Denver social club The Den saves 10-15 hours weekly with ChatGPT Work
The Den Family Social, a Denver-based social club for parents, reports saving 10-15 hours per week by adopting ChatGPT Work. Founder Chandler Lipe explains that the tool helps manage administrative tasks as the business prepares to open a second location. The team uses Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive plugins to gather data and propose next steps, reducing the time needed for licensing and grant…
What you can do with it
AI at Work →Draft license and grant applications in hours, not days
What you get You save 10-15 hours a week on admin tasks and focus on growing your business.
Gathers data from Gmail, Slack, and Drive to draft documents and plans.
- Who for
- founders and operations
- Cost
- Price not stated
- Effort
- minutes
Use it for
- Draft grant applications
- Organize financial reports
- Prepare license documents
How to set it up · From the article
- Connect Gmail, Slack, and Google Drive plugins.
- Ask ChatGPT Work to gather relevant business information.
- Review the proposed next steps and documents for accuracy.
Watch out Team must review all output for accuracy before final use
Key points from the news
- The Den saves 10-15 hours weekly using ChatGPT Work for administrative tasks.
- Liquor license application time dropped from four days to three hours.
- Grant application time reduced from three days to two hours.
Specific examples include a liquor-license application that took three hours with ChatGPT Work instead of four days, and grant applications that now take two hours rather than three days. The Den also uses ChatGPT to draft partnership structures and analyze financial reports for inventory forecasting. Chandler notes that using ChatGPT for exploratory thinking saves her about 7 hours of conversations weekly.
The business plans to explore Codex for building custom systems, such as a member app and improved point-of-sale connections. While the team reviews all AI-generated output for accuracy, the shift allows them to focus more on serving families and less on administrative overhead. OpenAI states that over 1 million businesses are using its tools to achieve similar results.
The Den frees up 10-15 hours a week to grow with ChatGPT Work
OpenAI · 1 October 2026
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