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.

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Faster to your first hire

90%

Less admin per hire

100%

Human sign-off on every action

Why startups

Simple for the team you are, ready for the one you're becoming.

01

Set up in an afternoon

Hiring, onboarding, time off and payroll come connected out of the box. No consultants, no implementation project.

02

Your first policies, drafted

Ask Otto drafts your leave policies and your company policies from a prompt, and you review, edit, and publish.

03

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.

Hiring

A real pipeline from day one

Branded careers page, one pipeline, AI resume screening, and optional AI voice pre-screen interviews, all before you've hired a recruiter.

Hiring
Applied2

Maya Chen

Product Designer

74

Tom Weber

Backend Engineer

68
Interview3

Lena Vogel

Data Analyst

91

Arjun Mehta

HR Generalist

84

Sofia Ricci

Frontend Engineer

78
Offer2

James Cole

Sales Associate

95

Nora Smit

Accountant

88
Onboarding

From offer to first day

Pre-employment packets collect details and documents before day one. Checklists make sure nothing gets missed.

Onboarding

Alex Morgan

Product Designer · starts Mar 3

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Link sent to the new hire
Personal details
ID document
Bank details
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Otto

AI-native, not another tool

Ask Otto drafts policies, imports them from PDF, and answers questions from your own HR data.

Otto

How many vacation days does Deniz have left?

Ask Otto anything…
Agents

Open to your own agents

An MCP interface lets your own AI agents work with Otto data safely, with role-based access and audit logs.

Agents

Your AI agent

/api/mcp/hr
listEmployees()
Scope: HR · role checked
Row-level security applied
Metered and audit-logged
200 OK26 employees returned

Startup 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.

Plans are per employee and published on the pricing page. Paid tiers pick up as the team grows.

Ask Otto drafts your first leave policies and company policies. 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.

Create your workspace and have hiring, time off, and payroll running today.