https://ottosoftwares.com/essays Essays from the founders of Otto on autonomous software — what comes after SaaS and after chat agents. en https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/self-driving-software https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/self-driving-software Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Benoit, Thomas & Matthias 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. https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/a-chatbot-is-not-a-coworker https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/a-chatbot-is-not-a-coworker Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Matthias Manoukian 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. https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/why-the-incumbents-cant-ship-this https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/why-the-incumbents-cant-ship-this Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Benoit Guivarch 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. https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/the-end-of-the-seat https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/the-end-of-the-seat Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Thomas Maitre 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. https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/software-for-ais https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/software-for-ais Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Benoit Guivarch 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. https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/dont-build-agents-hire-them https://ottosoftwares.com/essays/dont-build-agents-hire-them Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT Benoit Guivarch 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.