OpenAI president Greg Brockman said Wednesday the company will be ready to go public in 2027, the most concrete timeline an OpenAI executive has attached to a potential IPO.

Brockman made the comments at a Wall Street Journal tech conference in Napa, California, where he also pointed to growth in the company's enterprise business, noting the scale of its business-customer base as evidence of commercial maturity.

The framing is worth parsing: "ready for" an IPO is not the same as committing to one. But putting a year on readiness signals that OpenAI's restructuring and revenue trajectory are converging toward a public-market story — and it gives investors, employees and rivals a date to anchor expectations around. An OpenAI listing would be one of the most consequential tech IPOs in years, testing public-market appetite for AI businesses with enormous revenue growth and equally enormous compute costs.

Enterprise traction will be central to that pitch. Brockman's decision to pair the IPO timeline with business-customer numbers suggests OpenAI wants to be valued as a durable enterprise vendor, not just a consumer phenomenon riding ChatGPT's install base.