OpenAI has created the ChatGPT for Small Businesses Program, an exclusive program that aims to help lean teams of small businesses grow their business, increase their productivity, and take advantage of the enterprise-level capabilities of artificial intelligence. Developed exclusively to address the issues of resource shortage at small businesses, the program includes a mix of live online training sessions, offline AI academies for small businesses, interactive guides, and special integrations with the ecosystem members, including Intuit, Shopify, Dropbox, Slack, and Atlassian. The cornerstone of the entire approach is the ChatGPT Work, an AI agent based on GPT-5.6 and able to perform multi-stage workflows.
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Emphasizing how transformative this level of assistance is for founders, Marina Petrova, CEO and Co-Founder, Intentful.ai, shared: “ChatGPT has been so much more than a way to get work done faster. It has strengthened the way I think not by telling me what to do, but by helping me unlock ideas I never thought possible. I’m now experimenting with ChatGPT Work, with ambitious goals for breaking the limits of what’s possible when scaling a startup. It’s not only what can be done faster; it’s what can be done that wasn’t imaginable before.” By democratizing access to advanced agentic workflows and offering tailored integrations, OpenAI aims to help small business owners automate time-consuming administrative tasks, reduce overall dependency on external outsourcing, and focus on strategic business growth without incurring high enterprise software overhead.
