"Hey — I'm Otto. I'll ride shotgun."
Talks like a friend who happens to be a race engineer.
An AI co-driver that rides with you — coaching on track, scoring your drifts, watching your engine, recording everything. We're starting with race teams, where the data is brutal and the feedback is honest, then bringing it to the street.
Every product here has a demo you can click through right now — the software, with real data in it. See all three →
Everything runs the same Otto — the difference is where it rides and who it's working for. Pick your lane.
Quick-release race kit that moves between cars. Live coaching on test days, silent record-only on race day, LTE video + timing to the pit wall, and the debrief engine that writes next week's test plan.
The flagship AI co-driver — and a monster daily driver: dashcam every day, live gauges on your phone, engine watch that warns before the check-engine light, track coaching, drift scoring, auto-edited highlights. Read-only, always.
A 30-second OBD install that gives the car its own identity. Automatic IRS-ready mileage logs — the write-off machine for anyone who drives for work — plus health & fault codes, teen & valet mode. No phone needed in the car.
Live GPS and geofences, evidence-grade trip reports for damage disputes, overdue-return flags, fleet health — and optional remote start-block for the car that isn't coming back.
Race cars don't get bespoke pods. Paddock ships on quick-release mounts — cameras, box and antennas come out in minutes and move to the next car. One kit follows the driver, the chassis, or the trailer, whichever makes sense that weekend.
Race spec also drops the silence rule: active fan cooling for sustained flat-out duty (race cars are loud anyway), and a built-in LTE uplink that streams live video and timing to the pit wall and your fans — the whole Sentinel job, included, from the same box that does the engineering.
The pit wall is a screen in the portal, not a separate product: telemetry streaming in from every running car — sectors, tire and brake temps, fuel — sitting beside the radio channel where the race engineer, the data engineer and Otto call the session between them. Watch it run →
Between cars it lives in its transit case — black anodized aluminum, laser-etched unit number, custom foam for every component. It sits on the pit bench like the piece of race equipment it is, and the crew always knows exactly what's missing at a glance.
And race day is simple: live aids are for testing and practice — where the speed is actually found. When it's sanctioned, Otto runs silent record-only where your rulebook allows onboard logging, or comes off the car in two minutes where it doesn't. Then everything syncs, and the debrief writes next week's test plan.
No chassis-specific bodywork, no fitment wait. Swap it into the spare, the test mule, or a different class car the same afternoon.
Full live coaching in the car — deltas, braking points, and traffic called out while the driver learns the track.
Live aids off, logging on. Every lap, every channel, every camera captured to the box and synced in the paddock.
Driver-vs-driver overlays in plain English. "P2 gains it all in sector two — he's flat where you lift." Minutes after the session, not that night.
Every car's trims, temps and pre-code warnings in one view. Catch the failure in the trailer, not on lap three.
The box reads OEM CAN or an aftermarket race ECU stream directly — listen-only, always. Nothing we do can touch how the car runs.
Pricing: $8,500 per car, race spec — everything included: quick-release mounts, active fan cooling, race-duty build, the 7″ OTTO 1 Display (pit-ready, sunlight-viewable), and LTE live streaming built in — live video and timing to the pit wall and your fans, no extra box, no separate vendor. One Paddock subscription covers the team and the stream. Fleet rates from 3+ cars. Limited slots for the first season.
Class-rules honest: live driver aids are prohibited in most competition classes — so Paddock runs live coaching on test days and switches to log-and-debrief for sanctioned sessions. Teams get the data either way.
Units sync the moment they hit paddock WiFi. The engineer opens a laptop and it's already there — no card readers, no per-car software, no waiting on a data guy.
The portal is open right now, loaded with a three-car GT4 test day across six real circuits. Open the team portal demo →
The portal doesn't run on a generic loop. It runs on layouts you actually race, with the real corner names and the real elevation profile of each one. The lap model reads the grade at every point — so climbs cost acceleration and descents cut braking capacity, exactly like they do in the car.
Every track carries a distance-to-height profile, and the speed model solves against it. An uphill stop and a downhill stop don't come out the same — because they aren't the same.
Ask about a corner and you get brake distance, entry and apex speed, and the height change through the zone — solved by the model for that car on that profile. Nothing is read out of a track guide.
The Corkscrew, the Carousel, Canada Corner, the Bus Stop, the Boot. Otto talks about the lap the way your driver does, not in turn numbers off a map.
The elevation strip sits under the trace, so you can see the same climb the model is braking against. Disagree with a number and the profile's right there to argue with.
Those two references came out of the solver, not a spreadsheet. Switch circuits in the portal and every number on the page — brake points, sector splits, the theoretical lap — is recomputed for the new profile. Go pick a track →
Nobody's asking you to bin a RaceBox or relearn a toolchain to try this. Export what you already record, drop the file into the portal, and it's parsed in seconds — laps, channels and best lap, straight into the AI's working memory. Ask about it one view over and the answer comes back with your numbers in it.
