Source recruiting candidates on LinkedIn and build valuation models
Unlock the Full “In 5 Steps” Series. Task: Unlock the Full “In 5 Steps” Series This step-by-step guide is exclusively available for Lead with AI PRO membership.🚀 With Lead with AI PRO, you’ll get:✅ Access to expert-crafted step-by-step guides✅ AI-powered workflows to boost productivity✅ Exclusive tools and resources for smarter workUpgrade to Lead with AI PRO and access all premium content instantly. As my colleague Evelyn discussed on Tuesday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent is an AI assistant that doesn’t just chat, it acts on your behalf. In practical terms, this means that ChatGPT Agent can think and operate using its own virtual computer, performing tasks from start to finish. OpenAI’s release notes describe it handling requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” or “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck,” all autonomously. It can browse websites, click links, fill out forms, run code, and use tools, asking for your permission when needed, to complete multi-step tasks online. In short, we’ve moved from reaction to action. Now it’s not perfect yet (while one writer planned an entire date night in 10 minutes, Wired suffered through 58 minutes for Agents to order some cupcakes), but it’s the clearest articulation yet of how AI might be even more useful to us. What You Need to Know About ChatGPT Agent This agentic capability is a natural evolution of what we’ve seen before with ChatGPT (one of our top AI websites): Operator could interact with websites, Deep Research synthesized information, and Connectors provided access to your data. Now, ChatGPT Agent merges those skills into one AI that “thinks and acts” for you. As I’ve mentioned before, this feature highlights the rapid pace at which AI is evolving, from simple chatbots in 2023 to multi-modal capabilities in 2024, and now to fully agentic helpers. Here are some things to know about ChatGPT Agent: Availability: The feature is rolling out to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers, with delays announced for Enterprise accounts and restricted markets, such as the EU. Limits: For Pro users, there is a monthly cap of 400 Agent prompts, while Plus and Team users are limited to 40 prompts per month. (If and when this feature will be available for free ChatGPT users remains unknown.) Activation: In any ChatGPT web or desktop conversation, select the “Tools” dropdown in the composer, then choose “Agent.” On mobile phones and iPads, choose the agent icon. If you don’t see it, you don’t have access yet. Actions: In the web version, clicking Agent also shows suggested use cases, which you can use to start exploring the feature if this list doesn’t provide enough inspiration. Creation: Agent reignited fears of AI websites being replaced by OpenAI, starting with creating Presentations and Excel files. Control: It asks for permission before real actions, and you can interfere with the process at any time. Real-Time Oversight: You can monitor its “chain-of-thought” as it performs tasks and even intervene mid-task. You can also watch a replay of previous assignments. Scheduling: Agent allows you to schedule repeated tasks, like preparing the same KPI report every Monday morning. Personalization: ChatGPT Agent, for security reasons, currently doesn’t have access to Memory. This means it won’t be able to use what it knows about you to personalize results. Performance: Sneaked into the presentation, as Antony Slumbers remarked in the community, was a revealing stat: ChatGPT Agent beats o3 on key benchmarks. Reduced Hallucinations: Testing by AI professor Ethan Mollick showed that Agent leads to preventing hallucinations, with more human-like ‘errors’ instead. Expectations: For advanced use cases, as Nate Jones’ testing highlighted, lower your expectations. Expect decent results from Excel templates and connecting to your own data. Slowness: Related to that and in line with the cupcake experiment, most reviewers highlight how this is a ‘background tool,’ performing tasks much slower than a human. Safety: OpenAI warned explicitly about how Agent unlocks a new level of security threats. Be extremely mindful of what you use Agent for. For this reason, Agent will also refuse to handle financial matters. Top 50 Use Cases of ChatGPT Agent for Leaders Having an AI think + act for you should drive major productivity gains.; tools: ChatGPT Agent. Human role: The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.; limitations: ChatGPT Agent is currently limited to Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers, with EU availability delayed. It refuses to handle financial matters directly, so the valuation model must be treated as a draft for human review. The agent operates slowly compared to humans and may hallucinate or make errors in complex reasoning. Security risks are high when granting account access; users must monitor the agent's actions in real-time and intervene if necessary. The source is a secondary report of third-party tests, not a verified production deployment..
