Weekly stakeholder report
An ops manager codifies her Friday status report as a Cowork skill. The agent pulls from connected drives and drafts it; she edits and ships in 30 minutes.
8 hrs → 30 min · weekly
Why Attend
One day of building beats a year of reading about it.
Walk in with a workflow you hate; walk out with an agent that does it for you. Here's exactly what your $297 early bird ticket buys — and why it works.
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The ROI · Start here
What $297 early bird buys you.
We're not here to sell you a "transformation." We're here to give you back hours every week starting Monday. The math is small, the compounding is not.
Early bird
$297 is the early bird rate and it rises once each city's early block sells out. Seats are capped so every attendee gets hands-on help — once they're gone for your city, they're gone. Lock in the early bird price.
Hours saved per week, per agent
5 – 12
Based on All Things AI program participants who shipped one agent for a recurring task.
Time-to-first-working-agent
1 day
You build it in the room. We don't send you home with a reading list.
Cost per attendee
$297
Early bird — meals, materials, instruction, and the agent you take with you, plus taxes and fees.
Payback at $75/hr fully-loaded
≈ 7 hours
Most workflows clear ticket cost in the first week. Everything after is compounding.
Worked example
One agent. Eight hours back per week.
An ops manager attends Build An Agent Day. She codifies her weekly stakeholder report — the one that takes 8 hours every Friday — as a Claude Cowork skill. The agent now drafts the report from her connected sources in under 10 minutes; she reviews and ships in 30. 8 hrs → 30 min, every week, forever. That's ~390 hours in year one. At $75/hr fully-loaded, that's $29,250 of recovered capacity from a single $297 early bird ticket.
Public-sector example: a state-agency analyst codifies their FOIA-triage workflow as an agent. Same math, better outcome — faster constituent response and a paper trail an auditor can read.
Six reasons
What makes this day different from every other AI event.
You leave with a working agent — not a slide deck
Most AI events hand you ideas. This one hands you something that runs in your job. By the time you walk out, you have an agent automating a real workflow for you.
Three stacks, one day
Build the same workflow with Claude Cowork, ChatGPT Agents, and Manus. Pick the stack that fits your environment instead of the one that fits a vendor's slide.
Designed for non-developers
Business pros, government leaders, educators. If you can write a clear how-to email, you can build an agent. No coding background required.
Wired into the tools you already use
We connect your agent to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 during the workshop. Monday morning, the agent runs against the inbox, calendar, drive, and CRM you already pay for.
Govern what you actually understand
Knowing how agents work is the only way to govern them. Public-sector and regulated-industry attendees leave with the vocabulary and patterns to write the right policy and audit the right controls.
Plug into three communities, not just one day
Every attendee gets full access to the All Things Open, All Things AI, and AIE Network communities — free live meetups, virtual events, and a year of continuous learning beyond Build An Agent Day.
Real workflows · real time saved
What past attendees automated — and what it bought them back.
These are composites drawn from Mark's prior workshops and the AIE Network's reader case studies. Names are anonymized; the workflows and time-savings are not.
Board memo first draft
A nonprofit director points the agent at the last six board packets and gets a structured first draft of next month's memo before she opens her laptop.
1 day → 1 hour · monthly
Inbound RFP triage
A sales engineer wires up an agent that opens each new RFP, scores it against win-rate criteria, and writes a Slack note with the verdict.
~6 hrs/week reclaimed
Constituent intake routing
A state-agency analyst codifies their FOIA-triage flow. The agent classifies, suggests a route, and stages a draft response; the human approves.
Faster response · audit trail
Account research dossier
A BDR briefs Manus on a target list. It returns 25 dossiers — recent news, exec moves, tech stack hints, conversation hooks — by morning.
~3 hrs per account · 25× a week
Competitive landscape refresh
A product marketer asks Manus for a quarterly refresh on five named competitors and gets a structured doc with pricing, new features, and positioning shifts.
1 week → overnight · quarterly
Outcomes by role
What you ship — by the role you walk in with.
Business
An agent that drafts your weekly report, triages your inbox, or runs the customer-research outreach you don't have time for.
Government
An agent that triages constituent intake, summarizes public-comment dockets, or pre-screens RFP responses against scoring criteria.
Education
An agent that drafts rubrics, gives first-pass feedback on student work, or builds personalized study plans from a syllabus.
