Big Idea

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ChatGPT Work pairs an agentic, hands-off workflow with three tiered GPT-5.6 models, and matching prompt complexity to the right model tier is what separates a finished, professional deliverable from a wasted credit budget.

Who This Is For

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READ IF YOU ARE…

You use ChatGPT for business tasks like reports, presentations, spreadsheets, or dashboards and want finished output instead of raw chat replies you have to assemble yourself.
You're a solo operator or small team lead who wants one prompt to produce a landing page, deck, and email sequence together instead of switching between separate tools.
You're deciding between ChatGPT and Claude for agentic work-completion tasks and want to see real prompts and real outputs, not marketing claims.

SKIP IF…

You're looking for a technical benchmark comparison of GPT-5.6's raw model capability — this is a workflow walkthrough, not a benchmark review.
You need offline or fully private processing — ChatGPT Work runs in OpenAI's cloud and, on the website, requires uploading your files.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Work is an agent that takes a single prompt plus uploaded files and hands back a finished deliverable — a cleaned dataset, a hosted dashboard, a slide deck, or a multi-part marketing plan — rather than a chat reply. It ships with three GPT-5.6 model tiers: Sol (most capable, priciest, best for hard reasoning and coding), Terra (the balanced default), and Luna (fastest and cheapest, for simple high-volume tasks). The habit worth adopting: before running a complex prompt, ask ChatGPT which model it recommends rather than always defaulting to the most expensive option, since credits run out fast at max reasoning effort. Five demoed prompts show it producing a cleaned data dashboard, a trip-planning site, a template-matched board deck, a full marketing launch kit, and a daily command center pulling from inbox, calendar, and Slack.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:47

01 · Cold open + what's new

ChatGPT Work introduced alongside GPT-5.6's three models and a new desktop app.

00:47 – 01:46

02 · Meet ChatGPT Work / what it builds

The agent pitch — tell it what you want, it gathers context and hands back the finished thing; builds docs, spreadsheets, presentations, web apps.

01:46 – 02:53

03 · Sol, Terra & Luna compared + pricing

Three GPT-5.6 model tiers broken down by capability and per-token pricing.

02:53 – 03:47

04 · Where to find it

Access tiers: free/Go auto-use Terra, paid tiers can choose, desktop app gets folder access first.

03:47 – 07:00

05 · Live UI tour + Claude CoWork comparison

Compares a ChatGPT Work slideshow to an earlier Claude CoWork one, tours the Work tab, model/effort picker, and plugs the free HubSpot resource.

07:00 – 08:59

06 · Example 1: data cleanup + hosted dashboard

Uploads sales CSVs, asks for validation, cleaning, and a published regional dashboard site; model Sol.

08:59 – 10:44

07 · Example 2: Hawaii wedding trip planner

Four uploaded PDFs (hotel/flight confirmations) become a mobile-first hosted itinerary site with a budget tracker; model Terra.

10:44 – 11:20

08 · Example 3: template-matched board deck

A prior-quarter deck used as a style template plus a CSV produces a new 11-slide Q2 board deck in the same visual style; model Sol, max effort.

11:20 – 13:09

09 · Example 4: full marketing launch plan

One prompt produces a landing page, 10-slide launch deck, 5-email sequence, 12 social posts, and 3 ad concepts; model Sol, extra-high effort, 33 minutes.

13:09 – 14:56

10 · Example 5: daily command center + outro

Gmail/Calendar/Slack plugins feed a one-page command center with priorities and drafted replies; video closes with resource CTA and next-video tease.

