Tools like ChatGPT and Claude are great for back-and-forth conversations, but they’re not built to act as long-lived workers — they don’t run in the background, hold a role, or take action while you’re asleep. OpenClaw is the leading open-source framework for always-on agents that actually do. The catch is that OpenClaw needs a computer to run on. You can run it on your laptop, but your agent dies when you close the lid. You can spin up a cloud VM, but cloud IPs get blocked on most of the sites that matter — LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram — because they look like bots. The market has largely landed on dedicated headless computers as the right answer: always on, on your home network, browsing like a real person. The problem is that setting one up is still genuinely hard if you’ve never touched a terminal. That’s what Otto solves.

A small dedicated computer — about the size of a deck of cards — built to run AI agents 24/7. It ships pre-flashed with OpenClaw, all the standard CLIs, and a hardened security setup out of the box. Under the hood it’s 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD (or 16GB / 512GB), an NFC chip for phone pairing, running Linux. The key thing it’s not is an LLM inference box — your agents use cloud models, but they act from Otto’s own local browser session. That means they access the internet exactly like a person would, and they don’t get blocked by sites like LinkedIn, Reddit, or Instagram the way cloud-based AI workers routinely do.

You can use an Otto exactly like a Mac mini if you want — it’s a real Linux computer and nothing is locked down. The difference is what you get out of the box. A Mac mini ships as a general-purpose desktop: you’re installing OpenClaw yourself, hardening the security config, wiring up CLIs, and when something breaks you’re debugging via a monitor or a Telegram bot you hacked together. Otto ships purpose-built: OpenClaw pre-installed and pre-configured, NFC pairing, a proper management app, all at half the price. If you want to do the Mac mini setup, you can do it on an Otto too — you’d just be ignoring everything we already did for you.

Yes. Upload your existing config through the app and it runs as-is. You can also build new agents from scratch in Otto without touching a terminal — either way works.

A single Otto is well-suited for a small business — think exec assistant, biz dev, ops, finance monitoring. 5–10 agents running concurrently is a reasonable target. If you need more scale, you can connect multiple units under one account and manage them together from the same app.

Not at all. Otto is a Linux box running OpenClaw — if you want to SSH in, use the OpenClaw CLI directly, and manage everything yourself, that works exactly as it would on any other machine. The app is a service layer we built on top of OpenClaw to make the 90% case easier: the integrations are a pre-built library of common connectors so you skip the OAuth setup and trial-and-error; the messaging is just an OpenClaw channel (you can still connect Telegram, Slack, or anything else you prefer); and the observability dashboard is a UI wrapper around the OpenClaw CLI output. Everything in the app is just OpenClaw underneath — you can use the app for some things and the CLI for others, or ignore the app entirely. We built it because most people don’t want to live in a terminal. If you do, nothing stops you.

Your files, credentials, and browser sessions stay on the device. They never touch our servers. The outbound traffic is whatever your agents do themselves — API calls, web browsing, emails sent — same as if you were doing it manually. Because agents run from a real local browser on your network, they’re also not identifiable as cloud bots, which matters more than most people expect.

$349 gets you the hardware, forever. A $29 non-refundable deposit reserves your unit, and we’ll email before shipment so you have 7 days to confirm your address and final total before the remaining balance is charged. The 16GB / 512GB configuration is $599 with a $58 deposit. Domestic shipping is a flat $15 per unit; international orders may have additional carrier or import costs due on delivery. No subscription, no strings. The app is optional — it’s a service layer built to make everything easier, and we charge based on usage. We pass through LLM costs at a competitive margin — currently at or near cost. If you’d rather manage your own API keys, bring them and pay a flat $29/month for app access instead. Or skip the app entirely and use Otto like any other Linux machine — the hardware is yours either way.