---
type: entity
subtype: organization
title: "oTTomator"
description: "Cole's earlier open-source AI community (ottomator.ai), pitched as a one-stop shop for AI tools, networking, and knowledge; home of the Live Agent Studio."
resource: "https://ottomator.ai"
tags: [community, open-source, live-agent-studio, hackathon]
videos: [im-hosting-a-huge-ai-hackathon-competition, i-created-the-best-ai-agent-platform-in-just-2-months]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# oTTomator

oTTomator (ottomator.ai) is the earlier community Cole built before [Dynamous](./dynamous.md), positioned as a hub for people getting serious about AI agents. He frames it broadly: "we are a One-Stop shop for you to get all of the tools networking knowledge and resources to succeed in this super fast evolving industry of AI" ([0:03:48]). Where Dynamous later leaned into a structured course and the Context Engineering Hub, oTTomator's center of gravity was open, community-driven building, embodying the [Community-Driven Development](../../concepts/community-driven-development.md) pattern that recurs across Cole's work.

Its flagship was the **Live Agent Studio**, a public gallery where community members shipped and shared working agents, exercising [Chat Interfaces](../../concepts/chat-interfaces.md), [Streaming Responses](../../concepts/streaming-responses.md), and [Agentic RAG](../../concepts/agentic-rag.md) against a common, [provider-independent](../../concepts/provider-independence.md) surface. Cole used it to drive participation directly, hosting a large competition: "my platform automator is hosting a hackathon competition with $5,000 in cash prizes" ([0:00:00]). The studio doubled as a living answer to [What Is an AI Agent](../../concepts/what-is-an-ai-agent.md), a catalog of real, runnable examples rather than definitions.

In the arc of Cole's channel, oTTomator is the predecessor that seeded the community model he scaled up in [Dynamous](./dynamous.md): a place to gather early adopters, run events, and turn scattered experimentation into shared, reusable agent building.

## Realizes

- [Community-Driven Development](../../concepts/community-driven-development.md) - Building products and open source in public with a community, using a public roadmap and shared learning.
- [What Is an AI Agent](../../concepts/what-is-an-ai-agent.md) - An AI agent is a large language model given tools to interact with the outside world and take actions, making it far more capable than the LLM alone.
- [Provider Independence](../../concepts/provider-independence.md) - Architecting agents so the underlying model, framework, or client can be swapped without a rewrite, avoiding lock-in through low-level abstractions.
- [Chat Interfaces](../../concepts/chat-interfaces.md) - Wrapping agents in chat surfaces (websites, DMs, platforms) with adapters, a shared message format, and durable history.
- [Streaming Responses](../../concepts/streaming-responses.md) - Streaming tokens and intermediate agent output to the user in real time instead of waiting for the full response.
- [Agentic RAG](../../concepts/agentic-rag.md) - Giving an agent retrieval as a tool so it decides when and how to search a knowledge base, picking strategies and issuing follow-up queries instead of a single static lookup.

## Works with

- [Live Agent Studio](../tools/live-agent-studio.md) - Cole's community-driven open-source AI agent platform, host of a $5,000 agent hackathon in partnership with Voiceflow and n8n.

## Related

- [Dynamous](./dynamous.md) - Cole's community for early AI adopters, home of the Agentic Coding course, weekly workshops, and the shared Context Engineering Hub.
- [Cole Medin](../people/cole-medin.md) - AI engineer and educator whose YouTube channel and Dynamous community teach agentic coding; creator of Archon and the source of this entire knowledge base.
- [Eric Simons](../people/eric-simons.md) - CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz (maker of bolt.new) who announces the partnership making the community fork the official open-source bolt.DIY and frames it as a real-world benchmark frontier labs test models against.

## Sources

- [I Created the BEST AI Agent Platform in Just 2 MONTHS!](../../sources/i-created-the-best-ai-agent-platform-in-just-2-months.md) - "[0:03:48] we are a One-Stop shop for you to get all of the tools networking knowledge and resources to succeed in this super fast evolving industry of AI."
- [I'm Hosting a HUGE AI Hackathon Competition](../../sources/im-hosting-a-huge-ai-hackathon-competition.md) - "[0:00:00] my platform automator is hosting a hackathon competition with $5,000 in cash prizes."
