Kath Korevec is a member of the Product staff at OpenAI working on Codex, and she spent over a year building and using ChatGPT Sites internally before its public launch. She’s been on the front lines of shipping Plugin Insights, MCP plugin hosting, and the connector ecosystem, which now includes around 60 integrations.
What you’ll learn:
What Plugin Insights actually does, and why it changes who can use a site
The incident command site Kath built for her OpenAI team, and how it uses live Slack and Notion connectors
The one phrase that tells Codex to wire up connectors for you
The infrastructure layer inside Sites that most people haven’t touched yet
How Kath fixed her Spotify after her kids wrecked it, using Reddit and computer use
The skill distribution model behind her community dungeon crawler, and why it’s a new way to think about collaboration
Why model speed is what actually determines how creative you get
Where Kath draws a hard line on AI acting in her name
Brought to you by:
Merge—Connective infrastructure for production AI
Vanta—Automate compliance and simplify security
In this episode, we cover:
(▶00:00) Welcome and intro
(▶01:00) Sites: internal testing and use cases
(▶05:53) Sites infrastructure
(▶09:00) Kath’s favorite connectors
(▶11:10) Unique ways to use Sites
(▶12:28) Curating a custom Spotify playlist
(▶15:50) Game design and development
(▶25:42) Bringing inference into Sites: the widget experiment
(▶30:00) Awesome Sites gallery
(▶31:57) Kath’s prompting strategy
(▶34:20) Wrap-up and how to find Kath
Tools referenced:
• ChatGPT Sites: https://chatgpt.com/sites
• OpenAI Codex: https://openai.com/codex
Other references:
• OpenAI DevDay: https://openai.com/devday
• Awesome Sites: https://awesomesites.ai
Where to find Kath Korevec:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleensimpson/?isSelfProfile=false
X: https://x.com/simpsoka
Where to find Claire Vo:
ChatPRD: https://www.chatprd.ai/
Website: https://clairevo.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairevo/
X: https://x.com/clairevo
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