Atomic Insights

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ChatGPT Work is an agent, not a chatbot — it takes a single prompt and hands back a finished deliverable instead of a conversational reply.
GPT-5.6 ships as three tiered models — Sol (most capable), Terra (balanced default), and Luna (fastest and cheapest) — rather than one general-purpose model.
Sol costs $5 in / $30 out per million tokens, Terra is roughly half that at $2.50/$15, and Luna is the cheapest at $1/$6.
Free and Go ChatGPT accounts automatically default to the Terra model — only paid tiers let you manually select Sol or Luna.
Asking ChatGPT which model it recommends before running a complex prompt is a better habit than defaulting to max reasoning effort every time, since credits run out.
Feeding ChatGPT Work a prior PowerPoint deck as a style template let it replicate the exact visual design of a new 11-slide board deck automatically.
A single prompt with brand guidelines and a product brief produced a landing page, a 10-slide launch deck, a 5-email sequence, 12 social posts, and 3 ad concepts together, with no tool switching.
Extra-high reasoning effort on a complex multi-part prompt took roughly 33 minutes to complete.
ChatGPT Work can publish work as a hosted, shareable '.site' website link, not just a downloadable file — a capability formerly limited to ChatGPT Codex.
Connecting Gmail, Calendar, and Slack plugins lets ChatGPT Work generate a one-page daily command center with priorities, urgent items, and drafted replies without manual data entry.
The desktop app's key advantage over the website is direct access to local computer folders, so it can read and write files without manual uploads.

Takeaway

Match the AI model to the task, not the other way around.

MODEL SELECTION

The gap between a wasted AI credit budget and a finished, professional deliverable often comes down to picking the right model tier before you hit send, not after.

01Cold open + what's new

A major feature launch bundles three things at once — a new agent mode, new underlying models, and a new app surface — so evaluate each piece separately rather than as one upgrade.

02Meet ChatGPT Work / what it builds

An agentic tool's value proposition is judged by what finished artifact it hands back, not by how well it chats — documents, spreadsheets, decks, and working web apps are the real output categories to test.

03Sol, Terra & Luna compared + pricing

ChatGPT Work separates the model generation (5.6) from the capability tier (Sol, Terra, Luna), so a new model release doesn't force you into paying for maximum capability by default.
Sol costs roughly 5x more than Luna per token, so reserving it for genuinely hard reasoning or coding tasks protects a credit budget significantly.

04Where to find it

Free and default accounts auto-use the mid-tier model, meaning most casual use never touches the most expensive option unless you deliberately choose it.
Desktop apps getting local folder access before the web version is a common rollout pattern worth checking for when a new AI feature launches.

05Live UI tour + Claude CoWork comparison

Tell an agentic tool what you want and what finished format you need up front — reports, spreadsheets, decks, or a hosted site — rather than iterating through chat.
When two competing tools offer the same category of feature, the deciding factor is usually output quality and reliability on your own real tasks, not the feature list.

06Example 1: data cleanup + hosted dashboard

Asking an agent to validate and clean data before analysis catches errors a human might skip when short on time.
A shareable hosted dashboard link removes the extra step of exporting and re-sending files to stakeholders.

07Example 2: Hawaii wedding trip planner

Feeding an agent multiple source documents (confirmations, itineraries) at once lets it cross-reference details a manually-built plan might miss.
A mobile-first output format matters when the actual use case — checking an itinerary on the go — happens on a phone, not a desktop.

08Example 3: template-matched board deck

Providing a prior document as a style template is a fast way to get consistent, on-brand output instead of describing formatting requirements from scratch.
Matching an existing deliverable's style automatically saves the manual reformatting work that usually eats the most time in recurring reports.

09Example 4: full marketing launch plan

A single well-specified prompt with source files attached can replace several separate work sessions across different tools when the agent can chain sub-tasks itself.
High reasoning effort on complex multi-part requests can take 30+ minutes to complete, so it's not a fit for anything needing an immediate answer.

