8 ChatGPT Agents That Do My Work for Me (Steal These)

By Riley Brown

Categories: AI

Summary

ChatGPT Work transforms AI from a tool you prompt into a 24/7 autonomous agent that completes multi-platform tasks in minutes. By combining plugins for context and actions across Notion, Gmail, Slack, and other tools, Riley Brown automated a 5-minute manual task into a daily 4-minute autonomous workflow—demonstrating how agents can handle recurring business operations at scale.

Key Takeaways

  1. ChatGPT Work plugins provide dual value: full context access to data across platforms (Notion, Gmail, Slack, meeting notes) AND the ability to take actions within those platforms, enabling true autonomous workflows rather than read-only data pulls.
  2. The Scheduled tab in ChatGPT enables recurring automation—set agents to run daily at specific times (e.g., 8 AM) to continuously monitor, aggregate, and update databases without manual intervention, creating a personal ops team.
  3. Multi-platform monitoring in 4 minutes: ChatGPT Work analyzed 4 separate data sources (Notion, Gmail, Slack, Whisperflow), extracted commitments/deadlines, created a structured database, and sent accountability emails—a task that would take humans 30+ minutes manually.
  4. Build accountability loops into automations: Have agents email stakeholders (e.g., team members) with findings from daily runs, creating human oversight mechanisms that ensure agent outputs drive action rather than sit in databases.
  5. Hiring automation workflow: Use ChatGPT Work to automatically scan incoming emails for job applicants, extract candidate information, and populate a structured Notion hiring dashboard daily—eliminating manual candidate intake and organization.

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Transcript Excerpt

Today, we're going to turn Chat GBT from something we prompt into an agent that does our work in the background 24/7. This video is going to be a complete guide to setting up agents to do your work in the cloud autonomously directly from the Chat GBT desktop app, web app, or iOS app. And so, in part one, I'm going to explain the different parts of ChatGBT that are relevant for agentic tasks. Then in part two, I'm going to show you my eight favorite agent workflows that I've set up that have helped me and my business the most so that you can create similar workflows that help you. All right, guys. Today we're creating a Gentic Workflows that work 24/7 in the cloud. Whether you're using the desktop app like I am here or if you're using the chat GBT web app on chatgbt.com or if you're using t…

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