If you've sold a custom GPT or handed one out as a freebie, you probably felt your stomach drop when the news came out that custom GPTs are going away. OpenAI is retiring them on December 11, 2026.

On this guest episode of The Offer Mojo Show, Lori Young is joined by Wendy Breakstone, who teaches non-techie coaches and service experts how to build AI automations and AI employees. Together they sort out what to protect right now and where else you can build, so you can make a calm decision before the deadline makes it for you.

Wendy has taught custom GPTs since the day they launched, and her read on this is steady. It's a nuisance, the kind you'd handle if your email platform shut down, and your IP isn't going anywhere. Then Lori and Wendy get into the part most people are rushing past: a skill is your playbook in a plain text file, so turning a paid GPT into one can hand your methodology to anyone who opens it.

We talk about:

• What to back up today so you keep the structure you built your IP into, including the edits you made inside the GPT
• Why "lifetime access" was always the life of the product, and what you owe the people who bought your GPT
• When a skill makes sense for your IP, and when it hands over your whole methodology
• Where else you can rebuild (RadGenius, Pickaxe, vibe-coded apps) and the usage costs that come with each
• How Wendy's Grok Bot team of AI employees runs parts of her business without being asked, and what should stay human

If there's a custom GPT with your name on it, press play before you decide what to do with it.

Wendy put together a listener gift for you: her free 21 Easy AI Automations Handbook. Use code MOJO.

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Guest Information:

Wendy Breakstone teaches non-techie coaches, program creators, and service experts how to build simple AI automations and AI employees that grow their income without adding to their workload or requiring them to hire. She believes AI should be platform agnostic and pointed at the money, helping you save it, make it, keep it and protect it, while critical thinking stays with the human. She brings more than 20 years of marketing and operations experience across high-tech companies, best-selling authors, and e-commerce brands, and has taught custom GPTs since they launched in late 2023. A proud Gen Xer who calls herself an AI enthusiast, she runs a team of 11 AI employees led by her chief of staff, Barb.

Website: https://wendybreakstone.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendybreakstone_

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