Blog post May 6, 2026
Conway, Codex, and the Layer No Foundation Provider Can Build
Anthropic is testing Claude Conway. OpenAI shipped Codex plugins. Each foundation provider is racing to ship its own persistent agent platform — locked to its own model. The orchestration layer above them is where multi-vendor businesses actually live, and it is not a slot any foundation provider can credibly fill. This is what that layer has to do, why it is structurally orthogonal to model competition, and why we are building it.