An AI-native studio with real judgment behind it.
Protomota is a business where automation does the heavy lifting and a human signs off on every shipment. We build our own products, run automation on client infrastructure, and stay on the tools while we do it.
The 2020 playbook is fading. Small AI-leveraged teams now outpace twenty-person orgs at a fraction of the cost.
The specialist tax
Old org charts hire a specialist for every discipline, then pay again in the handoffs between them. AI lets a generalist cover that ground and erase both costs.
Process performance theater
Issue queues, story points, and burndown charts exist to perform progress for people who can't see the work. A small team that can see it doesn't need the show.
Agile, back to its roots
Agile isn't dying. The ceremony-heavy version is: certifications, planning poker, ritual for its own sake. What survives is the manifesto's original roots.
Tools for a bigger room
The stack we standardized on assumed a dozen hands staying in sync. For a small AI-leveraged team, it's elaborate tooling for a problem that no longer exists.
The widening gap
This was never a one-time saving. Teams fluent in the tooling pull further ahead with every month the rest of the market spends trying to catch up.
Brad Dunlap.
Founder · Chief AI Officer · Master of BotsPrincipal engineer at Launch by NTT Data by day. With years of experience in engineering and QA, Protomota is an AI-native business where automation does the heavy lifting and a human signs off on the work. Guardrails installed, every shipment reviewed, running on a Hermes agent named Elmo.
When I'm not shipping code, I'm building and simulating robots, designing 3D models, and printing them into reality. Based in Florida and perpetually shipping.
Beyond software: hardware, robots, and prints.
Robotics, 3D printing, and AI as creative hobbies. Open-source experiments, build logs, and prints downloaded by thousands.
Project Ogre
Mecanum-drive robot with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, running autonomous navigation via SLAM and Nav2: omnidirectional movement, RPLIDAR, RealSense depth.
JetBot Orin
Classic NVIDIA JetBot adapted for the newer Jetson Orin Nano: vision, ROS, custom chassis.
SO-ARM 101 in Isaac Sim
Real-time teleoperation of a 6-axis robot arm in NVIDIA Isaac Sim using LeRobot and ROS2. Leader arm drives the digital twin.
Elven Leaf Armor & friends
Fantasy armor, tools, and decorative pieces on MakerWorld. The Elven Leaf Armor alone has 9,200 downloads.