Join The AI Agent Essentials Community
Your First Steps Into AI Agents. No Experience Required.
A place for people learning about AI agents. Once you join, you get access to live sessions throughout the month, a growing library of resources, and a community of people on the same journey. Membership includes the live AI Agent Essentials Challenge: five sessions that give you a foundational understanding of AI agents, plus hands-on experience using them across all four modes — conversational, voice, video, and app-native. Standalone, that's a $300 value, and it's yours with your free community membership.
Join The AI Agent Essentials CommunityNo coding required. Ever.
You Already Have An AI Agent.
Out of the box, Claude, for example, already works as a research agent, an analysis agent, a coding agent, a learning agent, and a thinking partner agent. Most people never find that out, and even fewer ever use it that way.
I'll help you understand Claude better than 99% of people: how you can add a project, a skill, and a connector, and Claude becomes the specific agent you need across devices, Claude apps, and surfaces like chat, Cowork, Code, and Microsoft 365 add-ins. I'll also help you understand voice agents that talk out loud and listen when someone speaks. And for the moments video is best, I'll show you how you can even give your voice agents a face with AI video avatars.
AI Agent Essentials isn't about making agents yourself yet. It's about building your essential foundation for understanding agents, how they work, where they fit in your work and life, and getting proficient using them before you start making your own. The Agent Essentials Hub is full of prompts and skills I've already built for you. So, in addition to using Claude's native agent capabilities, you'll get access to some custom agent skills I think you'll love too. They are super easy to add to any AI that supports custom skills too. My favorite just happens to be Claude.
Start Exactly Where You Are.
You don't need to know what a skill is, what an AI agent is, or how any of it works. You just need to be curious.
You've used Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or another AI tool, mostly for quick questions or single-session tasks. You've stayed in the chat box. AI Agent Essentials shows you what's waiting beyond it — the AI agent capability already built into the tools you're using.
You want to go beyond curious and build a real foundation. AI Agent Essentials gets you up to speed on the different types of AI agents that exist today.
You want firsthand experience with AI agents, not just another tutorial to watch. By the end you'll have talked to an AI conversational agent, an AI voice agent, and an AI video avatar agent, and seen the app-native AI agents already built into the apps you use every day.
Four Areas of Consistent Support
AI Agent Essentials is where you learn alongside Kristie and a growing group of people figuring this out at the same time you are. Live sessions throughout the month, a growing library of resources, and a community that keeps you moving long after the Challenge wraps.
Throughout the month you can join live sessions where you learn alongside Kristie and the community. You'll get access to demos, networking, art of the possible with AI agents, and Q&A.
People exploring AI agents at the same time you are, not figuring it out alone. Connections, encouragement, and support as you go.
See posts from Kristie on new videos, new skills in the Hub, and the art of the possible as new tech capabilities drop. Introduce yourself, share your wins, get answers to your questions, and celebrate others. This is where the AI Agent Essentials journey stops being solo.
The Agent Essentials Hub is a growing library of ready-to-use prompts, skills, and guides that help you get more out of Claude and other AI tools right away. No blank page, no guesswork — just pick one and start using it.
One Challenge. Four AI Agent Modes.
Membership includes the live AI Agent Essentials Challenge. Each session introduces a different way AI agents show up — conversational, voice, video, and the ones already built into your apps. Standalone, that's a $300 value, and it's yours with your free community membership.
A clear, no-jargon breakdown of what AI agents actually are and how they think, plus a live look at the four ways you'll experience them yourself over the next four weeks — conversational, voice, video, and app-native.
I'll explain how an AI conversational agent actually works, show you one live in a demo, then you get hands-on time chatting with Claude yourself.
I'll explain how an AI voice agent actually works, show you one come to life in a live demo, then you get hands-on time talking to one yourself.
I'll explain how an AI video avatar agent actually works, show you one come to life on screen in a live demo, then you get hands-on time talking to one yourself.
I'll walk you through the app-native AI agents already built into the apps you use every day, with a live demo of what's actually possible. Then you'll get a prompt to run with Claude about your own tech stack, so you can see which of your tools already have native AI agent capability you're not tapping into yet.
Finish all five parts and earn your Certificate of Completion.
Community Leader and Instructor
- Founder of Innovate to Elevate with AI
- Creator of the AI Agent Essentials and AI Agent Maker Communities, Courses and Resource Hubs
- Strategic Advisor for multiple Fortune 100/500 global enterprises on digital and AI transformation
- Board Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Expert Faculty Speaker on Innovating with AI
“What sets Kristie apart is the rare combination of deep technical command and genuine human warmth. She knows AI, agentic systems, and agent building as well as anyone I have crossed paths with, yet she never hides behind jargon. She asks the sharp, compelling questions that reframe the whole conversation, then she goes and does the work. A doer, not a talker, who leads by example every time.
Her bootcamps and workshops are the real proof. She takes professionals who merely use AI and turns them into people who make agents that carry real work for them. If you or someone you know wants to build and optimize a business with AI, Kristie is the best in her field, and she will elevate your game and deliver results fast. I recommend her without a shred of hesitation. If you get the chance to work with her, take it.”
“One of the best AI educators I've come across. Kristie is the educator for humans. She takes complex topics, turns them into something understandable, and let me start building today.”
“Thank you for completely dissolving the intimidation I felt around learning AI Agents and that was honestly holding me back.”
“Your training is so good, I've already recommended you and your courses to several others.”
“Your training and demos of what's possible with AI Agents has opened up so many ideas and possibilities for me. I'm so excited. I can't wait to dive deeper.”
Join The AI Agent Essentials Community
Live sessions, starter resources, and a community of people figuring this out at the same time you are. Zero experience required.
Join The AI Agent Essentials CommunityNo coding required. Ever.