Product
HeyOtto gives students an AI assistant for building, creating, and learning — while advisors keep visibility, tool controls, and real-time alerts. Classroom use is supported when a teacher wants it. Enrichment — clubs, STEM electives, after-school, and camps — is a strength.
HeyOtto is an AI platform for kids and teens. Otto is the assistant inside it. On the schools side, the same platform is scoped for school-managed use: adult review and tool allowlists that match how you run the room.
Quick answer
HeyOtto is an AI platform for kids and teens that schools use in clubs, STEM electives, and enrichment programs — with advisor visibility, tool controls, and real-time alerts. It is enrichment-first. HeyOtto supports core curriculum. It doesn't create curriculum.
The gap
Consumer ChatGPT shows up in robotics, after-school, and AI literacy clubs whether you planned for it or not. Teacher-planning tools help adults prep class. What’s missing is student AI built for program time — with adults still able to see the work and set the bounds.
Keep the assistant in a program-scoped place you can review. I help with the build; you set the tools.
Right split. They help teachers plan. HeyOtto is what students open in club — with you in the loop.
Yes. Tool allowlists are per program profile.
HeyOtto is that layer: student assistant + program oversight.
Classroom use is fine when a school wants it. The lead story is still clubs and enrichment.
What you get
Four pieces every club or enrichment lead needs — without turning the product into a district lesson-plan suite.
Assistant
Build, create, prompt, explore — still an assistant.
Otto helps with debugging, projects, writing, and research-shaped work when you allow those tools.
Visibility
No mystery side chats on personal accounts.
Program-managed access so adults can review what happened in the session.
Alerts
Know when something needs a human.
Same real-time alerts product name as the family app — one safety pipeline to learn, not a second invent-your-own stack.
Controls
Code, images, video, search — on or off.
Match the program: robotics may want code + search; a younger enrichment block may keep the allowlist tighter.
Controls
Set usage limits and quiet hours, and override settings for one student — the same controls for a whole class or a single learner.
Admins can set usage controls for each class or school, and adjust them for a single student when defaults aren’t enough. Quiet hours pause chat for students in a set window, and they follow the timezone.
Settings
Configure faith, mission, and values rules so Otto stays inside what your school upholds.
Hand sensitive questions to a teacher, parent, or chaplain when that’s the right call.
Guided questions and project help that stays an assistant.
Habits-not-dependency help for practice and stuck points.
Games, scripts, and club builds.
Original characters, scenes, and short videos for class projects.
Illustrated stories and creative writing.
Otto searches and summarizes when enabled. Schools keep advisor visibility.
HeyOtto
Teachers and students can build in HeyOtto — a game for club, a study guide, a document, flashcards, a quiz — then share it so other HeyOtto users can try it.
HeyOtto for Schools
Tell Otto what you want — a game, a document, flashcards, a study guide, a quiz, a learning tool.
At a glance
| Topic | What HeyOtto does here | What it doesn’t do |
|---|---|---|
| Lead story | Clubs, STEM electives, after-school, camps, AI literacy clubs | District “AI OS” / teacher lesson-plan suite as the headline |
| Adult role | Advisor / teacher visibility into student use | Replacing MagicSchool-style planning workflows |
| Student AI | Assistant with tool controls | Unmonitored consumer ChatGPT |
| Curriculum | Optional club playbooks you bring | Common Core alignment claims |
| Classroom | Supported if a school wants it | Claiming core class periods as the product focus |
Passport
HeyOtto Passport gives schools and developers a single way to connect AI-powered tools to HeyOtto. Children use one identity across every app, with one record and one place for safety oversight.
Identity
A connected tool sees the student by name. Access is turned on once, for that student, by an administrator.
That replaces a guest session or a single login shared by the whole class.
Record
Activity from a connected tool shows up in that student’s HeyOtto history, beside the work they already did in HeyOtto.
Review stays on the student. The other app doesn’t keep a separate transcript.
Safety & alerts
Alerts from connected tools use the same real-time alerts feed as the HeyOtto app.
Staff watch one stream. A new tool does not get its own monitoring setup.
Admin
A student joining or leaving is handled once. The roster doesn’t get rebuilt for each experience.
Bringing on another tool keeps the same oversight. It doesn’t start a second safety workflow.
FAQ
Next step
Come talk. We’ll map tools, visibility, and norms to how you actually run the program.
