Benefit Street Partners answers questions faster with Codex

Why it matters

OpenAI has published a customer story about Benefit Street Partners, a credit-focused investment manager, where portfolio manager Anant Kumar used Codex to build internal tools without needing dedicated software support. One tool is a tracker that draws on public SEC filings from business development companies to compare how different firms value the same loan, letting the team check its own marks against other holders' valuations. Kumar built the first version in a single day, using Codex to review code, and refined it over subsequent weeks. He also created a credit agreement analyzer, which digests lengthy agreements and produces a first-pass analysis that analysts then review by hand. Kumar says the tools let the team respond to investment committee follow-up questions far faster, sometimes during the meeting itself, and that Benefit Street Partners is using them to add rigor within existing timelines rather than to expand deal volume. He stresses that final investment decisions remain with humans. The story is a vendor case study, so its claims reflect the customer's and OpenAI's own account.