How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)

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How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)

🎙️ Kath Korevec demos ChatGPT Sites live at OpenAI DevDay, showing how to turn Slack, Notion, and calendar data into internal tools that adapt to each person on your team

Claire Vo

Oct 05, 2026

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Kath Korevec is a member of the Product staff at OpenAI working on Codex, and she spent over a year building and using ChatGPT Sites internally before its public launch. She’s been on the front lines of shipping Plugin Insights, MCP plugin hosting, and the connector ecosystem, which now includes around 60 integrations.

Listen or watch on YouTube , Spotify , or Apple Podcasts

What you’ll learn:

• What Plugin Insights actually does, and why it changes who can use a site

• The incident command site Kath built for her OpenAI team, and how it uses live Slack and Notion connectors

• The one phrase that tells Codex to wire up connectors for you

• The infrastructure layer inside Sites that most people haven’t touched yet

• How Kath fixed her Spotify after her kids wrecked it, using Reddit and computer use

• The skill distribution model behind her community dungeon crawler, and why it’s a new way to think about collaboration

• Why model speed is what actually determines how creative you get

• Where Kath draws a hard line on AI acting in her name

Brought to you by:

Merge —Connective infrastructure for production AI

Vanta —Automate compliance and simplify security

In this episode, we cover:

( 00:00 ) Welcome and intro

( 01:00 ) Sites: internal testing and use cases

( 05:53 ) Sites infrastructure

( 09:00 ) Kath’s favorite connectors

( 11:10 ) Unique ways to use Sites

( 12:28 ) Curating a custom Spotify playlist

( 15:50 ) Game design and development

( 25:42 ) Bringing inference into Sites: the widget experiment

( 30:00 ) Awesome Sites gallery

( 31:57 ) Kath’s prompting strategy

( 34:20 ) Wrap-up and how to find Kath

Tools referenced:

• ChatGPT Sites: https://chatgpt.com/sites

• OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/codex

Other references:

• OpenAI DevDay: https://openai.com/devday

• Awesome Sites: https://awesomesites.ai

Where to find Kath Korevec:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleensimpson/?isSelfProfile=false

X: https://x.com/simpsoka

Where to find Claire Vo:

ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/

Website: https://clairevo.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/

X: https://x.com/clairevo

Production and marketing by https://penname.co/ . For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email [email protected] .

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