10Example 5: daily command center + outro

Connecting existing data sources like email, calendar, and chat tools lets an agent produce genuinely useful daily summaries instead of generic templated output.
Choosing the fastest, cheapest model tier makes sense for routine daily tasks where speed matters more than maximum depth.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

ChatGPT Work: An agentic mode in ChatGPT that takes a prompt plus optional files or folders and autonomously produces a finished deliverable — a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or hosted website — rather than a chat reply.
Sol: The most capable and most expensive GPT-5.6 model tier, best suited for hard coding and deep-reasoning tasks.
Terra: The balanced, mid-priced GPT-5.6 model tier and the automatic default for free-tier ChatGPT accounts.
Luna: The fastest and cheapest GPT-5.6 model tier, intended for simple, high-volume, low-stakes tasks.
Reasoning effort: An adjustable setting, such as medium, high, or max, that controls how much a model 'thinks' before answering — higher effort improves quality but consumes more credits and time.
Hosted site (.site): A shareable web link ChatGPT Work can generate for a finished deliverable, letting others view it without downloading a file.
Claude CoWork: Anthropic's competing agentic work-completion feature, referenced repeatedly in the video as ChatGPT Work's closest comparison point.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

06:09link5 Essential Resources for Using ChatGPT at Work (HubSpot guide) ↗

06:48link100 Ways to Try ChatGPT Today (project-based workflows doc)

03:50productClaude CoWork

Quotables

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00:00

“ChatGPT just introduced one of the biggest updates it's ever had — it's called ChatGPT Work.”

cold open hook, states the whole video's premise in one line→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

05:07

“You don't want to always use the very best model with the best effort — even inside the ChatGPT website, that's gonna really eat up your credits.”

practical warning, a pain point anyone using paid AI tools recognizes→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

07:40

“You could start a chat with ChatGPT and ask it which model it would recommend — instead of using max and Sol all the time and running out.”

the single most actionable tip in the video→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

11:47

“This is probably the most impressive one, because it will create all the different pieces at one go — the agent will just do them step by step.”

peak demo moment, sets up the biggest payoff example→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

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00:00ChatGPT just introduced one of the biggest updates it's ever had is called ChatGPT work and it introduced that along with three new models. One is called Soul, one is called Terra, one is called Luna.

00:12I'm gonna show you how to combine ChatGPT work with the best models. I have five different prompts that wanna show you. But first, let me show you exactly what's new with this update.

00:21The first thing we have is ChatGPT work. That's what I'm gonna focus on mainly for this video. And this is an AI agent that could go complete tasks for you.

00:30So it takes you away from just basic chat inside of ChatGPT or creating things inside of chat to be able to do a whole lot more. And it could access your computer files to automatically. I'll show you how this works.

00:42Then we have ChatGPT 5.6. We have three new models available, Solterra and Luna.

00:48Now they're available in different plans. I'll mention pricing and different plans in a bit. And we have a brand new ChatGPT desktop app.

00:55So this is gonna give you the ChatGPT experience with chat. It's gonna give you the new ChatGPT work and the codex here. Now ChatGPT work, what it does is it actually thinks in the background based on your prompt.

01:08It gets all the context that it needs and it actually hands over a finished task for you. So that's what I'm gonna show you with the five examples I have for this video. And the different types of things that he can create based on your prompt is he could create entire reports, memos, drafts.

01:26It's really good at creating spreadsheets and taking care of lot of manual things if you work with any type of data. It's really great at presentations and it could also create web apps.

01:36And now it could actually have hosted sites that you could share a link to a very big update. Now there's three different models that I mentioned that came out with this and they specifically are designed to work with chat GPT work.

01:49Soul is the most capable model. Then you have a more balanced model called Terra and then Luna is the fastest model, but the least capable in this lineup. And if you have to choose between the different ones, the Soul model, you're gonna want to use it anytime you do any type of coding, typically more complex coding.

02:06If you need type of deep reasoning here and I'll show you the different capability as far as how long it thinks to give you an answer. It has some settings for that. The Terra model is gonna be basically your general everyday model here.

02:18Again, it's gonna be less expensive. It's gonna take up less credits here. And then Luna, I typically when I use AI, don't usually use the least capable model, but if you really need something for fast replies here, this is a good low cost model.

