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id: "quote-lift-the-load"
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tags: ["product-evolution", "value-prop"]
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speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s06-openai-free-employee"]
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# Agents Lift the Load

## Quote

> "Custom GPTs made the team carry the product. Projects made the team carry the context. Workspace Agents, at least in the workflows where they fit, they actually lift the load."

— [[entity-nate-b-jones|Nate B. Jones]]

## Significance

A succinct three-stage product-evolution framing of how [[entity-openai-d6|OpenAI]]'s offerings have moved from heavy human orchestration to actual autonomous assistance. This is the core argument for why [[concept-workspace-agents|Workspace Agents]] represent a paradigm shift, and it directly underpins:

- [[claim-custom-gpts-fail-shared-work]]
- [[concept-coordination-load]] (the 'load' that is being lifted)