ChatGPT Dots · September 29, 2026

An assistant that keeps going after the chat ends

A Dot is one personal agent inside ChatGPT. It can use its own cloud computer, work with apps you choose to connect, and bring back work for review. The reports below include completed jobs and failures.

Try one useful job Compare the alternatives

Bot Cabinet has not task-tested this Dot workflow. The results below belong to the people who ran them.

Early hands-on reports

What happened when people tried it

Read what testers completed, where tasks failed, and which permissions caused trouble. Bot Cabinet has not independently tested these results.

It noticed a conflict

A missed scheduling detail

Dan Shipper says his Dot connected a Slack discussion with travel plans and flagged a conflict before he booked a flight.

Worked in his accountEvery · Dan Shipper

It found money at stake

A sponsorship follow-up

Peter Yang reports that his Dot found a five-figure sponsorship issue he had overlooked while reviewing his business work.

Reported by testerVideo · Peter Yang

It lost the thread

A failed writing task

Yang says a transcript-to-newsletter task failed, and the failure was hard to find in a busy conversation.

Failed in his testVideo · Peter Yang

Access got in the way

Disconnected computer access

Shipper reports missed replies, awkward site logins, and local-computer permission dropping during his early test.

Failed or stalled in his testEvery · Dan Shipper

A remote handoff

A website task in Codex

Chase AI showed his Dot starting a Codex task and passing instructions to it while he continued using the Dot. He later opened the resulting local page.

Shown in his early-access testVideo · Chase AI

The handoff got messy

Started, but hard to track

In the same test, the task first hit a startup error, appeared outside the project he named, and the Dot did not clearly report that the preview was ready.

Friction shown by testerVideo · Chase AI

Watch the test

Ten jobs, including the ones that failed

Peter Yang walks through research, app-launch work, sponsorships, and tasks Dots could not finish. His comparison with Grok Bot and Muse is his judgment, not a Bot Cabinet benchmark.

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Your first result

Find the follow-up that got lost

Paste meeting notes to get a list of promises and follow-ups. Start without connecting an inbox.

Check access

Dots are rolling out to eligible Pro and Business Premium users, plus admin-enabled Enterprise beta workspaces. Create your first Dot on desktop web or in the ChatGPT desktop app. If you do not see it yet, check OpenAI's current help page.

Try one small task

Copy the practice prompt below, or paste notes from one real meeting. No connected accounts are needed.

Inspect the answer

Check each claim against your notes. Make sure missing owners or dates are marked unknown, and that the Dot says what failed.

Practice · no private data

Try it with made-up commitments

Try the example before sharing your own notes.

Read the full practice task

Help me sort these three made-up commitments for this week:
- Send a draft agenda to my team by Tuesday afternoon.
- Review a six-page proposal by Thursday.
- Decide whether Friday's project meeting needs to happen.

Make a one-page brief. For each commitment, show the next action, owner if known, due date, and which line above supports it. Mark anything missing as a question; do not fill gaps with guesses. Then tell me what you finished and what you could not determine. Use only this message. Do not connect apps, send messages, change a calendar, set a reminder, or keep working after the brief. Stop for my review.

Your work · one meeting

Use your own notes

Remove details you do not want to share. Keep the Dot from sending or changing anything yet.

Read the full meeting-notes task

I am going to paste notes from one meeting. Find every promise, decision, and open question in those notes. Make a short table with: item, owner, due date, next action, and the exact line of my notes that supports it. Write "not stated" when a field is missing. Put the three most urgent follow-ups first. Do not send a message, edit a document, create a task, or schedule anything. End with two lists: "finished" and "needs my decision." Wait for my review before taking another step.

Meeting notes:
[Paste notes here. Remove private or sensitive details you do not want to share.]

Only after it helps

Let it take on more—one permission at a time

Start with a pasted example.Learn how it handles a small job before you connect an account.
Connect one relevant app.Review what it can read and change. Access to your own computer starts off.
Set one ongoing check.Ask for a clear report: done, blocked, and decisions for you. Review Scheduled and Activity in the Dot profile.

OpenAI says a personal Dot can do ongoing work, while dedicated specialist Dots are still in focused enterprise pilots. This guide adapts a Chief of Staff job; it does not import a Cabinet Bot or create a separate specialist. Keep spending, sending, publishing, and deletion behind your approval.