Building Your First Personal AI Agent
You don't need to be technical, and you don't need to be an AI power user. In this 2-hour hands-on workshop, Tahnee Perry walks you through building your first AI agent – a personal Chief of Staff that helps you stay organized, productive, and on top of your week. It pulls context from your calendar, your inbox, and your messages, drafts what you need drafted, and handles the recurring work you'd rather not. Note: You'll get the most out of the session with Claude Cowork access, the Read connector enabled, and ideally messaging, email, and calendar connectors. Scheduled tasks must be enabled by your admin to participate fully. Don't have all of this yet? Come anyway – the workshop is designed to show you what's possible and give you the ammo to ask your admin to turn things on.
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Course overview
Build the Chief of Staff you've always wanted.
What you’ll learn
Best-in-Class AI-Powered CLIENT
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The course experience
All the data you need to make the next
smart decision about your AI rollout
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Access to recordings and supplemental materials post-course
Daily on-demand lessons covering core modules
Lightning lecture with opportunity for Q&A
Tahnee Perry is the founder of AI at Work and a former marketing executive at Northstar Travel Group, Deem, Phocuswright, and more. She has coached thousands of people to build AI and agentic skills and augment their work with AI.
Meet your professor
Tahnee Perry
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Our Promise: AI transformation built for real ROI
No AI hype, doom, or theory without application. Just AI upskilling, strategy, and workflows that get results right away, because they're built by people using AI every day.
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Tues
Weds
Thurs - Pre Sprint
Meet your TA and cohort
Fri - Pre Sprint
Watch a welcome video from your professor
Sat - Pre Sprint
Sun - Sprint week
Mon - Sprint week
Watch your day 1 lesson content
Tues - Sprint week
Watch your day 2 lesson content
Weds - Sprint week
Thurs - Sprint week
Attend a project workshop hosted by your TA
Fri - Sprint week
Sat - Sprint week
Sun - Post Sprint
Mon - Post Sprint
Submit your project
What you leave with
A plan you can put into action (and share with
your most important stakeholders) immediately.
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Badge to share with your network (and future boss)
project framework
A project or framework you can apply to your work
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Network of diverse professionals to support you
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Not in the traditional sense. We provide exercises and facilitate community interaction, and you don’t have to participate — but we hope you will, as it really brings the materials to life. You’re also not obligated to complete the final project unless you’d like to qualify for a certificate.
Yes, live learning with group works for some, but if you’d like to learn on your own schedule, you have the option to watch all course videos on-demand and submit your project when you’re ready.
We design our courses for the busy, full-time professional, but we also get that it can be tough to add yet another thing! One of our core features is flexibility: for sprints, some students like to keep up day-to-day (expect to spend about 1-2 hours per module), others like to binge over a weekend. Whatever group you belong in, we’ve found that our alumni have been able to sustain this over the 1-2 week period. Our half-day workshops are a great deep dive into content, in a shorter window.
You don’t! We record every live session with our professors and make it available for you to replay, at your convenience.
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