What sets this collaboration apart is its focus on building in the real world, not just designing in theory. For example, PwC and OpenAI are building a procurement agent inside the OpenAI finance organization, and are applying those learnings to additional agents across core finance workflows.

OpenAI has already been applying AI agents across its own finance organization, using tools like ChatGPT and Codex to support workflows across investor relations, treasury, tax, reporting, corporate development, and contract review. Now, PwC and OpenAI are building on those learnings to help other CFOs apply AI agents across their organizations.

In practice, that means helping finance teams automate repeatable work, connect context across systems, and support better decisions with clear governance and human oversight. Agents can help monitor payments and exceptions, review contracts or invoices against policy, update forecasts as business conditions change, prepare reporting materials, and surface risks before month-end or quarter-end close.

Codex⁠ can help teams build and adapt the tools behind these workflows, such as dashboards, spend trackers, and exception-management systems. Workspace Agents can make those workflows repeatable for teams across the tools they already use, while Skills and Connectors help agents follow approved processes and work with the right enterprise context.