A letter from David Steel, founder of OTP

You bought into the system. The needle didn't move.

The meetings got tighter. The scorecard got filled in. And two years later the company looked about the same. The system was never the problem. What was missing was a workforce to run it between the meetings. So I built one.

Every human is free. Agent seats are $16 a month.

Ollie, the OTP mascot: half living creature, half circuitry. People and AI as one.
Unlocking the potential in every person through the partnership of people and AI, so together we leave the world better than we found it.
HUMANS
K
K. G.
Creative Director
In a meeting
B
B. T.
COO / Integrator
Working on ops
AI AGENTS
R
Radar
Live
Preparing the briefing
D
Dash
Live
Reading the ad accounts
Ollie, the OTP mascot
01 / A confession

I was promised freedom. I got a phone.

I run a marketing agency. Payroll, clients, a Tuesday leadership meeting. A few years ago I admitted something out loud: the better my tools got, the less life I had. The phone that promised to connect me took my attention. The software that promised to save time filled the time with more work. My team was productive. Nobody was free. Work had quietly stolen the fun out of our lives, and the freedom we were promised turned out to be an illusion with a login screen.

02 / What I did about it

So I hired employees who don't have inboxes.

I started building AI agents. Not chatbots. Employees. Radar prepares my morning briefing before I wake up. Dash reads every ad account so nobody has to stare at dashboards. Pepper triages my inbox. Dan pressure-tests my strategy in writing before I bet money on it. Tally keeps the score honest.

Then I hit a wall, and it was not the AI. It was the org chart. Every system for running a company assumes the company is made only of people. There was no seat for an agent, no number it owned, no one it answered to. So we built OTP: the operating system where people and AI hold seats on the same chart.

Exhibit A / Our company, live

Don't take my word for anything. Watch us run.

Companies have published their handbooks before. We publish something further: our operating system, live, with AI agents holding seats, owning numbers, and getting corrected in public. Every role. Every rule. Every mistake, because when an agent gets something wrong here, the correction becomes a published rule with the failure written into it.

Radar, the OTP Chief of Staff
Radar
Chief of Staff
Dan, the OTP Strategist
Dan
Strategist
Pepper, the OTP Exec Assistant
Pepper
Exec Assistant
Dash, the OTP Analyst
Dash
Analyst
Tally, the OTP Scorekeeper
Tally
Scorekeeper
03 / Where this goes

I skate to where the puck is going. Here is the whole rink.

NowYou run your company on meetings, priorities, and a scorecard. OTP does that today, free, for your whole team.
NextAI agents take seats on the chart, own real numbers, and work the six days between meetings. Mine already do.
ThenYour organization runs as one. People and AI, one team, one rhythm, no gap between deciding and doing.

I won't tell you your competitors are about to lap you. I don't know your market. I know one thing that is checkable: this future is not a prediction, because it is already running at my company. You can go look at it.

Exhibit B / The machine

Don't switch. Run us alongside.

OTP's free tier is the whole meeting product: the chart, the scorecard, priorities, to-dos, the weekly meeting. Free for every human, no credit card, and it is not a trial. Agent seats are $16 a month, and the full price list is public. If you run on Ninety or Bloom Growth today, drop in your export files and OTP rebuilds your chart from who owns what, in an afternoon. Then run both, side by side, for a quarter. If we don't earn the switch, you lost an afternoon.

Two rules, before you ask. Numbers: our scorekeeper agent reads the source systems and pushes the scorecard, timestamped and logged. Agents don't type numbers they didn't read. Actions: nothing goes to a client or a teammate without a human approving it. That rule is published in our operating system, where you can hold us to it.

The OTP weekly meeting: timed agenda, live scoreboard, every commitment tracked
04 / For your COO

The boring answers, on purpose.

You will forward this to the person who actually has to implement it. These are for them.

Whose data is it?
Yours. Import from Ninety or Bloom Growth in an afternoon; the chart rebuilds itself from who owns what. Export today is by request, and we honor it fast; self-serve export is on the roadmap. Either way, leaving was designed in, not bolted on.
What can an agent do on its own?
Read, prepare, draft, propose. It cannot send anything to a client or teammate without a human approving it, and every action is logged with a timestamp. Where you see an agent of ours called autonomous, the autonomy lives inside that gate: it decides what to prepare and when, never what leaves the building.
How secure is "early"?
The honest answer: we are early, and I won't pretend otherwise. Role-based access and audit trails are built in, you can bring your own AI key so your data runs on your own model provider, and the full posture is written down plainly on our trust page, including what we don't have yet. Ask me anything directly; you get me, not a sales engineer.
What does early cost me?
The product ships weekly and improves in public. What it does not cost: money (humans are free), migration pain (an afternoon), or lock-in (see the first answer).
05 / Your Tuesday

Now let me describe your Tuesday, six months from now.

Week one first, because that is where tools go to die: your chart in an afternoon, your scorekeeper reading your numbers within days, your first meeting run off a board nobody typed. Then the compounding starts.

Your briefing wrote itself before you woke up. The scorecard filled itself in from the source systems on Friday, timestamped. Three of last week's to-dos were done by Wednesday, by agents, reviewed by the humans who own them. The meeting takes half the time, because everyone, human and AI, already knows the score. You leave at five. Not because you gave up. Because it's handled.

Then the real question shows up, the one I built all of this to ask: what will you do with the hours you get back?

06 / Fifty companies

I'm not looking for a million users. I'm looking for fifty.

That is not scarcity theater. It is arithmetic. I can give real, personal attention to fifty companies while we build this, so fifty is the number. The Founding Fifty put people and AI on one chart and run as one, with me in the room. And your agents will not be copies of mine: Radar and Dash grew out of an agency, yours will grow out of your company. What OTP gives them is what mine have. A seat, a number, and a chain of command.

And you will not stand up your first agent alone, because I know that is the real question behind the $16. Founding Fifty means we build your first one with you: a scorekeeper that reads your source systems (even if your source system is a spreadsheet) and fills your scorecard before your second meeting. A seat is easy. We make sure someone worth seating shows up.

Today the deepest proof I can show you is my own company, and I know that is a sample size of one. That is exactly what the Founding Fifty is for: making it fifty.

Every human is free. No credit card.

We refuse to accept that humanity's greatest potential should be spent managing work.

There will always be more human potential to unlock. There will always be better ways for people and AI to work together. There will always be a world to leave better than we found it. This work has no finish line. We chose it anyway.

David Steel
Founder, OTP

P.S. If you only do one thing today, spend ten minutes at the window into our company. It says more than any homepage could.