Why this course
Hand real work to AI agents and get hours back every week. Spend a full day with Ewan building agents on Claude, Copilot, Gemini or ChatGPT, connecting them to your own work and putting them to work on your job.
AI has moved from answering questions to doing work. Agents can now research, draft, analyse, chase and report on their own, and the leaders who learn to hand them real work are getting back a day a week. Most senior people have tried a chatbot and stopped there, so this full day takes you from asking AI questions to running agents that work for you.
A full day, hands on, with lunch included. You bring real work from your own job and leave with it running.
Sessions run in central London or online, with small groups of senior people so every question gets answered.
What you will learn
The ground we cover
What to bringA laptop with your work account and one piece of real work you would happily never do by hand again.
- What an agent is, what it can do today and where it still goes wrong
- How to choose the work to hand over first and the work to keep
- How to brief an agent so it gets the job right first time
- How to connect it safely to your email, documents and calendar
- How to check, correct and trust its output
- How to share agents with your team and keep them under control
- How to build a second agent and plan the next five jobs to hand over
Bring the AI you already use
Choose your platform when you book and Ewan teaches you on the tool your company already pays for.
Who it is for
Leaders who want AI doing real work for them and want an expert beside them while they build it.
- Chief executives and their leadership teams
- Senior leaders who have tried AI and want more from it
- Anyone who wants an agent working for them by Monday
How the day runs
9.30am to 4.30pm, central London or online.
- 9.00am
Arrival and coffee
Meet the group and the faculty, and agree what each person needs from the day.
- 9.30am
Agents in plain English
Ewan shows what agents can do today with live examples from large companies, and where they still go wrong.
- 10.45am
Set up and build your first agent
You set up your chosen platform properly and build an agent around one real task from your own job.
- 12.30pm
Lunch
Lunch with the group and faculty.
- 1.15pm
Connect it to your work safely
You connect your agent to email, documents and calendar, and set the data rules that keep your company safe.
- 2.45pm
Put it to work and build the next one
You run your agents on live work, learn to check and correct them, and build a second agent for the next job on your list.
- 4.00pm
Your plan from here
You leave with a written plan for what you will hand over next and how you will check it.
- 4.30pm
Close
Next session Tue 10 Nov 2026
£995 + VAT per person, 9.30am to 4.30pm, London or online
What you leave with
- 01Two working agents doing real tasks from your own job
- 02Your chosen platform set up properly and connected to your work
- 03A plan for the next five jobs to hand over, with the checks to keep them safe
Next session Tue 10 Nov 2026
£995 + VAT per person, 9.30am to 4.30pm, London or online
Course tutor
Ewan MacLeod
President, City CIO Club
A serial group chief information officer who has led technology and transformation at Nordea and Sohar Bank. He runs the build side of every morning.
Questions about this course
Who is this for?
Leaders who want AI doing real work for them and want an expert beside them while they build it.
Is it hands on?
Yes. You work on a real piece of your own work with faculty beside you, so you leave with it moved forward.
Can I join online?
Yes. You can join live online and take part fully, or come to central London.
What time does it run?
Arrive from 9am for a 9.30am start. We finish at 4.30pm, with lunch included.
Can we run it for our own team?
Yes. We run it as a private session for your team, in your offices or online, shaped around your business.
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Book your place
Choose the course, the date and how you want to join, then tell us who is coming. We confirm your place by email the same working day.
Want it for your whole team? Choose a private session and we will shape it around your business.