How the OpenAI team uses ChatGPT Sites daily
Summary
OpenAI's internal team built ChatGPT Sites with plugin integration that auto-filters data by user permissions—no API key management required. The product launched two months ago but has already replaced traditional dashboards for incident management, meeting slides, and team coordination across enterprise workspaces.
Key Takeaways
- ChatGPT Sites automatically detects user team membership via Slack channels and surfaces only relevant data—reducing manual permission management and eliminating API key exposure for enterprise users.
- Product managers can build real-time incident command dashboards pulling timeline data, runbooks, and team assignments from Notion and Slack without engineering overhead, enabling async oversight without interrupting teams.
- Sites are optimized for temporary, single-use dashboards—one OpenAI team member builds custom Google Calendar views for weekly business trips and discards the site after use, reducing cognitive overhead.
- Internal adoption exploded after one year of private use—OpenAI now uses Sites for keynote presentation slides, team out-of-office calendars, and cross-functional content sharing across enterprise workspaces.
- Plugin-connected Sites solve the infrastructure gap for AI products by abstracting integrations, permissions, and tool routing—competing products like Merge handle this layer so teams focus on core product instead.
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Transcript Excerpt
We just launched something today which is plugins and sites. It will allow anyone to come to your site and use their connected plugins and so you see only your data on that site. When you share this across the team, do they get different data in their sites than you get? They'll be looking at the exact same site but they're going to see content based on what their team is. And then you don't have to worry about like API keys and all this stuff. You just get that magically connected. So if you are looking to build something in chatgbt in codeex and you're like I need the notion API or I need the slack API. I like finding out what these like magic incantations are. My brain works in different ways than other people and I might just want like a different view of Google calendar for the day or…