FAQ

Questions we get asked
on every demo call.

Product

How is this different from Mindbody's built-in reports?

Mindbody reports show history. Otto runs forward — scoring every active member nightly and flagging whose pattern shifted. No Mindbody report gives you a ranked list of members about to cancel in the next 30 days.

How does scoring work?

Gradient-boosted ensemble trained on anonymized patterns across our cohort, calibrated per-studio on your 18 months of history. 14 signals. Three explainable drivers with every score.

Multi-location?

Yes — each location has its own scoring and brief. Rollup reports on Pro and up.

Ask Otto

What is Ask Otto?

Ask Otto is a natural-language interface to your Mindbody data. Type a question the way you'd ask a staff member; Otto reads your live data and answers with the number, the list, and the context — no reports to build, no filters to set. It's read-only and scoped to your studio.

Two examples:

  • How many members haven't booked in the last 21 days but still have an active membership?
  • What was our revenue from intro-offer conversions in the last 30 days, and how does that compare to the previous 30?

Otto also handles class enrollment, coach performance, attendance trends, unused credits, expiring packages, and refund history. Every answer cites the underlying Mindbody records so you can verify.

Mindbody & data

Does Otto change anything in our Mindbody account?

No. Read-only by technical design. Full detail on the Trust page.

How long is the initial sync?

4–8 hours overnight for an 800-member studio with 18 months of history. First calibrated scoring by day 5.

Can I revoke access?

One click inside Mindbody. Otto goes dark. Data deleted within 30 days.

Member messaging

Will members know it's AI?

Messages reference their coach, last class, specific pattern — written from their history, not a template. Members have thanked owners personally for "noticing" them.

What if I reply personally?

The moment you reply in the conversation hub, Otto's automation for that member pauses immediately. You own the thread.

Can I edit drafts before sending?

Every message, every time, for the first 30 days by default. After that, approve-before-send is toggleable per segment — or kept on forever.

Onboarding

How fast can we go live?

Signed contract to first Monday brief: typically 7 days. Four minutes of your time for the Mindbody connection.

Trial?

14 days free. Cancel any time before day 15 to pay nothing. Otherwise your card is charged the monthly fee on day 15 and your subscription auto-renews monthly until you cancel. The 30-day money-back guarantee on the first paid month still applies. Setup fee is non-refundable.

Want to see Otto on your own data first?

Book a 20-minute demo at book.octoemployee.com. We run it against your actual Mindbody data (read-only, dropped after the call). You see your first at-risk list live before any commitment.

Billing

Contract?

Month-to-month. Cancel at end of any cycle. No auto-escalation.

Money-back guarantee?

30 days on the first month. Setup fee is non-refundable.