Three Things You Could Hand Over to Dots

The interesting part is what it might notice while you’re busy elsewhere: a meeting that now clashes with family plans, an update that makes a slide out of date, or a follow-up you meant to send.

Here are three responsibilities to try, with prompts you can copy. These are starting ideas, not workflows I’ve personally tested end to end.

Worth knowing before you look for it: dots are off by default and a workspace administrator has to enable them. Not everyone on an eligible plan sees them straight away. Business Premium and Enterprise are rolling out worldwide, while the Pro tiers are for users over 18 outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.

Start with one responsibility

If dots are available in your account, create yours on desktop and connect the sources it needs. Tell it what matters to you, where to bring suggestions, and which actions you want to review. It can suggest useful work from permitted context; you decide which responsibilities to give it.

Use this opening before any of the prompts below:

I'd like you to help with one ongoing responsibility. First, check which of the
sources I mention you can actually access. Ask me for any missing context.

Tell me what you can handle in the cloud and what needs my computer online.
Suggest useful next steps when you notice them. Keep routine progress here,
and bring me decisions that need my input.

1. Keep work from taking over your whole day

Give it: your relevant calendar and emails, fixed commitments, and the travel or preparation time you need.

A situation to try: a work meeting moves to 4:30, but you have family plans at 5. Ask for a workable alternative and a draft reply, with the family commitment protected.

Help me keep my day workable using the calendar and email sources I connect.
Ask me which commitments are fixed and how much travel or preparation time
I need. Treat those as part of the plan.

When you find a change that creates a clash, show me what changed and suggest
an alternative. Prepare a short reply if that would help. Ask before sending
anything or changing calendar events.

Also suggest useful preparation I may have missed. Confirm how you'll check
for changes and when you'll bring them to me.

Look for: a specific clash, a sensible alternative, and a reply you can check quickly. If it suggests moving the commitment you said was fixed, correct that before expanding the job.

2. Keep a presentation in step with the project

Give it: a copy of the deck, its audience and purpose, and the project updates that should inform it.

A situation to try: the launch date changes in the project brief. Which slides and speaker notes still have the old date?

Help me keep this presentation current. Ask me who it's for, what it needs
to achieve, and which project source should take priority.

When you find a relevant update, identify the slides and speaker notes it
affects. Suggest the changes, and ask whether I want you to prepare them in
a separate copy. Once I assign that work, continue with the draft while I'm
working elsewhere.

Keep a short change list with links to the supporting sources. Flag missing
or conflicting information. Preserve the original deck.

Look for: the right slides changing, consistent dates in the speaker notes, and a short explanation of each edit. Being able to trace a change is more useful than a confident “done”.

3. Catch the follow-up you were about to forget

Give it: the inbox or project conversations you want help with, the projects in scope, and what you consider urgent.

A situation to try: someone is waiting on a decision before they can finish their part of a project. The request is buried in a thread from yesterday.

Help me keep track of follow-ups in the sources I connect. Ask which projects
and deadlines matter most, and what should count as urgent.

Look for unanswered questions, promises I've made and work waiting on a
decision from me. For each useful finding, show the source, why it matters
and one suggested next step. Draft a reply where helpful, but ask before
sending it or making a commitment.

Keep one short list, avoid duplicates, and tell me when something meaningful
changes. Confirm how ongoing checks will work for these sources.

Look for: a short list that separates things needing your attention from ordinary conversation. Start with a few threads you know well, so you can check what it missed or misunderstood.

Make the handoff clearer over time

After the first result, try: “More of this, less of that. Here’s what I would have prioritised.” Give it a useful correction, then let it apply that context to the next piece of work.

Two things that catch people out. Connecting an app or adding your dot to a channel does not by itself start it monitoring anything — ask it to confirm the ongoing arrangement. And proactive research surfaces suggestions, but any action that follows still runs under the permissions and approvals for that work.

Cloud work carries on with your laptop closed, because your dot’s cloud computer is separate from your devices. Work that needs your own machine requires that computer online with the ChatGPT app open, and you can connect only one personal computer at a time.

Pick the responsibility you already spend the most time checking. Give it enough context to be useful, and review the first result before handing over more.

Official documentation

• OpenAI — dots setup and capabilitiesWhat a dot can connect to, availability, and the permission model.
• OpenAI — tasks and memoryScheduled tasks, event monitoring, and what it remembers.

Official documentation checked 30 September 2026. Capabilities and availability are changing quickly, so check the pages above before relying on any detail here.