OttaPen

For business

Scale the one thingthat never scaled:a personal note.

Your team writes in their own handwriting. Robots do the writing. Your CRM decides when. Nothing is printed and nothing is faked.

cards written
12M+cards written
writing robots
300+writing robots
handwriting styles
40+handwriting styles
native integrations
11native integrations

The problem

Everyone agreesnotes work.Nobody has time.

Handwritten follow-up has the highest open and response rate of any channel available to a business — and the lowest completion rate, because it depends on someone finding a spare hour with a pen.

Removing that dependency is the entire product. A trigger fires, a machine writes, a stamp goes on. The recipient receives something indistinguishable from a card your colleague sat down and wrote.

Handwritten card on a desk

How it works

From triggerto letterbox.

Four steps, none of which involve anyone on your team touching an envelope.

  1. 01

    Connect

    Link your CRM, store or donor database — or upload a list.

  2. 02

    Compose

    Write once, choose a handwriting style, approve a proof.

  3. 03

    Automate

    Set the events that should trigger a card and the rules that qualify.

  4. 04

    Measure

    Status writes back to the contact record; holdouts prove the lift.

Testimonials

What people saywhen the card arrives.

Our response rate tripled the month we switched from printed mailers to real handwritten notes. Customers call the store to say thank you for the thank you.

Marisol Vega

Customer Experience Lead, Placeholder Motors

It took an afternoon to wire into our CRM. Now every closed deal triggers a note in the sender's own handwriting without anyone lifting a pen.

Daniel Okafor

Revenue Operations, Placeholder Insurance Group

Donors keep the cards. We've seen them pinned to office walls two years later.

Priya Raman

Director of Development, Placeholder Foundation

I was sceptical that a machine could write like a person. Then I got one in the mail and could not tell the difference — the ink bleeds into the paper exactly the way it should.

Tom Whitlock

Managing Broker, Placeholder Realty

Bulk imports mean our whole holiday campaign is scheduled in one sitting.

Amelia Frost

Head of Retention, Placeholder Commerce

Field organisers write in their own hand, at a scale no volunteer team could match. That authenticity is the entire point.

Carlos Mendes

Field Director, Placeholder Campaign

Support answered on a Sunday. That alone earned the renewal.

Yuki Tanaka

Operations Manager, Placeholder Solar

We compared a handwritten follow-up against our best email sequence. The note won on reply rate, meeting rate and, eventually, on revenue.

Grace Adeyemi

VP Marketing, Placeholder SaaS

The gift card inserts turned a routine thank-you into something people photograph.

Ben Oliveira

Loyalty Manager, Placeholder Retail

Get started

See a cardbefore you decide.

We'll write a real sample in real ink and post it to you. It is the only demo that means anything.