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Ask your OpenAI dot to hire someone for a local task

A dot has its own cloud computer, so it can work through a RentAHuman task page and the request form while you get on with your day. Set a rule that it must ask before purchases; you sign in and approve funding. RentAHuman then recruits people — nobody is booked until an applicant is accepted. There is no RentAHuman plugin for dots.

Pick a task pageSee the steps

Send your dot this brief

Brief for OpenAI dots
OpenAI dots, please help me hire a person for a local task through RentAHuman.ai.

Task: [what needs doing — e.g. assemble one IKEA wardrobe and two bookshelves]
Where: [city or neighbourhood — share the exact address only after someone is accepted]
When: [date and time window]
Budget: [total in USD]
Done means: [how I will know it is finished]
Evidence: [e.g. photos of the finished work]

Steps:
1. Open the matching page: https://rentahuman.ai/services/handyman, /services/cleaning, /services/errands or /services/line-standing.
2. Use “Start a request” with the task, city and budget.
3. If RentAHuman asks me to sign in, stop and let me do it. Never ask for my password or codes.
4. Put the date window, “done means” and evidence into the task description. Keep my address out of the public text.
5. Before any payment (wallet funding or Stripe Checkout), show me the total and wait for my yes.
6. Send me the task link and its status. Do not call it booked — it is a request until someone is accepted.
7. Do not accept applicants manually or release payment without asking me.

What OpenAI says your dot can do

  • OpenAI says you message or call dots in ChatGPT on desktop, web and mobile, and in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Source
  • OpenAI says each dot works on its own cloud computer and connects to apps through ChatGPT plugins. Source
  • OpenAI says Custom Rules let you allow an action, require approval for it, or block it. Source
  • OpenAI says dots are available on ChatGPT Pro (outside the EEA, Switzerland and the UK) and Business Premium, with an Enterprise beta. Source

Checked against OpenAI's own pages on October 1, 2026. Products change; their pages win.

Where you step in

Before you start, add a Custom Rule that requires your approval for purchases and payments. Your dot should then pause at RentAHuman funding or Stripe Checkout and ask you.

Plugins, connectors and MCP

There is no RentAHuman plugin in ChatGPT. We have not verified whether dots can use a custom MCP server on your plan, so this guide uses the website.

The steps your dot follows in the browser

  1. 1

    Open the matching task page

    Start from rentahuman.ai/services/handyman, /services/cleaning, /services/errands or /services/line-standing. Each page states what fits, what doesn’t, and how a request works.

  2. 2

    Fill in “Start a request”

    Enter the task, the city and the budget, then continue. This only opens the task form with those details; nothing is posted yet.

  3. 3

    Hand sign-in to the person

    RentAHuman asks for an account to post a task. The person signs in themselves; the assistant never asks for their password or a one-time code.

  4. 4

    Complete the task details

    Pick the city from the list, paste the brief into the description with the date window, the definition of done and the photo evidence wanted. Keep the exact address and door codes out of the public text.

  5. 5

    Stop for payment approval

    Submitting the form opens a funding review with the total. Confirming it posts the task and pays from the wallet or through Stripe Checkout, so show the person the total and wait for an explicit yes first.

  6. 6

    Report the real status

    Share the task link and its status — Pending funding until the deposit confirms, then Open while recruiting. Do not describe it as booked or confirmed.

  7. 7

    Leave hiring and payment decisions to the person

    Auto-review may accept qualified applicants. Ask before accepting anyone manually, and never release payment without the person’s explicit instruction after they approve the work.

Line standing is different. Line standing in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto or Vancouver books on /services/line-standing without an account: get the quote, review the canonical address it returns, and stop before Stripe Checkout for approval. Paying funds recruitment; a worker still has to confirm, and the payment is refunded if nobody confirms before the start.

Task pages to start from

Sources and disclosure

RentAHuman wrote this guide independently. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or integrated with OpenAI or OpenAI dots. Product names belong to their owners.

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