---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "How Podium is arming 10,000+ SMBs with AI agents"
description: "Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/podium"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "deployment", "openai"]
timestamp: "2025-12-11"
category: "deployment"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 96
confidence: 0.9
---

# How Podium is arming 10,000+ SMBs with AI agents

# Claim

Discover how Podium used OpenAI’s GPT-5 to build “Jerry,” an AI teammate driving 300% growth and transforming how Main Street businesses serve customers.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section four: enterprise deployment evidence

# Oracle Verdict

OpenAI is describing a frontier or production capability that pushes directly on the thesis. The important signal is not the marketing language; it is the widening set of tasks now being routed through model-driven execution rather than ordinary software or headcount.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: deployment
* Sector: Enterprise operations
* Capability: Frontier model release and benchmark movement
* Cope score: 96
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [How Podium is arming 10,000+ SMBs with AI agents](https://openai.com/index/podium)