Strategic Proposal to OpenAI
ChatGPT Community — An AI-Native Social Network with Contributor Revenue Sharing
Date: November 6, 2026
Proposed by: [Your name or preferred public identity]
Dear OpenAI Product and Strategy Team,
I would like to propose a strategic evolution of ChatGPT: transforming it into an AI-powered social and collaborative platform that rewards users for the value they create.
The central idea is simple: ChatGPT should not only be an AI assistant that people pay to use. It could also become an ecosystem where people contribute ideas, build AI-powered solutions, attract communities, and earn recurring revenue from their contributions.
1. Integrate a social network directly into ChatGPT
Introduce a dedicated Community tab while preserving the existing private conversational assistant.
The new space would combine traditional social-network features with AI-native capabilities:
- User profiles, followers, publications, comments and messaging.
- A personalized discovery feed.
- Search for ideas, projects, users and AI agents.
- Communities focused on shared interests and collaborative innovation.
- AI assistance to analyze, develop, connect and improve contributions.
Users would decide which ideas or conversations they wish to publish. Private conversations would remain private by default.
2. Introduce passive compensation for contributors
Inspired by creator economies such as TikTok, OpenAI could develop a revenue-sharing program based on meaningful engagement and actual usage.
Contributors could receive compensation for:
- Content that generates qualified engagement.
- AI agents and tools used by other users.
- Ideas or improvements incorporated into commercial features.
- Collaborative contributions that create measurable economic value.
Depending on the type of contribution, compensation could take the form of one-time payments, recurring usage-based revenue, or a hybrid arrangement.
3. Recognize and track intellectual contributions
A voluntary contribution-registration system could provide timestamps, attribution records, similarity reviews and transparent evaluation criteria.
This would encourage users to share ideas while addressing a major concern: seeing a contribution adopted without acknowledgment.
Such a system should also distinguish between ideas already known, meaningful improvements and genuinely novel contributions.
4. Create a sustainable business ecosystem
OpenAI could benefit from increased user retention, more community-driven innovation, agent marketplace commissions, premium services and potentially transparent advertising or sponsorship in public community spaces.
Revenue-sharing mechanisms should reflect actual economic value, computing costs and safeguards against artificial engagement.
5. The strategic opportunity
TikTok demonstrated the power of combining user-generated content, community engagement, monetization and recommendation systems.
ChatGPT has the potential to go further by combining these mechanisms with artificial intelligence.
The result could be a platform where human creativity and AI capabilities continuously reinforce each other.
The long-term competitive advantage would no longer depend solely on having the most capable AI model, but also on building the most innovative, engaged and economically empowered community.
My request
I would appreciate:
- Acknowledgment that this proposal has been received.
- Consideration by the relevant OpenAI product or strategy team.
- Information about any program for recognizing or compensating user contributions.
- An opportunity to discuss the concept further if it is of interest.
I would welcome appropriate recognition of my contribution and the opportunity to explore a mutually agreed participation or compensation arrangement.
Thank you for your consideration.
[Your name / preferred public identity]
Independent ChatGPT user and concept contributor
November 6, 2026