Authors
The people who write and review HeyOtto guides for parents and kids.
Brooke Bedgood
Assistant
Natalie Gibson
Founder and CEO
Natalie Gibson, a mom of three, is the Founder and CEO of HeyOtto, AI for kids and teens built to help children safely explore artificial intelligence with meaningful parental visibility and control. She has spent her career building products in highly regulated environments, with experience spanning privacy, security, and data protection frameworks including COPPA, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI-aligned systems. Her work has consistently focused on trust, safety, and building technology where compliance and user protection are foundational—not optional. She built HeyOtto after she couldn't find AI she trusted for her own three kids. As a parent, she saw how quickly children began using general-purpose AI tools that were never designed for them, and she saw a gap between what kids were capable of using and what families could responsibly trust. That gap became the foundation for HeyOtto. Today, she leads product vision and company direction with a focus on age-adaptive AI, parental sovereignty, and transparent system design. Her work centers on one belief: families should not have to choose between powerful AI and safe AI.