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Founder & CEO edition · Now enrolling for November

In four weeks, you’ll have four AI agents running in your business — built by you

A 4-week programme for non-technical CEOs, founders and heads of function who want to learn how to deploy AI agents into their companies to automate real workflows.

Cohorts

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June Cohort

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September Cohort

Sold out · 57 participants

November Cohort

Starts Monday 2 November 2026

Now enrolling
In their own words

“Everyone needs to learn this if you don’t want to be left behind.”

James Kirimy · Founder/CEO, Doorfeed

Participants include senior leaders from
Bolt
EY
Angi
Trip.com
Egon Zehnder
Mollie
Checkatrade
Blue Light Card
Ginestié Avocats
Sprints
AB Capital
Founders Keepers
Gino Legal Tech
Banco de Crédito BCP
Mantra Investment Partners
DoorFeed
Pix.City
Matrix One
JBM
The End TV
Albertine
Ocean Born Foundation
Bold Print Studios
Sproot Baby
What’s included
1

Live workshops

1-hour workshop, every week. Learn how to deploy AI agents, showcase what you’ve built, and see what other operators are working on.

2

1-1 coaching with Seb

Each week, 30 minutes private coaching session with Seb. Use the time to review your strategy or get hands-on help building agents.

3

Senior peer network

Each intake is a small, capped cohort of senior operators. Build a network of founders, CEOs and heads of function you can learn from — long after the programme ends.

4

A credential you can showcase

Receive accreditation if you finish the coursework. A credential to showcase your expertise and improve your career prospects.

Taught by

Taught by a growth operator who’s been in your seat.

Sebastien de Bandt
Sebastien de BandtFounder · High Intent Labs

For 15 years I ran growth teams at scale — CMO of Checkatrade, Super Payments and CarNext (Cinch), and led Trainline’s global customer acquisition team. Now I run the AI Agent Builder Academy, where I’ve taught founders and senior leaders across the US, UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and the UAE.

Here’s what most teams haven’t realised yet: until early 2026, building AI agents was developer territory. Then tools like Claude Code and Codex got good enough that non-developers — people like you and me — can now build agents that do real work.

That changes everything. Everyone on your team could be building agents that take the repetitive work off their plates — every function moving twice as fast. In four weeks, I’ll teach you to build them yourself. And it will change more than your productivity: it will change how you think about work.

I’m confident the Academy is the highest-ROI decision you’ll make this year. Right now, this is still an edge. Get it before everyone else catches on.

Every workshop and every 1-1, you learn from me directly.

The four-week curriculum

By the end of week four, you have 4 working AI agents deployed in your business.

Each week you design, build and ship something real against your own work — shared in a weekly “Show & Tell”.

WEEK 1

Introduction to AI Agents

Step out of the chatbot. Understand what agents really are, and what they can do.

  • Learn how to use an agent harness and coding agents like Claude Cowork/Code and OpenAI Codex
  • Set up your workspace so every agent you build succeeds (Claude.md and Memory.md)
  • Design, build and launch your own website or mobile app — with backend logic included
You leave with

A live website, designed, built and published by you

WEEK 2

Build Single Agents

Connect AI to your existing tools and put repetitive tasks on autopilot.

  • Connect to your everyday tools through APIs, MCP servers and connectors so your agent acts on your live data — Calendar, Gmail, CRM, Analytics and more
  • Use AI to brief and prompt other AIs (“meta-prompting”)
  • Build specialist agents to automate a manual, repetitive workflow — copywriting, competitor research, reporting, meeting prep, outreach, strategy
  • Skills as reusable SOPs — built once, shared across your whole team
  • Privacy and reliability: what you need to know to protect your data and improve your agents’ output
  • Security: attack vectors (prompt injection) and how to protect yourself
You leave with

Agents that complete a repetitive weekly task — automated and running

WEEK 3

Build Agent Teams

Turn single agents into a team of self-improving AI agents that collaborate to tackle a complex workflow.

