Agent Accelerator reviews
Reviews of the Agent Accelerator, the UK live cohort where business teams learn to build and ship AI agents with no technical background.
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Live cohort £1,000 +VAT, with a 100% money-back guarantee if you complete it and are not satisfied. Self-paced £375 +VAT.
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Do it. I went in not really knowing what to expect, and I came out with actual things I use: a set of 'skills', agents I've taught to do specific bits of my job, plus recurring takes I rely on, and what's starting to feel like the beginnings of a second brain. None of it required me to be technical.
The bigger shift was in my head, though. I stopped thinking about AI as a faster way to do the tasks I already do, and started thinking about how it could 10x my impact by letting me work completely differently.
Best investment you will make in 2026 in your team, business or your own development. With the skills learnt from the course, you will be able 10x your development. I particularly appreciated the constant balance between AI and human - James was always very careful to ensure humans in the loop is at the core of all decisions.
What they built
My reconciliation agent. And seeing the impact it’s had on the team - transformed mindset and moving us forward as a business in a way that would have taken me 10x longer had I been doing it myself
You've completely changed the way I think about work, the way I approach problems, and the way I use AI. I literally feel like I've been given a superpower. It has just been massively transformational, both for me personally and for Koru Kids.
Before the accelerator I was a basic ChatGPT user. The course completely changed how I work with AI. I now use Claude throughout my working day, completing tasks through agents via dictation which then utilises other apps. Highly recommend.
Without a doubt, the Agent Accelerator was the highest ROI thing I've done since founding the company.
If you want to join the top 0.1% of AI capability you need this course. You will get to learn the basics all the way through to concepts you’d never have imagined wrapping your head around.
As a founding team of a scale up, we needed a better grasp of the fast evolving world of Agentic AI. We come away upskilled, having created our own custom agents and AI apps, and with a network of other teams going through similar transitions. Watching them apply AI in different ways was as enlightening as the course content itself.
This is the course that takes you from 'aware' to 'enabled'. The content is clear, approachable and most important of all, James is an excellent teacher. He is low ego, high compassion and always on hand to help. You don't feel left behind or unwelcome, no matter your proficiency. We've seen immediate results in our company productivity, far beyond what I expected (and we are not a tech company).
I signed up and opened Claude for the first time. I now have the confidence to play around with Claude Code, connect tools, assign it tasks, and create my own agents. You can be completely clueless when you start. There is no requirement to be an AI expert. I highly recommend signing up to James's cohort sooner rather than later! The one-to-one calls were amazing for ironing out any questions.
If you're a mix of being curious, excited, yet a little afraid of AI and its capabilities, then you need to take this course. I was scared of the security complications whilst also being eager to explore the possibilities AI could offer.
This course not only sets you up to stay safe and precautionary, it has also opened a door to a way of working which will genuinely change the way I work for the rest of my life!
Don't wait to hop onto AI and its benefits. It's not 'just a trend', it's here to stay, and it's better to get on the AI train now than wait until everyone else realises it's the thing that is a game changer for business' , but also your own career.
Fantastic course that equally helps you realise how to unlock the real power of AI in your day to day as well as make your brain explode with so many possibilities. I've done a number of AI courses but this one has been the most hands on and practical; especially when you layer the lunch and learn with experts on top of the practical skills.
This is a great course if you feel overwhelmed and unsure where or how to start using AI in your daily work. Each session was incredibly informative and presented in a clear and digestible format and the tasks really helped solidify the learnings, and also allowed me to make real time progress and start rolling out new skills before the course had been completed. I have already managed to automate the reporting aspect of my role and have left the course feeling inspired and full of ideas with a plan and the skills to execute them.
Life-changing. With these skills, you are able to manage a team of hundreds, if not thousands, of AI agents working in parallel automatically. If you take the time to set up your workflow and wiki, then this pays off exponentially over time.
