A lot of people want to move from chat-based AI into co-work. The thing slowing most of them down isn’t the technology.
It’s their history.
If you’ve been using ChatGPT for a year, that system has absorbed a lot about you - your preferences, your context, your way of working. Starting over feels like losing ground.
But that history is recoverable, and it should belong to you anyway.
Anthropic has actually built importing capabilities into Claude Cowork specifically for this. There’s documentation to walk you through exporting your ChatGPT history and bringing it into Cowork - or better yet, saving it as local files that you control and can give any AI agent access to going forward.
Once you’re in, the transition is smoother than most people expect. You can still chat exactly as you have been. But now you also have access to skills - repeatable and scheduled processes that go well beyond a single conversation.
And for those who don’t write code? There’s a skill for building skills. You describe what you want, and co-work builds it. That’s the entry point that changes everything for non-technical users.