---
type: entity
subtype: tool
title: "Live Agent Studio"
description: "Cole's community-driven open-source AI agent platform, host of a $5,000 agent hackathon in partnership with Voiceflow and n8n."
resource: "https://studio.ottomator.ai"
tags: [agent-platform, community, open-source]
videos: [insane-new-strategy-for-building-ai-agent-apps, the-future-of-rag-is-agentic-learn-this-strategy-now, the-glow-up-every-ai-agent-needs, pydantic-ai-deepseek-v3-the-best-ai-agent-combo, how-to-dominate-with-ai-in-2025, im-hosting-a-huge-ai-hackathon-competition, revealing-my-complete-ai-agent-blueprint, i-created-the-best-ai-agent-platform-in-just-2-months]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Live Agent Studio

The Live Agent Studio (hosted under the oTTomator brand) is Cole's own open-source platform for building, hosting, and showcasing AI agents as a community. He describes it in personal terms at [0:02:13]: "this is the live agent Studio the platform that I've been pouring my heart and soul into over the past few months to build up this place for us to collaborate on open-Source AI agents together." The defining property, repeated across nearly every video that mentions it, is that it is community-driven and open-source first, as he restates at [0:01:21]: "the live agent studio is an incredible community-driven platform."

For a builder, the Studio's pitch is that it hands you the whole surrounding application so you only write the agent. At [0:09:12] Cole spells out the leverage: "if you integrate it with the studio you instantly have a full front end with chat and conversation history super robust." That means an agent built to the Studio's contract is portable and immediately usable, which is why he says at [0:05:41] "I built the live agent Studio to show you how to best build an agent that you can use anywhere." The platform is framework-agnostic on the agent side. In the DeepSeek V3 build he confirms a Pydantic AI agent is "compatible with the automator live agent Studio" at [0:06:53], and elsewhere he hosts the exact agent from a video there for viewers to try with free tokens ([0:08:14]).

The Studio evolved publicly. Cole built it to pre-release in roughly two months, noting at [0:00:17] "it is called the live agent studio and it is now in pre-release," then kept refining it over "the last 3 to four months" ([0:04:29]). Its biggest community moment was a hackathon: at [0:10:30] he announces "my platform automator is hosting an AI agent hackathon competition in partnership with Voiceflow and n8n and the price pool is $5,000," where the entry requirement was simply to "build an AI agent for the automator live agent studio" ([0:00:19]). The Studio is thus both a product and a teaching vehicle: a real place to ship agents and the through-line of Cole's agent-building tutorials.

## 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.
- [Agent Development Lifecycle](../../concepts/agent-development-lifecycle.md) - A repeatable blueprint for taking an agent from planning and a minimal proof-of-concept through database, code, UI, testing, deployment, and evaluation.

## Works with

- [Pydantic AI](./pydantic-ai.md) - Cole's framework for the individual agents, structured around three parts: dependencies, the agent definition, and tools.
- [DeepSeek V3](./deepseek-v3.md) - New open model Cole cites as evidence the local-vs-closed gap is closing fast; he's using it heavily in his own stack and it's performing great.
- [Voiceflow](./voiceflow.md) - A conversational-AI builder cited as a comparable node-based workflow platform.
- [n8n](./n8n.md) - A no-code AI automation platform for building agents and workflows that integrate with 500+ applications.

## Related

- [Rapid Prototyping](../../concepts/rapid-prototyping.md) - Building a fast proof of concept with managed services first, then hardening only what proves out, instead of over-engineering up front.
- [Agentic Coding](../../concepts/agentic-coding.md) - Letting an AI agent drive software development end-to-end, from planning through implementation and validation, with human steering.
- [Context Engineering](../../concepts/context-engineering.md) - The deliberate practice of curating exactly what goes into an LLM's limited context window - system messages, schemas, chat history, and dynamic variables - to avoid overload and keep outputs sharp.
- [Model Selection](../../concepts/model-selection.md) - Choosing the right LLM per task by trading off quality, speed, and cost, often routing easy requests to cheap models and hard ones to expensive models.

## Sources

- [INSANE New Strategy for Building AI Agent Apps](../../sources/insane-new-strategy-for-building-ai-agent-apps.md) - "[0:02:13] this is the live agent Studio the platform that I've been pouring my heart and soul into over the past few months to build up this place for us to collaborate on open-Source AI agents together"
- [The GLOW-UP Every AI Agent Needs](../../sources/the-glow-up-every-ai-agent-needs.md) - "[0:05:41] I built the live agent Studio to show you how to best build an agent that you can use anywhere"
- [Revealing my COMPLETE AI Agent Blueprint](../../sources/revealing-my-complete-ai-agent-blueprint.md) - "[0:09:12] if you integrate it with the studio you instantly have a full front end with chat and conversation history super robust"
- [How to DOMINATE with AI in 2025](../../sources/how-to-dominate-with-ai-in-2025.md) - "[0:10:30] my platform automator is hosting an AI agent hackathon competition in partnership with Voiceflow and n8n and the price pool is $5,000"
- [I'm Hosting a HUGE AI Hackathon Competition](../../sources/im-hosting-a-huge-ai-hackathon-competition.md) - "[0:01:21] the live agent studio is an incredible community-driven platform"
- [I Created the BEST AI Agent Platform in Just 2 MONTHS!](../../sources/i-created-the-best-ai-agent-platform-in-just-2-months.md) - "[0:00:17] it is called the live agent studio and it is now in pre-release"
- [Pydantic AI + DeepSeek V3 - The BEST AI Agent Combo](../../sources/pydantic-ai-deepseek-v3-the-best-ai-agent-combo.md) - "[0:06:53] compatible with the automator live agent Studio which is the platform that I've been developing to be an open-source community of developers creating AI agents and sharing them on a single unified platform"
- [The Future of RAG is Agentic - Learn this Strategy NOW](../../sources/the-future-of-rag-is-agentic-learn-this-strategy-now.md) - "[0:08:14] head on over to the automator live agent studio sign in you'll get some free tokens and I have the exact agent recovering in this video hosted right here"
