Volume I · No. 001
Field Notes from the Edge
01 — Premise

The web is full of agents
built for developers.
We're building one
for everyone else.

Otto is a new marketplace for AI agents and skills, written for people who don't read changelogs. Tell us what you'd hire an agent to do — we'll start the marketplace there.

02The problem

Today, agents are written in a language engineers speak.

Skill files. JSON manifests. Markdown specs. The most useful tools of this decade are arriving in a wrapper that excludes the people who'd benefit most.

03The bet

Plain language is a protocol too.

Describe what task you want an agent to do — in a sentence, in your own words — we'll build it!

04The ask

Tell us what you'd hire.

No commitment. No spam. Just one line about the agent you wish existed to help make your life easier and help reduce redundant or time consuming tasks.

05 — Field samples

A few sentences already in the notebook.

  • 01 · for the curious

    An agent that reads my doctor's letters and tells me what they actually mean.

  • 02 · for the small-business owner

    Something that chases invoices for me without sounding like a robot.

  • 03 · for the parent

    Plan a week of dinners my kids will eat and order what's missing.

  • 04 · for the homeowner

    An agent that constantly hunts for better mortgage rates and negotiates them down for me.

  • 05 · for the freelancer

    Read my inbox once a morning and surface the two things I'd regret missing.

  • 06 · for the traveler

    Re-book everything when my flight changes. Don't ask me twice.

06 — Enter the waitlist

One sentence.
That's the whole form.

We read every entry. The agents people describe here are the ones we'll seed the marketplace with first.