For teams evaluating ChatGPT Spaces for enterprise

ChatGPT Spaces vs. Lit Factory

Choose how your organization coordinates work across teams and AI agents.

Keep personal artifacts in ChatGPT Spaces. Connect Spaces to a Lit Factory Floor to coordinate organization-wide workflows across people, agents, and tools.

Independent comparison by Lit Factory · Reviewed September 29, 2026. OpenAI calls the feature “Space.” ChatGPT is an OpenAI product; Lit Factory is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI.

Start with ChatGPT Space when…

Your team wants shared pages, files, and AI-assisted tasks within its ChatGPT environment. Evaluate the available apps, task controls, and plan requirements against your workflow.

Read OpenAI’s Space guide ↗

Evaluate Lit Factory when…

Agent output is growing, but reviews, decisions, and handoffs still wait on people. You need shared operational context, your choice of agents and models, control over agent responsibility, and a way to turn observed bottlenecks into better workflows—on infrastructure you operate.

Explore enterprise deployment →

Better together

Using ChatGPT Spaces and Lit Factory together

You do not have to choose one workspace for every kind of work. Keep personal research, drafts, and artifacts in ChatGPT Spaces, and connect to a Lit Factory Floor for the collaborative workflows that span your organization.

Create in Spaces.

Develop ideas, research a question, or refine a brief with ChatGPT. Keep personal artifacts in Spaces and choose what to share when the work needs other people.

Coordinate on the Floor.

Bring teams, coding agents, connected tools, ownership, and decisions into a shared workflow. Use Lit Factory to coordinate handoffs, reviews, automations, and the work that follows.

Connect the two.

Connect your ChatGPT workspace to the relevant Lit Factory Floor. Use the connection to bring relevant context into collaborative work, with access and actions governed by the configured connection and Floor permissions.

For example, develop a proposal in Spaces, share the relevant brief with the Floor, and coordinate implementation and review across people and agents in Lit Factory.

Spaces also supports shared content and team collaboration. This division of work is a choice for your organization.

Plan a connected workflow

Compare the decisions that matter.

Your agents. Your models. One shared Floor. Compare where work lives, which agents and models you can use, and who operates the environment.

Shared context

ChatGPT

Space brings pages, files, and team collaboration into ChatGPT. Teams can use shared context for tasks.

OpenAI: Getting started with Space ↗

Lit Factory

A live Floor connects work, discussions, ownership, and a shared Brain. Dynamic channels organize matching work without requiring a separate manual list.

Connected work and context →

Coding agent choice

ChatGPT

Space centers collaboration on ChatGPT. OpenAI’s Space guide does not describe connecting Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenCode as participating agents.

OpenAI: Getting started with Space ↗

Lit Factory

Keep the coding-agent harness you have tuned and optimized for your workflow—Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or OpenCode—with your configured skills, tools, and team instructions. Built-in MCP connections bring those existing agent environments onto a shared Floor with common work, context, and ownership. Other compatible MCP clients can connect too.

Connect your coding agents →

Model choice

ChatGPT

You work with ChatGPT in Space. The Space guide does not document replacing its underlying model with your own provider or a locally hosted model.

OpenAI: Getting started with Space ↗

Lit Factory

Run Light on your own model provider, gateway, or compatible local endpoint. Choose self-hosted models from families such as Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek.

Bring your own models →

Agents and responsibility

ChatGPT

Teams can run shared tasks with approved app connections and configured permissions.

OpenAI: Teams in ChatGPT ↗

Lit Factory

Set an autonomy band on a task. Lit Factory passes behavioral instructions into the connected agent workflow, including the developer’s existing Claude Code session, to guide how it proceeds, asks for input, and requests review. Work interactively or delegate more autonomy, and step in at any point.

The autonomy dial →

Taking action

ChatGPT

Connected apps can provide information and actions. Available capabilities and permissions vary by app and plan.

OpenAI: Connected apps ↗

Lit Factory

Connected work and supported discussion updates can flow between the Floor and tools such as GitHub, Linear, and Slack. Automations can route work and follow up within configured permissions.

Integration scope →

Deployment

ChatGPT

OpenAI offers ChatGPT Business and Enterprise as hosted services. These sources do not describe a customer-operated deployment of Space.

ChatGPT pricing and plans ↗

Lit Factory

Run Lit Factory on your infrastructure, with your own database, models, and identity provider.

