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Learn AI and supercharge your productivity
A two-day, in-person bootcamp taught by builders
Minneapolis
June 3
New York City
June 24
About
Built for executives, operators, and business leaders
Agents Intensive is a hands-on, two-day program designed to give you a confident, practical understanding of AI — no prior technical knowledge required. You'll leave knowing exactly how to deploy AI tools to transform the way you work.
Program
What you'll learn
Fundamentals
How AI Actually Works
Core Concepts
Foundations of AI: Machine Learning, Neural Networks
You don't need to build a neural network, but you do need to understand what's actually happening when an AI generates a response. This session gives you the conceptual foundation: how models are trained, what they're optimizing for, and why they sometimes hallucinate or fail. Knowing this changes how you evaluate AI tools and vendor claims.
Core Concepts
Foundations of AI: Machine Learning, Neural Networks
You don't need to build a neural network, but you do need to understand what's actually happening when an AI generates a response. This session gives you the conceptual foundation: how models are trained, what they're optimizing for, and why they sometimes hallucinate or fail. Knowing this changes how you evaluate AI tools and vendor claims.
Reality Check
Scaling Laws and the Limits of Models
Bigger models aren't always better, and more data doesn't always help. This session explains the scaling laws that govern AI performance and where those laws break down. Understanding these dynamics is essential for making smart decisions about which models to use, when to fine-tune, and what AI genuinely can't do yet.
Reality Check
Scaling Laws and the Limits of Models
Bigger models aren't always better, and more data doesn't always help. This session explains the scaling laws that govern AI performance and where those laws break down. Understanding these dynamics is essential for making smart decisions about which models to use, when to fine-tune, and what AI genuinely can't do yet.
Data Retrieval
RAG & Embeddings
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is how you make AI work with your data — your documents, your knowledge base, your proprietary information. This session demystifies embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines without requiring you to write code. Learn how RAG systems are built, why they matter for business use, and how to evaluate vendors building them.
Data Retrieval
RAG & Embeddings
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is how you make AI work with your data — your documents, your knowledge base, your proprietary information. This session demystifies embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines without requiring you to write code. Learn how RAG systems are built, why they matter for business use, and how to evaluate vendors building them.
LLMs
Prompt Engineering & Context
The difference between a useless AI response and a great one is almost always the prompt. Learn the mental models and structural techniques that get consistent, high-quality output from any major model. You'll build prompts live and see exactly why small changes in framing produce dramatically different results.
LLMs
Prompt Engineering & Context
The difference between a useless AI response and a great one is almost always the prompt. Learn the mental models and structural techniques that get consistent, high-quality output from any major model. You'll build prompts live and see exactly why small changes in framing produce dramatically different results.
Agents
Agents vs. Chatbots: The Architecture That Changes Everything
A chatbot answers questions. An agent does work. This session breaks down what makes an agent an agent: planning loops, persistent memory, tool use, self-correction, and autonomous execution. You'll see the core architecture patterns behind every serious agent system being built today and understand why this is the shift that turns AI from "interesting" into "transformational."
Agents
Agents vs. Chatbots: The Architecture That Changes Everything
A chatbot answers questions. An agent does work. This session breaks down what makes an agent an agent: planning loops, persistent memory, tool use, self-correction, and autonomous execution. You'll see the core architecture patterns behind every serious agent system being built today and understand why this is the shift that turns AI from "interesting" into "transformational."
LLMs
Advanced Prompt Engineering
Once you've got the basics, this session pushes further: chain-of-thought reasoning, structured outputs, few-shot learning, and system prompts that shape model behavior at scale. These are the techniques that separate someone using AI as a toy from someone deploying it as infrastructure. You'll work through real business scenarios where advanced prompting unlocks capabilities most people don't know exist.
LLMs
Advanced Prompt Engineering
Once you've got the basics, this session pushes further: chain-of-thought reasoning, structured outputs, few-shot learning, and system prompts that shape model behavior at scale. These are the techniques that separate someone using AI as a toy from someone deploying it as infrastructure. You'll work through real business scenarios where advanced prompting unlocks capabilities most people don't know exist.
Human Factors
Frameworks for AI Adoption
Most AI adoption fails not because of the technology, but because of how it's introduced. This session gives you a practical framework for identifying high-value use cases, sequencing rollout, and measuring ROI inside your organization. You'll leave with a concrete prioritization method you can apply the week you get back.
Human Factors
Frameworks for AI Adoption
Most AI adoption fails not because of the technology, but because of how it's introduced. This session gives you a practical framework for identifying high-value use cases, sequencing rollout, and measuring ROI inside your organization. You'll leave with a concrete prioritization method you can apply the week you get back.