What they built
Having a wiki setup so that creating new skills or routines would take minutes instead of hours as the context of myself, my business and all my tools was already there.
I believe the only way to truly understand the power and nature of AI is to use it yourself. Sometimes this just doesn't happen even if you mean to do it. The Agent Accelerator makes you do what you know you need to. The combination of live, self-directed, and on-demand content, supported by a great community and customer support, is ideal.
Whether you're doing it as a team level or as an individual level, it's gonna profound impact on the way you see your work. Actually forcing the implementation of things that I've I've known about for a long time has been absolutely game-changing already for me as a business and had a big impact on the way that I work. A massive thank you to James for giving me access to it.
James is an engaging presenter and trainer; that combined with the format of the live sessions and the supporting information on the learning platform and supplementary lunch and learns have taken me from AI novice to someone using Claude Code to build complex solutions and autonomous agents in 4 weeks (and I have no technical background).
Agent Accelerator provides the theory and structure you need to make the most of AI - and has helped us build a shared understanding and knowledge as a leadership team at Bloom & Wild to support Group wide roll out and impact.
The best investment in myself that I have made this year. On many levels - productivity, properly understanding what AI and isn't which builds my credibility, grasping how to roll it out across my organisation
I would say it's a great course to take you from 0 to 7 in terms of the possibilities of agentic development. And I think it inspires you to go from 7 to 10 in your own time because it just opens so many doors and horizons
If youre thinking about doing it, youre only one step away from making the last decision you'll have to make - after James' course, the agents you build can decide for you.
A total game changer if you all your team are doing anything repetitive and want to free up time to focus on what they do best!
As a founder, I've always been skeptical about committing time to accelerator programs, but I'm glad I took the leap with James. I feel much more comfortable and way more excited about how we can safely integrate AI agents to help us move even faster.
You learn the basics of AI agents, then get hands-on — building your own skills, connecting real tools through MCP connectors, and using a PRD to scope something bigger. If you've got a real problem at work, you walk out with something actually built, not just ideas.
What they built
My biggest "aha" moment was realizing Claude could go beyond answering questions and actually build the tools I need. I set up a skill for that automatically pulls and delivers a NetSuite report , so it runs on its own. That gave me the confidence to go further: I'm now using a PRD to build a supplier onboarding portal.
Great to understand how Ai works and what it can do for you. Learinng MCPs and Skills is invaluable, I wouldnt have known this without the course. It has built confidence to use Claude in my day to day and to experiments (I have just built us a new RoadMap tool - something i would never have dreamed of doing before). Understanding that context is King has been really helpful For emails and meetings based work there is also enormous value. There is a use case for all office based work
What they built
1. It has streamlined the product process. As a designer, I can now quickly and easily generate a PRD and tickets from my designs, meaning i can complete projects end to end. 2. It is difficult to ensure materials are well designed and branded correctly when employees build presentations and reports. I am building templates for these using Claude so they just need to upload csv's with data or the text that is required. This will hugely reduce their time to building presentations and will ensure the brand is applying and represented correctly across client facing materials
Have you ever thought: “I feel like AI could genuinely change my life, but I have no idea where to start and I’m a little nervous about navigating all the risks and safety concerns on my own”? Then this course is exactly what you're looking for. It gives you a clear, practical and supportive path into AI, helps you understand what’s possible, how to use it effectively and how to do so responsibly. Rather than wasting time experimenting blindly, invest your time in this course, and you'll come away with the confidence and tools to actually apply AI to your own life and work from day one.
It's a great jump start to understanding how claude / agents work. It wlil compress 2 - 3 months of tinkering into a 4 week course and force you tos pend the team, and build a network of peers in similar situations. Better suited for real world use / people who are near the start of their journey - perhaps less suited to people who are already very technical.
Allowed me to both gain knowledge of agents, and then effectively put them into practice to solve real life problems that I'm tacking day to day. I have also created my own AI Advisor that's able to challenge me plus provide reflection and coaching on issues I'm facing.
