About

I'm Brad Dunlap. Protomota is my lab.

I'm an engineer in Florida with 20+ years of automating business and technology work. Protomota is where I build apps, AI agents, small robots, websites, and videos, and where I automate as much of my own day-to-day as I can with AI SI. Now I help businesses do the same.

Brad Dunlap
  • 20+years automating business and technology work
  • 6apps built solo, from productivity tools to music videos
  • 6websites and web apps I designed, built, and run
  • 2YouTube channels of videos and tutorials
  • 10,000+downloads of my Elven Leaf Armor 3D print
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Why Protomota

I use AI to take the busywork off my plate. I can help your business do the same.

My whole career has been about automation. Early on, inspired by a mentor, I learned the art of automation in business and technology: as a small team on big projects we automated everything, writing every script by hand with early developer and QA tools.

Protomota is where that habit goes full time. By day I'm a Digital Solution Consultant Associate Director at Launch by NTT Data. Everything else happens here: the apps, the videos, small robots on the living room floor, simulations of those robots, home automation around the house, and whatever is on the 3D printer this week.

AI changes how I build every day. Claude and Codex write the code and review it against tests, and I validate that it works. With AI as a force multiplier, I can bring that same lift to your team: find the work that eats your week, and hand it to AI agents and automations built around how your business actually runs.

02

My apps

The tools I use to run my lab are the tools I set up for you.

Most of my apps started as productivity tools for my own work. I build them to automate my day, use them every day, then give them away to others. PulseCanvas Studio is the exception: that one I made just for fun.

When I work with your business, I help you get set up on them too: installed, connected to your AI agents, and fitted to how your team works, with one-on-one help until you're running them yourselves.

03

How I got here

Twenty years of shipping apps, leading teams, and automating the work around them.

  1. Today

    Protomota

    A growing portfolio of apps, led by Jotley and PulseCanvas Studio, which I built entirely by myself from concept and design through development, production, marketing, and training materials. Plus AI agents and automations for clients, airesourcepro.com, and robots I simulate in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and train in NVIDIA Isaac Lab.

  2. 2023

    Launch by NTT Data

    Product owner on a multi-year iOS and Android app for a top U.S. manufacturer, then research and development in AI and robotics simulation. Now I lead a small team building VR, voice, and AI-assisted automation for a Fortune 500 client, in pilot.

  3. 2012

    Vectorform

    Technical lead on seven Stellantis brand apps (Mopar, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Fiat), the DTE Energy Insight app, and 15 Taubman shopping center apps. Then Director of Quality Experience, where I brought in TDD and automated UI testing, and Director of Scoping and Estimation, where a new scoping process took overrun projects from several a year to zero.

  4. 2011

    RIIS

    Where I learned the art of automation. I set up CI/CD pipelines and test-driven development (TDD), and reverse engineered and penetration tested clients’ iOS and Android apps to harden their security.

  5. 2010

    MRM Worldwide

    Technical lead for front-end development on Chevrolet.com’s annual model refresh.

  6. 2007

    Vectorform

    Its first iOS developer. I founded the mobile practice and led apps featured on the App Store.

04

What I believe

And what it means when I work on your business.

01

Signal over noise

Steve Jobs is credited with the idea that the best people spend 80% of their time on signal and 20% on noise. On your project, that means no performance theater, no work that checks boxes but doesn’t move the needle. The time goes into what actually changes your numbers.

02

Automate everything

If a task comes around twice, it should run itself the third time. I’ll find the repetitive work slowing your team down and hand it to AI agents and automations that do it for you.

03

Build it end to end

I take an idea from concept and design through code and launch, the same way I built Jotley and PulseCanvas Studio. You get one person who owns the whole thing, not a chain of handoffs.

04

AI as a force multiplier

AI lets a small team do the work of a big one. I can help your business get there too: the right tools, the workflows, and the agents, set up so your people get the same lift.

05

Your team learns it too

I teach AI for free at airesourcepro.com. When I build something for you, I show your team how it works, so you’re never stuck waiting on me.

05

What I build

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I'd love to talk.

A task you'd like to automate, an AI agent you have in mind, or a question about an app. Send a note and I'll reply by email.

Open to business opportunities as well.