Why we're building otlta

We've spent the last decade running engineering teams across product, infra, and platform. The pattern that bothered us was always the same: every team eventually ends up with three tools they kind of hate.

The wiki tool wants to be a brand book. The board tool wants to be a portfolio dashboard. The AI tool wants to be a chatbot that occasionally hallucinates a function signature. Stitched together, they make engineering work feel like project-managing the tools themselves.

What we wanted instead

One workspace. One sidebar. A wiki that the assistant actually reads, a board that doesn't pretend to be a Gantt chart, and an assistant that cites its sources by id.

Specifically:

Wiki that AI ranges over. Every page is indexed for retrieval. When someone asks "where is the auth refactor RFC?" the answer cites the page directly with a clickable link. No "based on what I know" preamble; no general-knowledge guesses.
Board that respects engineering reality. Five status columns, drag to move, keyboard nav, click to open. Tasks know their epic, sprint, and acceptance criteria — the assistant can draft a task from a one-liner and pre-fill the AC pulled straight from the related RFC.
Roles that match how teams actually work. Org admins, billing-only seats, private workspaces (HR / exec / legal), workspace-level edit / view / guest. The same model we used internally — finally surfaced cleanly.

Capability, not quantity

You'll notice we don't say "unlimited AI" anywhere. That's deliberate. Nobody actually offers unlimited AI; the marketing copy that promises it is hiding the cap somewhere in the ToS. We'd rather show the real number to the people who want to know it (it's in our ToS) and tell everyone else that they're "working comfortably today."

When you hit the daily window, Team and Business plans get a quiet-mode fallback — a smaller model that keeps the assistant working without burning the high-quality budget. Free hits a hard wall and an upgrade prompt. No surprise overage bills, ever.

Where we are

otlta is in soft launch. Three seats free forever, ₹299/seat/mo for Team, ₹799/seat/mo for Business. India only at launch on Razorpay; international plans on Stripe come next. SOC 2 Type 1 is on the roadmap before we open enterprise. Migration tools (Notion, Linear, Jira) ship in Q3.

If you're an engineering team that's tired of explaining your tools to your tools, we'd love your feedback. Start free, or email us at hello@otlta.com.

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Jodi Anoorabh
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