Overall a great course. Well structured and presented in terms of what was covered and the sequence it was covered in. I've already discussed it with a friend unprompted (definition of a net promoter ;)
What they built
The PRD design template and walk through to scaffold my first Claude Code app
As someone who had only previously used the basic chat functions in Chat GPT this course was eye opening. I feel deeply inspired to build some thing great with AI and thanks to this course I know that that’s a real possibility.
Agent Accelerator is a must-attend for anyone who wants to properly leverage AI.
Even as someone who’s used AI for months, the foundational frameworks and insights from this course completely reshaped my approach. It gives you the exact playbook to set yourself and your business up for real success.
There's so much noise everywhere about the power of AI. Having a concentrated container where you learn everything from foundations to more complicated workflows, this workshop is just worth it. Even if you're not looking to create the next AI startup, you will want to have insurance that your skills aren't going to get left behind. This course does just that. It's way worth the money.
What they built
Biggest win sounds silly but was the skill. Something that used to take five minutes and I hated. I can now do it in seconds.
It's like you're in the matrix and you're having the AI agent building skill downloaded into your brain (nice callback...). In a structured, easily understandable format, with great takeaway tasks that leave you feeling confident and able to go forth where you don't know things, figure them out.
The Agent Accelerator is a brilliant introduction to what agents are and how to use them safely and to massively boost productivity. If you can clear time in your calendar to fully engage with this course, the rewards are much greater. I learned loads and I've seen people in my cohort do extraordinary things.
A fantastic course! I never thought that after just 2 seasons I would have agents working for me saving me a huge amount of time. Thank you!
Do it. This course has really opened my eyes to the opportunities of AI. Not so much in the work that it can do or what it can build or output. I knew the opportunity of that. More so in terms of how AI can function as a coach / mentor and keep you on track. That has been the most helpful for me.
It was a really well paced course breaking down AI to make it totally understandable. It was super useful having loads of people on the course and many people are seeking to solve the same issues as you.
A step-change in the way we use AI. Can feel the productivity improvements pretty much immediately.
An absolute game changer that’s going to shift how you approach your work (My sister’s already submitted the request at work to join the next cohort!)
Incredibly valuable having a guided space to gain confidence, and to take senior leadership in a large organisation on a journey of getting hands on with the tools, understanding their immense value first hand, and advice on how to disseminate this knowledge effectively through an organisation. Thanks James, it's been awesome!
If you're stuck using AI as a thought partner, AI accelerator could be a great next step in your AI training journey. The hour-long presentations and following collaborative build workshops makes the time with AI Accelerator valuable- execution is core to the course. The time invested, you definitely get results.
The Accelerator sets you up with tools and workflows that would have taken me months to figure out on my own, all within four weeks!
What they built
A shift in how we approach AI across the company. Going from individual prompts that required heaps of feedback, to identifying what systems we needed to create a proper knowledge base that has now helped us save lots of time and get more quality output each time we work on a task with Claude.
With so much information available on how to best leverage out there it is hard to know where to start, how best to approach it and if what you are doing is right. Agent Accelerator approaches the topic logically and systematically to help you get the most out of AI and not get left behind
It's a really insightful and valuable, hands-on learning experience that will definitely accelerate your learning and adoption of agentic workflows
It's a fantastic getting started programme to kickstart their journey into using AI properly and making impactful changes to their work. It helps you actually get the groundwork in place to be regularly using it to speed up an enhance your work, grounded in context that is uniquely yours.
A great programme to gain both fundamental knowledge and skill building of AI agents and AI integrations. Hey, I've been building AI Agents!
Do it if you're looking for a well structured and a truly hands-on learning experience. You'll learn from people who don't just teach the subject—they live it every day and openly share what actually works.
