A tool for individuals, an employee for workflows. The facts side by side.
ChatGPT is first and foremost a chatbot: a person asks a question or gives a task, ChatGPT answers. Around the chat, OpenAI offers further features, from custom GPTs and app connections to workspace agents for recurring workflows3 and dots. Setting up, maintaining and monitoring these agents is up to the company itself.
An AI employee from bee-hub.ai is not another tool for individuals. It takes over a defined workflow in your business, works in the background in your ERP and inbox and presents results for approval. bee-hub.ai is responsible for setup, operation and maintenance.
| ChatGPT Business | bee-hub.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Chat assistant for individual staff, with research, writing, analysis and app connections1 | AI employees, trained on a defined workflow in your business |
| Who does the work | The person in the chat; workspace agents run configured workflows, including on a schedule (research preview)3 | The AI employee; a person reviews and approves |
| Pricing | Per user per month: €21 Standard, €105 Premium1 | Per AI employee; AI chat for all staff at no extra cost |
| Where the data lives | US provider; EU data residency only on the Enterprise plan1 | Your server, private cloud or a German hosting provider; language model from a European provider5 |
| Training on your data | Excluded by contract on Business and Enterprise plans unless expressly agreed2,4 | Excluded by contract5 |
| Work in the ERP | Connects to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack and more; other systems via custom apps or integrations that the company sets up1,2 | Works inside your existing ERP, DMS and email, like an additional employee |
| Who is in control | Centrally managed workspaces; administrators set permissions and approval points for workspace agents3 | An agreed workflow with rules, approvals and a log, set up by bee-hub.ai |
| Setup and operation | Self-service: users and administrators set up apps and agents themselves2,3 | Onboarding, operation and maintenance by bee-hub.ai |
The real difference lies in who sets things up, who maintains them and who is responsible.
Set it up and maintain it yourself, or have it set up and maintained.
Who is the expert for that in your company?
At bee-hub.ai, every AI employee is limited to one purpose and works mostly by fixed rules. We only deploy fully autonomous agents when explicitly commissioned.
Chat makes individuals faster.
The AI employee takes work off the team.
No. ChatGPT is a chat assistant that helps individual staff write, research and analyze. bee-hub.ai provides AI employees that take over a defined workflow, such as entering orders from the inbox into the ERP, working inside your existing systems. Language models raise the productivity of individuals. AI employees step into processes and raise the productivity of the whole company.
bee-hub.ai includes an AI chat for all staff at no extra cost, together with a knowledge base. If you already use ChatGPT, you can keep doing so. The AI employees handle the workflows; the chat remains a tool for individuals.
For Business and Enterprise, OpenAI commits by contract not to use customer content to improve its services without express consent4. At bee-hub.ai, training on your data is likewise excluded by contract.
That depends on the system. ChatGPT mainly connects to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and similar services1; for other systems the company sets up and maintains its own apps or integrations2. An AI employee from bee-hub.ai works inside your existing ERP; bee-hub.ai handles the connection, and we clarify the technical requirements before you commission us.
30 minutes, one process from your business.