02:32For those of you that are gonna build with this and use the API, these are the costs here. So SOL, again, the most expensive here for input and output tokens.

02:42Terra is the default at half the price, and then this is the cheap quick model here that's available. Again, this is for API use. I'll explain what happens with your regular ChatGPT account here.

02:52If you have a regular free accounts or a go accounts, it will use Terra automatically. That's the default model.

02:58Again, that's the replacement for the regular ChatGPT 5.5 model. And then if you have a paid version, any of the paid version, you could choose between the different models.

03:08So for my examples, with ChatGPT work, I'm gonna actually decide if I'm gonna use SOL, what kind of thinking capability within SOL. I'll explain all that in a bit or Tara here.

03:18And this one also includes the ChatGPT work that I'm gonna focus on for this video. So you do need a paid plan to use ChatGPT work and these better models like SOLE. Now the Mac and Windows app also have the same tiers available.

03:32The desktop app, the one thing it's gonna give you that you can't do on the ChatGPT website is given it access to folders on your computer.

03:40So it create files on those folders. Otherwise, you could still use work inside of the ChatGPT website, which is what I'm gonna show you next.

03:47Now just so you see a comparison, if you are a regular ChatGPT user and if you never use Claude, Claude, which is the biggest competitor to ChatGPT has something called Claude CoWork, which is very much similar to what I'm about to show you with ChatGPT work.

04:04So I made that other slideshow I just showed you with Claude. This is created with ChatGPT, same type of slides, same exact prompt here.

04:11It took fifteen minutes by the way to create this and I asked for an update here to make some changes and it did. So I thought this had more details here, but almost too much text for a presentation like this, but it did a pretty good job. Okay.

04:26So to access ChatGPT work, you could do it on the ChatGPT website. It's coming out right now as I'm recording this and it's a tab right here. So you have ChatGPT, that's your regular chat as always.

04:38Then you have this new work tab that's gonna hand over finished work for you. If you use it on the website, it's gonna create those files and it's gonna give you a link to download it. It also has hosted sites where you will get a link to share a website.

04:50I'll show you that as well in a couple of the examples I have. And on top of that, you have different models that you could select from. So the different models are as I mentioned, Sol, Terra and Luna.

05:01For most of the things related to work, will use Sol. For couple of them, I would drop it down to Terra. Why wouldn't you use the best model all the time?

05:09Well, even inside of the chat GPT website, depending on what plan you have, it will use up credits and you may hit a wall and it's gonna tell you you'll have to upgrade or you don't have any more credits and you have to wait. That's why you don't wanna always use the very best model with the best effort. The efforts also could be changed depending on what model you choose.

05:28So for the very best, the hardest tasks you have, you could choose sole with max reasoning effort and you could also change the speed here to the fastest. That's gonna really eat up your credit. So I don't recommend it for everything, but that's the best available combination right now instead of chat GPT.

05:45For everyday tasks, you may wanna just choose Terra here with high reasoning effort. This is pretty much for most things.

05:53And then for soul, I would also switch it sometimes to medium and high. I'll show you with some examples. I have five different examples that I wanna walk you through.

06:01And I also have a free resource for you specifically for chat GPT users. It's called five essential resources for using ChatGPT at work. It's actually a really comprehensive bundle that has all kinds of different use cases for ChatGPT with ton of different prompts.

06:16In fact, over a 100 different prompts included here. So I no longer do sponsorships on this channel. All I do is find a resource or create a resource for you and then I share that based on the type of videos you're watching.

06:28So this is actually a perfect fit for ChatGPT work with the new models because this is gonna give you everything you need to get the most out of ChatGPT. And it covers pretty much every business use case. So it has a whole section for sales and marketing, a section for customer support, for project management.

06:43And one of my favorite parts is this section right here, 100 ways to use Chat GPT today. So it has bunch of project based workflows with prompts included that you could simply copy and paste or store for yourself for later use. And with this, you'll get the most out of chat GPT work because now you could hand over finished files for you and you'll see those in my examples.