What they built
When I had received a few daily reports from my scheduled agent in the format I wanted.
get to upper intermediate or advanced level on claude rapidly and understand how to drive adoption in your team/business
A really well structured and impressive course that fully skills you up. Week by week I felt actual impact on my knowledge and use of AI seeing real world benefits in my day-to-day job.
It feels like getting (close to) supportive one on one time with that colleague who is a year ahead of you when it comes to AI. The exercises/checkpoints and the format of the training ensures you are essentially forced to prioritise and carve out the time to upskill effectively, where finding this time in your day to day can otherwise often feel impossible.
Cohort 4 starts Tuesday 29 September 2026
Cohorts 1, 2 and 3 all sold out. The waitlist gets first access, including any earlybird pricing, before seats open publicly.
Join the Cohort 4 waitlist →No matter what your current level of ability, the course will advance your skills and abilities. The guidance, content and prompts provided are leading-edge and high quality.
It's a quick way of understanding what AI at this specific time can do for you and your org and some of the foundational setup (connectors, security etc) for. You'll be a) able to setup a mini personal assistant through it and b) automate some of your recurring tasks
A supercharged learning month to take you from beginner to advanced in ai; breaking down lots of the unknown, helping set up (and guide you through) the principles and rules.
A hands on course that smashes through the panicky feeling of having to learn something new and not knowing where to start, and gets you using it effectively each day.
What they built
Integrating all of our wider tooling, my emails, slack and google drive. Using that context to inform how Claude works with me, and for it to do scheduled actions on a regular basis.
Great way to very quickly level up your AI-skills. Good for either complete beginners, or even advanced users. Learn how other companies are implementing AI.
Super useful course to get you on from simple prompting to building a structured way of leveraging Claude across the team & tools
Will help you realise what you can actually do inside Claude - not just asking it questions for a one reponse.
For me, this course is a one-way trip. It opens the door to a whole new world that once felt impossible to reach, but is actually full of opportunities to learn and build new skills.
The biggest takeaway for me was realizing that AI isn't here to replace us—it’s here to amplify us. The course completely changed my perspective on that. It showed me that AI can be an incredible superpower, but only when it's guided by human judgment, leadership, and critical thinking. Without that, the superpower loses its value—for both the AI and the person using it.
What I found most interesting is that it's a two-way relationship. The better you become at thinking, asking the right questions, and providing context, the better AI performs. And the better you use AI, the more it expands your own abilities. In the end, the real transformation isn't just learning how to use AI—it's learning how to think and work alongside it.
What they built
My biggest breakthrough was the moment I watched the entire workflow run from start to finish without my intervention. It was the first time I realized that the system could keep working even if I wasn't there that day. What used to take days of manual work now happens automatically through a connected workflow. It's still a work in progress, and I'm constantly iterating and improving the results, but seeing the entire end-to-end process working on its own was the moment everything clicked. That's when I truly understood the value of investing time upfront to build something that continues creating value long after it's finished.
A good course for someone who wants to start using Claude as a proper work companion, not just a chatbot. And you come away inspired by the builds and by what's possible once it's wired into your real tools.
What they built
Getting context management right. Once I had my markdown files set up, backlog, goals, context, build lessons, work became more organised.
Thanks for an excellent course! I found your sessions clear, engaging, and effective in breaking the process down into manageable, useful steps. The more time participants can set aside to learn and develop their skills, the more likely they are to accelerate their progress.
A great fundamentals course to kick-start your AI learning. It's easy to see how many doors can be opened and how much progression there is to make once you know the basic principles and set up, which James details really clearly. The 1-1 coaching calls with James are so valuable in clarifying particular issues and workarounds too.
Give you a broad overview of agentic & LLM. Pitched at the right level and a very valuable use of time.
James delivers the content in a very engaging way and it clearly gets better with each cohort!
I'd recommend the Agent Accelerator to anyone who wants to work smarter, not harder. Whether you're in operations, sales, marketing, leadership, or any other role, you'll come away with practical skills that save time, increase your confidence, and help you create solutions that have a real impact on your work and your team.
