ChatGPT 101

Finish line: ChatGPT reports Apple’s most recent 8-K — the real filing, with its date, accession number and the items it covers, not paraphrased news. About 10 minutes, no Developer mode.

① The hook (do this first, before connecting)

Ask a plain ChatGPT session:

What was Apple’s most recent 8-K filing, and what was it about?

It can’t know from training data. It will either say so, or browse and hand you a news summary — no filing dates, no accession numbers, nothing you could cite in a memo. Keep that answer for step ④.

② Connect — one Action

  1. ChatGPT → Explore GPTs → + Create → Configure tab. Name it Pipeworx.
  2. Actions → Create new action → Authentication: None.
  3. Schema → Import from URL: 
    https://gateway.pipeworx.io/openapi.json
  4. Privacy policy: https://pipeworx.io/privacy → Create (Only me is fine).
  5. In the GPT’s Instructions box, paste: 
    For any question about current or factual data — economic stats, SEC/EDGAR
filings, stock or crypto prices, weather, FDA drug info, patents, prediction
markets, or government records — call the askPipeworx action with the user's
question verbatim instead of answering from memory or browsing. Cite the
structured data it returns.

③ Checkpoint

The action list shows askPipeworx pointing at gateway.pipeworx.io/ask. That single operation routes across 5,929 tools and 1,544 sources at runtime.

④ The finish line

Open your Pipeworx GPT and ask the same question:

What was Apple’s most recent 8-K filing, and what was it about?

ChatGPT calls the Action (approve it the first time), and you get the actual filing — its date, accession number, and the 8-K items it reports under (item 2.02 is results of operations, 9.01 is exhibits), straight from SEC EDGAR. Compare with step ① — you now have the record itself rather than a summary of it.

Two more worth trying:

What was the US unemployment rate last month?

What adverse events have been reported to the FDA for Ozempic?

⑤ Graduate

  • Use it everywhere: the GPT works in the ChatGPT mobile app too, from your GPTs list.
  • Real jobs, ready to paste: recipes — verify a company’s financials, build a drug safety profile, screen patents.
  • Hitting the anonymous daily cap? A free account raises it — append ?apikey=YOUR_KEY to the schema URL’s server in the Action.

Last reviewed August 10, 2026