Someone I Know Asked to Use Otto

Someone came to me recently and asked how to get access to Otto.

I did not ask why. I still have not. It was not mine to ask.

What interested me was what was available to them instead. They know me, and what I do. They have people in their life who care about them and would have listened for as long as they needed. Neither would have cost them anything.

They wanted neither.

What they wanted was something that would not remember it tomorrow in the way a person does, that would not worry about them afterwards, and that had no relationship with them to protect.

They were also clear that they wanted Otto rather than one of the free general AI assistants already on everybody’s phone. They wanted something built specifically for this, not something designed to do a little of everything.

That is the point I have been making for months, arriving unprompted from somebody who had every reason to choose differently.

When people say they can’t access support, they usually mean cost, waiting lists or availability. Those are real. This was none of them. This was somebody with a therapist available to them, and people who loved them, choosing something that asked nothing of them and carried nothing forward.

Wanting to say something without it becoming a conversation, a concern or a relationship is a real need, and until recently there was nowhere to take it.

I built Otto for people I would never meet.

It turns out he is also for the people I know.

Want to find out about Otto? You can find him here.

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