  • Chain your agents so work flows from one to the next
  • Give each agent a role, so the team runs a whole process
  • Orchestrate the whole workflow with a lead agent
  • Schedule and trigger agents to give them autonomous capability
  • How to optimise and debug your agentic workflows
  • Build a quality loop that keeps your agents continuously improving
  • Build an evaluation set that proves quality holds at scale
You leave with

Your team of live AI agents that collaborate to achieve a complex task

WEEK 4

Going Further with Always-On Autonomous Agents

Take your agents off your laptop and let them run on their own, 24/7.

  • How to deploy agents with an open-source agent harness like OpenClaw or Hermes
  • How to set up your AI “Second Brain” using Obsidian, so your AI agents have full context about your work life — plus a live demo of Seb’s own Chief of Staff
  • Where your agent should live: laptop, Mac mini, cloud server or hosted — cost and trade-offs
  • The security essentials for an always-on agent: the “lethal trifecta” and a 10-rule checklist
You leave with

Your AI “second brain” and Chief of Staff, set up

What they built

Examples of agents that participants have built.

PARTNER · PE FIRM

Four agents that write the investment memo

A collection agent pulls the deal data from email and CRM. An extraction agent lifts the numbers out of Excel. An analysis agent scores the opportunity against the fund’s investment criteria. A quality control agent checks the whole thing for coherence.

Why it matters

Every opportunity gets a full memo, not just the ones there was time for.

PARTNER · CONSULTING FIRM

A BD pipeline that fills itself overnight

A research agent scrapes news, projects and hiring by sector. A checker agent validates the findings. A contact agent pulls decision-maker emails and phone numbers. The BD team gets a colour-coded email.

Why it matters

The BD team starts the day with a list of leads that have been researched and prioritised.

FOUNDER & CEO · AGENCY

An 8am agent that runs social scheduling

It works out the optimal posting times, spell-checks the copy, and reconciles what actually went out against what was scheduled.

Why it matters

20 to 30 tasks a day, at 20 minutes each, off the team’s plate.

FOUNDER & CEO · TV PRODUCTION

A full back office software stack, rebuilt

One conversational interface over the client portal, automated budgets, call sheets, delivery reports and risk assessments. Plus an agent that emails out the day’s CRM actions, colour-coded by priority.

Why it matters

Budgets, call sheets and delivery reports answer in one place, not five.

CO-FOUNDER & CEO · STARTUP

An agent that reads the customer support inbox to check that nothing’s been missed

A QA agent browses the live customer inbox, scrolls every conversation and returns a prioritised report of what is unactioned and what is overdue.

Why it matters

Nothing overdue goes unseen.

CPO · MARKETPLACE

Ticket triage that finds the cause of the spike

A triage agent tags every support ticket and tracks daily and weekly volume against the prior month’s 7-day average. When volume moves, it drills into the tickets to find the broken retailer behind it.

Why it matters

Spikes in support tickets can be tied back to a root cause.

FOUNDER & CEO · CONSUMER BRAND

An agentic marketing team that deploys campaigns

A monthly strategy agent reads the competitive data and past performance and sets the direction, then hands off to CRM, paid and organic coordinator agents, each running its own researcher, copywriter, image creator and editor agents.

Why it matters

A month of campaigns briefed, written and reviewed, without adding a person.

FOUNDER & CEO · NON-PROFIT

A team of agents that automate BD outreach

A research agent finds the partner, a contact agent finds the owner, a context agent gathers the background, a fact-checking agent confirms the organisation still exists and the person is still in the role, and a drafting agent writes the email into drafts.

Why it matters

Hundreds of prospects, researched, prioritised and the outbound draft written.

FOUNDER & CEO · STARTUP

Automated competitor intelligence

A tracking agent checks competitor booking sites through the day and builds a heatmap of when they are busy and when they are not, refreshed every couple of hours.

Why it matters

A real-time view of your competitors’ demand.

VP CRM · MARKETPLACE

The morning report that explains itself

A reporting agent runs on top of Snowflake every morning, covering sends, opens and clicks. It flags spikes and drops with the cause attached, and checks Slack for known outages before it calls something a problem.

Why it matters

Two hours of morning analysis, back every day, as a red-amber-green scan.

