Robert
Botto
AI-native product leader and forward deployed engineer. I lead a product team at a portfolio of internet businesses, and advise startups on product, pricing and growth.
Shipping with AI agents: 2026, one key per day
4,415 contributions across 166 days and 642 merged pull requests
Selected work
Product work across a portfolio of internet businesses. Brand names are left out; the numbers are real.
- Consumer classifieds marketplaceTook it from one web product to web, iOS and Android, added a second payment rail, put every pricing test on one framework, and moderated every post with AI.Yearly revenue up 2.6x
- Internal AI platformGives every team AI that knows its brand's numbers, connected to P&Ls, analytics, ad accounts, GitHub and Slack.323 merged PRs, 7,576 tests
- Experimentation and the product teamTurned one product's testing discipline into the portfolio standard, and grew into leading four PMs, hired on a bar that weights building with AI.8 products on one test standard
- B2B Martech SaaSClosed revenue leaks in SMS pricing and billing, built its first churn warnings, and kept it shipping every month.Revenue up 25% in two years
Built myself
Three products, designed and shipped with AI agents.
- WellNotes AI LiveClinical documentation for therapists and behavior analysts. Designed, coded, priced and marketed on my own.$27 and $38 a month
- SkipWatch LiveA Claude Code plugin that turns a tutorial video into an installed skill, with every step traced to the moment in the video it came from.Free and open source
- Spinwait LiveAn ad network for AI coding agents: one labelled line in the status bar while the model works.70% of revenue to developers
Advising startups on product, pricing and growth
I work with a small number of early-stage and AI-native teams at a time, on retainer or as an equity advisor.
About Robert Botto
Growth taught me where revenue comes from. Product taught me how to build what earns it. AI agents let me do both myself.
I live in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. The best way to reach me is hello@robertbotto.com.