07:04I'll put a link in the description. This is completely free to access. Now for this prompt, it's gonna analyze every file that I upload to it.

07:11If you do this on the desktop, you could just give it access to the files on the folder. So say analyze every file in the folder and then press the plus sign and give it access to that folder. And I'm gonna ask it to validate the data, clean the data, do the audit for the data and then publish a website here, a dashboard and include the data with the regions.

07:32And for this one, the one trick that I found and I had a little bit of early access, so I've been using it more than most people here. If you choose a prompt like this, you could start a chat with chat GPT and ask it which model it would recommend. So every prompt I did that and then I chose the model based on that.

07:50So in this case, based on this prompt and based on this data, it told me to use the ChatGPT 5.6 sole model. And I wouldn't do this every single time. I'm just trying to get a gauge of what is recommended every single time.

08:01So instead of using max all the time and then sole all the time and running out, I'm gonna just take its recommendation here. So I'm gonna go ahead and send this out. And before I do that, the other thing I wanted to show you is you could actually choose a project and create a project.

08:17This one on the website is just gonna create a chat GPT project. On your desktop, you could also create a folder. So all those files could be dropped into that folder and creates new files in that folder too.

08:29And you could also give it access to plugins and plugins are gonna be the context for your business, for your company. So over here, you could see I have some draft examples here for Gmail is because it read my actual Gmail and it found out the couple of things that I need to follow-up with.

08:45And by the way, inside of work here, you'll see this little new panel here. So it's gonna show all your outputs over here that includes any files it creates, any sites that he's gonna create here, and it's gonna have any sources.

08:57That's your input that I give it in this case, I give it to. Okay. So this one took about fifteen minutes here and it actually creates a website for you.

09:05So before it used to create something in Canvas mode that kinda looked like this, but now you could press open. And this is a hosted website. So it creates a URL and it's a dot site.

09:15And it has all kinds of different filters here, really easy to share something that looks much much nicer. Now the site option was part of Chattypity Codex. It was available into this app, but now as part of work, this makes it so much better and they're hosted.

09:28Meaning, you just share this link with anyone and they could see exactly what you've created here. And this was just the first draft. For this next example, I'm gonna show you how to create a trip planner and actually create a hosted site that you could share.

09:42So this is perfect for work, it's perfect for personal. So I uploaded four different files and I asked it to build a mobile first hosted trip hub with a day to day itinerary here and I gave it everything that I was looking to have included. And for this one, ChatGPT told me to use Terra instead of Soul at medium reasoning efforts.

10:02So I'll send this out. This one is done and he did something really interesting that I really like. I haven't seen anything else do this before.

10:08He asked me which direction I wanted to go with this website here that I'm creating. And he gave me three different option. I chose this one here and this is the desktop version of it here.

10:19And I think it's done a really good job. It included everything that I was looking for including a budget. And if I go ahead and shrink this down just to show you the mobile version, the mobile version also looks really really solid here, which is initially what I had asked for for a mobile version with a site that I could share with my family here with this made up plan.

10:39Okay. For this next example, I actually wanna create a PowerPoint presentation here.

10:45And what I did was I gave it a previous PowerPoint presentation here because I haven't built a skill for it, anything like that, but I wanted to follow what this PowerPoint presentation looks like. I gave it a CSV spreadsheet with all the data here and he told me to use the best combination possible. 5.6 soul with max reasoning effort.

11:05Okay. Here is our presentation here and he decided to do a 11 slide presentation. I asked for a 10 to 12 slide presentation.

11:13It included all the information we were looking for. And as far as design here, I actually downloaded it as a PowerPoint. And here is the PowerPoint and it actually looks exactly like the demo PowerPoint I gave it.

11:25This is actually the demo PowerPoint that I give it to find a style and replicate that style and it was right on there. Now the next one is to create an entire marketing plan. This is probably the most impressive because it will create all the different pieces at one go.

