BUILD YOUR FIRST AI ASSISTANTA LIVE, FULL-DAY COURSE WITH MELISSA AGNES

Build your first AI assistant on Sunday. Change the way you work on Monday.

Stop asking AI questions. Start giving it jobs.

A live, hands-on day for managers who want to do more with AI than search and rewrite emails.

You'll learn the foundations of building with AI through creating your own AI assistant, step by step, with Melissa Agnes.

By the end of the day, your AI assistant will help you sort everything on your mind, track your priorities, brief you each morning, and keep you organized and clear-headed, with actual support you can lean on every day.

You'll leave knowing how to build with AI. So the next time you think, "I wish I had something that could do this," you won't have to wait for your company, your IT team or another piece of software. You'll know how to start building it yourself, personally and professionally.

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11 am to 6 pm Eastern Time

with a one-hour break

Live and online

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Backed by a full-refund guarantee

THE SKILL OF THE FUTURE

Most people are learning to use AI. The ones who stand out are learning to build with it.

You already know how to ask AI a question. Building with AI means teaching it how you work and setting it up to do real work for you. It's the skill of the future, and it's fast becoming one of the skills employers want most.

Meanwhile, organizations keep investing in new AI tools that aren't solving the problems they were bought to solve. In PwC's 2026 Global CEO Survey, 56% of CEOs said their company had seen neither higher revenues nor lower costs from AI. (PwC, January 2026) Leaders surveyed by Deloitte point to why: insufficient worker skills are the top obstacle to integrating AI into existing workflows. (Deloitte, 2026) Closing that gap takes skills, and no new tool can supply them.

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call it urgent

In a 2026 survey of 542 U.S. executives at companies with 1,000 or more employees, 94% said their organization uses AI and 77% called workforce AI skills an urgent need. Yet formal AI training reached about half of IT and engineering teams, and fewer people in sales, marketing, HR and legal.

Zapier, April 2026

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PwC analyzed more than a billion job ads across 27 countries and found that jobs requiring AI skills are growing roughly eight times as fast as the overall job market, with an average wage premium of 62%.

PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, June 2026

You don't have to wait for your organization to catch up. You can learn the fundamentals yourself, build with AI for yourself, and develop the very skill employers are increasingly looking for, and paying for.

Which makes now the time to learn these skills, while they still set you apart.

WHAT SHIFTS FOR YOU

What if one Sunday could change the way you work every Monday after it, in the best possible way?

On the day of the live event, you arrive with everything that's currently living in your head. The priorities. The follow-ups. The ideas. The deadlines. The people you're waiting on. The things you can't afford to forget. By the end of the day, you'll have built something scalable that can help you carry it.

You give AI jobs, not just questions.

You'll know how to set up an assistant with its own instructions, its own information and its own schedule.

What's on your mind has a place to go.

Your to-dos, follow-ups, ideas and the people you're waiting on live on one page that you designed and your AI assistant keeps organized. Your brain doesn't have to be your project management system anymore.

Your week starts with a brief, not a scramble.

Before you open your inbox, your assistant has laid out your priorities, what's due and who to chase.

You can build the next AI workflow yourself.

The assistants, agents and workflows you'll want next use the same few pieces, so once you've built one, you'll know how to build another, for your work life and your home life. Which means a whole new world of opportunities opens up to you!

You can lead your team's use of AI from experience.

You'll know how AI works well enough to spot where it can take work off your team's plate, show your people how to set it up, and help them build their own, so AI becomes part of how your team works, not just another tool nobody uses.

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1 in 3

when their manager backs AI

1 in 25

for everyone else

In a Gallup survey, workers who strongly agree that their manager backs AI were about 8 times as likely to say AI has completely changed how work gets done where they work: 1 in 3, compared with 1 in 25 for everyone else. (Gallup, August 2026)

THE FOUNDATIONS YOU'LL LEARN

How every AI assistant, agent and workflow works, explained in plain language

In the morning, you'll learn:

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What AI assistants and AI agents are, how they differ, and what people really mean by an "AI employee".

02

What a prompt, a skill (a saved set of instructions AI follows) and a project are, and how they fit together into a system.

03

How to give AI rules it follows every time, so it works the way you want it to.

04

How to check AI's work, so you stay in charge of the thinking and the outputs.

05

The risks to know, so you use AI safely and wisely.

You'll also see real examples of what managers are building, for work and for home.

WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

Your first AI assistant, built in four parts

In the afternoon, you'll build your own AI assistant, together with Melissa, on your own Claude account:

assistant · part 1

MMy instructionstrained to work like you

Ask me before you guessNever assume

Keep it short — use bulletsStyle

Nothing ships without my yesApproval

An assistant trained to work the way you do. Just like training a new assistant or intern, you'll learn how to teach your AI assistant to speak your language, understand how you think and prioritize, and deliver work the way you like it done.

the real prize

The skill you'll take with you

Building this assistant teaches you the fundamentals of building with AI to your own specifications. You'll learn to give it clear instructions and the information it needs, and to set it up to do work for you, while you tackle the things on your to-do list that only you can do.

You'll also leave inspired by where you can take this new skill, and with the confidence to start bringing your own ideas to life.

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This day was made for you if:

Check the boxes that resonate with you.

Whether you checked 1 or all 8 of the boxes, this day was designed for you!

