Otto HR for Startups
HR that runs itself from your first hire.
Founders shouldn't spend evenings on admin. Otto HR sets up hiring, onboarding, time off, and payroll in an afternoon — and Ask Otto drafts the policies you haven't written yet.
10×
Faster to your first hire
90%
Less admin per hire
30 days
Free Pro trial, no card
Why startups
Simple for the team you are, ready for the one you're becoming.
Set up in an afternoon
Hiring, onboarding, time off and payroll come connected out of the box. No consultants, no implementation project.
Your first policies, drafted
Ask Otto drafts your leave policies and an employee handbook from a prompt — you review, edit, and publish.
Hire like a bigger company
A branded careers page, one pipeline, and AI resume screening make a five-person startup look put together.
What's inside
Everything a first HR stack needs.
A real pipeline from day one
Branded careers page, one pipeline, AI resume screening, and optional AI voice pre-screen interviews — before you've hired a recruiter.
Maya Chen
Product Designer
Tom Weber
Backend Engineer
Lena Vogel
Data Analyst
Arjun Mehta
HR Generalist
Sofia Ricci
Frontend Engineer
James Cole
Sales Associate
Nora Smit
Accountant
From offer to first day
Pre-employment packets collect details and documents before day one; checklists make sure nothing gets missed.
Alex Morgan
Product Designer · day one
Sign employment contract
HR · e-signature
Upload ID & bank details
Employee
Set up laptop & accounts
IT
Intro meeting with the team
Manager
An assistant, not another tool
Ask Otto drafts policies, imports handbooks from PDF, and answers questions from your own HR data.
How many vacation days does Deniz have left?
AI-native from the start
An MCP interface lets your own AI agents work with Otto data safely — with role-based access and audit logs.
Company overview
This monthStartup questions
Yes. Otto HR is built to start at the first hire — records, time off, and payroll work at any headcount, and the setup grows with the team.
Every plan starts with a free 30-day Pro trial, no credit card required. Paid tiers pick up as the team grows.
Ask Otto drafts your first leave policies and an employee handbook — you review and publish, and employees read them in the portal.
Yes. Otto HR ships an MCP interface so your own agents can work with your HR data safely, with role-based access and audit logs.
Get started
Set up HR before dinner.
Start the free 30-day trial — no credit card — and have hiring, time off, and payroll running today.