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.

Last updated 8 September 2026

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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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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.

Paula Halliday

The Agent Accelerator is one of the most practical AI programs I've taken. Instead of just teaching prompts or theory, it gives you a clear system for building AI agents that solve real problems. The community is incredibly supportive, and you get hands-on experience creating workflows you can actually use in your business or career. If you're serious about learning AI beyond the basics, I'd definitely recommend it.

What they built

Building skills to help with daily manual tasks and just in general gaining a better understanding of how our tesm can build agents to support us.

Rachel Kingstonmorehappi

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.

Joel Kim

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.

Leslie McArdleVP Marketing

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

Sam Stintonmorehappi

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!

Sam BlackettCommercial Director, UK & IE

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.

Isobel MillsCustomer Experience

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

Alex Depledge

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.

Dyan EllingerHexarad

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

Darya SimanovichChelsea Swim Spa

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).

Sarah PearsonOperationsSupercede

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.

Holly James

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.

Charlotte WrightFinance Director

It's a really insightful and valuable, hands-on learning experience that will definitely accelerate your learning and adoption of agentic workflows

Steve JanawayVP Engineering

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.

Joe TinstonCPTO

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.

Poonam Mascarenhas

The agent accelerator will take someone who hasn't prioritized learning or using AI to get to a point where it becomes part of their day-to-day. So much of the accelerator is about accountability, carving the diary out actually to learn, and then giving you all the foundation to use it. Definitely a good course for beginners I would say which is what I was.

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!)

Hana WonSenior Finance & Ops

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.

Oleg Elchenko

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!

Roei SamuelFounder & CEOConnectd
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I’d say it’s especially valuable if you’re still using AI mostly at a basic chat level, for instance asking it to help with copywriting, check tone of voice, brainstorm ideas, or its support on other repetitive tasks. The Agent Accelerator helps you see what’s possible beyond that. For me, the value has been in understanding what to prioritise, which skills are actually worth building, and how to start building them. It does take time, thought, and a fair amount of troubleshooting to put things into practice, but it gives you a clearer sense of how to use AI more intentionally and how to start turning one-off prompts into more useful, repeatable ways of working.

What they built

When I started building out my property analysis skill, I saw that I could bring together more information than I would realistically gather manually, which helped me spot better investment insights and look at opportunities from angles I might otherwise have missed.

Lea Guillemier

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.

Ellie JamesBeco

Great way to jump from chat to Cowork/Code, with support and a great community to help you grow and learn.

Kit SmithiesOperations

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.

Amanda Billings

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.

Tom Dew

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

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.

Maria Rezk

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.

Giulio Bardi

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.

Stefanie JayawardhenaForliance

I’m not sure if it fully counts as any of these but I massively appreciate it how logically James taught and explained through the course. Having done some other AI training which gave me incredibly little value just taking it a step at a time and layering from there was massive personal win. Building those foundational blocks first, in particular I would say some of the aha moments were really seeing the length of example prompts and using Claude to help build a skill. A constant reminder that Claude/AI is there to help us work out how to use it.

Lydia Greaves

A step-change in the way we use AI. Can feel the productivity improvements pretty much immediately.

Nicholas ValenziaLeafr

I think with AI, everyone has kind of dived in and is figuring out as they go. People don't have best practises, and really, it's those best practises which you need to set yourself up with to get the most out of your Claude and/or AI.

For me, the most noticeable time-saving difference is just having my Claude know me to a T. It is now completely trained, where it knows my priorities, it knows what's coming up, it knows what my blockers are, it knows how I do my sales processes, and it knows how I do my marketing processes. It's so in the weeds of what I do that, with almost little to no context, I have to really give.

That, for me, has been the massive shift, and now I'm on a mission to try and feed that back to the team because I think until you dedicate all the time to it, I won't lie, during those four weeks, the contact time is a lot in terms of what it's like, seven hours a week. Plus, on top of that, I was spending my evenings and weekends going into this hole of AI. I'm spending a fuck load of time on it, but it was so open eye-opening.

What they built

I think the biggest win for me was folder structure. I have noticed such a difference after being able to have proper organisation and claudeMD files which point in the right places, which means that my claude actually knows where to go. The quality of the output that I'm getting is so much higher and saved me alot of time.

Olivia Pike

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.

Ashley FriedleinFounder & CEOGuild

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.

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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)

Simran Kang

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

Anna GedyeLead Designer

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.

Chloe BateCLO Consultancy

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.

Jessica Beam

As a really useful guide to getting started with using claude co-work and understanding the basics of agentic AI tools. Or as a valuable resource for anyone who has started, has a project they are working on and need access to expert advice to realise it.

David KirtonE-commerce

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.

Jack Turver

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.

Michael ConnollyVP Commercial, Bloomon

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.

Jamie RawsthorneYT Flywheel

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.

Peter ButlerFoundry Robotics

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.

John SiblyProductAzzurri Group

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.

