James Gray will accelerate your AI transformation

A People & Culture leader's take: this course teaches you to think, not just prompt. I came into James Gray's Hands-On Agentic AI course as a People & Culture Business Partner in the middle of a career transition, looking to sharpen my fluency in AI and automation. What sets this course apart is the framework, not just the tools. The Deconstruct → Design → Build → Test → Run → Improve sequence forces you to think like an operations leader before you ever write a line of automation: What's the actual outcome? What decisions require a human gate? Where does judgment matter more than speed? That discipline is the real skill — the AI tooling is just the delivery mechanism. I used the course to build a full Opportunity Vetting workflow for my own job search — a multi-step agent system that pulls job alerts from Gmail and Slack, screens titles against a taxonomy I defined, researches companies, assembles decision-ready briefs, and logs everything to a tracker, with a deliberate human review gate before anything gets marked as an application. Alongside that, I built a newsletter briefing skill to digest my reading, and I'm now extending the same framework into a Slack community intelligence workflow. None of this was "learn to code" — it was learning to scope a problem clearly enough that an agent could execute it reliably, which is exactly the muscle a People & Culture leader needs as AI moves into HR operations. If you're a People, Ops, or business leader (not a developer) who wants to move from "AI is interesting" to "I built something that saves me real hours every week," this course gets you there.

A great course for learning how to build skills and agents from scratch, using solid architectural and security best practices that will save you a lot of trouble down the road. James is an excellent instructor who listens closely and adapts to the class.

This class was tremendously helpful in teaching me how to organize my thinking about where AI workflows can be helpful and improved. I found the course very practical and I was immediately able to apply the lessons to my work.

James Gray was an outstanding instructor from the start. He helped us show up prepared, planned thoughtful lessons, and worked through real problems and frameworks with our cohort. I left feeling more informed and, more importantly, learned how to ask the right questions.

Great class on getting started with Claude building agents. James provides great resources and offers a lot of time to ensure everyone gets value from the course.