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The Fastest Growing AI Companies Choose WorkOS

AI companies are scaling faster than ever and hitting enterprise requirements far earlier in their lifecycle.

SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, compliance. These are non-negotiable for enterprise customers, and expensive and difficult to build and maintain in-house.

That’s why OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, and more use WorkOS to power authentication, identity, and security. It's the infrastructure layer that makes applications enterprise ready without slowing teams down.

🔖 The Reading Room

Articles we have hand-picked for you:

SaaS, widely misunderstood. AI is not replacing SaaS yet

Despite AI-driven market selloffs, replacing SaaS makes little economic sense. Aled argues that building internally costs more and delivers inferior products compared to established SaaS providers. Companies attempting to replace SaaS with internal tools risk losing focus on their core competency.

By Aled →

⏳ Back in Time

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🔗 The Link Lounge 

Unordered finds from around the web:

• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

• The future of software engineering is SRE

• Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way

• LLMs and your career

• Don’t solve problems that don’t exist.

• Put your meetings to work with Granola - AI Notepad with 1 month free (promoted)

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🧰 The Toolbox

Tools and products we're excited about today:

LLM Studio 0.4

LLM Studio is one of the more convenient ways to run local LLMs. The newer version 0.4.0 introduces llmster for server deployment, parallel requests with continuous batching, stateful REST API with MCP support, and refreshed UI featuring chat export, split view, and developer mode.

Learn more →

The Fastest Growing AI Companies Choose WorkOS

AI companies are scaling faster than ever and hitting enterprise requirements far earlier in their lifecycle.

SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, compliance. These are non-negotiable for enterprise customers, and expensive and difficult to build and maintain in-house.

That’s why OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, and more use WorkOS to power authentication, identity, and security. It's the infrastructure layer that makes applications enterprise ready without slowing teams down.

Build faster with WorkOS →

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