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Michael Grinich
@grinich
@WorkOS founder
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WorkOS today powers thousands of products, including the fastest growing AI startups like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor. We shipped a fresh page highlighting a few: The future runs on @WorkOS 🚀
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My Inflow project (better LinkedIn messenger) now has a website! Totally free and runs local. Check it out and lmk what you think 🚀
LinkedIn messaging is embarrassingly bad. So I built a faster, private, open-source inbox. ⌨️ Superhuman-style shortcuts ⚡ Instant search with local message sync 🌙 Dark mode, emoji, and more 🔒 Runs completely local as a Chrome extension Open source and free. Get it below 👇
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33% of the Lenny 100 are powered by @WorkOS
3. The Lenny 100 To help you prioritize your search, I’ve curated a list of the top 100 companies I’d most want to join if I were looking for a job. These are companies that IMHO have the highest talent density, are tackling the most ambitious problems, have the biggest upside potential—and are actively hiring. I’ll update this list regularly:
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i know kung fu
@grinich and @WorkOS organized a Matrix screening last night, and damn, it still hits. every rewatch reveals something new. obviously, with ai, agents and everything it lands quite differently today. now, back to arguing with claude code.
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What does a product designer do when they can query production data, search every customer conversation, understand every past decision, and ship directly to the browser? @sara_k_48 recently joined @WorkOS and wrote about what designing at an AI-native company actually looks like:
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Introduction WorkOS Airlock: the permissions and control layer for AI agents
this is wild i love whats coming out of @blocks
Today we open sourced our no 1 used internal tool, berd. An agent where you can byo harness/models while keeping your work and context in one place, in an unhinged environment where you can build your dream team of agents. Try it out at
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The future has to start somewhere. init() is a new conference for the builders, engineers, and founders shaping what comes next in software and AI. San Francisco. October 7th. SFJAZZ Center. You won't want to miss this one! 🔥 Apply to attend:
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Last week, hundreds of founders and builders gathered for AGENT NIGHT. If you weren't there, here's what you missed including the preview launch of WorkOS Airlock: 01:25 Why agents need a new access control system 18:00 Introducing Airlock: Intent-Based Access Control 21:11 WorkOS Airlock live demo 34:06 The Age of Personalized Software - @davidcrawshaw (@ssh_exe_dev) 41:06 Get your product into agent retrieval and model training data - @inazarova (@evilmartians) 47:26 Make moves with Mastra Factory - @abhiaiyer (@mastra) 51:31 How to be the very best Self Healing Pokémon Master - @bdougieYO (@papercompute) 57:33 Panel: The State of Agents with @JayaGup10, @Altimor, and @swyx
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why permissions for agents is a hard problem:
would you like to run «incredibly specific command that is only useful in this instance» > 1 - yes > 2 - yes, always allow «incredibly specific command that is only useful in this instance»
this is what happens when you join @workos 🔥
I think I got AI-Pilled, Before: 2-4 Agent threads. After: Concurrent 8 agent threads, all building off different things, on multiple projects, an extra stalled one of them is compiling chrome for the past 8 hours. 15 threads in Slack with bots. WUT! HOW WAS I MISSING ON THIS?
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fun conversation with @pk_iv about how we've transformed @WorkOS with AI, the future of MCP, and more 🎙️
Is MCP dead? @grinich (CEO of WorkOS) says it's better than ever and become the strongest intent signal in your funnel. @workos is building the auth, permissions, and registration layer for that world, the same enterprise plumbing it sold to Vercel and Plaid, now sold to AI companies. I sat down with Michael to talk about it in episode 4 of Navigators. His argument: your coding agent already picks your vendors, but signup forms are built to block automated traffic, so the agent stalls at the front door and waits for a human to paste in an API key. We got into: 00:00 "Stripe for enterprise features": what WorkOS actually sells 02:44 How an SSO and SAML company ended up as AI infrastructure 04:13 Why AI companies can't meander up-market the way Slack, Dropbox, and Figma did 06:54 The biggest mistake founders make: staying in the pre-PMF experimentation mindset 09:51 Why nothing works unless the management team is AI pilled first 10:47 "Claude day": pairing engineers with finance, legal, and ops once a month 13:36 auth.md, the missing front door for agents 15:26 Why registration, not tooling, is the next growth channel 16:59 Is MCP dead? The higher-intent signal hiding in MCP connections 19:35 Why SDKs are going away and coding agents write their own 23:09 "The super cycle of all super cycles": AI amplifies labor, it doesn't just disrupt it Thanks for joining me on the pod @grinich! Watch the full episode of Navigators here:
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When companies grow, proximity to builders disappears first. @grinich on talking to users - not just customers and pipeline.
I built "The Oregon Trail" for b2b startups 🤠🦬🏞 Ford the SAML River. Survive the 320-question security questionnaire. Hunt bugs with pitch decks. Your party can die of burnout, scope creep, or a crypto side-project. Play now:
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Agent Night was a blast! 🚀 Thank you @swyx @JayaGup10 @Altimor @davidcrawshaw @bdougieYO @abhiaiyer @inazarova and the hundreds of attendees. Incredible conversations, demos, and energy. And special thank you to our friends at @AnthropicAI for giving everyone 6 months FREE of Claude Max 20x 🔥 We'll publish a full recap and videos soon. ✨ See you at the next one!
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AGENT NIGHT The Regency Ballroom Doors open in 1 hour
LinkedIn messaging is embarrassingly bad. So I built a faster, private, open-source inbox. ⌨️ Superhuman-style shortcuts ⚡ Instant search with local message sync 🌙 Dark mode, emoji, and more 🔒 Runs completely local as a Chrome extension Open source and free. Get it below 👇
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