ChatGPT Just Launched AI Agents 🛠️

OpenAI dropped Workspace Agents — AI that connects to your tools, runs on a schedule, and works while you sleep. It’s free until May 6. Here’s everything you.

AEO SUMMARY Quick Overview & Execution Blueprint

What Happened

ChatGPT Can Do Your Work While You Sleep

On April 22, 2026, OpenAI launched Workspace Agents — a new feature that lets you build AI agents inside ChatGPT that run automatically, connect to your work tools, and complete tasks without you being there.

Instead of going to ChatGPT and asking it things one conversation at a time, you now build an agent, give it a job, and it runs that job for you on a schedule — in the cloud, on autopilot.

FREE UNTIL MAY 6

Workspace Agents are completely free during research preview. After May 6, 2026, they switch to a credit-based pricing model (OpenAI hasn’t disclosed costs yet). If you want to try this, now is the time.

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At a Glance

What It Does

Build AI agents that gather info, take actions, and report back — automatically, on a schedule, in the cloud.

What It Connects To

Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Notion, Atlassian, Gmail, Calendar, and more.

Who Gets It

ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans. Not available on Plus, Team, or Free.

What It Costs

Free during research preview (until May 6). Credit-based pricing after that — costs TBD.

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How to Build Your First Agent

STEP 1Get Access

STEP 2Create An Agent

STEP 3Connect Your Tools

STEP 4Set The Trigger

STEP 5Add Guardrails

STEP 6Deploy It

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What People Are Building

Lead Research Agent: Monitors inbound leads, researches each company, scores them, drafts personalized outreach emails, and updates your CRM. Runs every time a new lead comes in.

Meeting Prep Agent: Before every meeting on your calendar, it pulls the attendee’s LinkedIn, recent emails, relevant docs from your Drive, and open action items — drops a briefing in your Slack 30 minutes before the call.

Weekly Report Agent: Every Friday, it pulls data from your tools, compiles a summary of what happened that week, and posts it to your team’s Slack channel. No one has to write it.

Customer Feedback Router: Monitors support channels and Slack for product feedback, categorizes it, creates prioritized tickets, and generates a weekly summary for the product team.

Content Monitor: Tracks competitor websites, industry news, or social mentions on a schedule and sends you a daily digest of what changed.

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How This Is Different From Custom GPTs

Custom GPTs were individual chatbots you could customize. Workspace Agents are autonomous workers that connect to your tools and run without you.

• Custom GPTs wait for you to chat with them. Agents run on a schedule while you sleep.
• Custom GPTs can’t connect to Slack, your CRM, or your files. Agents plug directly into your work tools.
• Custom GPTs are for individual use. Agents are shared across your team.
• Custom GPTs give you answers. Agents take actions — sending emails, updating records, posting to Slack.

HEADS UP

OpenAI is deprecating custom GPTs for organizations at a future date (timeline TBD). If you’re on a Business, Enterprise, or Edu plan, you’ll eventually need to migrate your custom GPTs to Workspace Agents. No rush, but worth knowing.

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What to Know Before You Start

PLAN REQUIREMENTS

Workspace Agents are only available on ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans. If you’re on Plus, Team, or Free — you don’t have access yet.

ADMIN MUST ENABLE IT

Your workspace admin needs to turn on the Agents feature and assign you permission to create or use agents. It’s off by default. If you don’t see “Agents” in your sidebar, talk to your admin.

TASKS TAKE 5–30 MINUTES

Agents aren’t instant. Complex tasks can take up to 30 minutes to complete. They run in the background, so you don’t need to watch — but don’t expect real-time results.

PRICING AFTER MAY 6 IS UNKNOWN

OpenAI hasn’t disclosed what the credit-based pricing will look like. We don’t know how much agents will cost per task, what metrics determine credit consumption, or whether pricing varies by complexity. Use the free window to figure out if this is valuable for your team before committing.

RESEARCH PREVIEW

This is still in research preview. Features may change, things may break, and the interface may evolve. It’s functional and useful right now, but it’s not a finished product.

Whether you use ChatGPT, Claude, or both — AI agents are one of the most useful things you can set up right now. The Weekend Bootcamp teaches you to build a full system of agents, skills, and automations around your specific job, using Claude.

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