Build Your First AI Agent
Go from idea to something running a real job in your business.
- 21 lessons
- 4 hr 56 min
- 1 quiz
- Intermediate level
- Completion badge
An agent is not a chatbot. The difference is whether it can act on your behalf without you sitting in the loop for every step. This course takes one job out of your week and turns it into an agent that does it, start to finish, with you watching what it does and knowing how to fix it when it gets something wrong.
By the end
What you will be able to do
- Ship one working agent that runs a real job in your business
- Choose which jobs suit an agent and which should stay a checklist
- Write instructions that hold up when the input is messy
- Connect an agent to the tools you already use, safely
- Know what to watch after it goes live, and what to do when it fails
Membership
Core course, part of the membership
Then put your name down for this one, and start anything already open
- Certificate when you finish
- Badges as you go
- Built for people who run things, not engineers
Every lesson
The outline
What an agent actually is
The difference between a chat window and something that does the job while you are elsewhere.
Start here: what you will have built by the end
Video6 min
Chatbot, workflow, agent: the honest difference
Video13 min
The four parts every agent has
Reading9 min
Jobs that suit an agent, jobs that do not
Video11 min
Check yourself: agent fundamentals
Quiz4 min
Choose the job
Pick the right first build. This is the decision that decides whether the rest works.
Scoping a first agent that will actually finish
Video15 min
Write the job down before you build it
Exercise25 min
One page brief template
Resource2 min
Build it
The build itself, followed end to end. Nothing skipped, nothing hand waved.
Setting up your workspace
Video12 min
Writing instructions that survive a messy input
Video22 min
Giving it the context instead of hoping it knows
Video18 min
Connecting your first tool
Video19 min
Setting the trigger
Video14 min
Build along: your turn
Exercise45 min
Test it properly
Find out where it breaks before your team or your clients do.
Testing with the inputs you would rather ignore
Video16 min
Guardrails, approvals and knowing when to stop
Video17 min
Twelve test cases to run before you go live
Reading10 min
Ship it and keep it running
Getting it in front of the team, and what to watch once it is live.
Introducing it to your team without the eye rolls
Video14 min
What to watch in the first fortnight
Video12 min
When to improve it and when to leave it alone
Reading7 min
Where to go next
Video5 min