AI Agents for Business: From Concepts to Building Your First Agent Lesson1

Discover how AI agents work and how to build one that can investigate problems, use tools and recommend actions safely. In this hands-on course, you'll explore the difference between AI assistants, workflows and autonomous agents, understand the core components behind an agent, and build a practical fraud investigator agent using Python and Google Colab. Using a fictional banking scenario, NovaBank, you'll learn how an agent reasons through a task, accesses tools, observes results and recommends actions while keeping humans in control of critical decisions. **This course is part of a three-lesson series on building practical, reliable AI agents for business.**