Automate ongoing tasks with ChatGPT Dots & persistent memory

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ChatGPT Dots are always-on agents that work in the background on recurring tasks - monitoring trends, drafting reports, checking systems - without you asking each time. They remember your preferences across Slack, Teams, and ChatGPT, making them ideal for delegating market monitoring, competitive research, or data collection that needs to happen continuously.

Traditional automation (Zapier, scheduling) handles rigid workflows but breaks when tasks require judgment or context. ChatGPT Dots solve this by creating a persistent agent that holds a goal, maintains memory across conversations, and reports back on its own schedule. Launched at OpenAI's DevDay on September 29, 2026, Dots run on GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer and browser, allowing them to take autonomous action while staying within your approval controls.

How to set up a Dot for professional use: Create a new Dot with a specific, bounded task. Example: "Monitor competitor pricing and product updates for [three specific competitors]. Every Monday morning, send me a summary of what changed, ranked by impact. Escalate to me immediately if someone drops prices by 15% or more." Give the Dot access to your company's CRM and competitor websites through the plugin ecosystem (4,000+ apps available). The Dot then runs these checks automatically while you work on other priorities, pulling from ChatGPT's general memory plus its own notes about your preferences and past decisions.

The workflow across teams: Dots persist across ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams - meaning a conversation started in Slack can inform a report generated in ChatGPT later. This is critical for team environments: the Dot learns your approval style, preferred tone, and decision criteria, then adapts its reporting accordingly. For a sales team, a single Dot could monitor deal pipeline changes, flag stalled opportunities, and send weekly summaries to your CRM. For research teams, a Dot could aggregate relevant industry news daily, tagged by topic, with sources linked.

Security and control: Dots are available on ChatGPT Pro ($100+/month) and Business Premium plans. Memory stays personal to one user (though enterprise teams can share context through "shared memory" spaces), and you can set approval rules that force human review before the Dot takes risky actions. Use bounded tasks only for read-heavy work initially (monitoring, reporting, analysis) rather than write-heavy operations (modifying databases, sending emails) until your team is confident in the Dot's decision-making.