How Executives Can Put ChatGPT’s dot to Work

A useful way to start with ChatGPT’s dot is to give it a piece of work you keep having to pick up yourself. Before a partner meeting, that might mean finding the latest proposal and checking what was left unresolved last time. Afterward, it might mean keeping track of the follow-up while you move on to something else.

OpenAI describes dot as an always-on agent that can keep working between conversations, use connected tools and draw on relevant context from ongoing work. For an executive managing several projects, the appeal is having help with the preparation and follow-through that surround each decision.

At Sirotin Ventures, we have used dot to help bring research into a client brief, review feedback against draft content and prepare partner follow-ups. Those assignments give us a practical basis for helping other leaders decide where dot could be useful. We look at what the work requires, what a good result would look like and which decisions should stay with the person responsible.

Prepare for the meeting and follow through afterward

A meeting brief earns its place when it helps you understand what needs attention before you join the call. If you still have to search through the entire email thread to work that out, the preparation needs improving.

With the relevant correspondence, calendar and documents available, dot can help assemble a brief around a few questions:

The brief should link back to the material behind those answers. You can then check a change in scope or an unanswered question without having to reconstruct the whole conversation. You still decide which issue to raise first and how to approach it.

In our own work, dot has helped prepare a partner follow-up with proposed meeting times checked against the calendar and presented across time zones. It brought the times and wording together in a draft for our approval before sending.

The same approach applies to commitments after a call. OpenAI’s guidance describes using dot to track decisions, deadlines and unanswered questions from shared sources. A useful update tells you what remains open and why it matters now. If a reply has arrived or the work is finished, the list should reflect that.

Bring the source material into a brief you can use

A client brief can start in several places at once. The agreed scope says what the engagement covers, interview notes explain what people are trying to achieve, and public research adds context. Reading each source separately leaves someone with the job of bringing them together.

For one assignment, we used dot to help combine those materials into a brief covering the intended audiences and messaging. Questions the sources could not answer were kept separate, so we could see what still needed clarification. That made it easier to review the proposed direction without mistaking a gap in the evidence for an agreed fact.

For an executive, this kind of support could be useful before a market discussion, a board update or a conversation with a prospective partner. The brief needs to serve that particular conversation. A market overview may be interesting, but if you are deciding whether to pursue a partnership, you also need to understand what remains uncertain about that opportunity.

This is where we help shape the work. We establish who the material is for and what they need to understand, then review whether the evidence supports the message. dot can help gather and organize the material and prepare a draft; the business judgment behind the final position stays with us and the client.

Check feedback against the work already approved

As projects move forward, changes arrive in email, document comments and conversations. Someone has to work out what each change affects and make sure the current version reflects it.

We have used dot to review client email and Word feedback against social calendar copy and the associated graphics. In one review, it identified a one-line correction and showed that an already approved graphic did not need to be rebuilt. We could focus our review on the specific change.

We have also used dot to check edits against the original sources and carry the approved changes into the working documents. When several files describe the same work, each needs to reflect the same approved change.

OpenAI gives a similar example of keeping launch materials aligned with product changes. For a leader, the assignment might cover a launch brief, a partner update and speaking notes. dot needs the relevant materials and a clear account of what has been approved. The reviewer can then check that the change has been carried through accurately and that no new promise has slipped into the wording.

Choose one responsibility to start with

We would begin with a recurring part of your week that you can evaluate. If meeting preparation regularly spills into the evening, a dependable brief may be worth testing. If you manage several partnerships, keeping outstanding commitments current may be more useful.

Before giving dot that responsibility, we would work through a few practical questions with you:

Reviewing the first few results will tell you where the assignment needs adjusting. Check whether the brief missed something important, whether a follow-up list includes work already completed and how much editing a draft needs. A narrower responsibility may work better if the information is incomplete or the output keeps requiring extensive correction.

If you want a regular check at a set time, dot supports scheduled work. The schedule and sources need to be confirmed; connecting an app alone does not establish a monitoring task.

Our role at Sirotin Ventures is to help you choose the work, define a useful result and assess how well dot supports it. That includes the communication around the task: what the brief should explain, which claims need evidence and when a decision needs to come back to you.

Decide what dot can access and send

dot’s usefulness depends on the information and permissions available to it. Before connecting company sources, check that the account and access are appropriate for your organization. Important results still need to be checked against their sources.

OpenAI’s controls for dot include permissions and approval checks, and its guidance distinguishes preparing a reply from permission to send it. We recommend retaining human review of consequential messages, commercial commitments and externally shared claims. The executive remains responsible for the relationship and the promises being made.

If you’re considering dot for your own work, start with a responsibility that keeps pulling you away from the decisions only you can make. At Sirotin Ventures, we can help you work out where dot would be useful and what you’d still want to review yourself. Email Angelica at angelica@sirotinventures.com to discuss how that could fit into your working week.