Applications
Agents in Action
Agentic Era
Why Agents, Why Now
Agents aren't new as a concept, but the models just got good enough to make them real. This session explains the convergence of capability, cost, and infrastructure that made 2025-2026 the inflection point. Learn the market dynamics driving adoption and why companies that wait are building a compounding disadvantage.
Agentic Era
Why Agents, Why Now
Agents aren't new as a concept, but the models just got good enough to make them real. This session explains the convergence of capability, cost, and infrastructure that made 2025-2026 the inflection point. Learn the market dynamics driving adoption and why companies that wait are building a compounding disadvantage.
Tools & Orchestration
The anatomy of an agent
What's actually inside an AI agent? This session walks through the component stack — the orchestration layer, memory systems, tool integrations, and guardrails. Learn how agents are assembled from building blocks you already understand, and why the design choices matter for reliability, cost, and control.
Tools & Orchestration
The anatomy of an agent
What's actually inside an AI agent? This session walks through the component stack — the orchestration layer, memory systems, tool integrations, and guardrails. Learn how agents are assembled from building blocks you already understand, and why the design choices matter for reliability, cost, and control.
Architecture
Multi-agent systems
One agent is useful. Multiple agents coordinating on a task is where things get powerful (and complicated). This session covers how multi-agent architectures work, where they outperform single-agent setups, and the failure modes you need to design around. Explore real examples of multi-agent systems handling workflows that no single model could manage alone.
Architecture
Multi-agent systems
One agent is useful. Multiple agents coordinating on a task is where things get powerful (and complicated). This session covers how multi-agent architectures work, where they outperform single-agent setups, and the failure modes you need to design around. Explore real examples of multi-agent systems handling workflows that no single model could manage alone.
Coding
Claude Code & Codex
These tools let non-engineers build software and let engineers move ten times faster. This session is a live walkthrough of Claude Code and Codex — what they can do, where they break, and how teams are using them to ship products in days instead of months. You don't need to code to attend, but you'll leave understanding why these tools are reshaping who gets to build.
Coding
Claude Code & Codex
These tools let non-engineers build software and let engineers move ten times faster. This session is a live walkthrough of Claude Code and Codex — what they can do, where they break, and how teams are using them to ship products in days instead of months. You don't need to code to attend, but you'll leave understanding why these tools are reshaping who gets to build.
Inspiration
Builders on the Frontier
Explore what's actually working, what's failing, and what the next six months look like from people shipping real products. Expect candid conversation about the gap between AI demos and AI in production.
Inspiration
Builders on the Frontier
Explore what's actually working, what's failing, and what the next six months look like from people shipping real products. Expect candid conversation about the gap between AI demos and AI in production.
Workshop
Finance: Automating the Back Office
Learn how agents are handling AP/AR automation, anomaly detection, financial close processes, and real-time cash flow forecasting. Together, we'll build our own finance agent.
Workshop
Finance: Automating the Back Office
Learn how agents are handling AP/AR automation, anomaly detection, financial close processes, and real-time cash flow forecasting. Together, we'll build our own finance agent.
Workshop
Legal: From Document Review to Deal Execution
Explore how agents are handling contract review, redlining, regulatory compliance monitoring, and due diligence at a fraction of the cost and time. This session covers what's production-ready today and what's close. Together, we'll build our own legal agent.
Workshop
Legal: From Document Review to Deal Execution
Explore how agents are handling contract review, redlining, regulatory compliance monitoring, and due diligence at a fraction of the cost and time. This session covers what's production-ready today and what's close. Together, we'll build our own legal agent.
Workshop
Agents for People Management: Hiring, Onboarding, and Retention
HR is sitting on more unstructured data than almost any other function — resumes, reviews, surveys, policies, Slack threads. This session shows how agents are transforming candidate screening, automating onboarding workflows, surfacing attrition risk, and drafting performance documentation.
Workshop
Agents for People Management: Hiring, Onboarding, and Retention
HR is sitting on more unstructured data than almost any other function — resumes, reviews, surveys, policies, Slack threads. This session shows how agents are transforming candidate screening, automating onboarding workflows, surfacing attrition risk, and drafting performance documentation.
Workshop
Agents for Marketing: Creativity at Scale
The marketing stack is bloated and most of it doesn't talk to each other. Agents are collapsing that complexity — running multi-channel campaigns, generating and testing creative, doing competitive analysis, and personalizing outreach at a scale no team could match manually.
Workshop
Agents for Marketing: Creativity at Scale
The marketing stack is bloated and most of it doesn't talk to each other. Agents are collapsing that complexity — running multi-channel campaigns, generating and testing creative, doing competitive analysis, and personalizing outreach at a scale no team could match manually.
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Taught by builders
Our instructors are builders, investors, researchers, and scholars who live and breathe AI in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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