When to Use Claude Cowork vs. Build an AI Agent

Hosted by Jacob Bank and Pietro Montaldo

Thu, Apr 16, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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Claude for Non-Technical Operators: Casual to Advanced
Pietro Montaldo
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What you'll learn

What Is Cowork? What Are Skills? What Are Agents?

Each solve different problems. You will get a simple framework to pick the right tool and leave with working templates

When to Use Claude Cowork and Claude Skills (Live Builds)

Practical Live Examples and Frameworks

When to Build and Run AI Agents Outside Claude (Live Builds)

Practical Live Examples and Frameworks

Why this topic matters

IMPORTANT: You will leave this session with working templates of skills and agents. Claude Cowork, Claude Skills, and AI Agents each solve different problems. You will get a simple framework to pick the right tool and leave with working templates for each

You'll learn from

Jacob Bank

Founder At Relay.App (Ex. Google, Director of PM)

Jacob is the Founder and CEO of Relay.app.

Prior to founding Relay.app, Jacob was a Director of Product Management at Google, where he led the product teams for Gmail, Google Calendar, and several other Google Workspace products.

Before that, Jacob was the Co-founder and CEO of Timeful (acquired by Google in 2015)

He has a BA in Computer Science from Cornell University and was pursuing a PhD in the AI Lab at Stanford before dropping out to found Timeful.

Pietro Montaldo

Building practical, automated growth systems using AI | Founder @NforceAI

Pietro helps non-technical operators and founders use AI for GTM operations.

He scaled a software company from $0 to $1M in under 9 months and has trained 50+ businesses on building these exact systems. 20,000+ non-technical builders follow his work because he shares practical and effective AI usage.

Previously At

Google
Stanford University
Project A
Esade

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