10 Ways to Use Codex at Work

It brings together 10 prompts for plugging Codex directly into the workplace, showcasing practical use cases that span calendar, email, Slack, Google Drive, spreadsheets, slides, and web research.

Each item consists of why to use it, a base prompt you can paste right in, customization points to adapt to your environment, recommended plugins/skills, and a working example. Across all of them, it emphasizes flagging unverified information and clearly distinguishing between source links and inference.

• Daily chief of staff: Pulls together calendar, messages, email, and follow-ups to create a daily priority brief.
• Weekly summary: Compiles the week's completed tasks, decisions, changes, blockers, and next week's priorities into a manager-ready update.
• Draft slide decks: Drafts a 7-slide PowerPoint for a customer onboarding review and checks for layout and chart issues.
• Research to decision memo: Combines internal materials and web research into a 1-page memo to support decisions like event sponsorships.
• File cleanup and reformatting: Cleans up attendee data from multiple sources, removes duplicates, and separates out a Needs Review tab.
• Spreadsheet consolidation: Merges multiple spreadsheets by account ID and builds a pipeline dashboard by region and segment.
• Book of business prioritization: Combines risk and upside across renewal accounts to pick the top 10 accounts to focus on this week.
• Month-end financial review: Populates slides with month-end actuals, key variances, speaker notes, and questions for the CFO, with every number backed by a source.
• Launch campaign kit: Drafts customer emails, internal announcements, social posts, a 2-week content plan, and an agency brief all at once from a launch plan.
• Workflow audit and automation spec: Diagnoses a complex process like onboarding to map out current steps, bottlenecks, recurring questions, and automation candidates, and produces improvement recommendations.