diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0c10b3ba..59ebe686 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "skyvern"
-version = "0.1.75"
+version = "0.1.76"
 description = ""
 authors = ["Skyvern AI <info@skyvern.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/skyvern/forge/app.py b/skyvern/forge/app.py
index 34fcb155..ef4aac10 100644
--- a/skyvern/forge/app.py
+++ b/skyvern/forge/app.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ ARTIFACT_MANAGER = ArtifactManager()
 BROWSER_MANAGER = BrowserManager()
 EXPERIMENTATION_PROVIDER: BaseExperimentationProvider = NoOpExperimentationProvider()
 LLM_API_HANDLER = LLMAPIHandlerFactory.get_llm_api_handler(SettingsManager.get_settings().LLM_KEY)
-OPENAI_CLIENT = AsyncOpenAI(api_key=SettingsManager.get_settings().OPENAI_API_KEY)
+OPENAI_CLIENT = AsyncOpenAI(api_key=SettingsManager.get_settings().OPENAI_API_KEY or "")
 if SettingsManager.get_settings().ENABLE_AZURE_CUA:
     OPENAI_CLIENT = AsyncAzureOpenAI(
         api_key=SettingsManager.get_settings().AZURE_CUA_API_KEY,