Otto HR for Small Business

HR without an HR department.

Otto HR replaces the spreadsheet-and-inbox stack with one simple tool: employee records, time off, payroll, and a portal that answers questions before they reach you.

10×

Faster than the spreadsheet stack

80%

Less HR busywork

0

Spreadsheets to manage

Why small businesses

One tool instead of ten tabs.

01

No HR department required

Otto HR is simple enough for the owner or office manager to run, with no admin training and no consultants.

02

Everything in one place

Employee records, documents, time off and payroll live together, not across spreadsheets and inbox threads.

03

Fewer questions to answer

Employees check their own leave balances and the company policies in the portal, so the questions stop arriving by email.

What's inside

Simple where it should be.

Records

A clean employee file

Positions, documents, and history for every employee, the single source your spreadsheet was trying to be.

Records

Selin Acar

Software Engineer

Active

Department

Engineering

Start date

Mar 3, 2026

Manager

James Cole

Location

Istanbul

Employment contract.pdf
ID card.pdf
Time off

Requests, not email threads

Policies, balances and approvals in one flow. Approved leave lands in payroll on its own.

Time off

Time off

Sarah Kim

Annual leave · Aug 4–8 · 5 days

Manager1/2
HR2/2
Annual leave balance20 days
Portal

Self-service for everyone

Employees request leave, read the company policies, and raise their own requests, without going through you.

Portal

Good morning, Deniz

12 daysLeave left
AugustLatest payslip
Request time off
Company handbook
My documents

Answered without asking HR

Otto

Help with the boring parts

Ask Otto drafts policies, imports your existing ones from PDF, and answers from your HR data.

Otto

How many vacation days does Deniz have left?

Ask Otto anything…

Small business questions

Small teams that have outgrown spreadsheets but don't have a dedicated HR department. One person can run hiring, time off and payroll alongside their actual job.

Plans are per employee. Paid tiers pick up as the team grows, and current plans and limits are on the pricing page.

Yes. Employee records, documents and leave balances live in Otto HR, so the spreadsheet can be retired rather than maintained in parallel.

No. The portal is plain self-service: request leave, read the company policies, raise a request. Anything left over, Ask Otto answers from your own HR data.

Get started

Close the spreadsheet for good.

Create your workspace and move HR into one simple tool.