Free Lesson
Build a Research Agent in Claude Code — No Coding Required
Part of Stop Waiting for Insights. Build the Agents That Get Them.
30 min
Aug 26, 2026 12:00 PM
What you'll learn
Define the coworker's research job
Turn a vague AI assistant into a scoped research coworker with clear inputs, outputs, and limits.
Set up reusable source context
Give the AI the right background, research question, and evidence so each answer starts from the same foundation.
Add human review points
Decide where the AI can draft, where it compares, and where a human must inspect output before it ships.
Why this topic matters
Most teams have access to AI, but few have a reliable AI research workflow. The result is scattered prompts, duplicated effort, and summaries that sound useful before anyone checks the evidence. In this Lightning Lesson, John Whalen sets up an AI research coworker live: define its job, give it the right sources, ask for structured outputs, and add human review points. A workflow you can reuse.