A must in today's changing world. The functionalities we learn here will be essential skills come 2027 I would say.
What they built
Skills - this was really good and it continues to evolve. I have made 2-3 skills for the company to use. I made a skill to update our CMS with knowledge and a subsequent skill for the company to use based on what data is now in the CMS.
James is an excellent teacher and expert here and guides the group through a whole journey in just 4 weeks. There's the right amount of pressure and accountability and somehow it feels like a course perfectly tailored to each person.
Raises your ceiling for what you can get AI to do for your business, and fast tracks you towards getting there
Do it! And do it live rather than self paced. You'll be able to ask all your silly questions and progress faster. Plus, you'll be inspired by others people's output too.
An essential course for anyone wanted to reduce the amount of time spent on manual tasks.
What they built
really simple things as someone who had not used claude before - creating well formatted spreadsheet/logs without openeing excel, creating lucid charts by describing what I want. Also creating a skill to audit data that would have taken me significant amounts of time.
I would describe it as an essential crash course in learning how to use AI for those who are overwhelmed by the discussion of AI tools. It helped me get a grasp of what I can do and the possibilities.
What they built
Learning how to use Skills in Claude has been my biggest breakthrough. I've built skills to help me turn my user stories into tickets for my development team, and also to help me do the more mundane admin tasks.
I would describe Agent Accelerator as a course that will help you firstly uncover what the capabilities of AI are, and secondly, help you understand where specifically in your day to day job you can apply it.
It's brilliant- it brings you through everything you need to know to get an agent up and running and will make such a different to any team.
A great accelerator that genuinely helps move the needle in your business. Practical, hands-on, and packed with useful ideas you can implement straight away.
What they built
Built a weekly strategy agent I use as a coach. Calendar integration blocks my CEO time so it actually happens. Biggest shift: stopped using AI just for tasks… started using it for strategy, clarity and decisions that move the needle
Thanks so much for such a brilliant course, I'm feeling so much more clear and confident on how to use AI to improve my work and I'm really excited to spend more time exploring as I feel like I've only scratched the surface of everything you've taught us. You've been a fab teacher and I love that your ethics shone through the course too, it's made me feel much more hopeful that AI can be used safely and thoughtfully.
Its a great way to get started into AI, its important to also understand the security side of AI which I don't think many people talk about.
Super helpful in making the jump from using AI for ad-hoc conversations to really being an additive personal and professional tool.
It's the mental unlock and enablement I needed to really step up my use of AI & agents to the next level
You will just get AI. AI is not a tool, it's a different way of working that helps you do more with less.
The best way to apply a structured approach to building and using AI agents
Don't hold back. Like a lot of things, it's about creating a habit and time for learning. Being on the course pushes you to make it a priority. Very lucky to be part of the first cohort.
The course is essential for understanding AI and incorporating it into daily work and personal growth and development.
Take the leap, it's a game-changer for productivity, scalability and mindset elevation.
To go for it! Was a really accessible and fun way to learn way more about what AI tools could be doing for me, and how to build them in a way that is bespoke to my job. I would flag that there is a time requirement to attend sessions and do the builds - I personally didn't factor in a lot of travel that got in my way.
I'd encourage them to think about how many parts of their job are repetitive, or rely on pulling together info from across systems, then what they could do with the time they saved if that was all done for them!
The boost you need to become more confident with AI
The Agent Accelerator programme was really useful to me as it took us step by step from the basics through to the more complex side of AI and how to set it up in the correct way from the beginning. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get to grips with the basics, as well as hone their own skills in a bit more complex methodologies! (excuse the pun)
Zero to Hero!
A brilliant course that takes you from the foundations of AI through to game-changing tools, workflows and agents that genuinely add so much value to the company and team. Thank you, James!
What they built
The biggest breakthrough was creating a skills library for the team.