YOUR TEACHER FOR THE DAY

Meet Melissa Agnes

NATO·The Pentagon·Fortune 500·ISO 22361 panel·Taught at Harvard·Forbes top 10 business book·founder & CEO, Crisis Ready Institute·co-founder and CEO, PR3CORIA

For more than 15 years, Melissa Agnes has helped leaders and organizations perform when the stakes are highest. As an internationally recognized crisis communication expert, keynote speaker, and best selling author, Melissa has worked with NATO, the Pentagon, world leaders and Fortune 500 organizations. She sat on the panel that developed ISO 22361, the international standard for crisis management, and travels the world speaking to leaders about effectively thriving through disruption.

Her Crisis Ready® methodology and her book, “Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World,” are taught at Harvard and at universities worldwide, and her book was named one of the top 10 business books of 2018 by Forbes, where Melissa has also been a contributing author.

She is the founder of Crisis Ready Institute, and the co-founder and CEO of PR3CORIA, an agentic AI operating system that bridges risk, culture, and high-stakes communications for highly regulated organizations.

She runs her own work with the same kind of AI assistant you'll build in this full-day course. Over the past two years, Melissa has invested profusely in learning to build with AI. On November 8, 2026, she'll pass what she's learned on to you.

Melissa's work has always been about being ready before the moment arrives. This full-day course brings that same thinking to AI, helping you build the skills now, so you're ready for where the workforce is going.

Sunday, November 8, 2026, hour by hour

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11:00 am

Opening

Get inspired! You'll see real examples of what people are building with AI, at work and at home, and get a first look at what you'll be able to build for yourself by the end of the day.

11:30 am

The foundations

How AI assistants and agents work, how to give AI instructions it follows every time, and how to check its work and use it safely.

2:00 pm

Break

An hour, offline.

3:00 pm

The build

Step by step, together with Melissa, you'll build your own AI assistant: one that's trained to work the way you do, keeps everything on your mind in one place and has a brief waiting for you each morning.

5:15 pm

Where you go from here

Explore the many ways you can apply your new skills, from preparing for meetings and drafting your team's weekly update to planning family meals or organizing a move. Inspired, you'll map out what you'll build next!

5:45 pm

Close

How to bring this to your team, and what's next if you want to go further.

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What you'll leave with

A working AI assistant on your own Claude account.

The skills to keep improving your assistant as you use it, and to build your next assistant, agent, tool or workflow on your own.

A map of what you'll build next, personally and professionally, and the knowledge and skills to bring it to life.

A simple guide to help you get set up before the day, plus a prompt to help you list the everyday tasks you'd love to hand off, both available as soon as you register.

For teams of 3 or more: a private 60-minute session with Melissa after the course.

Team bonus

all yours to keep!

morning brief

☀Good morning, Melissa

PrioritiesReport due Friday

DueBudget review

my board

To-dos

Report

Waiting

Miles

Ideas

Q1 plan

Home

Gift for Sam

my instructions

Ask me before you guess.

Keep it short — use bullets.

Nothing sent without my yes.

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FOR LEADERS

Leading a team or an organization? Build the skills yourself, and bring your people with you.

This day is for leaders too. Come for yourself, and build the skills to lead your organization's use of AI from experience.

If your calendar won't allow it, or you want AI working across your teams, send the people who'll put it into practice: your department heads, your project leads, the person you'd otherwise ask to "figure out AI." They'll spend Sunday learning the fundamentals and building their own AI assistant, and they'll come back on Monday with the skills to start building what your team needs.

Team bonus

When 3 or more people from your organization register, your team gets a private 60-minute online session with Melissa and her team after the course, booked at a time that works for your team. Together, you'll look at what each person built and plan what your team builds next.

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THE INVESTMENT

Your investment: one day, a working AI assistant, and the skills to keep building

Live with Melissa

$1,250 USD per person

That's one full, live day of building your own AI assistant with Melissa, plus the fundamentals to keep building, backed by a full-refund guarantee.

Includes everything in "What you leave with," plus a simple setup guide you can use from the day you register, so you're ready to make the most of the day.

Team bonus: When 3 or more people from your organization register, your team also gets a private 60-minute online session with Melissa after the course, booked at a time that works for your team.

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Guarantee

Complete the simple setup steps before the day of the event, join us for the full live day and follow along with the build. If you don't leave with a working AI assistant, we'll refund your $1,250 in full. Working means that by the end of the day, your assistant has your instructions, helps you track your to-do's, sorts what you give it, and has your first brief scheduled.

Refund requests must be emailed to team@crisisreadyinstitute.com within 24 hours of the course ending, by 6 pm Eastern Time on Monday, November 9, 2026.

Questions people ask

A webinar or masterclass can show you what's possible with AI in an hour or so. This course gives you a full, live day to build it yourself: your own AI assistant, on your own Claude account, set up around your own work and life, step by step with Melissa. You leave with it working, plus the fundamentals to build the next one on your own.

Learn the skill the workforce is moving toward, and leave with your first AI assistant built and working for you!

On November 8, 2026, you'll learn the foundations of building with AI and build an assistant that keeps working for you, day after day, week after week.

Your seat includes everything on this page, and the guarantee.

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$1,250 USD Sunday, November 8, 2026 11 am to 6 pm Eastern Time Live and online