Even at the end of the world, the work finds you.
Our launch film is fifty-one seconds of the most peaceful place we could picture, interrupted by a workday. Here's the film, and the story of what we're building so those notifications answer themselves.
Otto Team
OttoHR, Launch Film (2026). It used to open our landing page — now it lives here.
We put a mountain lake on screen and let a workweek ruin it. If you've ever run HR for a small company, you already know the feeling.
The Film
The setting is deliberate: still water, no roads, nobody around. Then the notifications start. A time-off request. New-hire documents to sign. An interview at three. Sixty-four applicants for one role. Is my contract ready? An exit checklist, still unfinished. All of it stamped 11:20 AM, because it always arrives at once.
Fifty-one seconds. No dashboard tour, no feature list. Just the feeling we're building against: the pile-up.
The Pile-Up
At most small companies, nobody's title is HR. It's the founder, the office manager, whoever answered first. The work arrives as interruptions — a contract question in chat, a leave request in email, a candidate waiting on a reply — and it doesn't care where you are.
None of those interruptions is hard on its own. The damage is the switching: ten small tasks scattered across ten tools, each one pulling you out of the work you actually meant to do.
What OttoHR Does
OttoHR puts the whole employment lifecycle in one place. Post a job, collect applications, and let AI screening rank the pipeline. When you hire, the new employee fills in their own paperwork through a pre-boarding packet before day one, and onboarding runs from a checklist instead of memory.
From there, the day-to-day runs itself: time-off policies and balances, payroll runs, documents and policies, benefits, training. And employees get their own portal — the person asking about their contract can open it and see for themselves.
Every notification in the film maps to something OttoHR either handles outright or shortens to a single click. That was the brief for the product long before it was the brief for the film.
Ask Otto
Threaded through all of it is Otto, the AI assistant. It drafts job posts and policies, imports your existing handbook, screens resumes, runs voice pre-screen interviews, and answers questions from your own documents.
A person is always in the loop — Otto proposes, you approve. The goal isn't to automate people out of HR. It's to give the person who never asked to run HR their afternoon back.
See it for yourself
The lake is a metaphor. The quiet isn't.
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