Dispatch: AI Agents - The Cutting Edge AI Transforming Business and Society
How AI Agents are Showing us the Future of Business and Society - Right Now
Hello Friend,
How are you? This week one morning on a walk I saw something amazing…
This was the early morning sea-mist under our local pier, quite something eh?
So you may have heard about AI Agents, but what are they?
AI agents are like smart digital helpers who can do tasks for you on their own.Â
They are already transforming businesses. For example, AI Agents are enabling small businesses and solopreneurs to scale up with ‘AI employees’ to compete with far bigger companies. AI Agents are the cutting edge of AI in Business.
AI Agents also enable employees to get more done, so they can focus on what they do best, using their valuable experience & unique human touch.
I worry that businesses and employees like you who might not understand AI Agents and their potential, risk getting left behind.
Thats why this week, my latest article for free subscribers is focussed on explaining for you what AI Agents are, and why they matter - for everyone.
You might be thinking, making AI Agents must require knowing how to code, and having a specialist team of Data Scientists, AI Engineers and Developers.
And you are right, this was the only way to develop AI solutions, I’ve been one of those Data Scientists, AI Engineers and Web developers myself, that was the only way you could develop AI solutions. Until now…
This is why I’ve been excited about Zapier the last few weeks, because using Zapier, you can build AI Agents without needing a team of experts. Using Zapier you can build your own AI Agents, easily, without a single line of code.
For paid subscribers, this week I show you how to build 3 AI Agents with Zapier:
Website SEO AI Agent: Helps you evaluate any website SEO
Company Analyser AI Agent: Automated business intelligence
News story AI Agent: Summarise and categorise news automatically
I’ve been using them already, I hope you find them useful. More coming soon.
Finally this week I’m also pleased to launch my new AI Agency Services.
As well as providing AI consulting, I now provide AI solutions based on this no-code AI technology, which means these are AI solutions you can control yourself.
This is a key moment for both me personally, my publication, and the AI space.
These no-code AI solutions used in my guides and AI agency services, will empower you not only to benefit from the most cutting edge AI to help you, but you’ll then be able to create your own AI solutions using these same tools.
This is what my core mission is all about. The best way to help you understand AI and what it can do for you, is by empowering you to learn how to use it.
I look forward to helping you more, to learn AI the easy way.
Have a great week!
Take care,
Pranath
For Free Subscribers
Adapt or Perish: Why AI Agents Are No Longer Optional for Business Survival
AI agents are emerging as the most cutting-edge AI technology that's transforming how leading businesses operate.
As McKinsey recently highlighted in Why agents are the next frontier of generative AI:
'By moving from information to action—think virtual coworkers able to complete complex workflows—the technology promises a new wave of productivity and innovation.'
But what exactly are AI agents, and how do they differ from ChatGPT, AI chatbots, and large language models (LLMs)? And why are they critical for all types of businesses to understand?
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Teaching you what AI, Generative AI and Claude are, to showing you how to use Claude for personal tasks to work applications, this course provides a practical guide for how to use Claude AI to help you in you work and life.
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Assisting you in identifying and integrating cutting edge AI solutions, and guiding you seamlessly from inception to deployment and beyond.
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Create a Website SEO Analysis AI Agent in Minutes with Zapier Central
In this guide, I'll show you how to build an AI Agent that can do an SEO analysis of any website for you, for free, in minutes, using Zapier.
This AI Agent can help enhance a website’s SEO with a comprehensive evaluation. It provides step-by-step analysis of key SEO factors and delivers easy-to-implement content suggestions.
An AI Agent like this saves you time and ensures your website is optimised for higher search engine rankings and better user engagement.
Build a LinkedIn Company Analyser AI Agent in Minutes with Zapier Central
In this guide, I'll show you how to build an AI Agent that can analyse a company for you using a LinkedIn, for free, in minutes, using Zapier Central.
This AI Agent extracts key details such as the company name, number of employees, tagline, industry, location, and even their latest posts, providing a comprehensive snapshot of the company profile.
Whether you're conducting market research, scouting potential partners, or gathering competitive intelligence, this AI Agent provides results that you can customise to fit your needs.
Create a News Story Categoriser AI Agent in Minutes with Zapier Central
In this guide, I’ll show you how to build an AI Agent that summarises and categorises a list of news articles for free, in minutes using Zapier Central.
By categorising and summarising articles from a list of links, it saves you time and provides a clear, concise overview of the content.
This is ideal for quickly gaining insights and staying informed without having to read through each article individually.
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Course - Learn Zapier: AI for Business
Basic AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude can be useful for business tasks, but have limits.
For example, basic AI tools don't scale well e.g. when you have to do a lot of manual work to use them such as uploading files, copying and pasting prompts.
Thats where a tool like Zapier can assist, helping you integrate AI into your business tasks and scale them easily with their no-code tools, from simple automations to some of the most advanced AI use-cases such as customer support chatbots.
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This comprehensive 6-part course is designed to equip you with the practical skills needed to master AI image generation using Midjourney, arguably the best AI image generator out there. Learn useful & valuable AI skills for your work & life.
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