[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: More Context Makes for Smarter Products
WorkOS Pipes offers a single API call to integrate with over 100 providers like GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, and Google Drive, handling OAuth flows, token refresh, and credential storage so developers can focus on product code instead of integration infrastructure.
Background
- WorkOS is a company that sells backend infrastructure for B2B SaaS products — things like user authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and directory sync. "Pipes" is their newest product, focused on third-party API integrations.
- The problem Pipes solves: when your app needs to pull data from or send actions to services like Slack, GitHub, or Salesforce, each one requires its own OAuth handshake, token-refresh logic, and credential storage. Building that in-house for even a handful of services takes weeks of engineering.
- Pipes offers a single API that handles all that boilerplate (OAuth flows, token refresh, credential management) so the customer's app just gets a fresh access token on demand and can call the third-party API directly.
- "More context makes for smarter products" hints at AI agents and copilots: apps that need to read/write across a user's existing toolchain (email, calendar, repos, CRM) to act on their behalf. Pipes makes it easier to connect those agents to many services.