Otto One is a $599 screenless box whose only user is your AI agent

Otto said on Nov. 10, 2026, that it is introducing Otto One, a compact, fanless, screenless computer built for AI agents to run on around the clock and controlled from a phone or desktop app, and opened presales for Otto Pro, a local-inference line powered by AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.

Everyone is giving AI agents the keys; Otto is selling them a house. The pitch is simple — keep the agent, its memory and your credentials on a box you own instead of in someone else's cloud — though model calls on Otto One still leave the building. The traction numbers are big for a company founded in May and entirely self-reported. The skeptic's question: is this a new computer category or a well-packaged mini PC with a very good permissions screen?

Otto said it is introducing Otto One, a compact computer built for an AI agent to run around the clock. An agent, here, is software that can take a chain of steps, not only answer one chat. The box is screenless, fanless, and silent. It measures 4.4 by 4.4 by 1.5 inches, which is 112 by 112 by 38 millimeters. There is no keyboard, no mouse, and no monitor. You plug it in, pair it with the Otto app, and talk to the agent from a phone or a desktop. It runs Otto OS, the company's operating system. The announcement is dated Nov. 10, 2026. Those lines are Otto's.

The official page lists two configurations. Eight gigabytes of memory and 256 gigabytes of storage is $599 at the intro price. Sixteen gigabytes and 512 gigabytes is $799. A $20 refundable deposit holds the 8GB unit. The deposit on the 16GB unit is $58. The balance is charged before the box ships. Paying in full when you reserve takes 20% off, the release says. Shipping is a flat $15. You own the hardware. There is no hardware subscription. Those prices are Otto's.

Model use is billed apart from the box. Otto says you can pay as you go in the app, or bring your own API keys for a flat monthly fee. An API key is a credential that lets the box call a model provider on your account. Those lines are the company's, in the Nov. 10 release. The announcement does not print the dollar amount of that monthly fee.

The agent gets a browser, a file system, apps, APIs, and system tools, with connections already set up for more than 2,000 services. Otto names Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Notion, Microsoft 365, and GitHub among them. You set approvals, permissions, token and usage limits, spending controls, and alerts, and you can pause, stop, or delete a task. A token, here, is a chunk of text the model counts toward the bill. Those lines are Otto's.

On privacy, Otto says the agent, its memory, the chat history, and the automations run on the device. Chats between the phone and the box are end-to-end encrypted with the same family of protocol Signal uses: X3DH, the handshake that starts the conversation, and the Double Ratchet, the lock that changes with every message. Otto's servers relay ciphertext, the scrambled form of the message. The box still needs the cloud for model processing, notifications, signed software updates, billing, and some integrations. Running a model on the machine itself is the Otto Pro line, not Otto One. The announcement does not cite an outside security audit. Those lines are the company's.

The sales figures are the company's, and they are not from an outside auditor. Otto says 12,400 branded units sold direct to consumers in the first six months. The headline on the release says 15,000 units sold. Booked revenue is $9 million. More than 1,000 units have shipped. Weekly booked volume is about $750,000, which the company annualizes to about a $39 million run rate. Booked means an order on the books, not cash already collected for a box that has arrived. The company says it has taken no institutional venture capital, and that it is in talks with more than 25 distributors in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico. Those lines are Otto's.

Otto Pro is the line that runs supported models on the device. The processor is an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The official page lists 32GB of memory with 512GB of storage, 64GB with 1TB, and 96GB with 2TB, from $1,699. Presales opened Nov. 10. The first units are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2027. Those lines are Otto's.

Otto was founded in May 2026 in New York City. The co-founders are Jake Trefethen, chief executive, previously director of AI at Public.com; Quinn Finney, chief technology officer, previously chief technology officer of Acquisition.com; and Jaan "AJ" Bhatia. Trefethen and Finney are quoted in the announcement. Those lines are the company's.

The picture is a black-and-white photograph of a small black Otto One on a desk beside a monitor. The credit is Otto.

In plain terms, a New York company founded in May is selling a $599 fanless box whose user is an AI agent you talk to from your phone, with the agent's memory kept on hardware you own. Model calls on Otto One still go to the cloud. Otto Pro, from $1,699, is the one meant to run models on the device, and those units are expected in early 2027. The sales numbers are large, and they are the company's own.