Welcome

0:00 Welcome, humans, to the Neuron AI Live. Real quick, as you join us and load in, um, please shout out in the chat where you are watching from. And maybe if you haven't yet, if you could also share what you want to learn, agents to be able to do. So, uh, I'm gonna do a very, I'm gonna do a very quick intro here. I need to pause the actual YouTube chat that I have on my side window, so I don't hear myself.

0:37 Now that that's done. Um, so, yeah, today we are covering a topic I'm really excited to dig into. Uh, why? Because this is the number one question we get asked every week, which is, how do I actually use AI agents to save time in my business? Or maybe your life. Or, you know, just anything you want agents to do because work doesn't need to be everything. So, uh, for example, I see a lot of moms who use agents to help them keep track of their schedules and their kids' schedule.

1:15 And there's plenty of ways you can use agents just for fun, too. But obviously, you know, everyone wants to be able to use agents in business. And so today, uh, as you can see, we are missing Corey, because he's on a much deserved vacation. So I decided to bring on a very special guest to help us navigate all things agentic. And that is James McCale. And James is the founder of Agent Accelerator, or The Agent Accelerator.

1:48 Um, and he's going to provide a practical crash course on everything you need to build helpful, proactive agents inside Claude, Co-work, and Claude code. So, James, welcome to the Neuron. Thanks for having me, Grant. Uh, firstly, yeah, I'm in all of, like, the number of people you have, like reading the Neuron and watching these videos, so like, yeah, thanks for having me and well done on like everything you've achieved so far. Oh yeah, yeah, appreciate it.

2:15 Yeah. Well, I'm really impressed with you because, you know, obviously you formerly were working at 11 Labs and then, you know, helped them grow from 110 million in annual recurring revenue, all the way to 300 million. Um, and then you've launched a fully AI native business that reached, what was it, 80,000, 80K in monthly revenue by month three. And then by month five, I think it was 200K plus, is that right? That's, that's, that's pretty much right.

2:44 Yeah. I I can't remember the kind of point to dollar conversion rate, but um, yeah, it's grown way, it's grown way faster than I expected. And like, a huge part of that has been building, you know, as you said, an AI native company, like with agents, kind of from day one. Um, that's like a whole other conversation we could have, you know, like how do you, how do you structure all your tools and all the software you use in a way that Claude or any agent can sort of get work done for you, but yes, broadly, I, it's grown quite quickly with me and Claude code.

2:58 Yeah. Yeah. You did it all without a single employee or a dollar of paid advertising at least to start. And that's like, holy smokes, like that's amazing. Clearly, you're very good at delegating work to multiple AI agents every day. And today, we're going to learn all about how you do it. So I'm very excited. All right. Well, yeah, I have a lot, I want to get through. Um, I I think this will take about an hour.

3:32 Um, we'll see how far we can go. Um, and yeah, I'm gonna, let me share my screen and we can just like, kick off. Um, so, uh, if I, let me just make sure I choose the right screen, first of all. So you see, yeah, can you see this? Has that come up yet? Yes, we see today from chatbot to agent. Perfect. Okay, perfect. Um, right. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk through like four fundamental concepts that I think everyone needs to understand.

4:13 Um, and then we're gonna, like piece it all together. And we're going to create a chief of staff.