You can now share a ChatGPT Site without putting it on the open web

OpenAI added external sharing to ChatGPT Sites, so you can send a live page to a named client or contractor without publishing it or paying for another seat.

On 3 September OpenAI changed how ChatGPT Sites are shared. If you own a Site, you can now send it to specific people by email, even when they are not part of your workspace. Before that, your two options were adding someone to the workspace or publishing the page for anyone to find.

The people you share with can use the Site but cannot edit or publish it. The change applies across ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu, and it arrived alongside new Zendesk and OneNote plugins and a set of admin policy controls for browsers and desktop apps.

For a business running on ChatGPT, this removes a small but constant friction. A Site is a working page that ChatGPT builds for you, such as a pricing calculator or an onboarding checklist for new clients. Those are the pages you want one client or one contractor to open, and the pages you do not want turning up in a Google search. Until now you paid for a seat or you went public.

Treat the new sharing as convenience rather than access control. A named-viewer link is still a link, so keep anything you would not put in an email off the page, and set a reminder to review who still has access when a project finishes. It is also worth deciding who on your team is allowed to create Sites at all, because that is a page with your business name on it.

If you already build small internal tools in ChatGPT, this is the week to look at what you have and who can see it.