Building Effective AI Agents
Learn how to build, evaluate, and deploy real-world AI agents.
Course Introduction
Preparations
Building AI Agents
Office Hour 1 | 9:00AM - 11:00 AM (PT) | Nov 20, 2025
Context Engineering
Augmented AI Agents
Office Hour 2 | 9:00AM - 11:00 AM (PT) | Nov 26, 2025
DAIR.AI Clients Include
After completing this course, you will have a systematic framework for building powerful products and projects with AI agents for personal and professional use.
This course is built for anyone interested in building agentic systems. We welcome devs and professionals (without coding backgrounds) interested in building with AI agents.
🚨This live cohort has limited seats available!🚨
This is a flipped classroom setting. All lessons are professionally edited and recorded, with an emphasis on live office hours and student interactions.
Course recordings and materials will remain available to students indefinitely.
Module 1: Course Introduction
Preparations
Setting up tools
Module 2: Building AI Agents (First Look)
Learn to build common AI workflows with n8n
Learn to build advanced agentic workflows with n8n
AI Workflows vs. Agentic Workflows
Module 3: Context Engineering for AI Agents
Learn to apply the latest context engineering tactics and prompting engineering techniques to AI Agents
Module 4: Augmented AI Agents
Overview of how to effectively augment AI Agents with tools, retrieval, reasoning, and MCP servers
Learn to build Agentic RAG systems
Module 5: Building Multi-Agent Systems
Build a real-world advanced multi-agent system using everything learned so far
Students will select and build a final project from a list of suggested agentic systems
Module 6: Evaluating AI Agents
Learn how to monitor and debug your agentic systems and the benefits of doing so
Learn key evaluation techniques and tips for evaluating AI agents (e.g., LLM-as-a-Judge, heuristic metrics)
Build robust evaluation pipelines to systematically improve your agentic systems
Module 7: Optimizing AI Agents
Apply industry best practices for optimizing AI Agents
Learn to effectively add memory and guardrails to AI Agents
Learn an effective framework to review and select models
Apply techniques to improve latency and reduce costs
Module 8: Deploying Agentic Applications
Learn important considerations for deploying production-grade agentic systems, like latency, cost, security, privacy, deployment solutions, etc.
Discuss options for how to build a front-end application for your agentic systems, how to enhance user experience, and other considerations
Prepare your agentic systems to be deployed live for user testing and feedback
Build an agentic application that would help either for work or for personal use
PREREQUISITES & TOOLS
There will be little theory in this course.
We are providing prerecordings, materials, and exercises for students to review, learn, and apply concepts.
All modules will be followed by a live office hour to answer questions and help provide support to students. We will also provide asynchronous support and guidance in the community forum.
Tech stack:
OTHER IMPORTANT DETAILS
We will host live, weekly office hours to address questions regarding the course material, provide support, and have deeper discussions.
Certificates of Completion are available after the course ends.
Reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions. Contact us if you have a team; we are happy to offer discounts and help with onboarding.
Here's a subset of companies whose employees have benefited from our courses:
Accrete, Airbnb, Alston & Bird, Amazon, Apple, Arm, Asana, Bank of America, Belong For Me, Biogen, Brilliant, Carebound, CDM, CentralReach, Centric Software, Chime, Coinbase, Digital Green, DoHQ, Elekta, Fidelity Investments, Fivecast, Fulcrum Labs, Google, Guru, Gretel, Harrison Insights, Intel, Intuit, Jina AI, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Khan Academy, KnowBe4, Lawyer.com, LinkedIn, LionSentry, MagmaLabs, MasterClass, Meta, Metopio, Microsoft, Moneta Health, Oracle, OpenAI, Rechat AI, RingCentral, Salesforce, Scale AI, Scribd, Space-O Technologies, Sun Life, TD Bank, TELUS Corporations, Trilogy, TTEC Digital, UniCredit, VaxCalc Labs, Vendr, Walmart, Wolfram Alpha, Zemoso Technologies, Zeplin