The software will drive itself.
Six essays from the founders of Otto on what comes after SaaS and after chat agents — written from the place we're building it.
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Self-Driving Software
The next wave of AI is not a smarter chatbot. It's the software your team already runs on — outbound, social, ads, CRM — rebuilt to operate itself. The manifesto.
Benoit, Thomas & MatthiasThe founders6 min - 02
A Chatbot Is Not a Coworker
Chat is a beautiful interface for conversation and a terrible one for work. Work has shape — tables, queues, drafts, dashboards — and a thread flattens all of it.
Matthias ManoukianDesign5 min - 03
Why the Incumbents Can't Ship This
Their architecture assumes a human session and their revenue assumes a human seat. Autonomous software is something a company becomes, not a feature it ships.
Benoit GuivarchEngineering6 min - 04
The End of the Seat
Per-seat pricing measured how many humans operate the software. When the software operates itself, the seat measures nothing. We re-priced our own product mid-flight.
Thomas MaitreSales5 min - 05
Software for AIs
The next users of your software won't have eyes. Agents don't want your UI — they want to hand over a whole job and get the outcome back.
Benoit GuivarchEngineering6 min - 06
Don't Build Agents. Hire Them.
Every company is being told to build its own AI agents. We think that's the on-prem era repeating itself. The agent-to-agent protocol turns specialist autonomous software into something your agent team can simply hire.
Benoit GuivarchEngineering5 min
Theses are cheap. Hire the Head of Growth that runs them — across outbound, social, and content.
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