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Why Can't Anyone Answer Questions About the Business? — Garrett Galow, WorkOS

AI Engineer · Jun 11, 2026 · Engineering Insights

WorkOS built an internal tool called Studio to let non-technical staff self-serve business and customer data questions.

“We power enterprise platform features for the likes of Cursor, Anthropic, OpenAI.”

A WorkOS product lead describes the common bottleneck where business questions require technical staff with SQL/data access, creating slow back-and-forth. To solve this internally, WorkOS built 'Studio,' a workspace letting employees answer questions and build their own dashboards. It is a useful internal-tooling pattern but a minor signal for the broader AI industry.

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