# Connect OpenAI dots to LotsBusiness Canonical page: https://lots.business/agents/openai-dots Steps checked: 2026-10-01 Ask OpenAI dots to update your business page, website and Google posts in LotsBusiness. Use the LotsBusiness REST API from OpenAI dots’s computer with an API key. MCP server URL: https://api.lots.business/mcp REST API docs: https://api.lots.business/docs Setup instructions for your agent: https://lots.business/skill.md ## What you can do once connected - Keep your business record up to date: contact details, opening hours, services, photos, links and FAQs. - Build and edit your website, and share a private preview before anything goes live. - Prepare your Google Business Profile for your approval and post updates, offers and events to it. - Show which local directories fit your business and give you the same listing details, worded the same way, for each one. - Read messages from your website contact form, reply to reviews and answer questions on your listing. - For agencies: run every client business from one workspace and send clients an approval link. The LotsBusiness dashboard does everything an agent does, so you can check, edit or undo any change. Your agent for speed, the dashboard for control. ## You need - A ChatGPT account with dots access - A cloud or connected computer available to your dot - A LotsBusiness API key - A LotsBusiness account. You can create one during sign-in. ## Connect OpenAI dots to LotsBusiness 1. **Create your LotsBusiness API key.** Sign in to the LotsTech API page and create an API key. Your dot will use it to access LotsBusiness. ``` https://www.lotstech.com/api ``` 2. **Give your dot the API instructions.** Ask your dot to use the REST API from its computer. Share the prompt below, then provide the key privately in the task environment, rather than in the conversation. ``` Use https://api.lots.business/docs to connect LotsBusiness from your computer. Read the API reference, authenticate with my privately configured LOTSBUSINESS_API_KEY and list my businesses on LotsBusiness and what each one still needs. Never include the key in messages or logs. ``` 3. **Give your dot the brief.** Tell your dot what to work on in LotsBusiness. For recurring work, put the brief in the dot’s instructions. Start with read-only requests, then let it make changes. ## What to ask next - “Build a website for my salon from our listing and send me the preview” - “Post this weekend’s offer to our Google Business Profile” - “Which local directories should my plumbing business be on, and what do I submit?” - “Update our opening hours for the holiday weekend” ## Questions and troubleshooting ### How do I connect OpenAI dots to LotsBusiness? Use the LotsBusiness REST API from OpenAI dots’s computer. Create an API key at https://www.lotstech.com/api, configure it privately for the task and share https://api.lots.business/docs with your agent. Ask it for something read-only first. ### Does LotsBusiness include its own always-on agent? Your dot handles the recurring work. This guide connects its computer to the LotsBusiness REST API. LotsBusiness holds your business page, website, Google Business Profile and directory listings and returns results to your dot. ### Do I need an API key to use LotsBusiness with OpenAI dots? Yes. Create one at https://www.lotstech.com/api and keep it out of chats, logs and committed files. Where OpenAI dots offers sign-in, use that instead. ### What does LotsBusiness cost? Current plans and prices are on https://lots.business/pricing. Your agent’s own plan or usage fees are separate. ### Does my agent publish my website or post to Google without asking? Your agent shares a private preview before a website is published and shows you the text before a Google post. You can check or undo any change in the dashboard. ### Does my agent submit my business to other directories? No. It lists the directories that fit your business and country and gives you the exact details to enter, worded the same for each. You or your agency submit, and your agent tracks each one. ### Do I need a paid business to use an agent? Every business starts with a free directory listing. A paid business also unlocks its website, Google Business Profile tools, directory list and business email. See the pricing page for details. ### My dot cannot access the API key The dot’s cloud computer has its own environment. A key saved on your laptop is not automatically available there. Open the assigned computer or use a connected local computer, and configure the key privately for the task. ## Sources - [OpenAI: computers and apps for dots](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/computers-and-apps) - [OpenAI: dot tasks and memory](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/dots/tasks-and-memory)