Connect OpenAI

Connections · updated 1 October · 3 min read

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The OpenAI step sends text to OpenAI's models using your company's own API key. Bizomate does not pay for or resell AI use: OpenAI bills your account, and each run's output shows the tokens it used.

Who can do this

Workspace Admins and Editors, on any plan — OpenAI is not a premium connection. On OpenAI's side, someone who can create API keys for your organisation's OpenAI account, which needs credit or billing set up.

Steps

In OpenAI, make the key:

Sign in at platform.openai.com.
Open API keys (in the dashboard, or under Settings).
Select Create new secret key. Name it — for example Bizomate — and choose the project it belongs to.
Copy the key. OpenAI shows it only once.

In Bizomate, add the connection:

Select Connections in the bar at the top, then + Add connection.
Under AI, select OpenAI. It reads "Stored credential".
In Connection name, type a name — for example Consulace OpenAI.
Paste the key in API key. "Stored encrypted. It is never shown again after you save."
Optional: if the key has an end date, choose it in This key expires on · optional.
Select Save connection.

The toast "Connection added" says "“Consulace OpenAI” is ready. Every workflow in this workspace can use it."

What happens next

In the designer, the OpenAI step lists it under Connection: "Your company’s own API key, kept in Connections."
The step offers the models GPT-5 mini (the default) and GPT-5.

Good to know

There is no Test for an AI key. Run the step once in the designer — that is the test.
To use a new key: in the connection's panel select Revoke, then Reconnect, and paste the new key. Workflows using it fail between the two, so do both together. Within 30 days of a date you entered, Replace key does the same in one go.
To keep spending in check, set a usage limit for the project in OpenAI.

If something goes wrong

What you see	Why	What to do
"OpenAI refused the API key. Replace it on Connections."	The key was mistyped, deleted or has no access.	Make a new key and reconnect with it.
"OpenAI says too many requests, or the account is out of credit. Set this step to try again, or check the account."	OpenAI's rate limit, or no credit left.	Add credit in OpenAI, or set the step's If this step fails to try again.
"OpenAI did not answer in time."	OpenAI was slow.	Run it again.
"Could not reach OpenAI: …"	OpenAI could not be reached.	Try again in a few minutes.

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