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AI workspace for a five-person team: activation and governance pilot
For small team leads who need a five-seat AI pilot to prove a repeatable workflow, defined permissions, and an accountable expansion decision before it becomes a broad rollout.
Start with ChatGPT when all five people need one broad shared AI workspace and one review loop. Move Claude ahead when long-form synthesis is the recurring handoff. Start with Gemini when an existing Google Workspace document, meeting, or follow-up flow is the pilot's natural home. Define an owner, permission boundary, weekly evidence review, and explicit stop-or-expand rule before adding more seats or a second vendor.
01ChatGPT9/10ChatGPT is the strongest starting point when all five people need one broadly useful workspace for preparing work, sharing outputs, and operating a common review loop under one business administration surface.02Claude8/10Claude is the better shortlist candidate when the team can turn long-document synthesis into a deliberate draft-and-review loop rather than an occasional one-off prompt.03Gemini8/10Gemini should move up when the team already works in Google Workspace and can anchor the pilot in an existing document, meeting, or follow-up workflow rather than creating a separate destination.Before you roll out
- AI subscription pricingCheck starting prices, usage limits, and price changes.
- AI subscription auditFind overlapping subscriptions and decide which to keep.
- AI agent governanceRecord an owner, permissions, and budget for each agent.
- MCP security checklistCheck compatibility, permissions, and rollback steps.