Security & Threat Intelligence · 05.08.2026, 14:09 UTC
How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | Security & Threat Intelligence |
| Quelle | Cloudflare Blog ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 05.08.2026 UTC |
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Sam Rhea is Cloudflare’s Chief Information Officer.I knew we had a problem about six months ago when a member of our sales organization reached out to me asking for API keys. Keys plural. They used AI to build what they described as a SuperApp that would transform our go-to-market teams. All they needed was production access to about a dozen systems of record at Cloudflare and admin permissions to a deployment pipeline to make it work.We had taken a fairly cautious approach to rolling out AI at Cloudflare during 2025. We deployed informational chat applications and tinkered with using AI to help write some boilerplate code, but we felt that the technology was not ready to change how we work.And then, over the course of a few days at the end of last year, better models and more powerful harnesses changed that calculus. AI agents could do things, and they could do them well. Hundreds of team members across Cloudflare, in technical and non-technical roles, spent the quieter weeks around the New Year experimenting with new tools that made it easier than ever to build.That sales team member building their SuperApp was just the first in an avalanche of people raising their hands to use these tools to transform how they get things done. We had an obligation to equip and enable them to do so. But we also had an obligation to keep our systems, internal data, and customer data safe.We have spent the last several months building a platform to do exactly that inside of Cloudflare. We call it Cloudflare OS. We started by stitching together off-the-shelf components from our Developer …