No file handy? The portal will generate a sample RaceBox export and run it through the same parser. Try the import →
Not a video, not a screenshot deck — the actual software, seeded with a full dataset, open in your browser. The AI in each one is live and answers from what's on the screen in front of it.
A three-car GT4 test day on six real circuits — sessions, laps, telemetry traces, driver-vs-driver analysis, file import, and an AI race engineer that answers from your session. Plus the live pit wall: streaming telemetry beside pit radio between the race engineer, the data engineer and Otto.
The phone app with a real multi-car garage: drives, dashcam clips, drift scores, engine health and trip logs — and the co-driver chat, which answers about the car you've got selected, not a car in general.
Live GPS and geofences, trip evidence for damage disputes, overdue-return flags and fleet health — with a fleet assistant reading the same board you are.
Most teams are sitting on years of data doing nothing — old session logs, setup sheets, lap times from tracks you've run a dozen times. Hand it over on day one and Otto starts smart instead of starting blank.
A coaching system is only as good as what it's seen. Ours could spend a year learning from scratch — or start from your archive: every stint, every setup change, every lap at every circuit you've run. Import it once and the coach shows up already fluent in your cars, your drivers, and your tracks.
Old session logs — MoTeC, AiM, RaceBox, VBOX, Catalyst, plain CSV — through the same importer that's live in the portal today, plus setup sheets, tyre and fuel notes, historic lap and sector times, driver rosters.
Benchmarks against your own history instead of nothing. "That's your third-best S2 ever." Setup-to-laptime correlations across seasons you never had time to analyse.
A coach fluent in your specific cars — knowing that car 41 always runs hot late in a stint, that this driver brakes early at this circuit, what your fast setup looked like last year.
Real racing data at a volume no startup starts with. It makes the coaching sharper — for you first, then for everyone after you.
Your data stays yours. You own it, you can export all of it any time, and you can delete it. Anything that improves the shared model is aggregated and stripped of identity — no team's setups, times or telemetry are ever visible to another team. That's in the agreement, not just the pitch.
Founding programs get more than a discount: the cars you run shape what the coach becomes, and the features you ask for get built first.
Not because the street product is an afterthought — because this is how you make it good.
Race engineers tell you exactly what's wrong, immediately, without being polite about it. That's the feedback loop you want before a single street car gets one.
Thousands of hard laps across multiple cars and drivers in a season. The coaching gets sharpened on real racing, not commutes.
Heat, vibration, curbs, and mechanics who baby nothing. Survive a season in the paddock and your daily is easy.
Everything learned goes into the road car — same brain, same voice, wrapped in bodywork that looks like it came with the car. Real racing tech, in your hands.
Every other device shows you a screen after the fact. Otto talks — in the moment, in plain English — and ducks under your music and calls.
Plug in a Valentine One Gen2 and the beeping stops being a puzzle. Direction, strength, real or false — spoken, in the moment. This is running live right now:
Ahead or behind, ramping or fading — you hear the shape of the threat, not just a tone. Eyes stay on the road.
The drugstore door that fires K-band every single day gets muted after a few passes. When Otto speaks up, it means something.
The corner where it's always real gets logged. Next time you get the heads-up before the detector fires.
Otto integrates a detector you own — it doesn't include one. Detector legality varies by state.
Your phone becomes the cluster — or add the dedicated OTTO 1 Display and keep your phone in your pocket. Any gauge swaps by voice: "Otto, change the boost gauge to oil temp." And these aren't stills — click any screen to run it live.
Boost, temps, the pre-code watch. Calm, glanceable — up 95% of the time.
Live delta, sector splits, tire heat — and a coach telling you where the time went.
Real slip angle from dual-antenna GPS — not an estimate. Hold timer, combo score, live calls.
Fault memory in plain English, live sensors — and warnings before the code throws.
Every unit ships fully loaded — dual-antenna GPS and vision-grade compute are standard, not upgrades. There is no crippled base model.
The OTTO App is free — performance timing, engine health and trip history on any car, no hardware needed. Add the box and every screen gets deeper. Click through the owner app demo →
Fuel trims up 3 drives straight. Nothing's thrown yet — if it keeps climbing I'd look at the cyl-3 coil.
The short version. Every OTTO 1 does all of it — there's no crippled base model.
Nobody sells a factory-clean install that talks to you and is also your dashcam.
| Capability | RaceBox / AiM | Garmin Catalyst | Dashcam | OTTO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real telemetry + GPS | Yes | Yes | — | Yes |
| Live voice coaching | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Looks like it came with the car | Suction cup | Bulky pod | Wire down the glass | Built per chassis |
| Doubles as a daily dashcam | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| Engine health / pre-code warnings | — | — | — | Yes |
| Measured slip angle (drift) | — | — | — | Yes |
| Radar threat integration | — | — | — | Yes |
| Auto-edited clips for socials | — | — | — | Yes |
| Gets better after you buy it | — | — | — | Monthly OTA |
None of which means you have to pick a side on day one — the team portal reads their exports, so you can run whatever you own today and still get the engineer.
