Interactive Business Model Canvas · #002

OpenAI

AI research & platform · Sep 20, 2026

Freemium PLG Seat SaaS API usage Enterprise

Frontier AI for everyone: ChatGPT for people and teams, plus an API that powers the apps builders ship.

Click any of the 9 blocks below for a plain-language story of how that part of the model works for OpenAI — and how it connects to the others.

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