Welcome to the future where your quietest coworker listens to everything, remembers everything – and never forgets your 2022 revenue.
ChatGPT can now do something no intern has ever been able to do: listen to a meeting, transcribe it, pull data from your Dropbox, and tell you, with your head in the cloud (literally), how much you spent on a business trip to Venice. OpenAI is no longer just a playground for programmers – it's the business system of the future, already with 3 million users and furiously chasing the Google and Microsoft train.
By the time you start Googling your own documents because you can't find the Excel spreadsheet from last year's Q1, you've already missed the future. It now sits in your menu as "ChatGPT for Teams", listening to everything you say on Zoom, and then at the end saying: "Here are the key points, suggestions for moving forward, and by the way - that expense from Milan was not justified."
What used to be done by humans is now done by AI. And better.
This is no longer a chatbot. This is an infrastructure system. ChatGPT can now:
- record meetings (yes, the ones where no one is listening),
- transcribe with NSA precision,
- generate notes, key points and suggestions for actions,
- and reads your saved files with more reliability than you do when you browse for “Final Report_FINAL_FINAL2.xlsx”.
And all this with respect for user permissions. Practically a digital notary.
What does this mean for business?
This means that companies will no longer need an extra person to take notes in meetings or analyze reports. It means that your next employee will be a digital avatar who works faster, cheaper, and doesn’t need a snack. And since the “Team” subscription is only $25 per month (if there are more of you), it’s cheaper than a monthly LPP ticket.
And why is OpenAI doing this? And where will it lead us?
Because they have detected the biggest gold mine of the present: enterprises. Large, small, public, private. Everyone is looking for productivity, price and automation. In 2023 they launched “ChatGPT Enterprise”, in 2024 “Team”, and today they already have 3 million paying customers. Not users. Mercenaries.
This isn't hype. This is business.
Epilogue: Who will be next?
Google's "smart canvas" sounds cool until you compare it to AI that compiles your weekly meeting notes. Microsoft's Copilot platform? Great if you're locked into Office. But ChatGPT is now everywhere—even in your cloud folder.
And if you haven't turned on "record mode," then you're not leading a meeting. You're just present. And you're hoping someone remembers something.