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Otto, an AI chief of staff for people who run their business alone

An assistant that reads your inbox and remembers your promises.

Otto connects to your Gmail, calendar and meetings. Every morning at 7:00 it tells you the few things that need you, keeps track of what you promised and what you’re owed, and drafts the replies and follow-ups. Nothing goes out until you say yes.

See how it works
Safety
Otto drafts. Sending waits for your yes.
Works with
Gmail, Google Calendar and the meetings you send it to.
Price
Founding members: $15 a month for your first 4 months, then $49. No card to reserve.
runotto.app / ask otto · demo — sample data

Good morning.

What needs me today?
Illustrated portrait of the person asking Otto a question
CalendardoneGmaildoneTasksdone

Three things, in order:

1.Send Sarah the locked timeline before the 10:00 pricing sync.
2.The Meridian follow-up is drafted — it just needs your approval.
3.Your 2 PM clashes with the dentist. I proposed 4 PM instead.

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Or ask us about Otto

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In plain words

What Otto is,and what it does all day.

What it is

  • A chief of staff, done as software — for founders, consultants and anyone who runs their business alone.
  • Not just a chatbot you type into. It has already read everything, and comes to you first with what matters.
  • It works from the tools you already use: Gmail, Google Calendar, and the meetings you send it to.

What it does every day

  • Reads what came in overnight and writes your morning note by 7:00 — the few things that need you, in order.
  • Keeps one ledger of promises in both directions: what you said you'd do, and what you're owed.
  • Drafts the replies, the follow-ups and the invoice nudge. Sits in the meetings you send it to and files what was promised.

What it never does

  • Sends anything without your yes.
  • Joins a call without announcing itself.
  • Trains on your data, or keeps you locked in — everything exports as one file.

How to explain it to a friend

“Otto reads my email and calendar, tells me every morning what actually needs me, remembers who I promised what and who owes me, and writes the follow-ups. I just say yes.”

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Ask Otto

Ask in plain English.Otto does the rest.

Otto has 130+ real tools behind that one box. It reads the thread, checks the calendar, pulls the doc, and hands you a finished draft.

runotto.app / ask otto
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7:02 AM — What Otto did, with receipts

While you wereasleep.

Otto worked. Every action, timestamped.

7:02 AMRead 41 overnight emails. Two need you, the rest can wait.
7:04 AMDrafted a reply to Meridian's $4,200 invoice. Waiting on your yes.
7:06 AMFlagged the 2 PM clash with your dentist. Proposed 4 PM.
7:07 AMNudged Sam on the contract, overdue since Friday. Third chase, still polite.
7:08 AMBuilt your brief: three things matter today. Everything else is parked.

Nothing left your account without your yes.

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07:14 AM — The morning brief

Your day,sorted by 7:00.

One brief lands every morning: what came in overnight, what matters, what’s slipping, and what Otto can take off your plate. You open one thing, not forty.

App or Telegram — your call.
runotto.app / routines · morning brief

Daily Morning Brief

Every morning · 7:00 AM

Running
Morning briefing · June 12

Top 3 priorities

1.Send Sarah the locked timeline before the 10:00 pricing sync.
2.Close the discount-tier question with finance today.
3.Lock the go / no-go before tomorrow's release cut.
Why you can trust it

Why you can trust it with your inbox.

An assistant in your inbox has to earn it. Three beliefs, built into the code — not a policy page:

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Otto asks first.

Most AI assistants act first and apologize later. Not Otto. Every email draft stops at your desk — you read the exact words, then decide. No yes, no send.

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You see everything.

Every action Otto takes leaves a timestamped receipt. When something fails — a check skipped, Gmail unreachable — Otto tells you. It never pretends it was watching.

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Your data is yours. So is the door.

Otto never trains on your data. Read everything it remembers, correct it, or delete it — and leaving takes a minute in Settings, with everything exported to take with you.

Otto never records on its own. No ambient microphone, no screen capture, nothing captured until you start it — and when you send Otto's notetaker into a meeting, it says so out loud before a word is kept.
Otto could be faster if it didn't ask. We built it to ask.

