AI Agent Builder Academy Founders & CEOs (EN) Founders & CEOs (DE) Marketing Leaders Product Leaders
Marketing edition · Now enrolling for November

Get your marketing team building AI agents

A 4-week programme for marketing leaders and their teams. Learn by building, and leave with real, working agents running on your own campaigns.

Cohorts

In progress

September Cohort

Started Monday 14 September 2026

November Cohort

Starts Monday 2 November 2026 · 20 of 30 seats left

Now enrolling
Participants of previous AI Agent Builder Academy programmes 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

A live group session every week: a marketing use case built live, Show & Tell, and Q&A with the room.

2

Weekly coaching with Ali

Thirty minutes a week with Ali, on your own strategy or whatever you are building that week.

3

A cohort of marketing teams

Thirty companies a cohort. You build alongside other marketing teams and see what they ship.

4

Recorded videos

12 recorded videos across the four weeks, yours to watch in your own time and to keep after the programme ends.

Your hosts

Taught by two operators who have led marketing at scale.

Ali Goldsmith

Ali Goldsmith

Partner — AI for Marketing

Marketing & Brand Director at Auto Trader and Checkatrade, with work across BT, EE and The National Lottery. Ali runs the Marketing edition of the Academy.

Sebastien de Bandt

Sebastien de Bandt

Founder · High Intent Labs

CMO at Checkatrade, Super Payments and CarNext, and Growth Director at Trainline. Seb founded High Intent Labs and teaches the Founders & CEOs edition.

You will learn from two people who have been in your seat, running marketing teams with real targets. Every workshop and every 1-1, you learn from us directly.

The four-week curriculum

Build a new agent every week, against your own marketing.

WEEK 1

Introduction to Agents

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

  • Build your Marketing Brain, the central intelligence your whole team runs on
  • Set up your workspace so every agent you build succeeds
  • Vibe-code and launch your own website
You leave with

Your Marketing Brain and a live website

WEEK 2

Build Single Agents

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

  • Connect to your tools so your agent acts on your live data
  • Build a specialist agent for copywriting, competitor research and reporting
  • Connect agents safely and protect your data
You leave with

Single agents running a repetitive weekly task

WEEK 3

Build Agent Teams

Turn single agents into a team that runs a whole 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
You leave with

A team of agents running a full marketing workflow

WEEK 4

Optimising Agents

Build a quality loop that keeps your agents continuously improving.

  • Give your agent a scorecard to grade its own work
  • Add a critic agent that reviews it against that standard
  • Build an evaluation set that proves quality holds at scale
You leave with

Agents you can trust to run without you watching

The weekly cadence

Four weeks. Live support, every single week.

Live Recorded
Monday

Open office hour

Live · 1 hr · optional

For any questions or advice. Bring your team. Some weeks we theme it around a specific marketing topic.

Wednesday

Open office hour

Live · 1 hr · optional

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

During the week

1-1 session

Live · 30 min

Time with Ali or Seb to talk through your own strategy or implementation.

Friday AM

Live group session

Live · 1 hr

Recap what we learnt this week, Show & Tell, and Q&A before the next videos drop.

Friday PM

New videos

Recorded · 1 hr

New learning, a marketing use case built live, plus homework to build real things.

Total time commitment: 3 hours per week + homework

Thirty companies a cohort

You build alongside other marketing teams, see what they ship, and finish with agents running on your own campaigns.

Proof

In their own words.

From participants in the Founder & CEO edition, taught by Seb, who co-hosts this programme with Ali.

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.

Read more testimonials from the latest cohort ↗

Is this for you?

Built for marketing leaders who want their team building, not just briefing.

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

This is for you if
  • You lead a marketing team, or you are the marketing function
  • You want your team to build agents, not just use chatbots
  • You can carve out 3 hours a week, plus homework, for 4 weeks
  • You would rather your team owned this capability than an agency
  • You learn by doing, and by showing your work to peers
  • You want one shared standard for AI across your whole function
This is not for you if
  • You want someone else to build the agents for you (we do that too — see Consulting)
  • You are already shipping multiple AI agents per month
  • You cannot dedicate 3 hours a week for 4 weeks
  • You are looking for a strategy deck without hands-on work
  • You want recorded videos with no live access
Choose your plan

Three ways to join.

November intake · starts Mon 2 Nov 2026 · capped at 30 seats.

20 of 30 seats left
Best value

Team

£3,900

+ VAT

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

  • 4 seats total — you + 3
  • 4 live group sessions + 12 recorded videos
  • Weekly 60-min team coaching with Ali
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework and community
Apply for November →
 

Individual with 1-1 coaching

£1,900

+ VAT

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

  • 1 seat
  • 4 live group sessions + 12 recorded videos
  • Weekly 30-min 1-1 with Ali
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework and community
Apply for November →
 

Individual

£1,000

+ VAT

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

  • 1 seat
  • 4 live group sessions + 12 recorded videos
  • No private 1-1 coaching
  • 2 weekly office hours + group Q&A
  • Coursework and community
Apply for November →

All three plans run in the same November cohort. £300 holds your seat, with the balance due before the course starts.

FAQ

What you’d want to know.

Do we need to code?
No. The Academy is built for marketers 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: the week’s recorded videos to watch in your own time, the 1-hour live group session on Friday, and your 30-min 1-1. Two hours of optional office hours are there each week on top, if you want them.
Can I bring my team?
Yes, and it is the point. The Team plan covers four seats, so the leader and up to three of the team learn in the same cohort and finish with one shared standard.
What if we miss a live session?
Sessions are recorded and available the next day. Office hours cover anything you missed, and so does your weekly 1-1.
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?
You build with Claude, and the skills carry straight over to Codex, Copilot, Gemini or any agent platform. We connect to the tools you already use.

More questions? Email Ali any time.

Next intake

The next intake starts Monday 2 November 2026.

The November cohort is capped at 30 seats, 20 left. £300 today holds your place, and the balance is due before the course starts.