The AI engineering company is building its Codex practice on one argument: the advantage lies not just in access to powerful frontier models, but also in owning the process around them.
WALNUT CREEK, CA, Thursday 09/17/26 — Solvd, Inc., an AI engineering company, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact.
As an OpenAI Select Partner, Solvd will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively. This work will help organizations put GPT-6 Astra to work across more of their business, using deeper reasoning and computer use to complete complex workflows and deliver finished work. Solvd will also work with customers on Codex and the practical transformation of how enterprise software is built.
Solvd enters this partnership with a guiding philosophy: advantage lies not only in frontier model access, but also in a company’s unique codebase, standards, test history, and the judgment of its engineers. Differentiation, then, lies in the processes and systems wrapped around the model, and more importantly, how much of that wrapper a company actually owns.
This is why Solvd built its practice on Codex, integrating it into an effective AI software development lifecycle that brings together commercial tools, enterprise-ready open source, frontier models, and, where appropriate, open-weight models.
“Companies should own their architecture rather than inherit it from whichever tool they bought first,” said Skylar Roebuck, Chief Technology Officer at Solvd. “The Codex team has open-sourced the harness while keeping it configurable enough for customers to build their own ways of working on top of it. That ownership allows them to adapt as the technology changes and apply evolving design patterns to meet their own requirements for safety, performance, and cost.”
Transforming Software-Delivery Workflows with Codex
Solvd works alongside clients to build independent, adaptable engineering capabilities where customers retain ownership of the tooling, configuration, and architecture. This requires more than just handing over a strategy document. Instead, the team works directly in the client’s codebase and on their specific release schedule to ensure:
- Engineering Baseline: Establishing the codebase readiness required for agents, including tests, documentation, and clear architectural gates.
- Production Reliability: Moving from pilot to production, ensuring each individual engineer, QA, and product person is confident working with agents day to day.
- Proven Impact: Success is measured against metrics agreed upon in advance, and the system is refined before it’s handed over to the client. Success metrics cover delivery, adoption, and onboarding, as well as economics and quality.
Solvd works with software companies, where release speed is critical to the business, and with enterprises across e-commerce, retail, fintech, hospitality, and banking. Its engineering services blend industry experience with research depth, boasting a team that includes active contributors to NeurIPS, ICML, and CVPR. Deployments are therefore grounded in both the latest research and the practical realities of high-stakes enterprise production.
Looking ahead, Solvd plans to help customers move from AI ambitions to deployed solutions and gains that translate directly into improvements in cost, time, or revenue.
Learn more about the OpenAI Partner Network: https://openai.com/business/partners/
