BONUS: How to Use AI Agents for Total Beginners: A Crash Course w/ Agent Builder James McAulay

<p>This is the #1 request we get every week: how to actually use agents to save time in your business.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re bringing in James McAulay, founder of The Agent Accelerator, for a practical crash course on what AI agents are, how they work, and how beginners can start using them to get real work done.</p><p><br></p><p>James has spent the past year building at the front lines of the agent economy. After helping ElevenLabs grow from $110M to more than $300M in annual recurring revenue, he launched a fully AI-native business that reached $80K in monthly revenue by its third month and recorded its first $200K+ month by month five.</p><p><br></p><p>He did it without a single employee or a dollar spent on paid ads. Instead, James delegates work to multiple AI agents every day.</p><p><br></p><p>Through The Agent Accelerator, James now teaches founders, CEOs, and their teams how to become AI-native. The program has trained more than 400 people across 100 companies, including startups, 200-person organizations, and the UK Government. Participants report automating an average of five hours of manual work every week after four weeks.</p><p><br></p><p>In our session, James is going to teach: </p><p><br></p><p>EVERYTHING you need to build helpful, proactive agents in Claude Cowork/Code</p><p><br></p><p>He&#39;ll walk through the following concepts: </p><p>• Quick primer on agent foundations: how do we move from prompting a chatbot to delegating Agentic work</p><p>• Starting your second brain: the key files that make the biggest difference</p><p>• Tips &amp; tricks for optimizing Claude&#39;s behavior with CLAUDE.md</p><p>• Skills</p><p> - where to find good ones</p><p> - how to create great ones</p><p>• And his 4-level framework for proactive agents that work without being prompted in Cowork and Code</p><p><br></p><p>Format will be a blend of James teaching concepts, screensharing, and showing demos of his own setup.</p><p><br></p><p>Whether you have experimented with a few AI tools or have no idea where to begin, this session will help you understand what agents can realistically do and how to start using them.</p><p><br></p><p>Learn more about James and The Agent Accelerator:https://agentaccelerator.ai/</p>