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What if the problem wasn't the bike itself, but all the bikes that exist today? 🚲

This is the observation made by Raphaël, a general practitioner from Brussels, while observing his patients and the streets of his city. Active mobility is a matter of course for public health. But city dwellers who would like to switch to cycling, commuters, women, people with an average budget, still don't have a solution that really suits them. Too heavy, too big, too restrictive, too expensive to maintain.

Winner of Be Circular 2022, OTO responds to this void with a folding bike designed for the real city: light, compact, clean, maintenance-free, which rides like a grown-up and fits into any daily life. ✨

But OTO is also a unique technology. After 10 years of R&D, the project resulted in a 3D printed stainless steel sleeved frame, bonded to carbon tubes. Zero welding. An approach that allows production to be entirely relocated to Brussels, on demand, without dormant stocks. 🏭

Today: a working prototype, a waiting list of 900 prospects, and a crucial next step to take, the MVP and the pre-series, driven by a business model based on Long-Term Leasing (LTR) and refurbishment. A bike that is not sold, but that can be used, repaired and passed on. 🔄

I'm looking for a partner, not an employee. Someone with whom to move forward on all fronts on a daily basis, without compartmentalization, without ego, with the desire to build something meaningful. 🤝

At OTO, that means being able to go from the workbench to the Excel spreadsheet in the same day. Adjusting components in the morning, analysing a long-term lease contract in the afternoon, responding to a prospect in the evening. That's the reality of a project under construction.

👀 The "hands in the dirt" profile:

A person with the following qualities:

• Mechanics & Production: concrete experience in bike mechanics, the desire to assemble and optimize a pre-series without it scaring you.

• Management & LLD: you understand the workings of Long-Term Leasing, it's the heart of our business model, you have to be able to structure it and make it work.

• Digitalization: comfortable with digital tools to structure fleet management and user experience.

• Culture impact: the values of the non-profit sector speak to you, meaning, social utility, without sacrificing the efficiency of the private sector.

What we will build together: finalize the MVP, launch the pre-series, set up the production workshop in Brussels, manage our first prospects and embody a healthy and obvious mobility.💪

Joining OTO today means arriving at exactly the right time: the technology exists, the market is waiting, the structure remains to be built. And that's precisely where you come in. 🎯

You won't be employed. You will be a co-founder in your own right: capital, strategic decisions, corporate culture, all this is built together, from day one. What you build here is also yours.

The product you will work on is unique (3D stainless steel / carbon, zero welding, local production in Brussels), with 10 years of R&D behind it and 900 prospects waiting to be able to order. It's not an idea on a post-it. It's a technically proven project, and it needs you to take the next step.

The long-term lease model guarantees recurring revenue and a long-term relationship with users. We don't do a marketing stunt, we build something solid in the long term. And in concrete terms, each OTO bike on the road is one less car, a more active person, a slightly more breathable city. The impact is real, measurable, direct. 🌱

No vague hierarchy, no empty promises. Short circuit, honesty, pragmatism. Ready to get in the saddle? 🚀