Enterprise deployment →

Pricing structure

ChatGPT

Business and Enterprise use organization plans. Check OpenAI’s current plan terms and usage allowances for your requirements.

ChatGPT pricing and plans ↗

Lit Factory

Lit Factory’s cloud pricing pools Sparks across unlimited humans and agents rather than charging a seat fee. Enterprise deployment and commercial terms are scoped separately; external model usage can be billed by your provider.

Sparks and enterprise terms →

How Lit Factory works

A shared workspace that helps improve how work gets done.

The Floor connects the work, its context, the people and agents responsible, and the next improvement. Start with one recurring workflow and measure what changes.

  1. 01 / Observe

    See where work waits.

    Follow work across connected tools. Dynamic channels organize matching work; metrics surface queues, interruptions, and review waits.

  2. 02 / Understand

    Give agents a shared Brain.

    Keep knowledge, decisions, and source context available to the team. Light, the built-in agent, can use that context alongside connected tools.

  3. 03 / Act

    Set the responsibility.

    Choose an autonomy mode for agent work. Coordinate Light, external agent clients, and recurring automations around the same work and human decisions.

  4. 04 / Optimize

    Turn a bottleneck into a next step.

    Optimize suggests automations with a prepared request. Review it with Light, press Enter to send it, and confirm the setup before enabling it.

Suggestions start a conversation, not an unattended change. Compare the intended autonomy with recorded participation, then adjust the workflow as evidence accumulates.

Example workflow · illustrative, not a measured result

A review queue should lead to a decision.

An agent finishes a change. The work is ready for review, but it waits. On the Floor, your team can see the queue and relevant activity, inspect the surrounding context, and decide where a person needs to act.

Optimize can suggest review reminders with a prepared request for Light. Review and send that request, confirm the proposed automation, then watch whether the queue improves. The outcome to test is less waiting with the same review standard.

Questions from enterprise teams

Can we use ChatGPT Spaces and Lit Factory together?

Yes. Keep personal research, drafts, and artifacts in ChatGPT Spaces, and connect Spaces to a Lit Factory Floor for organization-wide collaborative workflows. Spaces also supports team collaboration; this is a useful division of work, not a restriction. Bring the relevant context onto the Floor to coordinate ownership, handoffs, and reviews.

Is ChatGPT Space available for enterprise teams?

Yes. OpenAI documents Space and Teams for business use, including Enterprise availability. Access varies by rollout and workspace settings. Lit Factory is an independent alternative to evaluate when your requirements include running the operating platform on your own infrastructure and coordinating work across people, agents, and tools.

Can Lit Factory run on our infrastructure?

Yes. Lit Factory Enterprise runs on your infrastructure. Bring your database, identity provider, and models while connecting people, agents, and tools on a shared Floor.

Can developers keep their configured Claude Code environment?

Yes. Developers continue in their existing Claude Code environment, with their configured skills, tools, and team or organization instructions. Lit Factory connects that agent to shared work on the Floor and passes task autonomy instructions into its harness—the environment around the model that manages tools and interaction. Developers can collaborate interactively, delegate more autonomous execution, and step in at any point. The value includes that configured working environment, beyond access to the underlying model.

Does the autonomy dial replace permissions?

No. The dial guides how agents work with people, from interactive collaboration to autonomous execution. Permissions govern what they can access and do.

Can we keep ChatGPT, coding agents, Linear, and Slack?

Yes. Keep your coding agents and connect your work systems to a shared Floor. Built-in MCP connections bring Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode into the workflow, while integrations with tools such as Linear, GitHub, and Slack keep work and discussions connected.

Can we use our own models, including models hosted locally?

Yes. Enterprise deployments can configure Light with your own model provider, gateway, or compatible local endpoint, including self-hosted models from the Qwen, Kimi, and DeepSeek families. Your external coding agents retain their own model configuration. This lets your organization choose where inference runs and how it manages model costs.

How should we compare the cost?

Use one real workflow. Compare your plan or platform fee, metered usage, model-provider charges, infrastructure costs, and the human time needed to operate it. Lit Factory’s cloud model has no seat fee; enterprise terms are scoped to the deployment.

Explore the linked OpenAI guides for more about ChatGPT Spaces.

Bring one workflow and your deployment requirements.

We will map the people, tools, decisions, and agent responsibilities it needs. Leave with a practical first deployment scope and a clear outcome to measure.

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