Otto in your AI app
Bring your favorite
AI to Otto
Just message Claude or ChatGPT and get your HR work done, no need to open OttoHR. Ask for what you need in plain English, and your AI app handles the rest.
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Quickstart
Connect in a minute.
It works like connecting Spotify to another app. Paste a link, sign in with your OttoHR account, and you're in. No files to edit, no keys to manage, and you only do it once.
Set up
Claude
- Open Claude, then go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click “Add custom connector”.
- Copy one of the links on the right and paste it in as the URL.
- Sign in with your OttoHR account when prompted. That’s it. Start asking.
Custom connectors work on every Claude plan, including Free (which allows one connector).
Claude’s setup guideYour connection links. Pick the one that matches who's using it.
For your HR team
Hiring, employees, time off and shifts, payroll.
https:/For everyone else
Leave, shifts, documents, pay stubs, policies, directory.
https:/Otto only ever shows each person what they're already allowed to see in the app.
Using the command line or building your own integration? See the developer docs for API keys and advanced setup.
How it works
One protocol.
Every workflow.
Your AI app gets the same abilities as the assistant inside OttoHR, so you can run hiring and HR from wherever you already chat. No training, no new tool to learn.
Pick your AI
Use the Claude or ChatGPT app you already open every day. Nothing new to download.
Connect Otto once
Paste a link and sign in with your OttoHR account, like connecting Spotify to another app. Takes a minute, and you only do it once.
Just ask
Tell it what you need in plain English: review applicants, approve time off, give the team a raise. It happens in your live workspace.
What you can do
Just ask.
Otto handles the rest.
There are two ways to connect, depending on who's using it. Your HR team gets the full toolkit. Everyone else gets a focused, private surface, so no one ever sees more than they should.
For your HR team
Run the whole HR job
Everything your recruiters, people-ops, and payroll team do in the app, now from a chat. Ask in plain English. Otto does the work.
Hiring
- Post, edit, close, and archive job openings
- Review applicants and read their CVs
- Move candidates through your hiring stages
- Find brand-new candidates from across the web, or add your own
- Build a shortlist and compare candidates side by side
- Schedule, reschedule, or cancel interviews
- Capture interview feedback
- Email candidates
- Pull exact hiring counts, stats, and analytics
People and organization
- Add employees one at a time or in bulk
- Look up an employee's profile, documents, and assigned company equipment, or who holds an item
- Update employee details
- See who joined or left in any date range
- Organize branches, departments, and teams, and name their managers
- Write company policies
- Search company records and read company documents
- Draft announcements and surveys, ready for you to send
- Add benefits and perks
- Look up your company profile: legal name, industry, size, and headcount
- Start a new hire's onboarding from one of your templates
Time off and shifts
- See time-off requests and approve or decline them
- Record leave for an employee, or cancel a request
- Check and adjust leave balances
- Set up leave types
- Create shifts and choose who works them
- Pull a monthly attendance summary with overtime and missing days
Payroll
- Set up a payroll routine and add people to it
- Give one person a raise, or raise a whole team at once
- Add a bonus to someone's next payroll
- Add a payment or deduction to a draft pay run
- Review pay runs with their headcount and totals
- Carry over year-to-date tax figures when you switch mid-year
Try asking
“Summarize the 5 newest applicants for the Sales Manager role.”
“Schedule an interview with Sarah next Tuesday afternoon.”
“Which time-off requests are still waiting for approval?”
“Give the support team a 10% raise starting next month.”
For everyone else
Self-service, on demand
A focused, employee-safe surface. Your team handles their own HR basics without ever opening a dashboard.
- Check onboarding progress and tick off tasks
- See leave balances and request time off
- Track or cancel their time-off requests
- See their shift and working hours
- Read company policies and the documents HR shares
- Find personal documents, pay stubs, and the company equipment assigned to you
- Explore benefits
- Search the company directory
- Update their own profile
Try asking
“How many vacation days do I have left?”
“Draft a time-off request for the first week of July.”
“Which shift am I on, and what time do I start?”
Built for trust
Your data,
your boundaries.
Sees only what you can see
The AI inherits your exact permissions. If you can't open something in OttoHR, neither can it. The same rules apply, every time.
Everyone uses their own login
Each person connects with their own OttoHR account. An employee's connection can never reach into HR-only data.
Bank-level sign-in
Connecting uses the same secure sign-in standard your bank and Google use. No passwords or secret codes to copy around.
Your data isn't training AI
Your company's information is only ever used to answer your own requests. It never trains any AI model.
A clear record
Every action the AI takes is logged, so you can always see exactly what happened and when.
Off with one click
Disconnect it from your AI app any time, or switch the whole feature off for your company from a single setting. You stay in control.
Questions
The short answers
Claude and ChatGPT both work. Just add OttoHR as a connector in their settings. Cursor, the command line, and other tools work too. See the developer docs for those.
No. It draws from the same monthly AI allowance as the assistant built into OttoHR. No new plan needed.
No. It only ever sees what you can already see in OttoHR. If an employee can't view a colleague's salary in the app, the AI can't either. The same rules apply.
No. Your data is only ever used to answer your own requests. It never trains any AI model.
Yes. There's a separate, employee-safe connection for things like leave balances, documents, and policies. Everyone connects with their own OttoHR account, so they only get their own access.
Remove the connector from your AI app's settings any time, or turn off the whole feature for your company from a single setting in OttoHR. You stay in control.
Open your AI app.Connect Otto.
Keep using the AI you love, and run hiring and HR right from the chat, no dashboard required.