Michael Grinich

WorkOS: The Enterprise Stack for the AI Era AI companies are just B2B SaaS with a new engine. They monetize like SaaS, sell like SaaS, and scale into the enterprise like SaaS. The difference is velocity. These new products grow so fast that the old playbook of “PLG for years, enterprise later” simply does not work anymore. PMF is no longer enough. Winning your market requires crossing the Enterprise Chasm almost immediately. Enterprise auth, provisioning, RBAC, compliance, billing, IT integrations. If you wait, someone else takes your market while you are still wiring SCIM. This is why @WorkOS exists. We give developers the infrastructure they need to scale up-market on day one. Even if you have never touched WorkOS, you have already used it through products like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Cursor and many others. Today we operate 81M+ enterprise user accounts, 67M API calls per day, and 38K+ connected enterprise environments. Modern AI tools already run through WorkOS. At ERC, we unveiled six major launches expanding that foundation for the AI era: • AuthKit for ChatGPT Apps: secure OAuth + MCP so developers can connect real enterprise data to 700M+ weekly ChatGPT users. • AuthKit for Platforms: embed full enterprise identity into frameworks like Supabase and Convex for zero-friction onboarding. • Stripe Usage Sync: actual per-seat billing with no glue code. Data stays consistent and invoices are always correct. • WorkOS Pipes: the fastest and most secure way to ship integrations (Salesforce, Slack, Intercom and more). • Agent-Ready API Keys: scoped, revocable keys designed for both developers and autonomous agents. • WorkOS Studio: vibe coding for the enterprise. A collaborative AI app builder with SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, workflows and third-party connectors built-in. Internal software at the speed of a prompt. AI has already changed how software gets created. The next shift is changing what software becomes. We are still “filming the play” like early cinema: using new technology to recreate old patterns. The opportunity ahead is to invent entirely new applications that only AI-native development makes possible. WorkOS is building the enterprise infrastructure that lets teams design the next era of software itself. Enterprise-ready AI is where the real acceleration happens. Let’s build that future together.

See it in action:

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 4 🔌 Pipes MCP 🔌 Give your agents secure, time-bound access to third-party tools. 🔐Scope access by session to prevent persistent access 🛡️ Audit every call and keep tokens server-side 📡 Connect to Google, Slack, GitHub, Snowflake, and more Read the blog: workos.com/blog/pipes-mcp

@swyx 100% have been working on this too: workos.com/blog/agents-ne…

btw emerging consensus is that identity-based authz for ai is the most important solution for security, esp if you want to break the binary decision between HITL-everything and —dangerously-skip-permissions keycard is the leading voice in this and now supports all koding agents

@buburdin @FedericoNoemie @julianweisser jfc 😆

@FedericoNoemie @julianweisser alcohol

building a list of the best tools for solo founders, what should I add?

@Netlify 🔥

You can now start a Netlify project with a prompt. Type what you want to build, pick your agent, get a live URL on production infrastructure in minutes. This is netlify.new. Here's what that actually means: ntl.fyi/46TbFce

@arenamagdotcom instant order ✅

Announcing our first book: Silicon A beautiful coffee table book about the world of transistors, chips, and the greatest technology revolution of all time. 384 pages. Almost five pounds. Preorders open now, shipping in May: arenamag.com/silicon

@RobertJBye welcome!

Finally fully moved to San Francisco! So excited for this next chapter!

@elithrar welcome!

hello, SF!

@mitchellh congrats!

Excited to share that I've joined Vercel's Board of Directors. Vercel is made up of builders and tastemakers that continually ship things that deeply impact how developers work: Next.js, AI SDK, v0, etc. I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Let's fucking ship. ▲ My relationship with Vercel goes back to the earliest days. HashiCorp was an early adopter of NextJS and Vercel (~10 years ago!) and it remains my default tech stack and deployment platform to this day. Ghostty's website is all on Vercel, too! Beyond that, I've been continually impressed with the teams relentless focus on shipping meaningful software. And importantly, software that has incredible taste. Now we are in the age of agentic software development. Vercel is building agentic infrastructure that I think every app and agent will need (I certainly need it!) and I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Huge thanks to @rauchg , Jeanne, Marten, @cramforce, @tomocchino and the entire Vercel team for the warm welcome. Time to work.

@leilavclark would love a chrome extension to add this to skyscanner

@grinich Yay! We'll roll out more features it in the next few weeks, like automatic alerts for upcoming flights - stay posted! :)

Want to know if your flight has Starlink? We built a tool for that. Search any flight, and we’ll: - identify the aircraft - check whether that type has Starlink - look up the tail number to confirm that specific aircraft has it. You can also search by route (e.g. SFO → SLC) to see which flights are have Starlink.

@ptremblay use @authkit 😎

What do you guys use for implementing user authentication in your apps?

@chrija 🤣

"Context-aware orchestration layer between humans and AI agents" If I hear this pitch one more time, I can’t guarantee anything.

@utpalnadiger @WorkOS 🫡

saw the @WorkOS authkit analytics for the first time today, super cool! h/t @grinich

And we're working on getting the other half 💪 Last quarter our top AEs finished at 244% of quota 🔥 Join our team: workos.com/jobs

Half of these are powered by WorkOS 📈

WorkOS Launch Week - Day 3🚀 🤖 Agent Experience 🤖 @WorkOS CLI is now a full agent experience within your terminal. 🧠 Turn any LLM into a WorkOS expert using Skills 🩺 Catch misconfigurations before they ship with workos doctor 🚀 Integrate AuthKit without signing up Read more: workos.com/blog/agent-exp…

some recent art from our phenomenal design team 🥰 want to work on stuff like this? we are hiring! dm me your portfolio

@MilksandMatcha @ManiarNatasha this is great

In honor of the upcoming π day, @ManiarNatasha and I are hosting a 'banana lounge' this Saturday in SF. 🍌 A treasured spot on the MIT campus to cram for a test, collaborate on psets, run into friends, or just to grab a banana. If you're an MIT affiliate in the bay area, we would love to have you join.

@essonam_m @WorkOS can you dm me your account email? will see what’s up

@grinich @WorkOS My account does not have access to applications page

@WorkOS @grinich can we use one account with different setup? I don't wanna create new workos account when I start a new project