Target audience: Parents who want timely awareness of their child's AI conversations without alert fatigue

HeyOtto builds real-time safety monitoring into family AI — alerts are a core product surface, not an aftermarket add-on.

• Every message is analyzed in real time — no sampling, no delay.
• Critical alerts (self-harm, violence, predatory behavior) are sent immediately to all parents via email, SMS, and dashboard — no batching, no quiet hours, no digest delay.
• Otto also detects patterns across multiple conversations over time — not just single messages — surfacing concerns a single chat might miss.
• Parents see the full triggering conversation and history with every alert, plus suggested next steps.

Real-time parent alert

An immediate notification to a caregiver when a child's conversation with Otto meets predefined safety, emotional, or topic thresholds.

Severity tier

A classification that determines how urgently an alert is delivered — critical alerts break through quiet hours; FYI items may batch into a digest.

How it works

From signal to your phone in real time

1. 01

   Otto reads every message as it happens

   Otto automatically analyzes all chat messages in real time, looking for language indicating self-harm, violence, or predatory behavior — across safety categories. There's no sampling and no batch review. Every message, every time.

2. 02

   Critical signals reach you instantly

   When concerning content is detected, a Critical alert is generated and sent immediately to all parents on the account — email, SMS, and the dashboard at the same time. No digest, no daily summary, no delay. Image: the three channels firing simultaneously.

3. 03

   Patterns get caught, not just moments

   A single mention of a bad night's sleep isn't alarming. Bad sleep, plus constant fatigue, plus losing interest in soccer — that's a pattern. Otto analyzes signals across conversations over days and weeks, and raises an alert when the combination warrants your attention, with a plain-language summary of what it's seeing and why it matters.

4. 04

   You see everything, then you decide

   very alert opens to the exact conversation that triggered it and the full conversation history for context. From there, the next move is yours: talk to your child, reach a professional, access crisis resources, or call emergency services if there's immediate danger.

Try it

When something's wrong, you're the first to know

Every conversation on HeyOtto is analyzed in real time. Here's what that looks like from the parent's side.

Instant Critical alerts

Instant Critical alerts