Starter workflows for a ChatGPT dot that reviews your calendar each morning, keeps the task list honest, drafts the replies you keep postponing, and nudges you before things slip.
The simplest dot workflow is the one OpenAI uses as its own example: review the calendar every morning and say what is coming. From there it grows into a task list the dot keeps current from your inbox and messages, and a set of nudges timed to when you actually need them.
The trick is to give the dot a schedule and a format, then let it run. You can pause it any time from its profile.
The first standing job OpenAI suggests for a dot: review the calendar and inbox each morning and send five lines you can act on before the day starts.
No. OpenAI says conversations with your dot do not count toward ChatGPT usage limits. Deeper background work draws from a plan allowance, extended for the first month after launch, and tasks the dot starts in Codex or ChatGPT Work count as usual.
Your first dot is included with ChatGPT Pro and Business Premium at no extra cost. Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces get a beta that the admin has to switch on. Free, Go and Plus do not include dots at launch. Pro users in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK are excluded for now; Business Premium works in every supported ChatGPT region.
Only inside the rules you set. Dots start with built-in defaults for when to act and when to ask, and Custom Rules let you mark an action as take without asking, take if pre-approved, ask first, or hand off to you. Sensitive steps such as changing a password always stay with you, and every Sundog workflow for dots names its approval gates.
Sources: OpenAI, Introducing dots ↗ · OpenAI Help Center ↗. Reviewed September 30, 2026. Sundog is independent and not affiliated with OpenAI.