2 Hours to Research Intelligence: Build Your First AI Agent

Silicon Valley Startup Founders & Investors Meetup There are many groups promoting this event. Our meetup group is participating by promoting this event. This event is organized by Albert's List. This is an online event. Attendees can be located anywhere in the world! There is a cost to attend this event. In order to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003645521692?aff=oddtdtcreator You're either looking at a company to join, or you're trying to understand what your competitors are doing. Either way, you're researching blind—reading scattered reviews, googling company news, checking LinkedIn. It takes forever and you miss things. Stop doing this manually. In this workshop, you'll customize and deploy a working AI research agent in 3 hours. Fork an existing competitive intelligence agent, wire in your own data sources (RSS feeds, APIs, whatever's available), and run it. Feed it a company or industry keyword. Get back structured intelligence: recent news, hiring patterns, market positioning, gaps, red flags. What you'll actually do: • Clone a working competitive intelligence agent from GitHub • Add your own custom data sources (RSS feeds, open APIs, etc.) • Test it live on a real company or competitor • Walk away with a deployed agent you can run 100+ times Two use cases, one agent: 1. Job Seeker Mode — Research a company before you apply, interview, or accept an offer. Understand growth, hiring, leadership, red flags. 2. Competitive Mode — Understand what competitors are doing, market gaps, hiring trends, strategic moves. For employees and side hustlers. What you need before the workshop: • 10 min of pre-work (optional, but recommended): Clone the GitHub repo, set up your API key, test it runs • A laptop with a browser (Claude.ai) • Basic comfort with Claude—you should already be asking it questions and iterating After the workshop: • Post-work recap doc: What you built, how to iterate, advanced techniques, troubleshooting • Optional upsell: Advanced agent techniques course (separate paid offering) This is NOT: • A tutorial on "how to use AI" • A guide to corporate strategy • A tool for stalking or privacy violations (we cover ethical guardrails) Price: $17–27 (one-time, includes materials + post-work doc) Pre-work is optional. If you complete it, you'll hit the ground running. If you skip it, no problem—we'll set up during the first 20 minutes.