How Do You Share What an OpenAI Dot Made With People Outside ChatGPT?

Display is our product. We read OpenAI's announcement and two OpenAI Help Center articles on 16 October 2026. Dots are new, and OpenAI is still rolling them out.

The short answer

OpenAI released dots on 29 September 2026. A dot is an always-on agent in ChatGPT. OpenAI says each dot has its own cloud computer and browser, and it works with the apps you connect. It can run scheduled tasks and keep working between conversations.

The output is the open question. A dot can write a report, a deck, or a working app. The people who need to read it often do not use ChatGPT, or do not use the same plan. You have three practical routes:

Where a dot's output goes by default

OpenAI's help pages describe these places:

• The task. Open the dot's profile in the ChatGPT desktop app. Each task under In progress, Scheduled, and Completed holds its own progress, files, and results.
• ChatGPT Library, your computer, or a connected storage service. OpenAI says files a dot creates in those places follow that location's retention rules.
• The dot's cloud computer. You can open it from the dot's profile to inspect its work.
• Messaging channels. You can message your dot in Slack and Teams. OpenAI's example is to start a project in ChatGPT and share context with the working team in Slack.

Deleting a dot does not delete the files, Codex threads, or ChatGPT conversations it created. OpenAI stores them separately.

We found no OpenAI page that describes a share button or a share link for a dot's output. If you need a link, you make it somewhere else.

Who can use dots today

Source: OpenAI Help Center, "Getting started with your dot", checked on 16 October 2026. OpenAI says the rollout is gradual, so access may take several days to reach an account.

Pro and Business Premium include the first dot at no extra cost. OpenAI says you will be able to add more dots later.

This table matters for sharing. Your colleague may not have a dot, may not have the same plan, or may work in a region where Pro users cannot use dots. A link that does not depend on ChatGPT avoids all three problems.

Publish a dot's report to a link

The goal is simple: one URL for the report, with an audience you choose. Display is the docs workspace for agents and people. Any agent publishes docs and files to a link. Your team opens the link with the account they already use. They comment and edit in-line. Any agent or teammate can publish the next version to the same link.

Route 1: from the file. This route works on every plan that has dots.

1. Ask the dot to write the report as one HTML file or one Markdown file.
2. Open the task in the ChatGPT desktop app and download the file. Or ask the dot to save it to a storage folder you connected.
3. Publish the file. Ask a coding agent such as Cursor, Codex, or Claude Code to publish it to Display, or upload it in the dashboard.
4. Choose the audience: Company, Private with named email addresses, or Public.
5. Send the link.

Route 2: from the dot itself. This route depends on your plan, and we did not test it. Display connects to ChatGPT as a custom app. OpenAI allows the write actions that publishing needs on Business, Enterprise, and Edu, with developer mode turned on. ChatGPT Pro custom apps can only read, so they cannot publish. OpenAI says a dot uses the same plugin connections as ChatGPT. If your workspace has the Display app and your dot lists its tools, ask the dot to publish. The app setup is in the ChatGPT guide.

Publish the weekly competitor report to Display as HTML. Set access to Company. Return the link.

Route 3: through your computer. OpenAI says a dot with access to your computer can create Codex tasks and use local skills there. Codex can publish to Display when you connect it. We did not test this chain end to end.

Keep one URL across scheduled runs

A dot can run recurring work, such as a weekly report. Readers do not want a new link every week. They want one link that always shows the latest report.

On Display, every update is a new version at the same URL. When the dot or another agent publishes the next report, ask it to update the existing artifact, not to create a new one:

Update the Display artifact "Weekly competitor report" with this week's version. Keep the same link.

The update checks the current version first, so one run cannot overwrite a newer one. Paid plans keep earlier versions: 10 on Solo and 50 on Pro. The Free plan keeps only the latest version. For a worked example of a weekly report at one link, read how a Claude Code routine publishes a weekly report.

What the reader can and cannot do

• Colleagues in your organization open a Company or Private artifact after they sign in. On Pro, they use Google or Microsoft. On every plan, a one-time password by email also works. They can comment on a passage and, with edit access, change the text in-line.
• People outside your organization open a Private or Company artifact when you invite them by email. They enter a one-time password sent to that address. They do not create an account. They can view, but they cannot comment yet.
• Anyone with the link can open a Public artifact. An Owner can turn off Public artifacts for the whole organization.

Viewers are unlimited on every plan, so the readers do not need a seat. Display does not run the dot, and it does not read the dot's chats. It holds only what you publish.

Related reading

• What is an AI agent workspace, and which kind does your team need?
• What is ChatGPT Sites?
• How to share an AI-generated report with your team
• Can you share a Claude Project or a ChatGPT Project with your team?

Sources

• Introducing dots – OpenAI
• Getting started with your dot – OpenAI Help Center
• Dots privacy, security, and safety FAQs – OpenAI Help Center