Bonus shelf · Always-on agents

ChatGPT dots

OpenAI's always-on agent inside ChatGPT: you give your dot a goal and it keeps working on it between conversations, on its own cloud computer, and comes back for approval when it needs you.

No-code

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Our take Kratuva

Best for: Founders and leads already paying for ChatGPT Pro who want one agent to own a recurring job, like keeping a launch plan or a proposal current, and report back in Slack or Teams.
Not for: Anyone in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK on a personal Pro plan, or teams that cannot let an agent read connected inboxes and drives in the background.

Price

From: From $100/month(ChatGPT Pro, which includes your first dot); also included in ChatGPT Business Premium (check site for that price); Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare get a beta their admin can turn on
Model: included in the plan with an allowance for deeper work; OpenAI says more dots and more capacity per dot will be sold later
Free plan: No
Checked: 9 Oct 2026

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What ChatGPT dots is good at

Each dot has its own cloud computer and browser and can connect to over 4,000 apps through ChatGPT plugins; you can open its computer at any time to see what it is doing.
You reach it in ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, or in Slack and Teams, and it carries the same context across all of them.
Custom rules let you set, per action, whether it acts without asking, acts only if you asked for it, asks first, or hands the step to you; changing a password always stays with you.
When idle it does "proactive research" through your connected apps with read-only tools that cannot send messages or change app content.

Where ChatGPT dots breaks

Pro access excludes the EEA, Switzerland and the UK at launch, rollout is gradual, and you can only create a dot in the ChatGPT desktop app or desktop web, not on mobile.
It reads connected apps proactively and forms memories from them even when you have not asked; disconnecting an app does not delete what the dot already took, only resetting (deleting) the dot does.
Deeper work runs on a plan allowance, extended only for the first month after launch, and any Codex or ChatGPT Work tasks it starts count toward your normal usage limits.
On personal plans its conversations and work can be used to improve OpenAI's models unless you change your data setting; Business, Enterprise and Edu content is not used by default.

When a custom build beats ChatGPT dots

When the job is one fixed workflow (for example, chase unpaid invoices every Monday), a scheduled script or a Zapier/n8n flow calling the API costs far less than a $100 a month seat and does exactly the same thing every time.

Setup

No-code. Someone comfortable with spreadsheets can set it up. No code needed.

Sources

Price checked 9 Oct 2026. If something here is out of date, email indra@kratuva.com and we will fix it.

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Checked 9 Oct 2026

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