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Unlock the Full “In 5 Steps” Series This step-by-step guide is exclusively available for Lead with AI PRO membership.🚀 With Lead with AI PRO, you’ll get:✅ Access to expert-crafted step-by-step guides✅ AI-powered workflows to boost productivity✅ Exclusive tools and resources for smarter workUpgrade to Lead with AI PRO and access all premium content instantly. As my colleague Evelyn discussed on Tuesday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent is an AI assistant that doesn’t just chat, it acts on your behalf. In practical terms, this means that ChatGPT Agent can think and operate using its own virtual computer, performing tasks from start to finish. OpenAI’s release notes describe it handling requests like “look at my calendar and brief me on upcoming client meetings based on recent news,” “plan and buy ingredients to make Japanese breakfast for four,” or “analyze three competitors and create a slide deck,” all autonomously. It can browse websites, click links, fill out forms, run code, and use tools, asking for your permission when needed, to complete multi-step tasks online. In short, we’ve moved from reaction to action. Now it’s not perfect yet (while one writer planned an entire date night in 10 minutes, Wired suffered through 58 minutes for Agents to order some cupcakes), but it’s the clearest articulation yet of how AI might be even more useful to us. What You Need to Know About ChatGPT Agent This agentic capability is a natural evolution of what we’ve seen before with ChatGPT (one of our top AI websites): Operator could interact with websites, Deep Research synthesized information, and Connectors provided access to your data. Now, ChatGPT Agent merges those skills into one AI that “thinks and acts” for you. As I’ve mentioned before, this feature highlights the rapid pace at which AI is evolving, from simple chatbots in 2023 to multi-modal capabilities in 2024, and now to fully agentic helpers. Here are some things to know about ChatGPT Agent: Availability: The feature is rolling out to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers, with delays announced for Enterprise accounts and restricted markets, such as the EU. Limits: For Pro users, there is a monthly cap of 400 Agent prompts, while Plus and Team users are limited to 40 prompts per month. (If and when this feature will be available for free ChatGPT users remains unknown.) Activation: In any ChatGPT web or desktop conversation, select the “Tools” dropdown in the composer, then choose “Agent.” On mobile phones and iPads, choose the agent icon. If you don’t see it, you don’t have access yet. Actions: In the web version, clicking Agent also shows suggested use cases, which you can use to start exploring the feature if this list doesn’t provide enough inspiration. Creation: Agent reignited fears of AI websites being replaced by OpenAI, starting with creating Presentations and Excel files. Control: It asks for permission before real actions, and you can interfere with the process at any time. Real-Time Oversight: You can monitor its “chain-of-thought” as it performs tasks and even intervene mid-task. You can also watch a replay of previous assignments. Scheduling: Agent allows you to schedule repeated tasks, like preparing the same KPI report every Monday morning. Personalization: ChatGPT Agent, for security reasons, currently doesn’t have access to Memory. This means it won’t be able to use what it knows about you to personalize results. Performance: Sneaked into the presentation, as Antony Slumbers remarked in the community, was a revealing stat: ChatGPT Agent beats o3 on key benchmarks. Reduced Hallucinations: Testing by AI professor Ethan Mollick showed that Agent leads to preventing hallucinations, with more human-like ‘errors’ instead. Expectations: For advanced use cases, as Nate Jones’ testing highlighted, lower your expectations. Expect decent results from Excel templates and connecting to your own data. Slowness: Related to that and in line with the cupcake experiment, most reviewers highlight how this is a ‘background tool,’ performing tasks much slower than a human. Safety: OpenAI warned explicitly about how Agent unlocks a new level of security threats. Be extremely mindful of what you use Agent for. For this reason, Agent will also refuse to handle financial matters. Top 50 Use Cases of ChatGPT Agent for Leaders Having an AI think + act for you should drive major productivity gains.
Reported result
The source reports that an agent successfully compiled a spreadsheet of LinkedIn candidates and built a DCF model for an energy company in 17 minutes. However, the text explicitly states the author did not have access to test these specific workflows personally, relying on third-party demos. No verified business impact metrics or failure rates for these specific tasks are provided in the source. A measurable acceptance check would be to verify that the generated Excel model correctly references the extracted financial data and that the candidate list contains valid, non-duplicate LinkedIn URLs.
Human role
The original post does not say how a person stayed involved.
Limitations
ChatGPT Agent is currently limited to Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers, with EU availability delayed. It refuses to handle financial matters directly, so the valuation model must be treated as a draft for human review. The agent operates slowly compared to humans and may hallucinate or make errors in complex reasoning. Security risks are high when granting account access; users must monitor the agent's actions in real-time and intervene if necessary. The source is a secondary report of third-party tests, not a verified production deployment.
Try it
Act as a recruitment and financial analyst assistant. I need you to use ChatGPT Agent to perform two tasks. First, search LinkedIn for [replaceable: job title] candidates in [replaceable: location] with [replaceable: years of experience] years of experience. Compile a spreadsheet with their names, LinkedIn URLs, and portfolio links. Second, build a basic DCF valuation model for [replaceable: company name] using public financial data from [replaceable: year] to [replaceable: year]. Before executing, ask me for my login credentials or confirm I am logged in. Monitor the agent's progress and pause if it attempts to send messages or make financial transactions. Output the candidate list as a CSV and the model as an Excel file. Do not publish or send any data without my explicit approval. If the agent fails to access LinkedIn or finds insufficient data, report the error immediately.
Source reports are not independently verified. Publication date is the catalog publication date, not the original article date.