A five-day live online sprint · One hour a day, Monday to Friday

Build a working AI agent in a week. Then map the rest.

For consultants, agencies and small service firms. By Friday you have one agent on your own laptop doing a real piece of your weekly work, an agent that drafts your proposals, chases unpaid invoices or writes your follow-ups, and a ranked map of the ones to build next.

“My admin has gone from hours and hours to literally minutes.”
Mark Mills · AI Potential participant

£999 + VAT · Money-back in full through Thursday · Starts Monday 7 December 2026

Results reported

What people tell us this way of working gives back.

From our wider capability programmes, where participants build agents on their own real work:

15 hrs
In one weekly review, a participant reported releasing 15 hours through a reporting workflow they had built.
23 to 26 hrs
A second participant in the same week reported releasing 23 to 26 hours.

Self-reported figures, names withheld. Across a multi-company group, participants built working agents for field operations, finance, contract review and leadership reporting.

The problem

You are the bottleneck. You already know.

The same week happens every week. Proposals. Quotes. Chasing unpaid invoices. Follow-ups after every job or call. Five to twenty hours of work you do by hand, because nobody else can do it the way you do.

You have tried ChatGPT. You believe AI matters. And yet the work still goes through you, one blank page at a time. This sprint changes that: you build an agent that does one of those jobs for you, properly, and you learn the method so you can build the next one yourself.

Worth knowing: your clients and competitors are already starting to route this kind of work through agents. Starting now is not late. It is early enough to matter.

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What the manual hours cost
£300 to £1,500
of your time, every week. Five to twenty hours of hand-done admin, at £60 to £75 an hour.

The sprint is £999 + VAT, once, with everything included. If an agent gives you back even a few of those hours a week, it has paid for itself within the month.

What is an agent?

Two minutes of plain English before we go on.

An agent is not a chatbot you talk to. It is a set of written instructions that a tool like Claude follows to do one job the same way every time: read the input, follow your process, check its own work, hand you the result. You brief it once. It works from then on.

2 minutes · Recorded by Gareth Kemp

The five levels

There is a ladder. Most people are on rung two or three.

Each step up is a genuine step-change in how much of the work leaves your hands. The sprint moves you to level four by Friday.

1
Manual. The work lives in your head. Every proposal, quote and follow-up starts from a blank page, and only you can do it.
2
Documented. You have written the process down. It is repeatable, but a person still does every step, and that person is usually you.
3
AI workflow. AI drafts, you decide. Faster than starting from scratch, but you are still in the middle of every task, prompting and re-prompting.
4
Agent. An agent runs the job end to end: reads the input, follows your process, checks its own work, hands you the finished piece. This is where you arrive by Friday. You, by Friday
5
Agents working together. Several agents covering different parts of the business, kept organised by one simple system. The natural next step once your first agent is running, and the sprint leaves you set up for it.
The week

Five days. Five sessions. Each one ships something real.

Live on Zoom, hands-on, and recorded if you have to miss one. Short homework between sessions builds the next day's input.

Day 01 · Mon
Build your first agent

You build a working agent live, on your own laptop, on one real piece of your weekly work. No coding, all copy and paste. It runs before the hour is up.

Day 02 · Tue
Map the rest of your work

You draw a one-page map of everything you do in a normal week, then rank which jobs to hand to an agent next, and in what order. You leave knowing exactly what to build after this one.

Day 03 · Wed
Chain them together

You connect agents so they pass work from one to the next, one handling a step and handing on to the next, so a set of small agents takes on a much bigger job end to end. This is how a single agent becomes a workflow that runs itself.

Day 04 · Thu
Close the loop

You add a simple wrap-up step that records what each piece of work involved, what improved, and what to build next, so every finished job points at the next one.

Day 05 · Fri
Keep it running

You set up a simple operating system: in plain words, one folder and one master file that keep your agents organised, so they still work for you next month, not just this week.

Being honest about the time: plan for about one hour a day live, plus roughly 30 minutes of homework between sessions. Around 7 to 8 hours across the week. Sessions for the Mon 7 Dec start run 10:00 to 11:00 UK; every session is recorded.

By Friday

Four real things you did not have on Monday.

Not "a better understanding of AI". Four concrete things, living on your laptop, doing work for your business.

01
Your first working agent

A small set of plain text files on your machine, doing one piece of repeatable work the same way every time. Built Monday, trusted by Wednesday.

02
A ranked map of the next ones

A one-page map of your regular work, with the next agents named and put in order of impact. You will not build them all in a week, but you will know exactly which come next.

03
Agents chained into bigger workflows

A way to connect your agents so they hand work to each other and take on bigger jobs end to end, not just single tasks. It applies to everything you build after the sprint.

04
A simple operating system

One folder and one master file that keep everything organised: what each agent does, what is queued, and how work flows through. Simple enough to still be in use in six months.

In their words

People like you, saying it better than we can.

“I built an app over the weekend. It's on my phone now. I can't believe it.”
Steven Fisher · Electrical contractor · AI Potential participant
“I've built a prospecting system split into three prompts: research, referral requests, and thank-yous.”
Emma Hurst · AI Potential participant
“I'm building an app I can eventually sell to others.”
Jenny Wills · Handmade business · AI Potential participant

AI Potential also runs capability programmes inside larger organisations. This sprint brings the same method to independent professionals and small teams.

Right fit, wrong fit

Who the sprint is for.

A clear filter, because a week of your attention is not a casual ask. The clearer this is before you book, the better the week goes.

