Era or ChatGPT?
Short answerAsking, writing and brainstorming: ChatGPT. Getting work done in the business’s records: Era — running on your ChatGPT subscription.
ChatGPT is a general AI chat that helps with anything; it remembers past chats and writes documents and code. Era is not a rival but a workspace on top of it: connect your ChatGPT subscription and Era works with it inside your customers, orders and bookings.
Side by side
The things a small business uses every day. Every row about ChatGPT was read on ChatGPT’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.
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What it looks like in Era
This job has its own screen in Era, in the same workspace as customer cards, the calendar, the inbox and the AI. The screen below is Era itself, with sample data.
AI/EraStarting Era on your ChatGPT subscription
A few minutes’ work. You keep your ChatGPT account; Era uses the same subscription for your business’s work.
- 1Open Era and connect your ChatGPT subscription through Codex.
- 2Bring your customer list and channels into Era.
- 3If you like, connect ChatGPT to Era so the chat can reach your business data.
When ChatGPT is the better pick
For personal tasks, writing, research and ideas, ChatGPT on its own is enough.
When Era is the better pick
In Era the AI knows the business’s records: say “send a reminder to yesterday’s no-shows” and it finds the list, drafts the message and asks you before sending. It answers your customers on WhatsApp too.
Era and ChatGPT — questions
For personal tasks, writing, research and ideas, ChatGPT on its own is enough. In Era the AI knows the business’s records: say “send a reminder to yesterday’s no-shows” and it finds the list, drafts the message and asks you before sending. It answers your customers on WhatsApp too.
Yes. Connect with your ChatGPT account through Codex and Era picks the right model for the job. ChatGPT’s own terms apply to the usage.
Yes. Era works with your supported Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Grok sources or your own API key. It orchestrates work rather than providing a model service.
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Open Era with your own AI subscription or API key. Turn on what you need and add the rest later — the same workspace on Windows and the web.