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id: "entity-sky-team"
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canonicalName: "Software Applications Inc."
aliases: ["Sky Team", "Sky"]
source_timestamps: ["00:10:02"]
tags: ["acquisition", "startup"]
related: ["entity-openai", "claim-openai-acquired-sky", "concept-background-execution"]
sources: ["s03-apps-no-api"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s03-apps-no-api"
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---
# Software Applications Inc. (The Sky Team)

## Profile

A 12-person startup, per the speaker, acquired by [[entity-openai-d3]] specifically to power the OS-level body of [[entity-codex-d3]]. Founded by former Apple engineers with deep Mac OS expertise.

## Notable People (as stated in the video)

- **Ari Weinstein** — co-founder. Co-creator of Workflow (the iOS automation app Apple acquired and rebranded as Shortcuts).
- **Conrad Kramer** — co-founder. Co-creator of Workflow.
- **Kim Beverett** — 10-year Apple veteran; worked on Safari and WebKit.

## Why the Team Mattered

The team's accumulated, scarce expertise in **Apple accessibility frameworks** and **screen recording permissions** was the prerequisite for [[concept-background-execution]] — agents that drive the GUI without hijacking the user's session.

See the full claim and timeline in [[claim-openai-acquired-sky]].

## Enrichment Caveat

No public canonical site or filing has been located confirming an October 2025 OpenAI acquisition of 'Software Applications Inc.' The Workflow founders' post-Apple activities are not, in public records, tied to OpenAI. Treat the corporate transaction as the speaker's report; the technical capability is plausible regardless of the exact provenance.