Cohort 7 is open

6 weeks · Live · Online

Build AI agents that do real work

Go from prompts to production in six weeks. Plan, build, test and ship your own agent with a small group of builders.

Play the Build AI Agents course trailer

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Next cohort

Jan 19

Only 40 seats, so everyone gets feedback.

14k+

Builders trained

4.9/5

Average rating

86%

Ship by week six

Any

Model, any stack

What you’ll build

An agent you can trust with real tasks

Not a demo. You’ll leave with an agent that plans, uses tools, checks its own work and runs in production.

research-agent

Running

Plan the task

Broke the brief into 4 steps

Search the web

Read 12 sources

Check team notes

Found 3 past reports

Draft the report

1,240 words

Review against the rubric

Passed 9 of 9 checks

Report sent to your team in 2 minutes

Tools

Connect search, APIs and your own data.

Memory

Give it context that lasts between runs.

Evals

Measure quality so changes never break it.

Guardrails

Keep it safe, on budget and on task.

Workflows

Chain agents into a process you can see.

Deploy

Ship it, monitor it and keep improving.

Curriculum

Six weeks, six builds

Each week adds one real skill to the agent you’re building.

Week 1

How agents think

Models, tools and loops

Your first working agent

Pick your project

Week 2

Give it tools

Function calling

Search and browsing

Connecting your APIs

Week 3

Give it memory

Short and long-term memory

Retrieval that works

Managing context

Week 4

Make it reliable

Writing evals

Finding failures

Guardrails and limits

Week 5

Multi-agent workflows

Planners and workers

Handoffs

Human in the loop

Week 6

Ship to production

Deploying your agent

Monitoring and cost

Demo day

How it works

Learn live, build every week

Live sessions

Two hours each week, recorded for later.

Build labs

Guided labs with working starter code.

Code reviews

Real feedback on the agent you’re building.

Community

Stay in touch with your cohort for good.

A typical week

Mon

Live session

2 hours

Wed

Build lab

2 hours

Fri

Code review

1 hour

Lena Okafor, instructor of the Build AI Agents course, working at a laptop

Your instructor

Hi, I’m Lena

I’ve spent eight years building machine learning products, and the last three shipping agents for real teams.

I teach what actually works in production, including the mistakes that cost me months.

40+

Agents shipped

9k

Newsletter readers

Reviews

Built by builders

Our support agent now handles 60% of tickets. I built the first version during this course.

TR

Tomás Rivera

CTO, Fieldnote

The evals week alone paid for the whole thing.

AK

Aisha Khan

ML Engineer

Finally, a course that goes past the demo.

PN

Priya Nair

Product Lead

I'd tried to build agents for a year. Six weeks later, one was in production.

MW

Marcus Webb

Founder, Northdesk

Lena's reviews were worth more than any tutorial.

JB

Jonas Berg

Senior Developer

Pricing

Pick your seat

Not sure yet? You can get a full refund before week three.

Self-paced

$149

All recordings and labs, on your own time.

Every session recording

All labs and starter code

Lifetime access

Live cohort

Popular

$349

The full experience, with feedback every week.

Everything in Self-paced

Live sessions and reviews

Private community

Certificate of completion

Team

$1,199

Five seats and a build plan for your company.

Five cohort seats

Private team channel

One workshop for your team

FAQ

Good to know

Still curious? Write to us.

Do I need to know how to code?

A little. If you can read basic Python or JavaScript, you'll be fine. Every lab starts from a working project.

Which models and tools do we use?

How much time does it take?

What if I miss a live session?

What will I have at the end?

Can I get a refund?

Cohort 7 starts January 19

Your first agent is six weeks away

Can’t make this cohort?

Join the waitlist and we’ll email you before the next one opens.

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