.
There is a tradeoff. Consolidating ChatGPT and Codex into one experience risks making the consumer product more confusing and the developer product less focused. Sottiaux, Turley, Alexander, and Raji are now coordinating against a single platform roadmap rather than optimizing for their previous users, and the company's last several reorgs have not produced an obvious uptick in shipping velocity. Simo's continued absence also leaves a senior gap in applications strategy that Brockman is filling but did not originally own.
The market read is that OpenAI is converging on a single bet — the agent — and rebuilding its org chart around shipping it before an IPO window opens. The four-pillar structure under Brockman is narrower than it looks: every pillar exists to feed one product surface, and every business leader exists to monetize it. If the merged ChatGPT-and-Codex agent lands well, this reorg will be remembered as the moment OpenAI stopped being a model company and started being an agent company. If it does not, the next reorg will arrive within six months.
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