What Agents Want from Your Product

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

Your product was designed for humans. Your next million users won't be human.

Early Bird: $249 until April 7th! Use Code WAW33.
1 month of Claude Pro included.

Your users are about to send agents to do their jobs for them. The agent won't click through your UI, sit through your onboarding, or follow your navigation. It will look for an API, an MCP server, a CLI, or a skill. If it can't find one, it moves on.

Most products aren't ready for this. APIs built for human developers break when agents try to use them. Naming is vague. Errors don't help. Docs get skipped. Pagination fails. There's no MCP server, no CLI, and the only way in is through a UI that agents can't use.

In this workshop, you'll audit your own product through the eyes of an AI agent. You'll see live demos of what agents actually do when they hit your API. They skip your docs, guess from training data, follow descriptions over schemas, and retry from errors. Then you'll run the same experiments yourself.

Walk in not knowing if your product works for agents. Walk out with a 12-point agent-readiness checklist for your product, an API standards file you can share with your team, and a Skill you can install to design agent-ready APIs on your own.

Workshop agenda

10:00AM EDT
Optional: Introductions
Join early to introduce yourself and meet participants in an informal setting before the workshop starts.

10:30AM EDT
Agents are the new product persona
The shift from clicking to delegating. The 4 things agents want (API, MCP, CLI, Skills), the one they don't (your UI), and why most existing APIs aren't good for agents.

11:00AM EDT
How to make APIs usable for agents
The 12+2 agent-readiness checklist with live demos for each insight. Watch agents skip docs, override schemas, and recover from errors.

12:00PM EDT
Using APIs in Claude and checking usability
Watch agents hit real APIs, then try it yourself. See where things go wrong, why they go wrong, and what to do about it.

12:30PM EDT
What needs to change in your process and infrastructure
Top 5 principles and the "Be Boring" rule. Design-first, standards, governance, evals. Auth, rate limiting, AI gateways, agent billing.

1:00PM EDT
Write your agent-readiness checklist
Exercise: pick your API, apply the 12+2 insights, write your checklist and draft your API standards as markdown. The /design-api skill and next steps.

1:30PM EDT
Optional: Q&A and Next Steps
Extended Q&A and help with prioritization. Path to further learning.

Learn directly from Emmanuel

Emmanuel Paraskakis

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15+ years in APIs | Product Consultant for AI-Forward Companies | 3x VP PM

Who this workshop is for

API Product Managers who own APIs and need to know if agents can use them. Evaluate before you build.
Software Architects and Tech Leads responsible for API design and infrastructure. Prepare your platform for agent traffic.
Founders and Product Leaders hearing about agent-readiness from customers or competitors. Get a clear picture.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Emmanuel Paraskakis in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Apr 24

Apr