What 21 five-minute demos looked like at WorkOS Demo Night

WorkOS’s second San Francisco Demo Night featured 21 live, slide-free, non-promotional five-minute demonstrations focused largely on the infrastructure needed to make AI agents useful, secure, and deployable. Projects included Carbon Code, an AI coding agent that edits its own source on emulated Mac OS 9; hosted and collaborative agent control planes such as Omnara and Open-Inspect; remote interfaces through mobile apps, terminals, voice, and Apple Watch controls; and security systems including Sesame and Super Self that keep credentials outside agents’ reach and enforce network or policy boundaries. Other presenters examined custom benchmarks and open vendor comparisons, MCP-based integrations for agents operating across ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, Teams, and LinkedIn, and local-first model and embedding systems that run without cloud APIs. Demos also highlighted supporting tools such as deterministic lint rules for agent-generated code, task-specific context compilers, and unified data-query layers, while Sangria showed a consumer-facing purchasing agent embedded in iMessage. Across the presentations, the recurring conclusion was that agents themselves are becoming less central than the surrounding scaffolding for execution, context, evaluation, access control, reliability, and human oversight.

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