How Endava builds an agentic organization with Codex
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Endava is using OpenAI's Codex to turn itself into an "agentic organization," cutting weeks of requirements work down to hours. That's not a small tweak — it's IT consulting trying to route around its own biggest bottleneck.
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Requirements analysis is the part of enterprise software nobody brags about but everyone gets stuck on. Endava, a global IT consultancy that builds custom systems for banks, insurers, and other large clients, has apparently found a way to blow past that bottleneck using Codex, OpenAI's coding-focused agent. According to the case study, tasks that used to eat two or three weeks of analyst time — combing through legacy documentation, mapping business rules, drafting specs — now get done in hours.
The interesting part isn't just speed. Endava is framing this as building an "agentic organization," meaning Codex isn't bolted on as a chatbot for developers to poke at when they're stuck. It's woven into how projects actually get started and structured, doing the unglamorous groundwork that determines whether a six-month engagement runs smoothly or turns into a change-order nightmare. Consulting firms live and die by margins on exactly this kind of labor-intensive discovery work, so shrinking it from weeks to hours isn't a nice-to-have. It's a direct hit to cost structure and, potentially, to how many analysts a project needs in the room.
That said, requirements analysis for enterprise clients is messy in ways that resist automation: stakeholders disagree, legacy systems have undocumented quirks, and half the
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
I'll believe the productivity numbers when a consultancy publishes what happened to headcount and billing rates a year later, not just a flattering case study co-written with the vendor. Endava has every incentive to make Codex look transformative since OpenAI is presumably footing part of the PR bill, and that doesn't mean it's wrong — just that I'd want an independent client testimonial before treating weeks-to-hours as the new normal across enterprise IT.
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