A great course if you're looking to get the most out of what AI has to offer.
What they built
Building a second brain and learning more about cowork showed the much larger capabilities of Claude. The PRD session was also eye opening - I kept trying to build something through multiple conversations, with claude rebuilding each time but not getting it quite right ! Having the PRD as a framework made a lot of sense and allowed me to build what I actually wanted much faster. Skills was also great. Creating an agent to go through my todo-ist and prioritise actions for the day based on my own priorities was great and super useful.
I would describe the Agent Accelerator as a practical programme that helps you use AI more effectively in your day-to-day work.
It goes beyond prompts by helping you build useful workflows and use AI as a partner, so you can work faster and with more confidence
The best way to learn how to use AI in order to better use AI in order to make your life easier
The course starts with the basics without making you feel like you're behind. The checkpoints, exercises and examples make the theory more tangible and help translate to the real world.
What they built
Having an agent do multiple things at once (a doc critique with different lenses) and avoid unnecessary sequential work.
A great jump start to seeing what is possible and enter into a new era of working.
James made everything feel so clear , I have genuinely noticed an improvement in how I use, build and share agents.
What they built
Skills! I've even built a skill that builds other skills!
Make time to try all of the features discuss. Have your real cases to solve at work ready.
Make sure you have time carved out to really work on the projects and tasks. It's then very worthwhile and will accelerate your Ai learning and allow the output to be very practical.
Be sure to carve out the time to actually do the stuff and pay attention in the sessions
Great way to solidify thinking for leaders into how AI can impact both day to day and future behaviours
make time for it. prioritise it. don't fall behind.
If you’re feeling comfortable with AI, but want to level up into a space where you actually know how to meaningfully apply different features that are available to add real value to your life, team or workplace, you won’t be disappointed. The course will get you there and beyond.
unlock more fully the power of AI for your workplace
A workshop that will open your mind to a new world
What they built
My PRD, at the very beginning of the course I just have the idea to build a static and plain product knowledge base in the company. But when I had been doing the PRD exercise an idea come to my mind and I was able to develop an interactive idea about a knowledge base with automated clickup tickets about things that clients tended to ask. Also, I was able to create a mockup about that idea so the team could visualize it.
builds the foundations of how to work with agents easily.
Take it and commit to it.
Great to get you started, get set up using Claude and then learn how to use Claude to build your own agents
What they built
Understanding that I just need to speak to Claude to explain the problem structurally, it will help create the PRD, then build and I can iterate through different versions of eg the agent. Building an automated P&L review sheet that updates automatically via GCP helped me understand what Claude can do
Getting ready for 2027
If you're feeling blocked exploring agentic AI, this accelerator is the perfect unlock! James is an excellent teacher and the live workshops were invaluable.
Plan ahead what you would like to achieve, have clear goals. These might change as you learn more but will be beneficial in the long run
one stop shop for an up to date understanding of how to work with AI.
Make sure to block time out of your diary, add an extra hour at least after each session to practice
Essential
As a crash course in foundational ai
What the Agent Accelerator is
The Agent Accelerator is a four-week live cohort run by James McAulay where business teams learn to build and ship AI agents for their own workflows. It is for teams inside existing businesses and assumes no technical background, and it is unrelated to the AI Agency Accelerator. Cohort 4 starts Tuesday 29 September 2026. The live cohort is £1,000 +VAT per seat and the self-paced course is £375 +VAT. Cohorts 1, 2 and 3 all sold out. You can see the four-week curriculum these reviews describe, or the full results from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2.
Join the next live cohort. Starts Sep 2026
The programme assumes no technical background, and many of the people above had none. Cohort 4 begins Tuesday 29 September 2026, and Cohorts 1, 2 and 3 all sold out. Join the waitlist for first access, including any earlybird pricing, before seats open publicly.
Would rather start today? The self-paced course is £375 +VAT and gives you the full curriculum immediately. See pricing.