This is for you if…

  • You run your own business or a small team, and your week looks similar every week.
  • You have tried ChatGPT or Claude and felt the gap between "interesting" and "useful".
  • You can name three things you do over and over: proposals, quotes, invoicing, follow-ups.
  • You can hold an hour a day for five days, live, with intent.
  • You would rather build the thing than read another article about AI.

This is not for you if…

  • You want a survey of AI tools or "what's possible with ChatGPT".
  • You are not willing to do hands-on work during the live sessions.
  • Every project you do is genuinely brand new, with no repeatable shape at all.
  • You want bespoke consulting on your business model inside the sessions.
  • You would rather watch than build.

Not sure which side you are on? Book a 15-minute call with Gareth and talk it through first. No pitch, just a straight answer on fit.

What you'll need

Three things, and only three things.

01 · Hardware

A laptop: 16GB+ RAM, Windows Pro or Mac

16GB is fine, more is nicer. On Windows you need Windows Pro, not Home. Any recent Mac is fine.

02 · Software

A paid Claude or ChatGPT account

Either works. A paid Claude account runs the Claude desktop app in Cowork mode, or a paid ChatGPT account runs OpenAI Codex.

03 · Time

One hour a day, live

Monday to Friday, at the time shown for your chosen start date, plus about 30 minutes of homework between sessions. Recordings cover anything you miss.

The honest comparison

You could do this another way. Here is the difference.

1
Teach yourself with ChatGPT. Free, and how most people start. It gets you drafts, not a system. Six months in, the work still goes through you.
2
Hire a freelancer to build it. It works, but the knowledge leaves when they do, and every change is another invoice. Here, you build it, so you can change it.
3
Wire up a no-code automation tool. Good for moving data between apps. Less good at work that needs judgement: proposals, quotes and follow-ups written the way you would write them.
4
Take a generic AI course. You finish knowing more about AI. You do not finish with an agent doing your work. In this week you build; the knowing comes along the way.
The guarantee

If you do not feel the value, you do not pay.

Money-back, in full, through Thursday

If at any point before the end of Thursday's session you do not feel the sprint is giving you value, tell us. We refund your fee in full. No conditions, no tests, no awkward conversation. Four of the five days sit inside the guarantee, so the risk of booking stays on our shoulders, not yours.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE IN FULL, THROUGH THURSDAY 100% REFUNDED
And one promise

If your agent is not up and running, you will not finish this sprint empty-handed.

In reality, you will almost certainly have several up and running. And if yours is not, we book a free one-to-one with you and see it through.

Everything you build runs on your own laptop, with your own accounts. Your workflows, your data and the agents you take home belong entirely to you.

Investment

Everything you need to build an agent after an agent.

Set against the £300 to £1,500 of your own time that manual admin eats every week, the sprint pays for itself quickly.

The Agent Builder Sprint
£999
+ VAT · per seat
  • Five live one-hour sessions, Monday to Friday
  • Full recordings of every session, yours to keep
  • Daily homework, reviewed personally by Gareth
  • Every agent template and prompt we use during the week
  • Money-back in full through Thursday, and a free one-to-one if your agent is not running by Friday
Next start date

Monday 7 December 2026

Sessions 10:00 to 11:00 UK, Monday to Friday.

Reserve your seat →

Pay by card via Stripe, or email for an invoice.

Bringing your team

Six or more? We will run it just for you.

For six or more people we can run a private cohort, built around your team and your business, at a time and date that suits you. Delivered either as a session a day across five days, or a session a week across five weeks.

Book a call to set it up →
Common questions

Frequently asked.

When does the next Sprint start?

The next start date and the session time are shown above, next to the Reserve button. If that week stops working for you, email us and we will move you to a later cohort at no cost.

What if I miss a live session midweek?

Every session is recorded and shared by 9am the following day at the latest, usually the same evening. Watch the replay, do the homework, and pick up live the next day. The homework is designed so this works cleanly.

What is Claude Cowork, and do I need it?

Claude Cowork is the Claude desktop app set up to work on your own computer, with a folder it can read and write to. It is what turns Claude from a clever chatbot into something that can actually do your work. You need a paid Claude account, or a paid ChatGPT account if you would rather use OpenAI Codex, which works equally well. We walk through setup with you before Day 1.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The whole sprint runs on copy and paste. You describe the work in plain English and provide an example of it done well; the tools produce the agent. The only skill you bring is being able to describe your business clearly.

What if my work isn't repeatable?

Most people who say this are wrong, and Day 2 shows you why. The one-page map of your work, six areas with six regular deliverables in each, makes you look at your week honestly. Almost everyone finds twenty or more genuinely repeatable jobs hiding inside what felt like "all bespoke work". If you truly have none, the sprint is not the right fit and we will refund you.

Can my team join?

Yes. Up to five of you can each take a seat, so everyone's homework and agents are reviewed individually. For six or more, we can run a private cohort built around your business, delivered as a session a day for five days or a session a week for five weeks. Book a call to set it up.

Is this a course, a coaching programme, or something else?

It is a build sprint. You do not watch lessons and "go and try it later"; you build during the live session, every day. The closest comparison is a hands-on workshop broken into five one-hour pieces, with homework in between to keep momentum.

How do I pay?

By card via the Reserve-your-seat button. If you would prefer an invoice, email hello@aipotential.ai and we will send one within the hour. Bank transfer is fine, just mention it in the email.

The next step

By Friday, one agent is doing your work. You built it.

One hour a day, live online, everything recorded. Reserve your seat, and Monday looks different.

Money-back in full through Thursday · £999 + VAT