Building Effective AI Agents

A comprehensive showcase of technical, product, and business expertise in designing and deploying production-ready AI agent systems.

Technical

Architecture, reliability, observability, evals

Product

Strategy, UX, distribution, pricing

Business

Governance, trust, rollout, moats

Technical Strategies & Architecture

Production patterns for reliability, safety, evals, observability, and governance. Learn how to ship the smallest agent that solves the job while keeping it safe, observable, and governable.

Orchestration patternsTool design (ACI)Guardrails & HITLEvals pipeline

Product & Business Strategy

How to pick winning agent wedges, design adoption + distribution loops, price safely, and govern rollout. Build agentic products that ship, stick, and scale.

7-step AI Strategic LensMoats: data, distribution, trustUnit economicsSafe rollout

Skills, MCP, Context & Subagents

Building blocks for agentic AI workflows. Understand the 4 layers of architecture and when to use skills, subagents, MCP servers, or simple context.

4-layer architectureDecision treeMCP integrationSubagent orchestration

Flagship Product Proposals

Four domain-specific proposals demonstrating full-spectrum competence: product wedge, engineering architecture, reliability, and governance.

Writer's Room Copilot

Script writing with multi-role critique

Wealth Management Agent

Financial advisory with compliance guardrails

Retail Operations Agent

Inventory and trading optimization

Founder's Operating System

Research and execution support

Context Engineering

The art and science of curating, compressing, and delivering the right context to AI agents. Master the 4 knobs: Write, Select, Compress, Isolate.

Context as compiled view4 knobs frameworkFailure modesGovernance posture

Claude Agent SDK

Comprehensive guide to building production-ready agentic AI systems using the Claude Agent SDK. Master tools, governance, subagents, and deployment.

Built-in toolchainControl plane & safetySubagent orchestrationProduction deployment

Agentic RL & RFT

Domain-specific reinforcement learning for AI agents. Optimize workflow policies, improve long-horizon credit assignment, and achieve measurable performance lift.

RFT training flywheelMulti-grader strategyProcess-based supervisionGovernance posture

Evaluation of AI Agents

Comprehensive framework for evaluating agent behavior over time. Master the 6-dimension scorecard, grader types, and 3-tier pipeline for production-ready eval systems.

6-dimension scorecardGrader types3-tier pipelineTask suites