11:39The agent will just do them in step by step. So create a launch strategy here, 10 slide presentation, five email sequence, 12 social posts, and three ad concepts.

11:49All of this right here just with this prompt. And this one I'm gonna use 5.6 SOL with extra high.

11:54This one also told me to use max, but I don't wanna run out of credits for this demo. So I'll just use the one just under that. This one took thirty three minutes.

12:02So when you do change your reasoning effort to be extra high or max, it will take quite a long time and my prompt included a lot of asks. Right? So let me show you the website first.

12:11It's based on some information I gave it obviously. So it took these sources.

12:16So I give a customer feedback guidelines on the brand here, product brief, and it created this really nice looking website that also looks great on mobile. It created a launch strategy doc here. So this is our thirty day launch plan.

12:30And I have been using Claude for this. I've already been using ChatGPT to some extent for this, but remember this does it all in one go using this combination of work and these much better models. So the output, the actual information is far more useful to you.

12:45And then you have your presentation here. Again, it followed the brand guidelines. It looks just like the website here and it's pretty comprehensive.

12:53It has 10 slides here and then we got our campaign kit. So this has our emails, our social media posts really, really comprehensive here. Okay.

13:02Here's one of my favorite use cases because it's gonna actually use plugins and create an entire command center. So it says review my inbox, my calendar, anything on Slack here, and then create a one page command center for me that includes my priorities, anything that's urgent.

13:19I'm actually gonna use the Luna model and at max reasoning effort just to show you kind of what that does. And this is just for this demo here, I could actually show you the result and not just pulling directly from my plugins. But typically, it will already use your Google Calendar.

13:33It will use your inbox and it will use your Slack. You don't have to these have these exported. That's the only reason I added this export here.

13:40Okay. Here is our one page command center for the day. The top priorities, anything that's urgent here, any decisions we need to make.

13:47And I could just download this. This is just a PDF that I created. And he also gave me a follow-up prompt here to connect my Gmail and Slack and all my actual apps here.

13:57And then we run this prompt with a new work chat So it could pull directly from not my example files for this example, but from my actual sources. So that's when it becomes obviously much more relevant is combining those connectors or those plugins with this prompt here with chat GPT work.

14:13And you could do this on the desktop. You could do this right here on the web here. And I think this is one of the best ways to use it to just get all your context for the day and get a one page report on exactly what needs to happen that day.

14:25And I wanna combine this with Claude CoWork, the competitor to chat GPT work, which has been my go to app for a while now. I wanna do side by side comparison with the same prompt, same reasoning effort and see how much credit he uses, what the output ends up looking like, how accurate it is. So I'll have that coming up next.

14:42Make sure you grab that chat GPT resource to get the most out of chat GPT. And I also made a recent video covering all kinds of hidden things inside of chat GPT that most people don't know. I covered 10 of them in this video that I recommend you watch next.

14:54Thanks for watching this one.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

OpenAI shipped an agent that takes a single prompt and hands back a finished report, dashboard, deck, or hosted website — no more stitching chat replies together by hand. Skill Leap AI walks through what changed, then runs it live through five real prompts.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

01:46model

Sol, Terra & Luna model tiers

Sol — the powerhouse, best for hard coding and deep reasoning, $5 in / $30 out per 1M tokens
Terra — the everyday pick, roughly GPT-5.5-level quality at about half the cost, $2.50 in / $15 out
Luna — the speedster, lowest cost, built for fast high-volume tasks, $1 in / $6 out

Three capability/cost tiers within the same GPT-5.6 generation, chosen per task rather than always maxing out.

Steal forAny AI tool workflow with per-token or credit costs — match model tier to task complexity instead of defaulting to the priciest option.

07:40concept

Ask-first model selection habit

Before sending a complex prompt, start a chat and ask ChatGPT which model and reasoning effort it recommends, rather than always choosing max effort and the most capable model.

Steal forAny agentic AI workflow where reasoning effort and model choice both burn credits.

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