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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Planning agents and building the first one
    • From assistant to agent
      • Chat, assistant, agent and automation compared
      • What agents can do reliably today
      • Examples from administration, purchasing, HR and customer service
      • Exercise: Classify three own workflows by whether chat, assistant or agent fits.
    • The right task
      • Criteria such as frequency, clear steps and a verifiable result
      • Describing input, processing, output and control point
      • Defining success criteria
      • Exercise: Fill in an agent profile for the own workflow.
    • Building blocks of an agent
      • Goal and instructions
      • Knowledge from documents and file storage
      • Tools such as mail, calendar, tables and web
      • Limits and escalation
      • Exercise: Write instructions and limits for the own agent.
    • The first agent
      • Choosing a tool based on approval in the company
      • Agent in Copilot Agent Builder, as a custom GPT, a Claude project with a skill or a Langdock agent
      • Testing with three real cases
      • Exercise: Build the first agent and test it on three cases.
    • Outcome: Each participant has an agent profile and a first, tested agent for an own workflow.
  • Day 2: Agents with tools, workflows and control
    • Agents that act
      • From answering to executing
      • Connectors to mail, file storage, CRM and tables
      • Agents in the browser as an outlook
      • Exercise: Connect the agent from day 1 to a tool, for example file storage or a table.
    • Agents in workflows
      • Triggers such as a new email, a new form or a fixed time
      • AI agent step in n8n or Make
      • Storing results in tables, tickets or a mailbox
      • Exercise: Build a workflow in which an agent classifies incoming requests and stores a draft.
    • Human control
      • Approval points before sending, booking or deleting
      • Log of the agent's steps
      • What happens when the agent is unsure
      • Exercise: Build an approval via email or Teams into the workflow.
    • Testing and operating
      • Test cases with expected results and failure cases
      • Costs, usage limits and maintenance
      • Responsibilities and documentation
      • Exercise: Run through five test cases and write short operating documentation.
    • Presentation and next steps
      • Showing results in the group
      • Selecting the next agent
      • Clarifying responsibilities for maintenance and further development
      • Exercise: Present the own agent in three minutes.
    • Outcome: Each participant has an agent with a tool, an approval point, test cases and short operating documentation.

Requirements

  • Access to at least one agent tool in the company (Copilot Agent Builder, ChatGPT, Claude, Langdock or n8n), and a recurring workflow from the own area.
  • No programming skills required.

Audience

  • Specialist users, key users and process owners who want to hand over recurring work to AI agents.

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