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OpenAI supplies the intelligence. DataInbox keeps the conditions.

Use OpenAI API as an AI Companion for DataInbox. DataInbox controls context, permissions, routing, cost conditions, and output validation while OpenAI supplies the AI capability.

General-purpose reasoning, multimodal understanding, generation, and tool-enabled tasks.
Provider-managed API selected under DataInbox policy.
Provider-independent task and result contract

OpenAI API

External capability under a DataInbox policy boundary

Stable architecture, replaceable provider

DataInbox decides. The Companion performs.

A provider page describes where an external capability can fit. It does not move business logic, consent, permissions, or final authority into that provider.

Governed business message

DataInbox policy and context

OpenAI API

The provider result returns to the Inbox as a structured message. Deterministic rules can validate it, reject it, route it for review, or allow a next action.

Provider fit

Where OpenAI can fit

General-purpose reasoning, multimodal understanding, generation, and tool-enabled tasks.

Companion pattern: Direct AI Companion. DataInbox can select this provider directly for an eligible task.
Deployment boundary: Provider-managed API selected under DataInbox policy.

Stable capability profile

Reasoning and generation
Multimodal tasks
Structured output and tool use

Conditions to configure

Permitted data classes
Approved region and endpoint
Cost and output thresholds

Policy before inference

Control input, cost, provider, and output.

Data permission

Which fields and data classes may leave the Inbox.

Provider eligibility

Which direct provider, router, region, or private endpoint may be used.

Cost and service target

Budget ceiling, latency objective, availability, and fallback order.

Output contract

Required schema, evidence, confidence, validation, and review path.

Direct answers

OpenAI AI Companion FAQ

What is the OpenAI AI Companion?

It is a provider-specific implementation of the DataInbox Companion contract. DataInbox prepares a standardised AI task under business-controlled conditions, OpenAI API performs the permitted capability, and the result returns to the Inbox as a governed business message.

Does using OpenAI put business logic in the provider?

No. Business rules, permissions, context selection, routing policy, and result handling remain in DataInbox. The Companion supplies an external capability and returns a standardised result.

Can OpenAI be replaced by another AI Companion?

Yes, when another Companion satisfies the same task and output contract. The replacement remains subject to company policy, connector availability, credentials, regional requirements, and validation.

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Provider choice remains a policy decision. Actual availability depends on the configured connector, credentials, region, contract, and deployment.

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