# From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

Frontier firms now generate 8.3x more output tokens per active user than typical firms, up from 2.6x in January.

- Codex generated 64% of combined Codex and ChatGPT output tokens among enterprise customers as of June.
- Weekly active enterprise Codex users grew 108x in legal, 41x in sales, 41x in recruiting, and 26x in marketing since February, versus 5x in engineering.
- 21% of weekly active users at frontier firms use Plugins, compared with 9% at typical firms; OpenAI reports 95% internal weekly usage.
- Six months after adoption, early-career employees sent 13 more messages per week than executives.

## Why it matters

Enterprise leaders can now benchmark their AI usage against frontier firms and see that agentic AI is spreading beyond engineering into legal, sales, and marketing functions.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work](https://openai.com/index/how-enterprises-put-ai-to-work)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-08-12. https://dstilled.ai/story/f787def7-dd6a-45ae-938b-44d3d0e0f85b