Alice StelmachenkoProduct & Design

A safe and secure way to let AI unlock multiple benefits for you and your work.

Lynn CahillaneConnectd
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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

Yetty Ayodele

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!

Jim HingstonAzzurri Group

Raises your ceiling for what you can get AI to do for your business, and fast tracks you towards getting there

Adam RosenthalCocoon Carbon

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.

Jihane Khalil

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.

Emily FlochelHexarad

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.

Stephen Maddison

The course takes you through steps of building context in the right way, creating skills, connecting tools and applications, scheduling tasks so they run and improve on their own.

What they built

Even more than the automation and scheduling, I would say the new way to build prompts with greater detail and with ways to catch errors, gain confidence, stop hallucinating, etc. Realising that prompts shouldn't be rushed, and not assuming that a simple question will give you a complex and accurate answer.

Omar IbrahimBeco

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.

Corey FrazerHexarad

The best way to apply a structured approach to building and using AI agents

Pratik Shahzeroheight

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.

Aleksandra WoloszynAmberlabs

The course is essential for understanding AI and incorporating it into daily work and personal growth and development.

Alona MikhovaCommercialForliance

It's the mental unlock and enablement I needed to really step up my use of AI & agents to the next level

Claire WilliamsTalentOmnea

Security aspect of AI. Did not formally think about things like prompt injections or know of the lethal trifecta! I also use the PRD skill and 5 agent refine skill super useful.

Sophie Bleaney

Super useful course to get you on from simple prompting to building a structured way of leveraging Claude across the team & tools

Martin LeguayCEO

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.

Val KostasHexarad

Super helpful in making the jump from using AI for ad-hoc conversations to really being an additive personal and professional tool.

Jack Walker

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.

Betsy HoltAmberlabs

Great way to solidify thinking for leaders into how AI can impact both day to day and future behaviours

Nick Cameron

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.

Charlie CookeInterim Director of Growth

A great programme to gain both fundamental knowledge and skill building of AI agents and AI integrations. Hey, I've been building AI Agents!

Emika GulatiSenior Data Analyst

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.

Celina PookHexarad

You will just get AI. AI is not a tool, it's a different way of working that helps you do more with less.

Mica Vaipan

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.

Hamza BaigHexarad

Take the leap, it's a game-changer for productivity, scalability and mindset elevation.

Tyler Walter

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.

Samantha Sevilla

It helps get you started on understanding agentic workflows from zero to hero

What they built

Building the second brain I think should be the default for everyone!

Martin Whittington

Zero to Hero!

Conor BarrasfordOperationsHealf

A great jump start to seeing what is possible and enter into a new era of working.

Daniel HoffmannCommercialSealogy

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.

Kevin Davies

A great intro to how AI tools can work individually and for a team, with tangible examples that you can apply. You'll leave with real skills that you'll continue to use day to day.

What they built

A joined up workflow across slack and Google drive to help me and my team stay on track in our weekly sprints and overall annual and quarterly strategic roadmaps

Pauline Richards

Essential

Oli Lee

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.

Emma O'CarrollOperations Associate

Really fantastic course, to help make sense of the (very confusing) world of agentic AI!

Rachel DobbBeco

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

Elisa Ndour

Builds the foundations of how to work with agents easily.

Joey JarrettData Lead

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.

Jen CroftsHexarad

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

Rien SachCEO

Seeing an agent do my work - live in a browser.

Manou RaymondFinance

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

Vernon Tjon-Soei-Len

Will help you realise what you can actually do inside Claude - not just asking it questions for a one reponse.

Meera HeffernanAzzurri Group

The boost you need to become more confident with AI

Beatrix IordanOperationsClickMechanic

Building the duplicate-org report for Pipedrive. I'd assumed this kind of cleanup was a manual slog, and instead I got 104 flagged pairs with confidence levels and the matching signals behind each one, so I could actually judge them rather than trust a black box. My breakthrough was learning to ask for the reasoning alongside the output, which is what made me willing to act on it.

Maria Castro

The best way to learn how to use AI in order to better use AI in order to make your life easier

Bruno Penna

Realising that there is more to AI than just a basic chat function - as simple as it sounds, breaking through that barrier alone unlocked a lot more thoughts and ideas on how to use AI

Scott GreensmithClickMechanic

Unlock more fully the power of AI for your workplace

Lina Balteanu

Its great to go from hardly any knowledge to getting yourself setup with AI. Though I think that for people working in routine tasks will get a lot more productivity gain out of it than myself.

What they built

Understanding skills for repetitive tasks. I'm using a few of them every week now.

Martyn van BuurenProduct

Session one - the 'coach' build and feedback. Love that the conversations I'm having now are much more targetted and relevant within my advisor folder.

Jessica Butcher

One stop shop for an up to date understanding of how to work with AI.

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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, the full results from Cohort 1 and Cohort 2, or case studies from companies that trained their teams.

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