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Five job titles, one person.

Last Wednesday I context-switched 14 times before lunch. I counted. This is why I'm building Otto.

Last Wednesday I sat down at 9am to ship a feature. By 12:30pm I had written zero lines of code. I'd answered four support emails, fixed a billing webhook, talked to a designer about a logo, written a tweet, replied to an investor intro, and opened my code editor four separate times only to close it again because something else demanded attention.

I counted the context switches. Fourteen. Before lunch. On a Wednesday with no meetings.

Solo founders all know this. Every hour you spend on copy is an hour the product doesn't get. Every hour on the product is an hour the inbox grows. You're the CEO and the engineer and the marketer and the support rep and the accountant, and the second you stop being any one of those, that thing breaks.

I'm building Otto because I want four of those five jobs done by something else. Not delegated to a human (I can't afford that, and neither can you). Done by an agent that runs while I'm asleep and only wakes me when something actually needs my judgement.

If that lands for you, the waitlist is on the home page.