Course Overview

An Introduction to AI Agents

Orientation: Acquiring the judgment to lead in an agentic landscape.

Orientation for leaders who need to hold their own in technical conversations about agents: the vocabulary, the taxonomy, and a way of evaluating claims that does not depend on trusting the vendor.

When you complete this course, you'll be able to:

  • Hold a precise, structural definition of "AI agent" that separates genuine agency from basic automation.
  • Navigate the complex landscape of models, platforms, and frameworks with the fluency required to ask the right questions of vendors and engineering teams.
  • Develop the dual-vision required of modern leaders: holding a sense of strategic urgency alongside a rigorous, skeptics framework for capability limits.

Duration

~2.5 hours

Modules

3 modules

Level

foundation

Format

Self-paced online

Audience

Leaders and decision-makers who need to understand the agentic technology behind the hype.

Access period

12 months

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  • Hold a precise, structural definition of "AI agent" that separates genuine agency from basic automation.
  • Navigate the complex landscape of models, platforms, and frameworks with the fluency required to ask the right questions of vendors and engineering teams.
  • Develop the dual-vision required of modern leaders: holding a sense of strategic urgency alongside a rigorous, skeptics framework for capability limits.
  • Internalise an adoption framework built on architectural principles that will outlast the current cycle of specific tools and models.
1

Defining the Agentic Shift

"Agent" as a technical category rather than a label, and how to place any product claim on a structured capability spectrum.

Available 3 lessons ~80 mins
2

Navigating the Current Moment

Understanding why agents became viable in 2024, and how to maintain a productive, grounded decision-making position.

Available 3 lessons ~70 mins
3

The Informed Leader's Toolkit

The synthesis module. Takes the vocabulary, context, and urgency/scepticism tension from Modules 1 and 2 and converts them into practical tools: an honest map of current production capability, a diagnostic method for evaluating any agentic claim, and a framework for positioning your organisation's path forward.

Available 3 lessons ~75 mins