And the locks themselves

Two-factor sign-in

Add a second code from your phone. A correct password alone is half a sign-in — nothing opens until the code checks out.

Encrypted, both ways

Traffic is encrypted in transit, and the keys to your connected accounts are encrypted again at rest with AES-256.

Invite-only, on purpose

No open signups yet. Every account starts from a single-use invite link, and you set your own password — nobody hands one over.

A log nothing can rewrite

Sign-ins, exports, deletions — recorded in an append-only security log kept for 400 days. Not even Otto can edit a row.

The ledger

What you promised.What you’re owed.

Say “I’ll send it Friday” on a call — that lands in Otto’s ledger. So does what Marcus owes you. Your other tools can’t see this:

Meetings

Your notetaker heard every word — never chased a single promise.

Email

Your inbox knows what arrived — not what you promised when you replied.

People

Your contacts app knows the name — not who's still waiting on you.

Chat

Your chatbot answers beautifully — then forgets you were ever there.

runotto.app / work · the ledger

You promised

SarahLocked timeline before the 10:00 sync
Sent 9:41 AM
PriyaProposal for the site rebuild
Due Thursday

Owed to you

Meridian$4,200 invoice, 24 days out
Reply drafted — your yes
Marcus$1,850 for the March sprint
3rd nudge, still polite

Sample data — your ledger builds itself from what you connect

Otto watches everywhere you make promises — your email, your calendar, your meetings — and keeps one memory across all of it. The promise from Thursday’s call surfaces when Marcus emails on Monday.

And it stays yours — see everything Otto remembers, correct it, or delete it.

Pricing

What it costs.

A human assistant costs $3,000+ a month. Otto starts at $29. Every account starts with a free 14-day trial. No card needed. A plan you pick starts, and is charged, the day you pick it.

Founding 100
The first hundred members get Pro at $15 a month for their first 4 months, then $49 a month.
Starter
$29
/ mo

For one person, and everything they promised.

10,000credits a month
  • 5 hours of meetings recorded and written up
  • 30 minutes of Otto reading things back to you
  • Up to 10 connected apps
  • 20 routines
  • Email drafting and sending
  • Calendar management
ProRecommended
$49
/ mo

Nothing you promised — or you're owed — slips.

16,000credits a month
  • 10 hours of meetings recorded and written up
  • 1 hour of Otto reading things back to you
  • Up to 20 connected apps
  • 20 routines
  • The full 300+ model marketplace
  • Email drafting and sending
  • Calendar management
  • Priority support
Max
$99
/ mo

For heavy operators who live in their inbox.

30,000credits a month
  • 25 hours of meetings recorded and written up
  • 3 hours 20 minutes of Otto reading things back to you
  • Everything in Pro
  • Up to 50 connected apps
  • 50 routines
  • Priority support

New accounts are paused until launch. Reserve a spot and we’ll email you the moment yours opens.

Cancel from Settings whenever you want — no phone call, no retention maze. Export everything you’ve given Otto as one file whenever you want. No lock-in, no dark patterns.

Need more than Max, or something shaped differently? Email us and we’ll sort it out.

Questions

Questions people ask first.

You are handing an assistant your inbox. You should be picky.

ChatGPT answers questions, then forgets you. Otto is wired into your working life — Gmail, calendar, meetings — and keeps one memory across all of them. It knows you promised Priya a proposal Thursday, and that Marcus still owes you $1,850. It drafts, it chases, it briefs you at 7:00. A chatbot talks. A chief of staff works.

From the founder

If you run your business alone, kept promises are the whole product. Nobody buys your deck — they buy you doing what you said. Otto exists for that: it reads what you connect, drafts what needs sending, chases what’s slipping, and asks before anything leaves your account. The Founding 100 is exactly what it says: one hundred spots. Reserving one is free while payments get wired up.

— Eddie, building Otto

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Tomorrow morning,open Otto first.

$15 a month for your first 4 months, then $49. No card to reserve. When the 100 spots are gone, they’re gone.