published apr 27, 2026

Set Up Useful AI Teammates with New Chatgpt Workspace Agents

intermediate

The Rundown

Learn how to set up a useful AI teammate in ChatGPT’s Workspace Agents tool. You will produce one daily agent that owns a recurring morning workflow, such as reviewing a Notion database of published guides and generating new guide ideas, instead of relying on a prompt you have to remember to run yourself.

Who This Is Useful For

  • Operators and founders who do the same review, research, or reporting task every morning and want it off their plate
  • Anyone managing a Notion database, lead pipeline, or shared folder who wants one agent to keep that system moving
  • Teams already using ChatGPT Business who want something more durable than one-off prompts

What You Will Build

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You will build a daily agent that owns one recurring workflow and runs it for you each morning. In the demo, the agent reviewed a Notion database of published guides, looked for useful patterns, and generated three new guide ideas every day.

  • a clear role and workflow
  • connected apps and memory
  • reusable starter actions
  • a daily 9AM schedule
  • one place to run, review, and refine the work over time

What You Need

  • Access to ChatGPT Workspace Agents; OpenAI says workspace agents are in research preview for Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans
  • One system you want the agent to own, like a Notion database, lead pipeline, or Google Docs folder
  • Any integrations that workflow depends on, like Notion, Gmail, or Google Calendar

Going Further

  • If you do not want to start from scratch, use Browse Templates on chatgpt.com/agents. OpenAI has business-friendly templates for areas like software review, finance close, sales, data analysis, and support, and each template shows which apps it expects and what kind of work it is meant to handle.
  • copy a template that is close to your use case
  • swap in your own integrations
  • narrow it to one daily job
  • let it run every morning
If you do not have ChatGPT Business yet, you can still use the same prompt and workflow design in another agent tool. The bigger lesson is how to define ownership and recurring tasks clearly.