Use the Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan your company already pays for.
Each one with the exact actions an agent can take in it.
All integrations30 minutes with us. Bring one job you never want to do again.
A dot is one person's always-on agent inside ChatGPT. Your company needs one brain the whole team shares, permissions for each person, and agents that each own a job. Keep ChatGPT: Brainstack works with it.
Watch my inbox and draft the replies that matter.
What it does well
What it does for a company
The short answerDots are a powerful agent for one person, and OpenAI says teams of dots are the direction. Today you start with your primary dot. If you need a shared company brain, access per person and a set of agents with approvals, Brainstack gives you that now, and your team keeps using ChatGPT with it.
What one person needs from an agent, and what a company needs on top. What we say about Dots comes from its maker and the press, and we mark what isn't public.
| What you need | Dots | Brainstack |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is built for | DotsPartlyOne person's ChatGPT, on Pro or Business Premium. Teams of dots are described as a future step. | BrainstackYesTeams of 3 to 30 people, and bigger on Custom. |
| A shared company brain | DotsPartlyWorks from its owner's ChatGPT and connected apps. | BrainstackYesA living file per client, each fact with its source, read from the tools you connect. |
| Access for each person | DotsPartlySpecialist dots can get their own identities and credentials. OpenAI is working with Microsoft on Agent 365 security controls. | BrainstackYesEach person sees only what their role allows, in the app and from their own Claude or ChatGPT. |
| Agents for each job, on a schedule | DotsPartlyYour primary dot to start, plus specialist dots you set up. | BrainstackYes27 agents ready to set up across marketing, sales, customers, operations and admin, each with a schedule and a dashboard. |
| Approvals before anything leaves | DotsNot statedNot detailed in the launch announcement. | BrainstackYesSet per agent: sending, publishing, spending, deleting and amounts above your limit. |
| Your company's tools | DotsYesApps connected to ChatGPT. Reach it from ChatGPT, Slack or Teams. | BrainstackYes100+ apps: Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Notion, HubSpot, Slack, Teams, Stripe, Xero. |
| Choice of AI | DotsNoOpenAI models only. | BrainstackYesYour company's Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini plan, with no margin from us. |
| Where company data lives | DotsPartlyOpenAI's cloud, a computer per dot. | BrainstackYesA server only your company uses, in the US or Europe, with encrypted backups every 6 hours. |
| Personal errands | DotsYesAny ongoing goal, at work or at home. | BrainstackNoNot what it's for. Brainstack does your company's work. |
| Price | DotsIncluded in ChatGPT Pro or a Business Premium seat, per person. | Brainstack$99, $499 or $999 a month for the company, plus your AI plan. |
A personal agent knows one person. Brainstack keeps one brain for the whole company and answers each person with only what their role allows, from the app or from their own AI.
$1,200 a month from June, agreed on May 14. Margin is 34% this quarter, 3 points down after the May discount.
$1,200 a month from June, agreed on May 14. Margins aren't visible to your role.
Prices aren't visible to your role. On the account: 2 open tickets, both answered yesterday.
Instead of one assistant for one person, each agent owns a job, works to its schedule and brings you the big calls. One tap to approve, from the channel you already use.
Invoice to Northwind for $4,200. Above your $3,000 limit.
Approved and sent
Held. The agent will ask again tomorrow.
Second follow-up to Bluebird Co about the proposal from Tuesday.
Approved and sent
Held. The agent will ask again tomorrow.
Refund of $180 to Halcyon Foods for a double charge.
Approved
Held. The agent will ask again tomorrow.
More than 100 apps. The company brain reads only what you connect, and each agent acts only in the tools you give it.
Gmail, Drive, Notion, your CRM. The brain builds a living file per client from them.
Give each person a role. That decides what they see, in the app and in their own AI.
Pick a role, set its schedule and what needs your approval. It starts on the next run.
Every plan includes the company brain, your own server and approvals. You pay your company's AI plan directly to Anthropic, OpenAI or Google, at their price.
Yes. Brainstack runs on your company's AI plan, and ChatGPT is one of the options. Each person can also plug their own ChatGPT into the company brain and get answers limited to what their role allows. That connection is in beta and covers knowledge, tasks and projects.
OpenAI says Pro users in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK can't get dots yet, while Business Premium covers supported ChatGPT regions. Brainstack runs on a server in the US or Europe.
At launch you start with one primary dot and can set up specialist dots. OpenAI describes teams of dots working together as where it is heading. Brainstack is a team of agents from day one, each with its own job, schedule and dashboard.
No. It is built for a company's work: clients, invoices, inbox, sales and support. Each person can still ask the company brain from their own Claude or ChatGPT, and gets only what their role allows.
Starter is $99 a month, Growth $499 and Scale $999, for the whole company. On top, you pay your company's AI plan (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) directly to the provider. We add no margin. Custom is priced with you.
On a server only your company uses, in the US or Europe, with encrypted backups every 6 hours. Your AI provider processes what an agent or a person sends it, under the terms of your plan.
Not yet. What we do have: one server per customer, permissions per person, approvals before anything leaves, a record of what each agent did, and GDPR terms.