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AI agents handle your recurring tasks, speed up crucial ones, so you can focus on the important stuff in your business.

You’d be surprised at the work you do today that could be taken care of by an agent if only you could build one. Well, in this course, we’re going to build that agent step by step.

We’ll cover how to think about using agents and where they can be useful in your business. How to set up an agent with the right tools, models, and skills. Now, these may be words today that you don’t know, and that’s totally fine. We’ll cover all of them one by one.

And then how to deploy that agent for your team to use in Slack, in email, or even have it run in the background to accomplish work for you.

So join me in the next lesson where we build our first agent. As you get there, think of something in your business you wish could be taken care of for you. And I’ll see you there.

Complete all six lessons in this course to earn 10,000 Gumloop credits. Each lesson has a short quiz. Answer it correctly and click “Mark Complete” to track your progress.

Introduction

AI agents handle recurring tasks, speed up critical work, and free you to focus on what matters. This course shows you how to build and deploy them step by step.

An AI agent is a tool that does work for you. It connects to the apps you already use, follows the instructions you give it, and handles tasks so you don’t have to. Some tasks it handles completely. Others it speeds up so you can focus on the parts that actually need you.

What You’ll Learn

This course walks you through building and deploying an agent from scratch. By the end, you’ll have a working agent that your whole team can use.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

  • Build your first agent. Pick the right tools, choose a model, and write instructions that shape how your agent works.
  • Bring it where you work. Deploy your agent to Slack and email so your team can use it without leaving the tools they’re already in.
  • Teach it skills. Give your agent reusable procedures so it does things your way, every time.
  • Set up triggers. Schedule your agent to run on its own or fire it from events in your apps.
  • Use Chat. Handle ad hoc work with Gumloop’s built-in generalist agent that has access to all your connected apps.

Before You Start

Think of something in your business you wish could be taken care of for you. A report you pull every week. A set of emails you triage every morning. A process that takes too long because you’re bouncing between tabs.

Keep that in mind as you go through the course. By the end, you’ll know how to build an agent that handles it.

Quiz: What is an AI agent?

Correct! An agent connects to the apps you use and follows your instructions to handle tasks. It’s not just a chatbot, and it’s more flexible than a rigid automation.
Not quite. Think about what makes an agent different from a regular chatbot or a fixed automation. What two things does it need to do work for you?