In seven weeks, three AI companies have launched agents that work for you on computers of their own. OpenAI released dots on 29 September, a day after Manus launched Cue and SpaceXAI, the company behind Grok, added Team Bots to Grok Bot. Dots and Grok Bot learn your business the more you use them.
That's the part worth slowing down on. What they learn about your business stays with the company that runs them, and I couldn't find a documented way to take it with you.
My single source of truth is an agent framework I've been building for just over a year, and I've had an AI agent working in my business from it since February. Every AI that works on SolvStream reads that framework before it starts. It belongs to me, not to an AI company.
The short version
- The new agents are impressive. Dots and Grok Bot learn your business as you use them.
- What they learn stays with them. Change tools and, as far as I can find, you start again.
- Write your business down once, somewhere you own, and any AI can work from it.
- Claude Code and Codex both work from my framework and check each other's work. Gemini and Grok Bot are next.
What's just launched
| Agent | From | What it gets | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dots | OpenAI, 29 Sep 2026 | Its own cloud computer, working 24/7 across more than 4,000 apps | Not yet on personal plans in the EU, UK or Switzerland; Business Premium has it |
| Grok Bot and Team Bots | SpaceXAI, 11 Aug and 28 Sep 2026 | Its own computer, signing into the tools you already use | Learns a job by following along while you do it |
| Cue | Manus, 28 Sep 2026 | Its own email, phone number, wallet and computer | Pays within a budget you set; invite-only early access |
OpenAI puts the learning part plainly: "The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences, how you think, and what good looks like to you." A dot also goes looking for ways to help when you're not using it. That's more proactive than my own setup, and I'm not knocking any of it.
Cue's agents even get a phone number and a wallet. Mine drafts the email and I still press send, which suits me fine.
Where does everything it learns go?
Dots and Grok Bot both get better by building up memories of you and your business. So I went looking for how you'd take those memories with you if you changed tools.
OpenAI's help page for dots explains how to delete a dot's memories: "To delete your dot's own saved memories, you need to delete your dot." It doesn't describe exporting them. ChatGPT does let you download your data as a file of your chat history, but its help pages say self-service downloads aren't available in Business workspaces. In Europe, you can't get a dot on a personal plan yet: it comes with Business Premium or an Enterprise workspace.
SpaceXAI says a Team Bot's memories help it "retain what it learns and improve at its role over time". Its launch post doesn't say how you'd move them anywhere else.
I couldn't find a documented way to take what either of them has learnt about your business and load it into another agent. That may change. For now, what you teach an agent stays with that agent's company.
That's lock-in, and it's the quiet kind. Nobody signs anything. You spend months teaching one agent how your business works, and all of it sits on one company's servers, in a form you can't easily take anywhere else.
What counts as a single source of truth in a small business?
For me, it's one place that holds how the business works, and every AI works from it.
Mine isn't a folder of notes. It's an agent framework: the instructions, context and scripts an AI needs to do the work the way I would. What SolvStream sells and who it's for. How I write. The rules each agent follows, and what stays with me.
I own it. Any AI I point at it starts on day one knowing the business, instead of learning it one chat at a time. It's the same idea as fixing the process before adding AI: the AI can only be as good as what it has to work from.
Two AIs from different companies, one framework
Right now, Claude Code and Codex both work from my framework, and they check each other's work all the time. One builds, the other reviews. They come from different companies, which is the point: a second opinion from a different AI.
My agent does real work in the business every week:
- A morning brief of what needs me that day. I walked through one in How My AI Agent Helps Me Start the Working Day.
- A prospect brief: who's worth contacting, why, and a first draft in my voice.
- Voice notes from my phone turned into tasks and content ideas.
- A weekly content plan, checked against everything I've already posted.
- Call notes filed into the right client project.
Those jobs run on today's tools. The knowledge behind them doesn't belong to any of them, so if a tool changes its price or its rules tomorrow, the framework stays where it is. That's also how I judge it: a build earns its place by the work it moves, as I wrote in Why Infrastructure Builds Feel Like Progress and Your CRM Disagrees.
Gemini and Grok Bot are next
Gemini and Grok Bot will be added, and others are joining the system too. For now it's Claude and Codex, because in my view they're the two best out there. That's why I use them.
Each one has its pros and cons, and that's the other reason to own the framework. I can use the best tool for each job without teaching the business again. SpaceXAI already lets a Team Bot take "files, instructions, and skills, from brand guides to internal documentation", so the same framework can be handed to a Grok Bot too.
Anyone switching on a dot this week starts with an agent that knows nothing about their business. That isn't a criticism of the dot. It's day one. When Gemini joins my setup, it starts with a year's work already in place.
Before you switch one on
Write the business down first, somewhere you own: what you sell, who it's for, how you like work done, and what the AI must never do without you.
Hand the agent that, instead of letting it piece your business together from your inbox. A dot forms memories from the apps you connect, and OpenAI notes that disconnecting an app "does not delete information your dot has already obtained from it".
Keep the final say. Ask for drafts, not sends, until you've tested it on work you already know.
Where this leaves you
Use the new agents. They're good, and they'll get better. Just keep what they need to know about your business somewhere you own, so whichever agent you pick next can start from it on day one.
If you want a place to start, the free Business Context Document starter walks you through writing the first part down.
