Botticus sets you up with your own Bot, trained on how your business actually runs. You message it like you'd message 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.
Built for your business. Runs your whole day. The same Bot that sends Monday's order books the bulk pickup and moves the dentist appointment.
A generic AI assistant answers questions. A Bot from Botticus does the work, inside your email, your spreadsheets, your ordering portals, your inventory, your calendar. It writes the email, builds the order, updates the sheet, and chases the invoice. 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 and your household, 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 works inside accounts you already own, using systems you already pay for, from a dedicated server we run for you alone. Nobody else's AI trains on your customers, and every rule and memory is a file you can take with you.
A Bot isn't a private chat window. You decide who else gets a line to it, what each of them may ask for, and what it may do without you. Then you stop being the bottleneck.
The Columbus Mustard Club runs this way today. Five board members message the club's Bot directly, and each one approves their own work before it goes out.
A small business owner's day has no line between work and home, so your Bot doesn't draw one either. The same Bot that builds Monday's order books the bulk pickup, moves Mom's dentist appointment, and keeps every school portal in one morning digest. One thread, your whole day. See what it does for a family.
These are all things a Bot does today, for real businesses. Pick the ones that hurt. We build those first.
Every client starts with a Bot that knows their business, their accounts and their people. Then we add extensions for the work they actually do. These are the ones running today. If your work is repeatable and you can describe it, we can build the extension for it.
School portals in one digest, a calendar that routes itself, tickets and drops watched, the household admin handled.
Inventory, QR scan-to-pack and reorder alerts, running in your own Google account. Try the live demo.
Fast, static sites that belong to you, built from a free demo and kept current by your Bot.
Describe a part in a message. Get back a STEP file, a print-ready STL, a preview and a Fusion 360 script with editable parameters.
Facebook and Instagram posts in your voice, drafted for one-tap approval or published on a schedule you set. Page info kept current.
A quoting desk, a parts library, a customer portal, a compliance checker. Tell us what piles up and we will scope the extension.
A fast, static site with nothing on it to hack, set up in accounts with your name on them: your domain, your hosting, your forms. See a real multi-page demo of yours first, free, usually within the hour.
Meta's Muse, OpenAI's ChatGPT Dots and xAI's Grok Bot are impressive. They're also designed for millions of people at once, run on Meta's, OpenAI's and xAI's computers, and answer to one account. A Bot from Botticus is designed around one person and everything that person runs: the business and the household, the team and the family. It runs where your systems run.
| Meta Muse | ChatGPT Dots | Grok Bot | Your Bot | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Your personal life: one person's email, calendar, shopping, bookings | One person. Team "specialist dots" are enterprise pilots you apply for | One account. Team Bots exist, but every Bot on an account shares one computer and its sign-ins | Your business, your team and your household: one Bot for your whole day, 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 | One xAI-managed cloud computer per account, with a browser, files and a terminal. No self-hosting; some sites block its browser | On its own dedicated server, run by Botticus for you alone, 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 | Connectors from its marketplace (Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Teams and others) and MCP servers that are publicly reachable | 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" | Scheduled "routines" and teach-by-demo, still rolling out. A router picks the model each time; you can't see or pin it | 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 | Remembers corrections and your style; you can't inspect, correct, export or delete individual memories | 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 | Approval cards (allow once, always, deny). No audit log 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 | One shared mail.grokbot.com address per account. No phone; "Stop now" halts it but emails already sent stay sent | Its own name, inbox, and Telegram or WhatsApp line, with a real text number as an add-on. 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 | Lives on xAI's cloud computer, shared by all your Bots including their sign-ins. Requires data storage; privacy follows your Cursor settings. No retention policy published | Stays in accounts you own; the Bot's own files export on request. AI runs through Botticus's account and is never used for training. 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 | Bundled with X Premium ($30 a month) or Cursor plans ($20 to $200 a month per person); teams $120 a seat. Weekly usage allowance, metered overage, "no Grok Bot-specific spend cap yet" | One setup fee, one flat monthly care plan. Scripted jobs cost nothing per run |
| When it breaks | A help center | A help center | Docs and the product site. No dedicated support channel listed | A person you know, who built it |
Muse, Dots and Grok Bot details are from Meta's, OpenAI's and xAI's own announcements and public reporting as of October 2026 (Grok Bot is in beta and its plans have changed several times), and will change. A Bot 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; Grok is a trademark of X.AI Corp. None of these companies is affiliated with Botticus.
Albert is the first Bot. 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, Etsy and TikTok Shop (Stockroom): 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.
The Columbus Mustard Club, a 300-member social club: board members email the club's Bot directly, and newsletters, event campaigns, elections, and charity drives are drafted, approved by the requester, and sent, with the club's confidential matters kept confidential.
A family: appointments, reminders, city services, and the errands that fall through the cracks.
Inbox, portals and reports checked every five minutes, nights and weekends.
The day's reports reach the team before anyone logs in.
The order is built, sent and logged.
The second one is a new job taught in a sentence: the Bot wrote and tested the watcher itself, and the part that needed judgment stayed with the owner.
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 Bot 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. Tell us about your business below and a written quote arrives by email within one business day. A household-only Bot starts smaller than Starter; see the Family page.
No. A chat window answers questions. A Bot 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. The Bot 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 works inside accounts you own: your email, your Google or Microsoft workspace, your marketplaces, your portals. It runs on a dedicated cloud server that Botticus manages so you never have to, and its AI runs through Botticus's account, which is never used for training. We don't copy your business anywhere else, every rule and memory is a file you can take with you, and you can revoke access at any time.
Telegram or WhatsApp, whichever you already use. Both are free, and your Bot is in your contacts in minutes. If you want your Bot to have a real phone number that you, your family or your customers can text, that's a small monthly add-on: a dedicated toll-free number, verified and set up for you. Most owners start on Telegram and add the number later if they want it.
No. If you can send a message, you can run a Bot. 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.
They are good assistants, built for one account at a time, on Meta's, OpenAI's or xAI's computers, connected to whatever is in their catalogs. A Bot is built around a person and everything that person runs: the business and the household, the team and the family. It lives on its own server, logs into your real systems, does its routine work by script so it behaves the same every time, and keeps its rules and memory in files you can read. Families get the same thing at home: every school portal in one morning digest, a calendar that routes itself, and, if you want it, a private family page where the schedules, the portals and the to-do list all sit in one place. And when something breaks, you reach the person who built it.
A one-time setup fee plus a monthly care plan that includes the Bot's server and a monthly AI allowance. The numbers depend on how many systems the Bot touches and how much it's trusted to do alone. Ask for a quote and a written one arrives by email within one business day, no call required.
Fill this in and a written quote arrives by email within one business day: the plan I'd recommend, the setup fee, the monthly care plan, and what's included. No call needed, though I'm happy to have one.
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