How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

TL;DR: Omio reduced product development cycles by 80% by giving every engineer access to Codex and ChatGPT, fundamentally rethinking workflows — not by automating existing tasks, but by rebuilding from scratch assuming AI is ready from the start. ## Speed Leap: Development Time Cut from 3 Months to 1 Month Omio rebuilt customer-facing products on top of AI. Every engineer has access to Codex and uses it throughout the entire developer lifecycle. The result: tasks that used to take three months now take one month. The total time to build a product is only 20% of what it was. ## The Division of Labor: ChatGPT vs. Codex ChatGPT acts as an “assistant” — it can answer almost any question. But when actual work needs to get done, engineers turn to Codex. Codex is cheaper, faster, and makes decisions easier and quicker because the investment is smaller, while delivering similar outputs and results as before. ## Codex Integration Codex can browse emails, Slack, other channels, and Jira to summarize, suggest actions, and even draft messages — typically accurate and highly efficient. Omio applies OpenAI’s model tools across all these areas. ## Company-Wide ChatGPT Adoption Rolling out ChatGPT to all employees was one of Omio’s first moves. This led to faster integration and faster product development. ## Rethinking How We Work Every function needs to rethink how it works. Omio’s perspective is not “How can we automate existing work with AI?” but rather: “If we were starting from scratch today, with all AI capabilities ready, what would we do?” Then rebuild the process from that perspective, truly transforming how work gets done. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU5-komJ-GE