/// Fall 2026 · Mondays & Thursdays

The syllabus.

Twelve weeks from prompting basics to reinforcement learning. Monday lectures teach the concept; Thursday Claude Code workshops make you build it.

12-week schedule

LECTURE + WORKSHOP PAIRS
Wk 01

Mon · Lecture

Intro to Club & Foundations of Agentic AI Systems

An introduction to the club and the foundational concepts behind agentic AI, plus prompting basics.

Thu · Workshop

Business Workflow Automation 101

Wk 02

Mon · Lecture

Tool Calling & Structured Outputs

Methods for effective prompt engineering and techniques for enabling agents to call external tools.

Thu · Workshop

Automated Client Intake Agent

Wk 03

Mon · Lecture

RAG & Advanced RAG

Deep dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation for grounding agent responses in external data.

Thu · Workshop

Internal Knowledge Base Agent

Wk 04

Mon · Lecture

Memory Management: Short, Long, Hybrid

Strategies for implementing and managing different types of agent memory.

Thu · Workshop

CRM Memory Assistant

Wk 05

Mon · Lecture

Multi-Agent Architectures

Designing complex systems involving multiple collaborating agents.

Thu · Workshop

Context Router for Business Teams

Wk 06

Mon · Lecture

Context & Harness Engineering

Exploring the use of context management and advanced evaluation harness design.

Thu · Workshop

Account Relationship Graph

Wk 07

Mon · Lecture

Graph & Loop Engineering

Techniques for designing graph structures and agentic feedback loops for iterative task execution.

Thu · Workshop

Sales / Operations Multi-Agent Workflow

Wk 08

Mon · Lecture

Eval Systems for Agents

Establishing frameworks and metrics to evaluate the reliability and performance of agents.

Thu · Workshop

Business Workflow Evals Harness

Wk 09

Mon · Lecture

Post-Training of LLMs: Fine-Tuning & Distillation

Techniques for fine-tuning LLMs and applying model distillation.

Thu · Workshop

Human Feedback Dataset Builder

Wk 10

Mon · Lecture

Preference Optimization, GRPO & Reinforcement Learning

Advanced optimization techniques including preference learning, GRPO, and reinforcement learning principles for agent behavior.

Thu · Workshop

Feedback-Driven Workflow Improvement

Break

Fall Break

No lecture, no workshop

Rest up. The final stretch builds your capstone.

Wk 11

Mon · Lecture

Voice Agents

Designing and developing agents capable of interacting through voice.

Thu · Workshop

Voice-to-Workflow Agent

Wk 12

Mon · Lecture

Final Agentic AI Project Studio

A dedicated studio week for working on and presenting final agentic AI projects.

Thu · Workshop

End-to-End Business Automation Demo

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