Let Anyone at Your Company Ship Internal Apps with AI — Garrett Galow, WorkOS

Building an app with AI got cheap. Getting it in front of your coworkers didn't. Garrett Galow from the WorkOS product team shows how WorkOS lets anyone at the company build and ship internal apps. It started when an account executive built a helpful sales chatbot before her leave, and the CEO couldn't even open it. Building got cheap with AI, but deploying, securing and sharing apps still needed engineers. So WorkOS built two things: WOW, a CLI pushed to every laptop that sets up the repo, tools and template in one command, and Atlas, the platform underneath, which keeps infrastructure invisible, makes every app secure by default behind company SSO, and makes every app discoverable. He demos it live and shares results: 278 apps, more than 3 million requests a week, and 37% of regularly used apps built with no engineer in a single commit. In this talk: • Why shipping, not building, is now the bottleneck for internal tools • Claude days: pairing non-engineers at the keyboard with engineers as coaches • A one-command CLI and a platform that's invisible, secure and discoverable • Results: hundreds of apps, millions of requests, many built without engineers SPEAKER Garrett Galow, Product Manager, WorkOS LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/garrett-galow X: https://x.com/g2theg GitHub: https://github.com/garrettgalow Website: https://garrettgalow.com LINKS WorkOS: https://workos.com The person with the problem builds the tool (WorkOS blog): https://workos.com/blog/person-with-the-problem-builds-the-tool WorkOS on X: https://x.com/workos CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:32 Letting everyone ship 1:02 Story: Perona GPT 1:42 The CEO couldn't open it 2:27 Building got cheap. Shipping didn't. 3:46 What we needed: build and share 4:46 Claude days: non-engineers at the keyboard 5:31 The WOW CLI 6:26 A shared skills repository 6:41 Demo: one command to a running app 8:30 278 apps in the registry 9:05 Example apps 9:25 Every app behind company login 11:10 Atlas: the platform underneath 11:25 Three principles 12:04 Running on Cloudflare 12:44 Secure by default: SSO, logs, secrets 14:59 Results: 37% built without engineers 15:24 What's next 16:19 Wrap-up Recorded at the AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 in San Francisco. Subscribe for more talks from the engineers building with AI. AI Engineer: https://ai.engineer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer X: https://x.com/aiDotEngineer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidotengineer/ #InternalTools #AIEnablement #AIEngineer