Recurring work as a shared team task

OpenAI announced on its official developer account @OpenAIDevs on Oct. 20 (Oct. 21 Japan time) that it has added "team tasks" to ChatGPT. It cited recurring engineering work as examples, such as a weekly shipping summary and a tally of issues blocking work.

@OpenAIDevs · October 21, 2026

A team task is recurring work shared by a team. It runs automatically in the cloud at a set time or when triggered by events such as a new Gmail message or Slack post. Because it is not tied to the creator's personal account, other members can take over revisions and maintenance even when that person is off. It is available on the business plans "ChatGPT Business" and "ChatGPT Enterprise."

Members review and correct the results

To create one, a user selects a team and writes instructions on what sources to use, what to do and in what form to deliver the results. The task can be registered once the trigger and the tools and model to use are selected. It does not carry over personal memory, custom instructions or past conversations.

Members can run it manually at any time and view the results of past runs along with links to the sources. Those with reply permissions can ask follow-up questions about the results or have it make corrections on the spot. A "Completed" label means there are no further scheduled runs and does not indicate that the last run succeeded, so the results need to be checked.

Administrators control connections and spending

Administrators approve connections to internal tools and decide who can use them. Team owners choose which of the permitted connections to use. Each connection uses a specific account, and that account's permissions determine what data can be read and what actions can be taken. Administrators also set spending limits, and the limits for personal scheduled tasks do not apply. The help page does not say how usage is counted.

OpenAI has been expanding its business features in quick succession. On Oct. 19, the day before, it added simultaneous multi-user editing and comments to slide creation in ChatGPT.