Has Anyone Here Built Their Own GPT Yet? Or Just Using ChatGPT Like Google?

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Hey everyone just curious where the community stands with AI right now.I’ve seen a lot of folks using ChatGPT to look stuff up (like Google 2.0), but I’m wondering if anyone here has gone deeper?&nbsp;Has anyone tried to build or train their own GPT yet?&nbsp;Or customized prompts/workflows to actually support your day-to-day?We’ve been working on building a custom GPT model trained on contractor logic — estimating, soft skills, job-site communication, pricing, SOPs, etc. For our company now, instead of broad knowledge.I see huge value in contractors having their own smart assistant, not just a chatbot. Something that speaks the language of our company.&nbsp;Is that something you’d use or find helpful?Curious to hear what direction you guys are taking.

jaf · Answer

Hey! Yeah, I've definitely dove deeper than just using it for quick searches.What I'm doing: I've been using ChatGPT extensively for creating SOPs, crafting customer responses for specific scenarios, and developing our social media strategy (both planning and content creation). I've also built a custom GPT that's currently supporting our customer service operations.How it works: The main purpose is to act as a real-time support tool for our CS rep. They can ask questions about our services and procedures, and the GPT outputs step-by-step instructions, creates documentation notes, and generates client responses in our company's tone. Right now it works as a copy-and-paste function - the CS rep inputs a quote query or client message, and gets back a ready-to-use response for our texting platform/CRM.What's next: Planning to hook it up to our pricing system so it can quote on the spot, and connect it to our cloud SOPs so I don't have to keep updating it manually every time something changes.Your contractor-specific assistant sounds awesome! Having something that actually gets the industry instead of giving generic responses would be huge. We're a small operation, so anything that helps us punch above our weight class is worth its weight in gold.What's been the biggest hurdle in training yours so far?

jaf · Answer

Forgot to add, I've also set up a Stream Deck, where one button click copies whatever's highlighted, opens the GPT window, types the prompt (like "client said" or "here's a website query"), pastes the text, and hits enter. Takes what used to be a multi-step process down to literally one button push.

energizeus · Answer

I love this and the fact you are taking the proactive approach in designing your own. It takes a special type of mind to jump into this topic.&nbsp;So right off the bat, very impressive.&nbsp;The last year and a half we have been traveling the US meeting contractors and hosting podcasts with them to learn what motivated them and how they became the contractors they are today.&nbsp;We been learning and documenting all the pain points industry wide and then created our own "blueprint" or challenge list we see everyone typically run into.&nbsp;Thats the most recent, plus im a very calculated person, when I started contracting, I probably made every mistake in the book and then wrote it down on how I overcame it. What I should have done before the problem / after etc etc.&nbsp;so all this data, I write up and created my own SOP for running our business. I created graphics and lessons for myself so I wouldn't repeat the same ones over.&nbsp;The hardest part of the GPT is educating it, giving it, its own foundation.&nbsp;if you dont you get the generic replies everyone sees today.&nbsp;For example lots of GPT responses all have the same language, they also give the same grammar indicators.&nbsp;We are rolling into a new phase of Ai where now you can see if someone else is using GPT already.&nbsp;So if you dont train your own, you may be using Ai but you will not grow.&nbsp;So the foundation, learning, and input...aka DATA is the most important, and hardest.Plus if you have a bad foundation - then your responses will be wrong.&nbsp;What do you think?