Your First AI Agent: Set It Up and Put It to Work
Patricia Cangas
Founder of Pixel Parenting, educator
Set up AI the way you would onboard a new team member
Most owners I talk to use AI the same way: ask a question, copy the answer, paste it somewhere else. It helps, and it stops there.
AI starts doing real work when you set it up the way you would set up a new person on your team: it knows your business, writes in your voice, follows your rules, and only gets access to what the job needs.
Week 1 does that setup. Weeks 2 to 4 each take one area of your work: email, documents and presentations, and marketing. Every Tuesday you learn the method in a small group. Then you and I meet one to one, on your screen, and set it up on your own business. A class alone stays general. The private sessions are where it becomes your work.
What you’ll learn
Go from asking AI questions to handing it real tasks from your week, set up with me in your own accounts.
Write a context file the AI reads first: who you serve, what you sell, how you write
Set rules for what it may and may not do, and your privacy settings
Know when to use a chat, a project or an agent
Turn one kind of messy email into the same fields every time
Move those details into your spreadsheet, client list or supplier form
Have AI draft replies and follow-ups that you approve before they go out
Briefs, proposals and reports drafted from your own notes
Slides built in minutes instead of hours
A design rules file, so everything the AI makes looks like your business
A voice and visual kit the AI works from
One idea turned into posts and a newsletter
Connected to the tools you already post with
Three tasks set up with me in your own accounts, on a schedule if they repeat
Your privacy rules: what goes in, what never does, and which apps it can reach
Your playbook: what you hand off next, what you keep, and a 30-day plan
Learn directly from Patricia
Patricia Cangas
Founder, educator, AI agent practitioner
Who this course is for
Small-business owners who do most of the admin themselves and already use ChatGPT or Claude, mostly as a chat box.
Solo professionals and consultants with tasks they would hand to an assistant: email, client documents, follow-ups, posts.
Owners of small teams who want AI working in their business without hiring a developer or buying new software.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Patricia Cangas in a real-time, interactive format.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
How AI works, and setting it up like a new team member
Week 2
Email: sort it, get the information out, and draft the replies
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