The bigger why · By the numbers
One day starts a practice that pays for a decade.
The reason to attend isn't just the agent you leave with — it's the habit you start. The largest workforce studies running all point the same direction: AI skills pay, the required skills are changing faster than ever, and most organizations aren't training for them.
56%
Average wage premium for workers with AI skills — more than double the 25% premium a year earlier, and it holds in every industry analyzed.
PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer, 202566%
How much faster required skills are changing in AI-exposed occupations versus a year ago. The job you have is being re-specified underneath you.
PwC Global AI Jobs Barometer, 202539%
Share of core job skills employers expect to change by 2030 — with AI and big data the single fastest-growing skill category worldwide.
World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025#1
AI literacy is the fastest-growing skill in the U.S., with a 177% jump in professionals adding AI skills to their profiles — nearly 5× the average across all skills.
LinkedIn, Skills on the Rise 2025Why now
Six reasons fluency is a moving target.
The professionals pulling away aren't the ones with the best prompts. They're the ones who built a routine around the loop and stick to it through every model release. Build An Agent Day is the on-ramp to that routine.
The half-life of a skill is shrinking
World Economic Forum projections put the half-life of professional skills at under 5 years — and dropping. For AI-adjacent skills, it's already measured in months. Whatever you 'learned about AI' in 2024 is partially obsolete in 2026.
Capability ships every week
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Manus — the frontier ships every Tuesday. Practitioners need a steady reading + practice loop, not a once-a-year training event.
AI productivity compounds
PwC finds productivity growth has nearly quadrupled in the industries most exposed to AI since 2022. That gap doesn't close — it widens. Year three, the people who started in year one are uncatchable.
Reading isn't enough
Watching 10 hours of YouTube on agents doesn't make you a builder. Building one agent does. Then keeping a routine of building one new thing a month.
Vendor framing isn't strategy
Every AI vendor has an answer because they have a product. Fluency means knowing which problem each tool actually solves — and which ones it doesn't — without the marketing veneer.
It's a practice, not a project
AI fluency isn't a milestone you check off. It's a weekly habit: read the changelog, build one new thing, share what you learned. The professionals who treat it that way pull away from the rest.
AI Fluency · A Southeast Imperative
AI fluency is the new literacy — and the southeast can lead with it.
Every state in the country is making the same bet on AI. The ones that win will not be the ones with the biggest GPU clusters or the shiniest pilots — they will be the ones whose workforce knows how to put agents to work on real problems. AI fluency is the ability for an ordinary professional to take a workflow they understand, codify it as instructions an AI can follow, and ship a working solution the same week.
Every region we visit has the ingredients — research universities, a manufacturing or services base that knows how to operationalize new technology, a public sector committed to digital transformation, and innovation authorities that can move capital and connect people. What's missing is volume: thousands of practitioners who have built their first agent, broken it, and built another one. Build An Agent Day exists to start putting that number on the board, one city at a time.
For business professionals
If you spend hours each week on reports, intake, drafting, scheduling, or research, you have an agent waiting to be built. Fluency is the difference between a competitor who outpaces you with the same headcount — and you doing the outpacing.
Marketing · Ops · Sales · Finance · HR
For state & local government
Agents handle constituent intake, FOIA triage, procurement reviews, and policy research without sacrificing oversight. Public-sector AI fluency is how SC delivers more service per tax dollar — and proves it.
Agencies · Cities · Counties · Procurement
For K-12 and higher ed
Faculty, instructional designers, and librarians can build agents that personalize learning, draft rubrics, and free up time for actual teaching. Graduates who leave SC schools fluent in agents leave with a job offer.
Faculty · Instructional Design · Career Services
For the Carolina economy
AI-fluent workforces attract AI-fluent employers. Every state is making this bet — the ones that compound practitioners fastest will own the next decade of jobs and investment.
Workforce Development · Economic Development
For governance & trust
Knowing how agents actually work is the only way to govern them well. Fluency closes the gap between policy people who write the rules and the technologists who'd otherwise be the only ones who understand the systems.
Legal · Compliance · Risk · Audit
For the regional innovation base
Every region we visit has world-class universities, a manufacturing or services base, innovation authorities, and a growing tech sector. Pair that with thousands of fluent practitioners and the next wave of locally-grown AI companies builds itself.
