Let Anyone at Your Company Ship Internal Apps with AI — Garrett Galow, WorkOS
Oct 8, 2026AI Engineer
Summary
This post details the WorkOS approach to enabling non-engineers to build and ship internal applications using AI. It introduces the 'WOW' CLI, which automates repository setup, tooling, and templating for new applications, and 'Atlas', an underlying platform that abstracts infrastructure, enforces security via SSO, and provides app discoverability. The talk highlights the shift in bottleneck from building to shipping AI-powered tools and presents results showing a high volume of apps created with minimal or no engineering involvement, demonstrating the effectiveness of this 'software factory' model for internal tooling.
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