ChatGPT Work is an Autonomous AI Agent for completing longer, multi-step knowledge-work assignments from natural-language instructions. It gathers context from files, connected applications, websites, and permitted desktop tools; plans an approach; performs the required actions; and produces deliverables such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, reports, analyses, dashboards, and interactive Sites.

Users can review the proposed approach, answer questions, change direction, and approve consequential actions while a task is underway. OpenAI currently identifies GPT-6 as the model family supporting the product.

Key Capabilities

Task planning: Plan mode gathers context, identifies missing information, and presents an editable sequence of steps before execution.
Research and analysis: ChatGPT Work can investigate topics across websites, uploaded files, and connected data sources, then organize its findings into cited reports or analytical deliverables.
Document production: The agent creates and edits documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forecasts, reports, and other shareable business materials.
Tool and file access: With permission, the desktop application can work across local files, desktop applications, browser tabs, and supported web tools.
Connected business context: Plugins and application connections allow the agent to retrieve information from services used by a team and incorporate that context into its work.
Interactive deliverables: Sites converts plans, data, and other source material into shareable web applications, dashboards, project trackers, launch calendars, and prototypes.
Scheduled work: Users can configure one-time or recurring tasks and monitor their progress across supported devices.
Human oversight: Users can interrupt a task, clarify instructions, revise its direction, or approve important actions before execution.

Recommended Tasks

ChatGPT Work is intended for assignments that require several coordinated steps or a finished work product rather than a quick conversational answer. It is an autonomous agent with interactive supervision. It can independently gather context, plan, use tools, navigate websites, manipulate files, and produce finished deliverables. However, it may pause for clarification or approval, particularly before consequential actions. “Supervised autonomy” is the most accurate description.

Suitable tasks include:

Recurring performance reporting: Retrieve current metrics from connected systems, update a spreadsheet or dashboard, identify material changes, and distribute an executive-ready report on a schedule.
Cross-system lead analysis: Inspect records across CRM, email, call-intelligence, and marketing systems; reconstruct each lead’s journey; identify process failures; and produce prioritized follow-up lists.
Competitive research: Navigate competitor websites and product experiences, collect comparable information, structure the findings as a dataset, analyze differences, and prepare a decision brief.
Financial analysis: Gather source data, examine business drivers, construct or update forecasts, and produce a formatted spreadsheet and management presentation.
Project and program monitoring: Review information from project-management systems, customer records, email, and team discussions; identify blockers and risks; assign findings to owners; and prepare meeting materials.
Event operations: Combine registration, account, attendance, and feedback data; reconcile records; analyze results; and update recurring event dashboards without rebuilding the process for each event.
Research-program execution: Identify research subjects, organize source material, analyze interview transcripts, detect patterns, and produce a documented findings report.
Scheduled market monitoring: Revisit designated sources on a recurring basis, detect relevant changes, update an existing analysis, and notify the user when predefined conditions occur.
Document and presentation production: Collect information from approved sources and team files, apply an existing template, and deliver a completed report, spreadsheet, or presentation for review.
Maintained internal tools: Create and update interactive Sites such as project trackers, launch calendars, operational dashboards, and reporting applications as their underlying information changes.

Purchase and Availability

ChatGPT Work is purchased as part of a ChatGPT plan rather than as a separate standalone product.

Free and Go: Limited access is available through the ChatGPT desktop application for macOS and Windows.
Plus and Pro: Expanded access is included on desktop, web, and mobile. Individual subscriptions can be purchased through ChatGPT.
Business: Organizations can purchase per-user subscriptions, starting with two users. Additional usage credits may be available beyond included plan capacity.
Enterprise and Edu: Access is obtained through an organizational agreement. Enterprise and education buyers contact OpenAI sales, and workspace administrators can control availability through roles and workspace settings.

Availability may depend on the account rollout, plan limits, device, region, and organizational controls.

Product Legacy and Former Names

ChatGPT Work is the current successor to several earlier OpenAI agent products and modes:

Operator: Introduced in January 2025 as a research preview, Operator used a hosted browser to click, type, scroll, and complete web-based tasks.
Deep Research: Introduced in February 2025 for autonomous, multi-source online research and cited analytical reports.
ChatGPT agent: Released in July 2025, ChatGPT agent combined Operator’s browser interaction with Deep Research’s investigation and synthesis capabilities. It added a virtual computer, terminal access, connectors, APIs, and recurring tasks. The standalone Operator site was subsequently retired.
ChatGPT Work: Introduced in July 2026 as the successor for longer, multi-step assignments and finished deliverables. The product expanded the earlier agent model into documents, spreadsheets, presentations, Sites, desktop applications, team context, and cross-device task continuation.
Deep Research remains available as a dedicated research capability, while ChatGPT Work serves as the broader environment for research, action, and deliverable creation.

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