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Business-First AI Framework
Business-First AI Framework
- Use AI as Your Coach
  Use AI as Your Coach
  - Overview
  - Framework Coach Guide
- Step 1: Analyze Workflows
- Step 2: Deconstruct Workflows
- Step 3: Build AI-Powered Workflows
  Step 3: Build AI-Powered Workflows
  - 3.1: Design
  - 3.2: Construct
  - 3.3: Run
  - Worked Examples
    Worked Examples
    
    Deterministic Automation
    
    AI Collaborative
    
    Autonomous Agent
    
    Full Example: Content Calendar Planning
- Questions
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  - Find workflows worth applying AI to
  - Identify the right AI tools for a workflow
Agentic Building Blocks
Agentic Building Blocks
- Model
- Prompts
  Prompts
  - Prompt Engineering
    
    Prompt Engineering
    
    Zero-Shot Prompting
    
    Few-Shot Learning
    
    Chain-of-Thought
    
    Direct Instruction
    
    Contextual Prompting
    
    Role Prompting
    
    Output Formatting
    
    Multi-Turn Conversation
    
    Self-Consistency and Reflection
    
    Emotional Prompting
    
    Reframing Prompts
    
    Style Unbundling
    
    Summarization and Distillation
    
    Real-World Constraints
    
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    What is a system prompt?
- Context
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  - Context Graphs
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    Difference between a skill and an agent
    
    Do plugin skills conflict with custom skills?
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  - Orchestration Patterns
    
    Orchestration Patterns
    
    Sequential
    
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    Router
    
    Hierarchical
    
    Handoff
    
    Evaluator-Optimizer
    
    Group Chat
    
    Decentralized
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    How do I connect an MCP server to Claude Code
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    Building Agents on Claude
    
    Scheduling Subagents
    
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  - Skills
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    Discover Your Best Claude Skills
    
    Resources
  - Questions
    
    Questions
    
    Best way to name agent skills?
    
    Schedule an automated subagent
  - Topics
    
    Topics
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- Google Gemini
  Google Gemini
  - Agents
    Agents
    
    Building Agents on Google
  - Questions
  - Topics
    
    Topics
  - Resources
- M365 Copilot
  M365 Copilot
  - Agents
    Agents
    
    Building Agents on M365 Copilot
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    Topics
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- OpenAI
  OpenAI
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    Building Agents on OpenAI
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Builder Stack Setup
Builder Stack Setup
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Product & Engineering
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Patterns
- Workflow Architecture Patterns
  Workflow Architecture Patterns
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