The AI Collective Runs on Lamatic

Overview

When the world’s largest AI community—120,000+ researchers, engineers, founders, and operators—set out to build its global operating system, its leadership brought something rare to the table: hands-on experience with every major AI platform, agent framework, automation tool, and workflow engine available today.

They didn’t just understand all the options. They had used them. And after considering all these options, they bought Lamatic.

AIC decided to build its operating system on Lamatic because Lamatic was the only platform agile and scalable enough to support such a fast-moving, diverse, and globally distributed organization like AIC.

Today, Lamatic is the operating backbone of The AI Collective—a fact that signals to builders everywhere: the people that know best, build on Lamatic.

The Challenge

AIC brings together researchers, founders, investors, and enthusiasts through:

• 850+ global events
• 120,000+ members
• 400+ active volunteers
• Chapters in 30+ countries

With a 100:1 volunteer-to-staff ratio, AIC operates at a scale no traditional organization can handle manually. Specific challenges include …

1. Extreme Scale, Volunteer Staff
   Enabling 400+ volunteers in over 30 countries with powerful and intuitive tools.
2. Decentralized Chapters, Centralized Quality
   Every chapter needs autonomy, but also consistency and context.
3. Demand Exceeds Capacity
   Partnership inquiries pour in from around the world faster than the team could respond.
4. No Limits
   AIC needs the flexibility to iterate new requirements using the latest technologies at breakneck speed with ease.

AJ captured it clearly:

“With a 100-to-1 volunteer-to-staff ratio, we needed a system that could centralize everything and scale with us—from our first internal MVP to hundreds of thousands of users. Lamatic was the only platform that could do that.”

The Solution

Why AIC Chose Lamatic

1. It Was Immediately Clear Lamatic Was Built by Builders
   AIC’s leadership is deeply technical. They know the difference between marketingware and real engineering.
   “When I first used Lamatic, I could tell immediately it was built by builders. It’s the only platform that covers the full lifecycle of building with AI in one place.”   - AJ Green
   Other systems were fragmented—strong in one area but weak in others. Lamatic unified everything AIC needed into one coherent platform.
2. Centralization + Context = Volunteer Superpowers
   For a global volunteer organization, context fragmentation is fatal.
   Lamatic centralized AIC’s knowledge, workflows, and intelligence in one environment.
3. Built to Scale, Not Just Prototype
   AIC needed something that could ship fast and scale globally with ease.
   Lamatic’s serverless edge architecture and supervisor-agent orchestration made it possible.
4. ‍A Philosophical Match
   Both AIC and Lamatic believe in expanding who gets to build.
   Lamatic turns philosophers, educators, operators, and leaders into AI builders—without traditional engineering bottlenecks.
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Lamatic now powers critical AIC operations, including:

Partnership & Revenue Operations

AIC used Lamatic to build a fully automated partnership pipeline that:

• enriches inbound leads
  
  
• conducts deep research
  
  
• generates personalized outreach
  
  
• runs drip sequences
  
  
• updates CRM
  
  
• keeps all conversations active

This system delivered what no human team—let alone a small nonprofit—could.

“We had so much inbound demand it was impossible for humans to manage. Lamatic became the catalyst that allowed us to close more partnerships than ever before.”   - AJ Green

Chapter Operations & Onboarding

Lamatic powers workflows for:

• onboarding new chapters
  
  
• coordinating volunteers
  
  
• managing event processes
  
  
• distributing context and updates
  
  

Turning Experts Into Builders

AIC’s chapters include philosophers, ethicists, educators, policy experts—people with deep expertise but no coding background.

Lamatic lets them build their own tools.

“The most transformative thing Lamatic unlocks is turning subject-matter experts into builders. That’s the future of AI, and Lamatic is making that future real inside AIC.”  - AJ Green

The Impact

1. Hypergrowth Without Hiring
   Lamatic allowed AIC to absorb growth that would have required an entire new operations team.
   “The only way we could handle the explosive demand of the AI Collective was to augment our operations with AI—and Lamatic was absolutely critical in doing that.”   - AJ Green
2. Zero Backlogs
   With Lamatic, AIC’s partnership pipeline went from overwhelmed to fully caught up, with every conversation active.
   
3. Global Consistency With Local Autonomy
   Chapters can now operate independently without sacrificing quality or coordination.
   
4. Faster Innovation Cycles
   AIC can ship internal MVPs in hours, not weeks—using Lamatic’s unified builder.

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The Money Shot‍

“What If Lamatic Disappeared Tomorrow?”

“If Lamatic disappeared tomorrow, everything would come to a halt. We’d have to hire more people, rebuild entire systems, and dramatically increase our workload. We would be—excuse my French—shit out of luck.”   

- AJ Green (you’re excused AJ 😉)

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What’s Next

AIC is expanding its Lamatic implementation to power:

• new chapter coordination systems
  
  
• AI-assisted onboarding
  
  
• member-facing intelligence products
  
  
• education and research tools built directly by experts
  
  
• global operational infrastructure for 200,000+ members
  
  

To learn how you can follow AIC’s lead and build your own AI-powered operating system, Schedule A Call

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