A plain-English guide to building AI agents with Claude Code — agents that research, write, and ship real work. No Python. No frameworks. If you can write a clear email, you can build everything in this book.
Includes complete, copy-and-adapt builds for accounting firms, law firms, and ecommerce startups.
The map
The book opens with the jump that actually matters — and why it's a thinking-and-writing skill, not a programming skill.
Ask, copy, repeat. Useful — and the most limited way to work with AI. You're a research team with a search box.
Real output, but you personally carry every step of every project. The process still lives in your head.
You hand over the goal, not the steps. The system plans, executes, checks its own work, and delivers.
Level two scales with your attention. Level three doesn't.
What's inside
Every chapter ends with exercises you can run the same day — and every build in Part III ships with a complete workflow file you can adapt on day one.
What an agent actually is, the three tests that separate it from a chatbot in a costume, and the two habits — a context file and a planning discipline — that decide everything.
Build a research agent and a content repurposing machine, step by step. One source document in, a week of publishable content out.
Three full professional builds — an accounting firm, a law firm, an ecommerce startup — where accuracy is billable and errors have consequences.
The five mistakes that kill agent builds, the promotion test, and a 90-day plan from one reliable agent to a multi-agent pipeline.
Built for real work
Each industry chapter follows a real practice through a complete build — including the guardrail rules that make the output safe in professions where a made-up number ends careers.
A month-end close preparation agent and a client document chaser — automating the seventy percent of hours spent gathering and checking, never the judgment.
A matter intake summarizer, a discovery organizer, and a client update drafter — built so hallucinated citations are structurally impossible.
A product listing agent with a brand voice bible, a review-mining agent, and a weekly content rhythm that runs like a pipeline.
The agent does the hours. You keep the judgment.
Watch first, read second
A quick tour of what's in the book and why the jump from chatbot to agent doesn't require a line of code.
Table of contents
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