How to use ChatGPT Work for everyday tasks

OpenAI

April 23, 2026

OpenAI Academy

Explore how teams can use ChatGPT Work to turn everyday work inputs into review-ready briefs, summaries, decks, workbooks, plans, and process docs.

ChatGPT Work is most useful when the work already has real context behind it: calendars, messages, emails, docs, dashboards, spreadsheets, trackers, decks, and discussion history. Instead of starting from a blank prompt, give the Work agent the materials your team already uses and ask it to produce the first usable version of the artifact. That might be a daily brief, weekly update, decision memo, launch kit, financial review, or workflow audit your team can inspect, edit, and put to work.

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Note: This webinar references an earlier Codex experience. The workflows shown here can now be completed with ChatGPT Work on chatgpt.com or in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Top ChatGPT Work use cases for everyday tasks

Use these prompts to move from scattered inputs to concrete outputs. Give ChatGPT Work the source materials, constraints, review expectations, and destination format behind the task, then ask for a first pass someone can actually use. From there, your team can check the evidence, refine the judgment, resolve open questions, and decide what needs to happen next.