Welcome, humans.

We go live in five minutes.

This is the number one question we get every week:

How do I actually use AI agents to save time in my business?

In five minutes, we are going live with James McAulay, founder of The Agent Accelerator, for a practical crash course on everything you need to know to get started building helpful, proactive agents in Claude Cowork and Claude Code.

James has spent the past year building at the front lines of the agent economy.

After helping ElevenLabs grow from $110M to more than $300M in annual recurring revenue, he launched a fully AI-native business that reached $80K in monthly revenue by month three.

By month five, it recorded its first $200K-plus month. He did it without a single employee or a dollar of paid advertising. Instead, James delegates work to multiple AI agents every day.

Here’s what we’re covering live:

• Agent foundations: How to move from prompting a chatbot to delegating agentic work.

• Starting your second brain: The key files that make the biggest difference.

• Optimizing Claude with CLAUDE.md: Tips and tricks for shaping how Claude behaves.

• Skills: Where to find good ones and how to create great ones.

• Proactive agents: James’s four-level framework for agents that work without being prompted in Cowork and Code.

• Your questions: Answered live!

The format blends teaching, screen sharing, and demos of James’s own setup, so you can see how the pieces work together in practice.

Through The Agent Accelerator, James has trained more than 400 people across 100 companies, including startups, 200-person organizations, and even the UK Government.

Participants report automating an average of five hours of manual work every week after four weeks.

And in this stream built for TOTAL beginners (like you!), we are starting with what agents can do today and how YOU can put one to work.

Open the stream now, say hello in the chat, tell us where you’re from, and bring the task you wish you could stop doing manually.

And TBH, you should probably plan to follow along and implement James’ guide as you go!

Learn more about James: The Agent Accelerator

P.S: If you join after 12pm PT / 3pm ET, you can watch the whole thing pre-recorded!

New from The Neuron: We could have Fable level AI on our laptops “within two years”

Intel’s Dr. Olena Zhu showed us the version of local AI that feels useful right now. They just released SuperClaw’s public beta, which includes email, coding, and deep-research agents that can combine outside research with private company data while keeping the sensitive material local. Parts of the stack are open, so teams can inspect the architecture and build on it.

The bigger idea behind Intel’s approach is wild: local models have been inheriting frontier-level capability after an average of roughly 24.8 months. If that trend holds, a Fable-class intelligence model could run on a high-end laptop by 2028. See above re: problems with datacenters for why that’s actually really important.

Watch / listen: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts

Shout out to Nerdio who sponsored this video!

New from The Neuron: Have AI Run Your Project Management Playbook

Are you drowning in project management? So was Jessica Lee, our content ops lead at TechnologyAdvice. Then she got access to ClickUp’s new AI tools, and it started feeling like she’d hired a specialist to triage the busywork.

If you use ClickUp, or any other project-management software, watch this 20-minute walkthrough. Jessica shows exactly how she uses ClickUp AI to triage tasks, build reports, and create agents and workflows that save her hours every week.

What should we learn next? 🤔

Lets us know below!

Stay curious,

The Neuron Team

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