THE WEEKLY DROP · September 28, 2026

Agents at work, and a place to start

This week, the catalog gained new ways to hand work to AI and a grounded place to learn the basics. We picked a coding agent, a platform for business workflows, and a beginner course—each with a clear use case and a limit to keep in mind.

Featuring resources first published on StartupWorker during September 21–27, 2026.
01 · AI AGENT

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent for building, reviewing, and shipping software across desktop, web, command-line, IDE, and cloud workflows.

Our take. Codex is worth evaluating on a bounded repository task: let it investigate, change code, and run checks, then judge the diff against your normal review standard. Its local, editor, and cloud surfaces give software teams several ways to fit that work into an existing workflow.

Watch for. A finished agent run still needs a human code review, controlled credentials, and tests that cover the real risk of the change.

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02 · AI AGENT

Relevance AI Workforce

A no-code platform for building specialist AI agents and coordinating them into workforces with shared tools, knowledge, triggers, and handoffs.

Our take. Relevance AI is most interesting when a business process needs several specialists and clear handoffs, rather than one all-purpose chatbot. Its visual workforce model makes tools, knowledge, and the sequence of work easier to map before a team automates it.

Watch for. The setup is the hard part: define permissions, approvals, escalation, and an accountable owner before agents take external actions.

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03 · COURSE

Google AI Essentials

A beginner course on AI fundamentals, workplace productivity, prompting, responsible use, and adapting as the technology changes.

Our take. Google AI Essentials is a practical entry point for colleagues who need to use AI well before they build automations. Its short, hands-on modules cover prompts, everyday work, and responsible use without requiring a technical background.

Watch for. It is introductory by design; developers looking for API implementation or production evaluation will need a deeper course.

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Everything new last week

All catalog resources first published during September 21–27, 2026.

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