Inbox
200 emails a day. Each one is a 30-second decision that costs you the next hour of focus.
By 4pm, you've replied to 12 and forgotten what you sat down to do.
For agency owners
Otto is the AI chief of staff for agency owners. We triage your inbox, run your calendar, and keep your follow-ups warm — so you stop drowning in ops and get back to billable work.
5 early-adopter seats · $497/mo founder price · Locked in for 12 months
Inbox
By 4pm, you've replied to 12 and forgotten what you sat down to do.
Calendar
You've become a glorified appointment setter for your own agency.
Follow-ups
$200–340k of stalled proposals sit in your sent folder. Most aren't bad. They died of silence.
The cost of doing nothing
How it stacks up
| Otto | Senior EA | Offshore VA | Do nothing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $497 | $7,000+ | $1,200 | $0 cash · $200k/yr in lost time |
| Ramp time | Same day | 60–90 days | 30 days | — |
| Inbox triage with drafts | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✗ |
| Calendar ownership | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Follow-up engine | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✗ |
| Weekly digest | ✓ | Sometimes | ✗ | ✗ |
| Calls required | Zero | Daily check-ins | Weekly | — |
| Async only | ✓ | ✗ | partial | — |
| Travel / errands / personal | ✗ | ✓ | partial | — |
Otto is the right call for the first 12–18 months of getting ops off your plate. After that — if you need someone at events with you, hire the EA. Until then, it's not close.
A day in the life
Fill a short form: your top time-sinks, voice and style notes. Watch a 45-second video to grant Gmail and Calendar access. No calls.
Every weekday by 9am we've sorted, drafted, and surfaced. You approve. We send.
By week 2 you're spending 10–15 fewer hours on operational work. Friday digest shows you exactly where the time went.
Locked in for 12 months
100% refundable in the first 7 days, no questions. No calls required to start — pay, fill the onboarding form, and Otto starts the next morning.
What changes
By Day 5, you stop opening Gmail "just to check." By Day 10, you'll catch yourself realizing you haven't thought about your inbox in 3 hours. By Day 14, the 200-email backlog feeling is gone, and you don't quite remember when it left.
The weekly digest gives you the "where did the week go" answer you stopped asking three years ago. Top wins, top risks, what needs your call. One page. Forwarded to your team without editing because it's already what they need too.
Not metaphorically. Literally. Take a Monday off. Take five Mondays off. Ops keeps moving, follow-ups keep going out, scheduling resolves itself. The thing you've been pretending you'd do "after the next quarter" — you can actually do it.
FAQ
Edgar Mirzakhanyan. I built Otto because I watched 4 agency-owner friends burn out doing inbox work. I'm running the early adopter program myself, hands-on, for the first 5 clients. You'll deal with me directly until we automate.
Yes. We connect via Gmail's official API with read + draft permissions only. We never read on our own — all activity is logged and you can revoke access in 30 seconds. We never train models on your data. We never share data with third parties. Period.
Full refund in the first 7 days, no questions. After that, the 3-month commitment holds — but if you want out we'll find a way. We're not in the business of forcing people to pay for something that isn't working.
Gmail or Google Workspace, Google Calendar, and either Slack or WhatsApp. If you're on Outlook or another stack, ping me — we may still be able to help, just not yet.
Right now, for the 5 early adopters. Software product launches Q3 2026. Until then you get the founder running it personally.
No. Onboarding is fully async — a short form, two short videos to watch, and you grant access via Gmail's standard delegation. Day-to-day, you communicate with Otto via Slack, WhatsApp, or email. Zero calls, ever.
About 10 minutes of your time, split across three steps: a 5-minute form (your top time-sinks, voice and style notes, top accounts), a 45-second video walking you through Gmail and Calendar delegation, and a 2-minute step to set up Slack or WhatsApp. Then Otto starts triaging the next morning.
Two options: (1) a Slack huddle for 10 minutes, no calendar meeting, or (2) I record you a custom Loom answering the specific thing. Most founders prefer the Loom — they can watch on 1.5x and rewind. But scheduled calls aren't part of the program.
Otto is designed for the founder specifically right now. If you have an EA, Otto handles the layer below them — daily inbox triage and follow-up nudges so your EA can focus on the higher-leverage work (events, travel, board prep). If your team needs Otto access, ping me — we'll figure it out case by case.
Nothing. Founder rate stays at $497/mo for the full 12-month window — including the automated software product when it ships. You're paying for early access AND a price lock. No upgrade tax.
Two reasons. Cheaper than that and the customers tend to treat it as a curiosity rather than something they actually use. More than that and the 5-seat program closes in days, before I can deliver well at this stage. $497 is the "you're committed enough to do the onboarding form, and I can give you the kind of attention this deserves" price.
When the seats fill, the price doubles. The early adopters keep their rate forever.
Questions before joining? Email ai.bot.otto@gmail.com — usually respond within 4 hours.