Beyond Prompting: Agentic AI for Customer Research

Hosted by John Whalen, PhD

Wed, Dec 3, 2025

10:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Rapid AI Research for PMs: Decision-Ready Customer Insights in Hours - not Weeks
John Whalen
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What you'll learn

Understand the Shift from Prompting to Agentic Workflows

See how agentic AI can change the role of the researcher—from writing prompts to orchestrating autonomous research work.

Design AI Agents for Real Research Tasks

See how to structure and sequence agent behaviors to collect, synthesize, and analyze customer insights efficiently.

Identify High-Impact Use Cases for Your Team

Discover where agentic AI adds the most value for accelerating research and insight generation.

Why this topic matters

AI tools are evolving from simple prompting assistants into autonomous systems that can act, decide, and learn—vastly expanding their value in customer and UX research. Understanding agentic AI helps researchers and product leaders stay ahead by learning to design, manage, and integrate these systems to scale insight generation—without losing human judgment.

You'll learn from

John Whalen, PhD

AI for UX Expert, Fortune 100 clientele, CEO, author & speaker

I lead Insights & Innovation at Brilliant Experience, where I help global brands understand the psychology behind their customers' behaviors and bring successful products to market.


Initially skeptical about AI, my team and I conducted “AI vs. Humans” studies to pinpoint precisely where AI-enhanced research excels—and where human judgment remains irreplaceable. I became convinced that AI will transform how research will be done.


Now I've reviewed >100 AI-enhanced tools and regularly interview pioneering founders in the AI-for-UX space and (thoughtfully) leverage the latest AI tools to deliver Accelerated Insights: rapid, scaled, global insights for top brands.


With a PhD from Johns Hopkins, and author of Design for How People Think, I combine academic rigor with real-world pragmatism to help you harness the new realities of AI-powered research.

Clients include

Google
Capital One
Bloomberg
Mars Wrigley
Blue Cross Blue Shield

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