Everything here is a decision someone else would have cheaped out on.
Dual-antenna GNSS and vision-grade compute are in every single unit. There's no "pro" version that does what the marketing promised.
Pods are modeled to your car's exact pillar. Nothing universal, nothing suction-cupped, no wire down the windshield.
The CAN connection is wired listen-only. Otto reads your car and never writes to it — your tune is untouchable.
Ignition-sensed power, supercap shutdown, low-voltage cutoff. Leave it a month, the battery doesn't care.
Passive-first thermal design, true zero draw when parked, and every layer serviceable. This is the part spec sheets usually hide.
Full brain awake — vision, GNSS, logging. The finned body sheds all of it passively. No fan, no moving parts, nothing to clog or fail.
Ignition sense cuts power. The supercap finishes writes (~10 s), then the unit is truly dark. Park it for a month — zero battery drain.
Optional sentry: a tiny wake circuit listens for shock or motion and boots the cameras only when something happens. Low-voltage cutoff always protects the battery.
Power comes from the fuse box, dashcam-style: two taps and a ground bolt, nothing cut, fully reversible. OBD is data-only. And the app self-tests the install — swapped taps are detected, harmless, and fixed in a minute.
Every box ships with a 12V socket cord. Power the whole system the afternoon it arrives — drive it, fall in love, hardwire later. (Socket power skips watch mode; the app nags gently.)
The app shows a photo of your car's fuse box: "Pull F52, plug in RED." Pre-crimped taps, correct fuse format, included puller. About an hour, first time.
Not a wrench person? One button books the installer network — hardwire, pods, cable routing, done in an afternoon. $500–900 depending on the car.
The box mounts under the driver's seat — out of the sun, a hand's reach from the OBD port and the fuse box. Front pod cable drops down the A-pillar; rear pod routes along the headliner. No visible wires, anywhere.
Three parts got cheap at the same time. That's the window.
True vehicle heading used to mean motorsport-grade equipment. It's now a module you can buy — which is the entire reason real slip angle is possible at this price.
Vision inference used to need a workstation. A Jetson-class module now does continuous object tracking on 20 watts, passively cooled, in a box under a seat.
The coach only works if it talks like a person. That stopped being science fiction very recently — and it's the part every existing data logger still can't do.
A decade of tuning-community reverse engineering means supported platforms are verification work, not invention.
From a free phone app to a full race program — same brain, same Otto, growing with you. Target positioning; final pricing set after the first production run.
Buy an OTTO 1 kit and every additional dongle is $30 off — plus $5/mo per car. Mileage, health and codes on the daily, the truck, the project car. One account, one app, whole garage.
You're seeing this early on purpose. Here's exactly what's real today.
Parts chosen, thermal and power designed, install method worked out, per-chassis process defined. Not a moodboard — a build sheet.
A working logger pulling GPS and motion off a real car with 0–60 timing and full telemetry export. The rig that proves the numbers.
First pods, first box, first laps. Filmed end to end, and the footage is what you'll see next.
Performance timer and the OBD dongle ship first — so you can have Otto in your car before the flagship exists.
Which chassis gets built first is decided by who's on the list. If your car's on it, say so.
Quick-release mounting means no per-chassis wait — teams can be running before the first consumer platform exists. Limited first-season slots.
No deposit, no card. Just tell us what you drive.
The launch chassis is picked by demand, so the earliest names genuinely shape what gets built first. Founding builds are full price and first in line — what they come with is access, not a discount:
Your rate is held even as the kit gets more capable — and it will. No mid-build increases.
You talk to the person building it. Feature requests from founding cars go to the top of the list.
Founding builds get documented — the install, the first laps, the footage. Your car is part of how this launches.
Tell us the chassis. Enough interest in one car moves it to the front of the queue.
For race teams: Paddock is separate — $8,500 per car race spec, everything included: quick-release mounts that move between cars, active fan cooling, the 7″ display, and LTE live streaming to pit wall & fans. One team subscription covers it all. No chassis-specific bodywork means no fitment wait. Limited slots for the first season.
The first install, the first laps, and the first corner Otto ever calls — all getting filmed. If you want on the list, or you run a program worth talking to, now's the moment.
Quick-release units across your cars, fleet rate per unit plus a team subscription, quoted per program. Limited slots for the first season.
No deposit, no card. Tell us what you drive — the launch chassis is decided by who's on the list.
Built by drivers, for drivers — and answered by the person building it.
Car zero, the first installs, the first laps — it's all getting posted as it happens. Same handle everywhere.
Launch news, the platform vote, and founding-list openings. No spam — it's one person writing these.
The big moments only — car zero's first drive, orders opening, your platform winning the vote.