About Otto
A calmer home
for a happier you.
Otto takes care of the planning, coordination and decision making behind your home, so you can spend less time managing life and more time living it.
Less to think about. More time for what actually matters.
The problem
Home shouldn't
feel like a second shift.
Running a home involves constant decision making: remembering, planning, coordinating, and making sure everything gets done at the right time. This mental load is real, often invisible, and frequently falls on one person. Over time, it can lead to decision fatigue, stress, conflict, less free time and lower life satisfaction.
This isn't just a feeling
The research is clear.
Academic research shows that the mental load of household management is significant, unevenly distributed, and has real consequences for mental health, time, and relationships.
Women carry most of it
71%
71% of women report handling most of the planning and organization, even in dual income relationships.
It affects wellbeing
2.6x
People who carry mental load are significantly more likely to report psychological distress.
It impacts relationships
67%
67% of couples report the division of responsibilities as a source of conflict
Based on multiple academic studies. for full references.
A different approach
Managing the mental load isn't the solution. Removing it is.
Traditional apps help you document, track or remember. They still leave you to decide what matters, when it matters, and who should do what.
Otto goes further. It uses AI to take on the decision making itself. Planning, coordinating, delegating and adapting to ever changing situations so you don't have to.
Traditional tools
- Lists and reminders
- You decide what to do
- You assign tasks
- You keep track
- Mental load stays with you
Otto
- AI makes the decisions
- Automatically delegates
- Adapts to real life
- Tracks everything for you
- Removes the mental load
A better way to share a home
Fair means the whole picture.
Otto's delegation engine creates a fair distribution of responsibilities by looking at the full context: Time availability, shared bills, workload, individual preferences, task difficulty, frequency, and more.
It adapts to your unique living situation, whether you live with a partner, roommates, or on your own, so no one has to be the default planner, and you can reduce decision making fatigue when you get home.
How Otto started
It started with a question.
When my partner and I first moved in together, we quickly realized how much work goes into sharing a home.
We had completely different routines, struggled to coordinate groceries, often bought the same things twice, forgot scheduled chores, and occasionally gave our pets a second breakfast (not that they complained).
It wasn't that we weren't trying our best. We both have demanding jobs and AuDHD, and somehow there was always something we forgot, something we hadn't discussed, or something we thought the other person had already done.
One day, my partner jokingly asked me, “Can you build an AI that manages all of this for us?”
And I thought, why not?
That question eventually became my university research into mental load, decision fatigue, algorithm design, and AI. And somewhere along the way, it became Otto.
The story behind the name
Why an octopus?
Growing up in a Latin American household, where mothers and grandmothers are often the heart of it all, I remember hearing “Wait!! I'm not an octopus!!” whenever there were too many things happening at once.
I used to find it funny, but as I got older and responsibilities got bigger and bigger, I caught myself saying the exact same thing pretty often😂.
So when it came to naming the app, I wanted it to be a little tribute to my upbringing.
Otto means eight in Italian, which also happens to be the number of arms an octopus has. A short name, a little family reference, and a pretty fitting mascot.
Our mission
A home that takes care of itself.
We believe technology should give us fewer things to think about, not more. Otto exists to eliminate the mental load of running a home, so people can come home, switch off, and spend their energy on what really matters; rest, connection and the life they want to build.
A brighter, calmer future
This is just the beginning.
Our goal is for Otto to become a household essential. From university dorms and shared apartments, to couples moving in together, to anyone building a life at home. A world where household mental load is no longer something people have to carry, and where a calmer, more balanced home is within everyone's reach.