Building AI-Native Products

Build Your Own AI Research Agent

Hosted by Will Brown

1,402 students

What you'll learn

Equip agents with powerful search tools

Integrate powerful MCP Server search tools into chat and code interfaces

Create guidelines for search patterns and report style

Convert a single example report into rigorous instructions for your agent to follow on any new request

Iteratively refine your agents with text-based feedback

Learn simple techniques for creating "self-improving" agents that remember your feedback and get better over time

Why this topic matters

Deep Research products have emerged as winning AI agent formulas in 2025. Building your own is much simpler than you think. We'll do it from scratch in less than an hour. You'll come away with a clear understanding of how to build and refine custom Research agents with access to your own tools, documents, and guidelines.

You'll learn from

Will Brown

Researcher at Prime Intellect advancing open-source RL for Agents

Will is a Research Lead at Prime Intellect, working on advancing the frontier of open-source agentic RL. He was previously a Machine Learning Researcher at Morgan Stanley and an Applied Scientist at AWS, and completed a PhD in Computer Science at Columbia University focused on multi-agent learning.

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