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Free courses on putting AI to work in your business. 12 lessons. 3 working agents. Built by the team that ships these systems for clients.

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The product

Lessons you finish.

Short written lessons with a video version. A quiz at the end. Try one question right now.

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Lesson 01 · Agents, Not Chatbots

A chatbot is a conversation. An agent is a job description. It watches for work, decides what to do with each piece, and does it. The loop ends with a result, not a reply.

Trigger (something happens) -> Agent (AI decides) -> Action

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A workflow becomes agentic when...

Zero theory

Every lesson ends with something you built. If it does not ship, we cut it.

From real client work

The frameworks come from systems we run inside real businesses.

Watch the mistakes too

Every build shows a real failure and the fix. That is where the learning is.

Read it or watch it

Written lessons that stand on their own.

Every lesson is a complete written piece with a table of contents, downloadable worksheets, and the mistakes shown verbatim. Video lands on top, not instead.

On this page

Chatbots answer. Agents act.

The three boxes

A real one, taken apart

The mistake, and the fix

the AI makes a decision in the middle without you
it uses the newest model

The model is not the point. The point is that a decision you used to make now happens without you.

Honest grading

Quizzes that tell you why.

Wrong answers are plausible mistakes, not jokes. Every explanation teaches. Answers are graded on the server, so the certificate means you actually passed.

Proof you can link

A certificate worth sharing.

Finish every lesson and pass every quiz and you get a public certificate page with your name on it. Put it on LinkedIn or do not. It is yours.

Certificate

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Agents That Work

JUL 10, 2026Advizr Academy
The flagship course

Agents That Work

Build agentic workflows that do real jobs in your business.

  1. 01Agents, Not Chatbots8 min
  2. 02Pick the Right Job10 min
  3. 03Directives: Instructions an Agent Can Follow12 min
  4. 04The DOE Blueprint10 min
  5. 05Build 1: The Email Triage AgentSoon
  6. 06Give Your Agent Hands: Tools, APIs, and MCPSoon
  7. 07Build 2: The Lead Research AgentSoon
  8. 08Test Small, Then ScaleSoon
  9. 09Build 3: The Report GeneratorSoon
  10. 10When It Breaks: Self-Healing WorkflowsSoon
  11. 11Ship It: Production, Cost, and MonitoringSoon
  12. 12Your Next Three AgentsSoon

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Watch or read

Every lesson is a video and a full written version. Take either.

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Pass a short quiz

3 to 5 questions at the end of each lesson. Instant feedback.

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Earn the certificate

Finish a course and get a public certificate page you can share.

Who makes this

We build these systems for a living.

Advizr is an AI transformation company in Vancouver. We build custom AI systems for businesses and teach their teams to run them. Inbox triage. Lead research. Weekly reporting. The same builds you do in the flagship course.

See what we build at advizr.ca

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