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The weekly cadence

Four weeks. Live support, every single week.

Live Recorded
Monday

Open office hour

Live · 1 hr · optional

Drop in with whatever you are stuck on. Bring your team.

Wednesday

Open office hour

Live · 1 hr · optional

A second window mid-week, to go deeper on one area or unblock something before Friday.

During the week

1-1 session

Live · 30 min

Private time with Seb to review your strategy or get hands-on help building.

Friday, noon UK

Live group session

Live · 1 hr

The week’s workshop: build together, Show & Tell what you shipped, then Q&A.

Friday PM UK

Module drop

Recorded · 1 hr

The next module lands, ready to watch in your own time before Monday.

Total time commitment: 3 hours per week + homework

A capped cohort

You build alongside other senior operators, show what you shipped each week, and finish with agents running in your own business.

Proof

In their own words.

Alidad MoghaddamCEO · Blue Light Card

What sets High Intent Labs apart is its focus on application rather than theory. I’ve found it invaluable to build and experiment with tools and workflows that are directly relevant to the challenges and opportunities I face every day.

I’ve also benefited greatly from the calibre of the cohort. Learning alongside other senior operators and executives, and seeing how they’re applying AI in their organisations, has been both insightful and a constant source of inspiration.

James Lessell
James LessellFounder/CEO · The End TV

Three months ago, I knew nothing about AI and nothing about coding. Seb opened the whole thing up for me and showed me what it can really do.

He taught me how to code, how to create, how to build things that run on their own. Now I run my business more efficiently, and I have built my own bots that do work for me and report back. I have gone from knowing nothing to probably knowing more than most.

I could not recommend this course more. It will not just teach you about AI; it will teach you how to program, how to become a vibe coder, and how to create your own tools. This is the moment to lean into it, and this is the perfect way to do it.

Julien Wolff
Julien WolffFounder/CEO · Pix.City

I strongly recommend the AI Agent Builder Academy. Not only because you learn tons of things in a very short period of time, not only because Seb is an amazing coach — but also because he gives you the passion to push your limits when it comes to AI. So that you just won’t stop using it after listening to him!

And as a bonus, you also get to meet super cool other people attending the course. 5 stars 🌟

Louis Albert
Louis AlbertCEO · Matrix One

This program really helped me accelerate my understanding of AI agents. Being in a group with other founders deploying real agents was inspiring and motivated me to push further.

Seeing all the use cases and automations that others were building gave me new ideas.

I highly recommend this program to anyone serious about AI. Go for it!

Nicolas MeibohmDeeptech Startup Coach · Braunschweig Zukunft

The course with Seb was an exceptional experience. Not only because he gave a very honest and comprehensive overview of everything that’s going on in the AI space, but especially because of the great people he brings together and the mind-blowing range of ideas such a group produces.

Thank you for the valuable exchange, the new network and the motivating push to really build everything that comes to my mind.

James KirimyFounder/CEO · Doorfeed

First time I do a live group training program and it was amazing. I now have my whole operations team learning how to use Claude Code to deploy agents and automate workflows without consuming precious engineering resources.

This is powerful and critical — everyone needs to learn how to do this if you don’t want to be left behind. Thanks Seb, keep up the good work.

Paul McManusVP Trade · Checkatrade

Seb’s AI training does something rare — it opens up multiple doors in how you think. He doesn’t just show you the tooling, he showcases what’s actually possible right now with the platforms in front of us, and gets you genuinely excited about it.

What stood out for me is how it helps you take those first, second and third steps yourself — not building basic things, but starting to think properly about AI workflows and agents, and how you’d build them.

If you’re a senior operator or leader who wants a quick but deep grasp of what’s out there and what’s possible, and you want to figure out how to lead from the front and work with your teams in this new era, Seb’s a brilliant person to do it with.

Dave SmallwoodManaging Director · Mollie

Seb has spent a huge amount of time curating and crafting the best nuggets in the AI space into this program to help you get further faster than trying to go it alone, as a result this program has been the best four weeks I’ve invested in this year.

