# BotSpot vs Public.com: strategy workspace or agentic brokerage

Both BotSpot and Public support conversational market workflows, automated trading, and MCP access. BotSpot focuses on building, revising, backtesting, and operating inspectable Lumibot strategies across supported broker connections. Public combines brokerage accounts, native AI Agents, market data, and execution. The current BotSpot broker manifest does not list Public as a supported connection.

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## Where BotSpot and Public overlap and diverge

Both products support plain-English research and trading workflows, automation, and MCP access. BotSpot supplies a strategy-building and operations layer around supported connected brokers. Public supplies brokerage accounts plus native Agents, market data, account actions, APIs, and execution.

BotSpot’s clearest distinction is inspectable Lumibot code, revisions, strategy backtests, and a supported multi-broker workflow.

## When Public may fit better

- You want brokerage, market data, cash movement, and agent execution inside one Public account.
- You want native conditional workflows across supported stocks, options, and crypto.
- You want Public-specific investing products or direct MCP access to a Public brokerage account.

## Connection status, availability, and risk

The current BotSpot public broker manifest does not list Public as a supported connection. This page compares separate products and does not imply an integration.

Public’s help center currently describes built-in Agent workflows as web-only and rolling out through a waitlist. Automated trading can lose money, and historical results do not guarantee future performance.

## Who should use which

Use BotSpot when you want a conversational agent that can research, prepare an approved one-time trade, and build inspectable Lumibot strategies through currently supported brokers.

Use the other product on this page when its documented workflow is the job you need first: specialist charting, brokerage, no-code allocation, or research tooling rather than the full BotSpot workspace.

Backtests mentioned for either product are historical simulations. They are not live results and do not guarantee future performance. Include drawdown and date range whenever a number is shown.

## Related resources

- [Compare AI trading platforms](https://botspot.trade/compare)
- [Choose an automated trading platform](https://botspot.trade/guides/automated-trading-platforms)
- [MCP for Agents](https://botspot.trade/agents)
- [View supported brokers](https://botspot.trade/brokers)