Analyze business data with ChatGPT Agent
A reviewer used ChatGPT Agent on five business tasks and found it useful in places, but still needing supervision.
- What they did
- A reviewer put ChatGPT Agent through five work-style tests: checking a stock portfolio, tracing marketing results across countries and channels, weighing property purchases in different US ZIP codes, and two other business-planning cases. The agent had access to Google Drive, spreadsheets, the web, and presentation tools, and the reviewer saved the outputs from each run.
- How it went
- The reviewer’s overall take on the idea that tool-using language models can do real business work was roughly a C. The agent produced helpful results at times, but the reviewer said it still needed close oversight. The article only shows the introduction, so the detailed pass-fail points were not visible.
- Tips
- Give the agent a defined dataset and a clear deliverable, then review each stage instead of letting it run unattended. If you want usable calculations, tell it to stop and ask before filling gaps, sending anything, or making changes you would not want automatic.
Try it yourself with ChatGPT Agent
Review [portfolio holdings / ad spend data / property list] in [file or link] and produce: 1) a spreadsheet with your calculations, 2) a short summary of the main findings, assumptions, and risks. If any key data is missing, pause and ask me before estimating or moving ahead. Before you send, submit, delete, or make any irreversible change, show me the exact action and wait for my approval. When finished, give me the spreadsheet and the summary.
Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.
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