---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex"
description: "Official OpenAI release: Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/rakuten"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-03-11"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 74
confidence: 0.9
---

# Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex

# Claim

Official OpenAI release: Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a lower-to-mid strength vendor signal for the capability register. It does not prove displacement on its own, but it records another platform step that can later show up as workflow automation, procurement change, or organisational dependency.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: Software engineering
* Capability: Autonomous software engineering and computer-use agents
* Cope score: 74
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

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

# Citations

[1] [Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex](https://openai.com/index/rakuten)