OpenAI Dots

Riley Brown spent a full day working through his dot, praising the voice experience and listing concrete gaps such as a better view of the Codex threads it spins up. A candid field report of what a daily dot setup feels like.

Turing Post tries handing a growing list of personal and work tasks to a dot to see where delegation breaks.

Eight creator workflows run by a dot, covering scripting, scheduling and repurposing content.

Short walkthrough of OpenDots as a free open-source dots alternative and what it can do.

Self-hosting guide for OpenDots, showing a local agent setup that avoids a monthly subscription.

Leon van Zyl shows how to set up a dot as a 24/7 personal assistant, including connections and scheduled tasks.

Paul Hudson woke to a cancelled train; his dot read the cancellation email, saw his ticket was valid on earlier services, checked live tracking and surfaced an alternative on its own. A concrete early-access story of proactive help.

OpenAI DevX engineer Dominik Kundel runs his personal dot as the front door to Codex, letting it handle follow-ups proactively instead of juggling threads himself. He argues dots and Codex complement each other rather than compete.

Funny screenshot of a dot querying OpenAI's help-site support chatbot to learn about its own capabilities.

Professor Ryan Ahmed tests a dot on assorted tasks and summarises what it handled well.

Derrick Choi, Codex APAC lead at OpenAI, describes his dot as basically an extension of himself that is available around the clock, posted with the launch-day demo video.

Kundel set up a brand-new dot and showed that it could immediately catch him up on things he had discussed earlier, drawing on his Codex and ChatGPT history while working on several tasks in parallel.

Python agent runtime inspired by Dots that keeps persistent agents running toward long-lived goals instead of one-off chats.

Simon Smith was stuck on a call when someone asked him to review a draft. His dot read the Slack message, found issues in the document and began adding comments at his direction.

Early-access community tester says his dot has been very helpful, liking a single main conversation while the dot coordinates other threads behind the scenes.

Surveys free open-source clones that mimic dots at no monthly cost, with notes on what each one lacks.

Early-access tester Dan McAteer watched his dot notice an unsent invoice, pull details from the email thread, draft it, and send it as a PDF after approval. The proactive behaviour was the standout of his testing.

Self-owned always-on personal agent that lets you choose the model, released the day Dots launched as an open alternative. Built on OpenComputer Serverless Agents.

Demo of ParadigmEve, a self-updating open-source agent pitched as a dots alternative.

A screenshot of Dominik Kundel's dot messaging him on its own to ask whether to follow a colleague's advice or record dot demos on Monday, an example of the proactive check-ins that define the product.

Curated list of architectures, tools, policies and workflows for building with Dots, useful as a starting map of the ecosystem.

Open-source take on a ChatGPT dot that authenticates with your existing OpenAI subscription rather than a separate API key.

Free open-source desktop app with AI teammates that each get their own computer, plus a video-understanding layer.

Local multi-agent workspace and swarm positioned as an open alternative to Dots, run on your own hardware.