Startups · Research · Universities
The Compounding Flywheel
AI fluency compounds — but only if you start now.
01
Practitioners
One workshop produces one cohort of people who have shipped an agent. They go back to work and ship more.
02
Templates
Every agent built becomes a template. Cohort two starts where cohort one finished.
03
Mentors
Alumni become the next round's coaches. Local expertise stays local instead of getting flown in from out of state.
04
Economic Lift
Companies, agencies, and graduates that compound AI productivity attract investment, jobs, and talent — to the southeast.
The teaching method
Inside the workshop, fluency is taught as a loop: S.M.A.R.T.
Scope · Map · Author · Run · Tune. Five steps, one workflow, one day — repeated weekly until fluency is muscle memory.
Endorsements
What people say after a day with us.
Build An Agent Day is the workshop edition of the All Things AI playbook. These are real attendees from recent All Things AI programs — business pros, engineers, and operators who came in curious and left with something they could put to work Monday morning.
This is the best day I've spent on learning in a long time. As a complete non-techie, I've already started building my first app using Manus. This event gave me the confidence I needed to get started, even as a person with zero coding experience.
Laura Briscoe
Sr. Manager, Curation to Execution · Mayo Clinic
As a COO of a medium sized company, the training was perfect for my role and current skillset. Being able to render an updated website to my team using Manus in about 10 minutes was an amazing experience.
Nick Chae
COO · Danner Corporation
This is ESSENTIAL information for everyone interested in the future of business. Mark delivered clear, actionable and novel techniques — truly essential information delivered authentically by a top domain expert.
Gregg Gerdau
Managing Partner · Matador Advisors
I genuinely didn't expect to walk away with tools I could use the same day — but I did. Every manager, operations professional, and knowledge worker should attend this training. We had 10 members from our marketing team attend.
Amy Plahuta
Marketing Specialist, Global Marketing Ops PM · Clinisys™
Mark Hinkle is a trusted guide who gives a straightforward understanding of AI tools, plus some frameworks to think with and lively stories to keep it interesting.
Brian Moynihan
Director of AI & Automation Projects · Duke University
The Business Professionals Workshop was a standout — learning how to build a website in under 15 minutes using AI was truly eye-opening. I'm already looking forward to attending again.
Hima Kondapaneni
Product Manager · U.S. Bank
Mark's AI workshop was incredibly insightful. He broke down complex AI topics into clear, actionable takeaways that felt immediately relevant to real world enterprise challenges.
Janna Joyner
Clinical Project Manager · Abbott
I am done reading 'agents will be able to' and I'm ready for 'this is how you make an agent' — which is exactly what this session was.
Pedro Mendonça
Partner · 1616 Ventures
I have never been a developer but becoming more comfortable with the AI coding tools was so incredibly rewarding. Now I feel better equipped to create skills and use agents to automate repetitive tasks.
Costina Detterman
Product Owner · MMIT
Being in Mark Hinkle's class advanced me from novice to confident experimenter and shifted my perception of how and what I need to be doing right now. Unlike most training, there was no part of the curriculum during which I checked out.
Leila Nawaz
Sr. Support Engineer · Nasuni
Despite being well-versed in the AI space, I found Mark's introduction of Manus to be a revelation. Seeing its capabilities in action was incredibly valuable, and I am already looking to integrate it into my professional workflow.
Ryan Austin
Computing Infrastructure Director · University of South Carolina
The AIOS AI Superuser Bootcamp was an incredible deep dive into AI-powered productivity. As a director of project management, I found the hands-on training invaluable for optimizing workflows and automating complex tasks.
Eleonora Klepar
Director, Project Management / Customer Support · Lark Health
Mark was phenomenal at providing insight about the things we can do using AI to augment our productivity. This course is of value to anyone working in any industry.
Michael Pang
Director of Project Management · Omicron Media
Mark's AI Workshop was invaluable for anyone looking to learn more about AI and walk away with tangible skills to start applying it to their daily operating rhythm. I particularly loved his SMART framework and coaching.
Jackie Brodeur
Market Development Director · TalentCraft Life Sciences
I had been using ChatGPT pretty regularly before bootcamp but didn't know all of the features and personalization it can do. It was a relaxed environment, not intimidating at all — which can be tough when teaching AI.
Stephanie Newstrom
Founder/CEO · Peak Potential Talent Solutions
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