Grace Man

AI-First Growth: Live Build AI Agents for Outbound + Inbound

Microsoft

Canon

Pfizer

Founder at AI Strategy League (ex-Marketing Leader at Microsoft)

We start with a fast diagnostic to pinpoint the single growth workflow where AI can create the most immediate impact.

Identify the Highest-Leverage Workflow to Automate First

Build a signal-triggered outbound agent that researches and enriches leads, CRM, scores and prioritizes.

Live Build an AI Agent for Signal-Based Outbound & Lead Gen

Create a content repurposing agent that transforms one core outbound insight into multi-channel content distribution.

Live Build an AI Agent for Inbound Content Repurposing

Learn to make decisions tailored to business constraints, understand when & how to apply AI effectively & build a multi-agent application

AI Founder & Advisor to F500s | Ex-AWS

Amazon Web Services

University of Oxford

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti

AI Founder | Lecturer | Advisor | Researcher 

Applied AI Lead | Ex-Google, Samsung

Google

Samsung

Databricks

Kiriti Badam

Applied AI Lead | AI Advisor | Ex-Google

Jan 2026

April 2026

We teach agents, multi-agent systems, context engg., evals, skills, MCP and all that jazz, but only as tools to solve business problems. If you're looking to learn a checklist of hype-topics without knowing when or how to use them, this isn't the course for you!🚨🚨Notes:<ul><li>We hold a 4.9 rating across 550+ reviews, making us the #1 rated course on Maven at this scale. So why are students raving about out course? Check out our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://testimonial.to/building-agentic-ai-applications-with-a-problem-first-approach/all">wall of love</a>!</li><li>Many of our students have No AI experience walking into the course. To estimate what you can achieve at the end of this course check out our student capstones <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://bit.ly/capstones_pai">here.</a></li><li>We follow a flipped-classroom format. All lectures are pre-recorded so folks can go at their own pace, but we’ll still meet 5 times a week for office hours and live sessions.</li><li>For questions or bulk requests, reach out to: problemfirst.ai@gmail.com</li></ul>This course is an independent offering and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or related to the instructors' current or past employers.

Design and build impactful agentic AI systems to solve business problems.

Develop a Problem-First AI Intuition For Enterprise Use Cases

Build an Evals Driven Mindset & Iterative Design

Master Practical Prompt and Context Engineering

Build and Optimize Agentic Pipelines

Apply Everything in a Real-World Capstone

You should have coded at least once in your life. The course includes a no-code assignment track but some knowledge of code helps! 

The only prerequisite

Software/AI Engineers, Strategists, Data Professionals, Solution Architects and Consultants who want to master AI system design

Business Leaders and Product Managers seeking to gain the technical understanding needed to make informed decisions &amp; lead AI initiatives

Entrepreneurs looking to understand common generative AI use cases and learn how to develop and implement AI-powered solutions

Build AI Agents in 4 weeks with proven frameworks that add 6-8+ fig to a business bottom line, no coding required

Cohort 17

Agentic practitioner, speaker, educator

Sara Davison

Co-Founder AI Build Lab 

Agentic Practitioner, speaker, educator

Tyler Fisk

Cohort 16

Cohort 18

‼️ 2026Curriculum! ‼️Price Increases 1st April to $1250, course extends from 4 to 6 weeks. 👉Build the Skillset That Will Define the Next Era of WorkWe are in the single biggest shift of how work gets done in our lifetime. AI agents are changing how work gets done &amp; where you are 6 months from now depends on what you learn today:<ul><li>Where do I actually start? (sequencing: what's first vs next)</li><li>How do agents actually work together? (the orchestration piece that makes it work)</li><li>How do I know it's working? (evidence, not vibes)</li><li>How do I scale it / hand it off / sell it? (the actual point)</li></ul>What's missing is a clear, proven path - a step-by-step guide to build AI agent workflows you can demo, deploy, or sell. From real on-the-ground practitioners.📈 82% of leaders plan to scale their teams with AI agents 📉 47% say they can't find people who know how (MS 2025)WEF: work is shifting from execution to orchestration. The biggest demand is agentic workflow design: managing teams of agents.Tl;dr: almost no one can do this yet.This is the proven roadmap that's worked for 1,600+ graduates 👉 GRADUATE WITH A COMPLETE AGENTIC SYSTEM: EVERY PROMPT, WORKFLOW, STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTION TO USE BEYOND THE COURSE.

