😻 Livestream: How to build agents for TOTAL Beginners
The Neuron
The Neuron is going live with a beginner class on building AI agents. James McAulay will show how people are using Claude Cowork and Claude Code to save real time.
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The Neuron says it is going live in five minutes with a crash course aimed at people who want to stop poking at chatbots and start handing work over to agents. The guest is James McAulay, founder of The Agent Accelerator, and the focus is practical: what agents can do today, and how to get one working without getting lost in jargon.
McAulay has spent the past year building in the agent space. Before that, he helped ElevenLabs grow from $110 million to more than $300 million in annual recurring revenue. Then he launched an AI-native business of his own, one that hit $80K in monthly revenue by month three and passed a first $200K-plus month by month five. No staff. No paid ads. Just a lot of delegation to AI agents.
The livestream is built around Claude Cowork and Claude Code, with teaching, screen sharing, and demos of McAulay’s own setup. The agenda runs from agent basics to a “second brain,” then into CLAUDE.md, skills, and McAulay’s four-level framework for proactive agents that can work without being prompted. There’s also a live Q&A, which is probably the bit most beginners will care about most.
The Agent Accelerator claims McAulay has trained more than 400 people across 100 companies, including startups, 200-person organizations, and the UK Government. Participants report saving an average of five hours of manual work each week after four weeks. If that sounds like the usual AI hype parade, The Neuron is at least trying to pin it to something concrete: one stream, one setup, one person showing the plumbing.
If you join after 12pm PT / 3pm ET, the whole thing will be available pre-recorded. And yes, they’re clearly hoping people don’t just watch — they want them to build along.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of AI content: less mystical talk, more show-your-screen-and-prove-it. The real story is not that agents exist, but that people are already finding ways to use them without hiring a small army or worshipping a demo. That’s the bar now, and most AI marketing still can’t clear it.
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