I came in trying to make sense of agentic AI and I left with my own agents shipped, a couple of internal AI tools running, and a network of other scale-up teams I can speak with. The peer group is a very valuable part of the experience.

Ianina LuccaChief Product Officer · Blue Light Card

As the CPO of a PE backed business and juggling a busy family life, it’s not always easy to find time to explore new topics. I’d recommend the AI Agent Builder Academy to busy professionals who know AI is critical, but don’t know where to start.

Seb teaches in a clear and structured way and you’ll learn a lot from the others too. I’m now using Claude Code to build my own dashboards and automate reporting tasks which saves a ton of time. I’m very excited to bring more AI into my team!

Meredith EstrenCEO · Albertine

Loved this experience! I finally don’t feel constantly behind the AI curve. I am able to think of and implement new use cases for my business daily - it’s been immensely valuable.

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Is this for you?

Built for operators who want their first AI agents running in four weeks, not four months.

It works best for senior operators who can commit 3 hours a week plus homework, and would rather build than read.

This is for you if
  • You’re a senior operator — founder, CEO, GM, head of function
  • You want to build agents, not just talk about them
  • You can carve out 3 hours a week, plus homework, for 4 weeks
  • You’d rather your team own this capability than a consultant
  • You learn by doing — and by showing your work to peers
  • Your CEO/Board/investors want to know your AI strategy but you don’t know where to start
  • You want your team to be AI-powered but you don’t know how to guide them there
  • You want to learn alongside other ambitious senior operators
This is not for you if
  • You want someone else to build the agents for you (we do that too — see Consulting)
  • You’re already shipping multiple AI agents per month
  • You can’t dedicate 3 hours a week, plus homework, for 4 weeks
  • You’re looking for a theoretical strategy deck without hands-on work
  • You want recorded videos with no live access

“I came in trying to make sense of agentic AI and I left with my own agents shipped, a couple of internal AI tools running, and a network of other scale-up teams I can speak with.”

Dave Smallwood · Managing Director, Mollie

Choose your plan

Three ways to join.

November intake · starts Mon 2 Nov 2026.

Best value

Team

£3,900

+ VAT

One leader signs up and brings up to 3 team members onto the course.

  • 4 seats total — you + 3
  • 4 live group workshops + 12 tutorial videos
  • Weekly 60-min team coaching with Seb
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework, accreditation + community
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Individual with private coaching

£1,900

+ VAT

One seat, with dedicated coaching to build agents around your own workflows.

  • 1 seat
  • 4 live group workshops + 12 tutorial videos
  • Weekly 30-min 1-1 with Seb
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework, accreditation + community
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Individual

£1,000

+ VAT

One seat on the course, learning and building alongside the group.

  • 1 seat
  • 4 live group workshops + 12 tutorial videos
  • No private 1-1 coaching
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework, accreditation + community
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All three plans run in the same November cohort.

FAQ

What you’d want to know.

Do I need to code?
No. The Academy is built for senior operators with no technical background. If you can write a clear brief, you can build an AI agent.
How much time per week?
About 3 hours a week, plus homework: a 1-hour recorded module to watch in your own time, the 1-hour live workshop on Friday, and your 30-min 1-1 with Seb on the plans that include it. Two hours of optional office hours are there each week on top, if you want them. Homework is coursework on your own workflows, and it is where the agents actually get built.
What if I don’t have a use case in mind yet?
You don’t need one to apply. In Week 1 we run a workflow audit together — by the end of it you’ll have 3 candidate workflows ranked by impact and ease. Most participants are surprised by what surfaces.
What if I miss a live session?
Sessions are recorded and available the next day. Office hours cover anything you missed — and if you have private coaching, so does your weekly session with Seb.
Can I expense this?
Yes — most do. We provide a VAT invoice and a one-pager you can forward to L&D or finance.
What stack do you teach?
Your choice — the Claude ecosystem (Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design) or OpenAI’s Codex. We cover the differences, the trade-offs and when to use which.

More questions? Book a discovery call.

Next intake

The next intake starts Monday 2 November.

The May and June cohorts both sold out, and the September cohort is running now with 57 participants. The November cohort is open now, apply early to secure your place.