What is Otio?
Otio.ai is an AI-native research and writing assistant tailored for researchers, students, analysts, and professionals working with large volumes of content. It streamlines information processing by allowing users to ingest documents, videos, and web links, then automatically generate structured summaries and interact with their research in an intelligent workspace.
🔍 Key Features:
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Automatic Summaries: Generates concise, structured summaries for PDFs, articles, YouTube videos, and more — drastically reducing reading time.
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Document Chat Interface: Enables interactive Q&A with your uploaded documents, letting users extract insights, ask follow-up questions, and engage deeply with their content.
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AI Text Editor: An integrated editor to help draft, paraphrase, edit, and refine writing based on your sources, keeping the output accurate and grounded.
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Workflow Automation: Users can automate repetitive research workflows — such as summarizing videos, comparing documents, or generating reports — using Otio’s automation builder.
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Document Comparison: Built-in tools to compare and contrast multiple documents side by side for better analysis.
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Multi-format Support: Works with PDFs, blog posts, academic papers, web articles, Word docs, and YouTube videos.
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Chrome Extension: Lets users save links from the web (articles, tweets, videos etc.) directly into Otio, automatically organizing and summarizing them.
🎯 Target Audiences
Otio.ai is especially useful for:
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Academics & Researchers: To extract critical insights from research papers and videos easily.
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Students & Educators: For literature reviews, assignments, and structured learning.
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Analysts & Business Professionals: To synthesize complex documents or reports quickly.
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Content Creators & Journalists: To process large amounts of source material into blog posts, articles, or media content efficiently.
Description
Otio.ai is an AI-powered research and writing platform that helps users collect, summarize, analyze, and write from diverse content (documents, videos, and web pages) — all in one intelligent, workflow-driven workspace.
Research Smarter with Otio.ai
Summarize documents, analyze content, and write better—all in one intelligent workspace.

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Founders of Otio
Yasaman Rajaee co-founded Otio.ai and currently serves as Co‑Founder & CEO. She holds a Master’s degree in Informatics (Computer Science) from the Technical University of Munich, as well as entrepreneurship and management credentials from programs at MIT Sloan and Latitud’s LF2 Fellowship. Yasaman brings experience in software engineering, product management, and machine learning, having held roles at Google, PathCheck Foundation, and Personio prior to launching Otio.ai. She is based in London, UK.Ashvin Prabaker is a co‑founder focused on building Otio.ai’s AI-driven products. Previously, he co-founded Bloop.ai (an AI coding agent startup part of Y Combinator) and was recognized as a research analyst at Morgan Stanley early in his career. With a strong track record in developing AI research tools and consumer software, he played a key role in growing Otio.ai to reach hundreds of thousands of users.