Build An AI Agent Team In 4 Weeks:Demo, Sell, Deploy. No Code, End To End System

How Do I Actually Orchestrate Agents? → Think Like an Architect, Not an AI User

How Do I Get Quality Results With Multiple Agents? → Master Context Engineering

How Do I Know What To Build Before I Start? The Requirements Build It For You

How Do I Make Agents Specialists? → Match Your Agents To The Right Knowledge

How Do Agent Teams Work Together? Learn Multi-Agent Orchestration

How Do I Ensure Consistency & Reliability At Scale? Learn Evaluations & HITL

Non tech-professionals wanting to become the 1% AI leaders &amp; operators in the workplace

Consultants and agencies looking to offer AI consulting and implementation services

Entrepreneurs &amp; business owners looking to build businesses as scalable, growth machines

Turn AI into your competitive advantage—automate, optimize, and lead smarter with agentic workflows.

Cohort 15

UC Berkeley Instructor | ex CIO & CPO 

UC Berkeley

James Gray

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Former CIO/CPO | Trained 5,000+ Leaders

Cohort 14

AI transformation starts with leaders who build, not just evaluate.You're approving AI initiatives you can't personally validate. Your team experiments with prompts but nobody designs repeatable workflows. You know AI should save time, but you can't quantify where or how much. Strategy decks pile up while execution stalls.In 4 weeks, using the Business-First AI Framework and your agentic builder stack, you'll:✅ Apply the Business-First AI Framework to discover your highest-impact workflows and build a living registry✅ Evaluate workflow architectures on the autonomy spectrum and map them to the seven agentic building blocks✅ Build reusable agent skills that capture your expertise for consistent, team-ready execution✅ Design deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by your skills✅ Become fluent with Claude Code, Cursor, and your full builder stack using plan mode and agentic coding✅ Deploy multi-agent autonomous systems that handle complex workflows This isn't theory — it's a hands-on builder methodology from training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade at Microsoft. Rated 4.8/5. Intimate cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together — not lectures.

From AI User to Business-First AI Builder in 30 Days

Apply the Business-First AI Framework to your work

Evaluate AI workflow architectures to select the right pattern for each use case

Build reusable Agent Skills that turn expertise into AI workflows

Build deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by skills

Become fluent with your agentic AI builder stack

Build multi-agent autonomous systems for complex workflows

The course extensively utilizes AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Some lessons are unique to these tools.

You have a paid subscription to one or more: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

The course does not require coding experience, but we will use AI code editors (Cursor/VS Code) to build and refine prompts

No coding experience

This cohort experience is for people who learn best in small groups and value personalized feedback from an experienced instructor.

Learning in a small, supportive cohort

Leaders and professionals who believe in “learning by doing” by using cutting-edge tools and building AI solutions&nbsp;hands-on.

Leaders who must understand the latest AI capabilities to&nbsp;drive an AI-powered business strategy credibly.

Professionals who must boost their AI technology acumen to strengthen collaboration and influence with technical stakeholders.

Build autonomous AI agents that use tools, manage payments, and run independently—turning you into a product-builder, not just an AI user.

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

Founder & AI Instructor at School of AI

Vivian Aranha

AI architect with 2.2M+ learners, building enterprise-grade agentic systems

Cohort 3

This course is completely asynchronous and available to view at your own convenience. There will be no Live sessions.Most AI professionals today can build demos — but very few can turn AI into something that operates, earns, and scales on its own. That gap is becoming a career ceiling.As companies move from copilots to autonomous agents, the real challenge is no longer prompting models — it’s designing AI systems that can use tools, remember context, make decisions, handle money, and operate safely without constant human input. This is where most engineers, founders, and product leaders feel stuck.You’ll learn how to go beyond chatbots and scripts and instead build AI agents that behave like digital workers or businesses — agents that can take tasks end-to-end, charge for their work, log decisions, manage risk, and explain why they acted. These are the skills now being demanded in AI engineering roles, startups, and internal innovation teams.If you’ve ever wondered how to turn AI into a real product, a real service, or a real revenue stream — not just a prototype — this course gives you a clear, structured path from zero to a deployable, monetizable autonomous agent.

Where AI Agents Become Revenue-Generating Digital Businesses

Design an AI-Native Business Model

Build Tool-Using Autonomous Agents

Implement Memory & Multi-Step Planning

Enable Payments & Revenue Simulation

Add Governance, Risk & Auditability

Launch a Production-Ready Capstone

AI Engineers &amp; Developers Builders who can prototype with LLMs but want to create autonomous, revenue-generating AI systems.

Tech Founders &amp; Product Leaders Entrepreneurs exploring AI-native business models and agent-based products beyond SaaS.

Automation &amp; Innovation Professionals Operators looking to replace workflows with autonomous agents that execute and monetize tasks.