Personal OS for Ag Leaders
Patrick Walther
Director of Product AI at AgVend
Shane Thomas
Upstream Ag Insights
Build an AI chief of staff that knows your business, in four mornings.
You have read the books, sat through the summits, and you still cannot answer your board when they ask what you are actually doing about AI. Most leaders use AI like a smarter Google: open a chat, get an answer, close the tab, and the next day it has forgotten them. The good output gets buried in a thread you never reopen. Nothing flows back.
This course fixes the shape. You write your context down in your own files: your accounts, your manufacturer programs, your goals, your team. The AI reads them every conversation and starts briefing you like your best EA, surfacing the next call before you ask. It lives on your machine, so it survives a model change and a job change.
Knowledge work is shifting from doing the work to directing it. The leaders who practice that now, while the stakes are low, get an enormous head start. In four mornings you build a working system and a custom skill you can show your team on Monday.
What you’ll learn
Walk in unsure about AI. Walk out with a working AI chief of staff that knows your business and a skill you can show your team.
It knows your top accounts, the programs you juggle, and your team, and surfaces the next move before you ask.
The foundation that makes every answer match who you are, who you serve, and what you are driving toward.
Build one repeatable workflow, a Friday update or a grower call list, that runs itself from then on.
Your VPs build their own, so the whole team runs on shared context instead of one person's memory.
Learn directly from Patrick & Shane
Patrick Walther
Director of Product AI at AgVend.
Shane Thomas
Runs Upstream Ag Insights, the must-read newsletter for North American ag. Ten y
Who this course is for
Ag-tech operators, analysts and investors across the upstream world who want a system that turns scattered context into a daily edge.
Manufacturer and input leaders who want AI that carries their channel and market context.
Ag retail and co-op leaders, from CEO to VP, who run on relationships and want AI that knows their accounts and manufacturer programs.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Patrick Walther & Shane Thomas in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Jul
13
Session 1
Jul
14
Session 2
Jul
15
Session 3
Jul
16
Session 4
Schedule
Live sessions
4 hrs / week
Mon, Jul 13
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Jul 14
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Jul 15
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jul 16
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Async content
2 hrs / week
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