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 need to know.
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.
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.
Step 1: Get access. Your workspace admin needs to enable the Agents feature and assign you permission to create agents. Look for “Agents” in your ChatGPT left sidebar. If you don’t see it, ask your admin to turn it on.
Step 2: Create an agent. Click Agents → Create. You can start from scratch or pick a pre-made template. The builder is a chat interface — you describe what you want the agent to do in plain English.
Step 3: Connect your tools. Add the apps your agent needs access to: Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, Notion, email, calendar. Your admin controls which apps are available.
Step 4: Set the trigger. Two options: human-triggered (you or a teammate kicks it off manually) or schedule-triggered (runs automatically at set times — daily, weekly, every Monday at 8am, etc.).
Step 5: Add guardrails. Define what the agent can and can’t do. Set up approval checkpoints for sensitive actions — like requiring a human to approve before the agent sends an email or updates a CRM record.
Step 6: Deploy it. Choose where it runs — inside ChatGPT, in Slack, or both. Share it with your team through the workspace directory. It starts working immediately.
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.
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.
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.
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