Botticus builds you your own AI agent, trained on how your business actually runs. You text it like you'd text your best employee. It builds the order, sends the email, reconciles the report, chases the invoice, and tells you when something needs your eyes. Every hour of every day.
A generic AI assistant answers questions. A Botticus does things, inside your email, your spreadsheets, your ordering portals, your inventory, your calendar. It knows your customers, your rules, your pricing, and your tone, because it was built around them.
Your bot gets a name, a personality, and a rulebook written from how you actually work. Mine is called Albert. Yours might be Pip, Marge, or Sarge. It learns your business, not "a" business.
It works on a schedule you never think about: every 5 minutes, every morning at 6, every Monday. Orders come in at 2 AM? Handled. Customer asks a question on Sunday? Drafted and waiting.
It runs in accounts you own, using systems you already pay for. There is no new platform to move your life into, and nobody else's AI training on your customers.
These are all things a Botticus agent does today, for real businesses. Pick the ones that hurt. We build those first.
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's ChatGPT Dots are impressive, and for a personal to-do list they may be all you need. They're also designed for millions of people at once, run on Meta's and OpenAI's computers, and answer to one person. A Botticus is designed for one business, runs where your business runs, and works for your whole team.
| Meta Muse | ChatGPT Dots | Your Botticus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Your personal life: one person's email, calendar, shopping, bookings | One person. Team "specialist dots" are enterprise pilots you apply for | Your business and your team, with your rules and your voice |
| Where it runs | A Meta cloud virtual machine with its own browser | An OpenAI cloud computer and a separate cloud browser. Some sites block it; access to your own PC is off by default | On a machine you control, logged into your real systems: TMS, portals, marketplaces, printers |
| What it connects to | Consumer connectors: Gmail, Calendar, Instagram, OpenTable, Plaid and others | Whatever is in OpenAI's plugin catalog | Anything with code. If it's not in a catalog, we build the connection |
| Routine work | The model decides each time | The model decides each time; OpenAI notes dots "can misread instructions" | Repeatable work is scripted and deterministic. The AI handles judgment calls; code handles the 2 AM order flow |
| Memory you can see and edit | You can ask it to "forget" things; no editor described | You can't view, edit, or delete individual memories; only delete the whole dot | Every rule and memory is a plain file you can read, change, or delete |
| Audit trail | A list of completed and planned actions | None described | Every action logged by person, job, and day, in files you own |
| Its own identity | Acts through your personal accounts | "A dot can't get its own email address." Can't call you; texting is a limited beta | Its own name, inbox, and phone. It emails customers as itself and pings you first |
| Your data | Lives in Meta's VM. Training is opt-out. End-to-end encryption promised "later this year" | Lives with OpenAI. Disconnecting an app doesn't remove what the dot already absorbed | Stays in accounts you own. Never used to train anything. Revoke access any time |
| Cost | Free, $20, or $100 a month per person | From $100 a month per person; businesses need two seats. Extra dots not yet priced | One setup fee, one flat monthly care plan. Scripted jobs cost nothing per run |
| When it breaks | A help center | A help center | A person you know, who built it |
Muse and Dots details are from Meta's and OpenAI's own announcements and public reporting as of October 2026, and will change. A Botticus uses leading AI models under the hood, the same way your laptop uses electricity. The difference is everything built around the model: your memory, your rules, your integrations, your approvals. Muse is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.; ChatGPT and Dots are trademarks of OpenAI. Neither company is affiliated with Botticus.
"I am Botticus." That's the point. Everyone gets their own.
Albert is the first Botticus. He was built by our founder to run his own freight agency in Columbus, Ohio, and he has been doing it every day since. This is what "runs the business" looks like in practice.
A 3D-print shop with 276 products on Shopify and Etsy: a full inventory and QR packing system in the owner's own Google account, with low-stock alerts, order intake from three marketplaces, and a design pipeline that turns a product idea into editable CAD files.
A 300-member social club: newsletters, event campaigns, elections, and charity drives drafted, approved by the board, and sent, with the club's confidential matters kept confidential.
A family: appointments, reminders, city services, and the errands that fall through the cracks.
A conversation about where your week goes. We map the repeatable work, the systems you use, and the rules your bot has to follow.
Your Botticus gets its name, its memory, its rulebook, and its connections: email, sheets, portals, marketplaces, phone. Usually two to three weeks.
Everything starts in draft-and-approve mode. You see every action before it goes out. As trust builds, you decide what it may do on its own.
Bots need upkeep: new rules, new systems, the occasional 2 AM fix. The monthly plan keeps yours sharp, and keeps a human on call.
Pricing depends on how many systems your bot touches and how much it's allowed to do on its own. Every engagement starts with a free discovery call.
No. A chat window answers questions. A Botticus is an agent with memory, a rulebook, scheduled jobs, and connections into your real systems. It uses leading AI models to think, and then it acts: sends, builds, posts, reconciles. The model is the engine. Botticus is the car, built for your roads.
Yes, once you let it. Every bot starts in draft-and-approve mode, where you see everything before it goes out. Then you decide, rule by rule, what it may do unattended. Albert sends carrier notices automatically but never emails certain customers without a human. Your rules will be different, and they'll be yours.
Your bot runs against accounts you own: your email, your Google or Microsoft workspace, your marketplaces, your portals. We don't move your business onto a platform we control, and we don't train anything on your customers. You can revoke access at any time.
No. If you can text, you can run a Botticus. The technical part is ours, which is exactly why there's a monthly care plan.
It will, occasionally, the same way any system does. The care plan covers monitoring, fixes, and a person you can reach, not a help article.
If you want a helper for your personal life, you might. Both are built for one person's accounts, run on Meta's or OpenAI's computers, and connect to what's in their catalogs. A Botticus is built for a business: it runs where your systems run, it works for your team, its routine jobs are scripted so they behave the same every time, and its rules and memory are files you can read. And when something breaks, you call the person who built it.
A one-time setup fee plus a monthly care plan. The numbers depend on how many systems the bot touches and how much it's trusted to do alone, so we quote after the discovery call. The call is free and there's no pressure.
I'll reply within one business day with an honest take on what a Botticus could take off your plate, and what it would cost.
Botticus
Columbus, Ohio
Owner-built, owner-run