Protomota Software · est. 2025

We build AI-native
software. Then we run it.

Products for daily use, automation on client infrastructure, content pipelines and developer tools. Built and operated by engineers who stay on the tools.

Products shipped05 2 live · 3 soon
Operator agentElmo on Hermes v3.2.0
Books in print02 $29 each
Maker projects07+ open source
Products

Native apps and AI tools, built for daily use.

AI Services

Every system your business needs to scale, built on AI.

This is service-as-a-software: agents and workflows built to run themselves, not tools your team has to operate. Delivered end-to-end across content, operations, development, and consulting.

You own itNo SaaS lock-in
10–15daysLaunch time
DirectConsulting
End-to-endDelivery
What changed

The 2020 playbook is fading. Small AI-leveraged teams are now outpacing twenty-person orgs at a fraction of the cost.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

04

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.

05

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.

All service lines

AI automation for every layer: content, ops, dev, and beyond.

01

Business Automation

6 services
Business Process Automation

Eliminate manual work with AI-powered workflows across internal ops.

CRM & Lead Automation

Auto-qualify leads, trigger follow-ups, and never miss a deal.

Workflow Orchestration

Replace Zapier/Make with intelligent self-healing pipelines.

Chatbots & Customer Service AI

Handle support, qualification, and meeting scheduling automatically.

Document Processing

Extract, classify, and route contracts, invoices, and intake forms. Zero manual handling.

Home Assistant Configuration

Smart office and workspace automation connected to your existing tools.

02

Development & Engineering

6 services
Custom App Development

Ship internal tools and client-facing apps fast and reliably.

Custom MCP Servers

Model Context Protocol servers that expose your internal tools, data, and workflows to AI agents. Built on your stack, owned by you.

Agentic Service-as-a-Software

Custom AI agents engineered to execute workflows autonomously, end-to-end. Services that run themselves, not tools your team operates.

AI-Assisted Development

Embed AI coding agents into your existing dev workflow: review, refactor, docs, tests.

DevOps + AI Integration

Self-healing CI/CD and infrastructure with AI observability, anomaly detection, and auto-remediation baked in.

API Integration & Development

Unify internal tools, third-party platforms, and legacy services under one architecture.

03

Consulting & Team Empowerment

6 services
Analytics & Reporting

Real-time dashboards tied to your operational and revenue data.

Hermes AI Deployment

Your own AI operations brain, running on your infrastructure.

AI Strategy Consulting

Identify highest-leverage AI opportunities, define roadmap, drive ROI outcomes.

AI Workflow Coaching

Hands-on sessions to improve how your team builds, ships, and iterates with AI.

Team AI Enablement

Embedded consulting to upskill engineering and ops teams from the ground up.

AI Adoption Roadmapping

Structured assessment and phased roadmap, prioritized by ROI and team readiness.

04

AI Content Pipelines

6 services
Website Content Automation

Pages, blogs, and landing copy updated on schedule, brand-aligned, published without edits.

Email Newsletter Automation

AI-curated newsletters built and delivered on schedule, end-to-end.

AI Content Automation

Pipelines that generate video, podcast, and social assets on a consistent rhythm.

Social Media Pipeline

Automated content queues with topic research, captioning, and posting cadence.

Video Pipeline

Briefs and raw ideas into short-form videos with hooks, captions, and distribution formats.

Podcast Pipeline

Episode planning, scripting, and distribution workflows that run on their own.

Transparent pricing

One-time setup. Optional retainer. Deployed on your infrastructure.

Launch

$1,500–$2,000one-time
  • n8n deployed on your own server (you own it)
  • 2–4 core automations: content, leads, ops, or dev
  • Standard integrations: HubSpot, Slack, Gmail, Shopify, Stripe, socials
  • 4–5 day engagement: discovery, build, handoff
  • Handoff doc + 30-day email support
  • Zero ongoing platform fees
Optional retainer: $200–300/moGet started

Enterprise

Contactfor pricing
  • Custom AI infrastructure on your own stack
  • Full workflow architecture across the business
  • Team AI coaching + workflow enablement
  • SLA-backed support + quarterly roadmap
  • Embedded partnership, not a one-off project
Sarasota / Florida businesses: in-person availableLet's talk
Support model

Built for real teams.

  • High-touch implementation from discovery through handoff
  • Weekly feedback loops with decisions documented and translated into next-sprint priorities
  • Instrumentation and reporting so performance is visible, not guessed
  • A practical operating rhythm your team can maintain without agency dependency

Book a strategy + alignment call.

No hype deck. I review your current workflow, constraints, and delivery risk, then decide if this is a fit.

Books

Field guides for shipping better automation faster.

Actionable playbooks for engineers, founders, and operators building autonomous businesses. Lifetime updates included.

OpenClaw: Build Your One-Person Empire book cover
The OpenClaw playbook

OpenClaw: Build Your One-Person Empire

Build and scale your one-person AI-driven business stack: agents, automation, content pipelines, and the guardrails that keep them honest.

$29/One-time/Lifetime updates
Verification Engineering book cover
The human layer

Verification Engineering

The human layer in automated systems: how to design review, gate, and approve patterns so your agents stay aligned with your business and your users.

$29/One-time/Lifetime updates
About

The human in the loop.

Brad Dunlap

Brad Dunlap.

Founder · Chief AI Officer · Master of Bots

Principal 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.

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