Your AI project teammate

The teammate who keeps things moving while you build.

Otto lives on your board — not in a chat window. It drafts the specs, chases the blockers, and updates the stakeholders, so your team spends standup talking about the work instead of the status of the work.

Free for small teams · Otto asks before it acts · Set up in 4 minutes

Otto, a friendly sage-green robot holding a clipboard

Teams that stopped chasing status updates

FernwoodNightjarLoop & LaneBasalt StudioCardinal LabsHearthside

What Otto does all day

Not a chatbot. A coworker with a to-do list.

You don't prompt Otto. You assign it cards, the same way you'd assign anyone on the team — and it gets to work.

01 — Before standup

Specs, drafted while you slept

Drop a rough idea on the board and Otto turns it into a real spec: goals, edge cases, open questions pulled from past tickets and meeting notes. You review, nudge, approve.

  • Cites the tickets and docs it drew from
  • Flags scope creep against your sprint goal
02 — During the sprint

Blockers get chased, kindly

When a card stalls, Otto notices, finds who can unblock it, and follows up — politely, with context, and never more than your team's norms allow. No more "just bumping this."

  • Escalates only after two gentle nudges
  • Works where your team talks — Slack, Teams, email
03 — End of week

Stakeholders stay in the loop without a meeting

Otto writes the update your PM used to lose Friday afternoons to: what shipped, what slipped, what's at risk — tuned to each audience, from exec brief to engineering detail.

  • You approve every send — or set it to autopilot
  • Honest about risk — Otto never buries a slip

Shipped: push triggers, photo migration, dark-mode audit.Weekly digest · to 4 stakeholders

Watch: API contract slipped 2 days — mitigation in place.Flagged early, owner assigned

Timeline: still on track for the June 26 launch.Confidence 87%, up from 81%

04 — Every sprint after

It learns how your team ships

Otto studies your velocity, your review habits, your honest estimates versus your hopeful ones. Its plans get sharper every sprint — because they're built from your history, not averages.

  • Estimate calibration per person, kept private
  • Your data trains your Otto — never anyone else's

How it works

Hired in four minutes. Useful by lunch.

Otto joins like any new teammate — with clear responsibilities and a manager it reports to. That's you.

1.

Connect your tools

Point Otto at your board — Linear, Jira, Asana, or Otto's own — plus Slack and your docs. Read-only until you say otherwise.

2.

Set Otto's lane

Choose what Otto owns: drafting, chasing, updating, planning. Set its tone, its boundaries, and who it can talk to.

3.

Review, then relax

Every action starts as a suggestion you approve. As trust builds, promote Otto to act on its own — one duty at a time.

Otto never messages anyone outside your workspace without approval. Ever.

"I braced for a gimmick. Six weeks later Otto flagged a slip nine days before it would've hit our launch — and had already drafted the recovery plan. It's just… on the team now."
Maya OkaforHead of Product, Nightjar
3D scene of Otto the sage-green robot pinning and organizing kanban cards on a corkboard
A day with Otto — quietly tidying the board while the team builds.

Pricing

One salary you'll never negotiate

Every plan includes the full Otto — drafting, chasing, updating. Bigger plans just give it more room to work.

Sprout

For side projects & tiny teams

$0

free forever, honestly

  • 1 board, up to 5 humans
  • 25 Otto actions per week
  • Spec drafting & standup summaries
  • Slack & Linear integrations
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Most teams pick this

Grove

For product teams shipping weekly

$14 / human / month

Otto itself is free — you pay per human

  • Unlimited boards & Otto actions
  • Blocker chasing & stakeholder digests
  • Sprint forecasting from your history
  • Jira, Asana, Notion, GitHub, Teams
  • Autopilot mode with audit log
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Forest

For orgs with many teams

Custom

let's talk about your roadmap

  • Cross-team dependency tracking
  • SSO, SCIM & region-pinned data
  • Custom Otto policies per department
  • Dedicated onboarding gardener
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Give your team their Friday afternoons back.

Otto starts working the moment it joins the board. The first spec draft usually lands before your next standup.

Add Otto to your board — free