ChatGPT Dots and Spaces: New AI Agents, Pages, and Team Workflows

Dots and Spaces solve different problems

OpenAI Dots and ChatGPT Spaces arrived close together, but they are not the same feature. A Dot is an AI agent designed to work through tasks using its own cloud computer, browser, and connected apps. A Space is an organized place for pages, files, folders, and shared work. Think of the Dot as a capable assistant that can move work forward, and the Space as a team’s shared project room where people keep and refine the results.

OpenAI says Dots are powered by GPT-6 Astra and can work across connected apps and channels such as ChatGPT, Slack, and Teams. Space pages can be created and edited with ChatGPT, organized into folders and subpages, and shared with collaborators. The two can support a workflow together, but availability and exact integrations depend on account, region, workspace configuration, and rollout.

What OpenAI Dots can do

Dots are built for longer-running, multi-step tasks. OpenAI describes a Dot using its own cloud computer and browser, working with apps a user has connected, and continuing on tasks while the user is away. People can message a Dot in ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams, inspect progress in Activity View, and give feedback along the way.

OpenAI’s launch examples include preparing an invoice for approval, investigating a reported software issue, revising launch materials when scope changes, and updating research analysis as new evidence arrives. These are examples of intended workflows; a Dot can still make mistakes, and consequential work should be checked before it is sent, changed, or relied upon.

• Set recurring research or monitoring tasks that produce a draft summary for review.
• Ask for a first pass on a bug investigation, then inspect its evidence and proposed fix.
• Have it prepare a document or proposal update when approved source material changes.

What ChatGPT Spaces add

Space is a shared home for pages, uploaded files, and related work. Pages can hold a project brief, meeting notes, a research summary, or a team update. Collaborators can edit a page together and each person can ask their own ChatGPT to help with its content. Pages can include charts, trackers, and interactive tools, and subpages can keep source notes or weekly updates beside a main overview.

Spaces are separate from Projects. Projects continue to group chats, files, and instructions for a continuing topic; Space focuses on pages and organized collaboration. Current Space documentation says page creation and editing are available on web and desktop, while mobile supports finding, reading, and sharing pages but not editing them. Space is rolling out gradually, so some accounts will not see every capability yet.

A practical Dot plus Space workflow

For a small security team, create a Space for a monthly security review with a page for open risks, one for incident lessons, and a subpage for each review period. Give the Dot access only to approved read sources, such as designated security advisories and the team’s approved ticket project. Ask it to collect new items, link each point to its source, and draft a short update in the review page for an analyst to check.

The Dot handles the repetitive collection and draft work; the Space keeps the human-reviewed result organized and available to collaborators. Keep any action that changes production, contacts customers, closes tickets, or makes a commitment behind an explicit approval step. Avoid connecting broad accounts simply because an integration is available.

Permissions and rollout matter

OpenAI says users choose which apps Dots can access, can set Custom Rules to allow, require approval for, or block actions, and can monitor work in Activity View. Some sensitive activities remain user-only. Space sharing uses page and workspace permissions; uploaded files follow page access, while links to external files retain the permissions of their original service. Check both before sharing a page that summarizes confidential source material.

At launch, Dots are rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, with Enterprise, Edu, and Healthcare beta access depending on administrator settings. Space availability also varies by plan and workspace. Check the current OpenAI Help Center guidance for your account before planning a team-wide rollout.

A useful way to start

Start with a low-risk task that produces a draft rather than taking an irreversible action. Connect the minimum sources needed, define what the Dot may do without asking, and require approval for messages, edits, purchases, or external changes. Store the reviewed output in a clearly permissioned Space page and ask a teammate to verify the source links and conclusions.

Used this way, Dots can help with follow-through while Spaces give people a stable place to collaborate. The value comes from a well-bounded workflow and reviewable work, not from handing an agent unrestricted access.