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Introducing dots

OpenAI · openai.com

OpenAI's own description of an always-on agent with its own computer, a concrete picture of what 'an agent acts for you' means today.

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It answers 7 questions

  1. What actually is an AI agent, in plain language?
  2. How do I use AI to map competitors, pricing, and positioning?
  3. What real tasks are founders delegating to agents today?
  4. What does a founder's AI-powered daily operating system look like?
  5. How do I set up an AI agent that works on a schedule or in the background?
  6. How do I check what an AI agent actually did before I trust its work?
  7. What do AI agents cost, and why do I keep hitting usage limits?

Read with it

  1. Google's guide to tasks in Gemini: who can use them, how its local and remote browsers work, and how to take over. support.google.com Guide Manage your tasks & workflows in Gemini Apps Google Gemini Help
  2. Google's plan page in rupees, including which plan unlocks tasks in Gemini. gemini.google Tool Google AI Pro & Ultra: get access to Gemini 4 Argon & more Google
  3. How to start a Work task, what to put in the request, and how Scheduled Tasks repeat a job or watch for changes. help.openai.com Guide ChatGPT Work and Codex OpenAI Help Center
  4. OpenAI's plan table, showing which plans include ChatGPT Work and which include dots. chatgpt.com Tool Plans and Pricing | ChatGPT OpenAI
  5. The most-cited definition of workflows vs agents, written by the team behind Claude. anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents Anthropic
  6. The expanded companion to Anthropic's canonical essay, packaged for non-engineers. resources.anthropic.com Guide Building Effective AI Agents (resource hub) Anthropic
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