Build two AI agents with me, then go close the open tabs on your laptop.

Set up

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What an AI agent is

An AI agent is a helper you set up once in plain English. It reads what you give it and does the same job every time you ask.

The Gumloop words, defined

Pick your creative lane

Tap one and every example prompt and sample reference on the page below switches to match it.

Your Build Map

Two builds today.

Part AChief of StaffWorks with your inbox and calendar and drafts your replies. It never sends one. Part BContent ManagerTakes one piece of content you already made and turns it into a week of drafts. It never posts anything.

Build order: Chief of Staff first, then Content Manager. The second one goes faster.

Part A

Chief of Staff

Your Chief of Staff AI agent reads your calendar and inbox, or whatever you paste in, and hands you a plan for the day: what needs a reply, what's coming up, what's still open. It can also look up a person or brand before you talk to them.
What you need open: Gumloop, and either your Gmail and Google Calendar, or a short list of real open items you can paste in.
About 20 minutes.

A1: Create the AI agent

Where: Gumloop, on your laptop
Time: 2 minutes
Do: Open Agents and create a new one. Name it Chief of Staff.
You should see: Your new AI agent's own page, with its name at the top and a chat box.

Stuck?

Say so in the Meet chat, or unmute and ask. I'll walk you through it.

A2: Upload its instructions

Where: Gumloop, in the chat box
Time: 3 minutes
Do: Find the plus button in the bottom-left corner of the chat box. Upload chief-of-staff-agent.md from this page. Send one message: "Use this file as your instructions." Then open the AI agent's settings, next to its instructions, find Self-Improving Instructions, and turn it on.
You should see: The file attached, and when you ask "what do you do?", an answer that mentions a daily brief and drafted replies, and says it never sends one.

chief-of-staff-agent.md

# Chief of Staff AI Agent ## Who you are You are my Chief of Staff. When I ask, you look at my calendar and inbox, or whatever I paste in, and you tell me what matters, draft what needs a reply, and propose where my schedule needs to move. ## What you do

This is a preview. Add your name and email one time to open the full file.

Download chief-of-staff-agent.md, Markdown text file, 5 KB

Stuck?

If the plus button isn't visible, scroll the chat box down.

A3: Connect your inbox and calendar

Where

Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors

Time

4 minutes

Open Connectors. Select Add Connector, pick Gmail, and sign in with the Google account you use daily. Repeat for Google Calendar. Both sign in through the same Google consent screen if you use the same account.

No login? Skip this and paste 3 to 5 open items into the chat instead: a forwarded email, a to-do list, or text copied from a screenshot.

You should see

Gmail and Google Calendar listed under Connectors, or your pasted list sitting in the chat if you used the fallback.

Connectors in this step

Gmail
Google sign-in
Your AI agent reads your inbox and writes draft replies. You send every reply yourself.
What in my inbox needs a reply today?
Google Calendar
Google sign-in, same as Gmail
Your AI agent sees your day and suggests holds or moves. It never adds anything without you saying so.
What's on my calendar today, and where's a good hole to work for two hours?

Open sample-inbox.md

sample-inbox.md

# Sample Inbox: Fictional This is a made-up inbox and calendar for anyone without a Google login today. Every name, business, and email address below is made up. Any match to a real one is by accident. ## Today's calendar - 9:00 AM, client call: Marisol Ortega (wedding photography, October booking) - 12:30 PM, lunch hold, no meeting

This is a preview. Add your name and email one time to open the full file.

Download sample-inbox.md, Markdown text file, 2 KB

Stuck?

Wrong Google account signed in, or a blocked work account? Use a personal Google account for today, or paste your list in instead.

A3b: Give it research skills

Where: Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors
Time: 4 minutes
Do: Open Connectors again. Add Exa, Firecrawl, and Apify. If a tool asks for your own Apify key, skip it and keep going.
You should see: Exa, Firecrawl, and Apify listed under Connectors (or just Exa and Firecrawl if you skipped Apify), and a chip on your Build Map for each one connected.

Connectors in this step

Exa
No sign-in
Looks up recent news on a person or brand.
What's the latest news on this venue before my call with them?
Firecrawl
No sign-in
Reads a web page and gives your AI agent the text, without the menus and ads.
Read this venue's website and tell me what kind of shoots they book most.
Apify
No sign-in for public tools
Small ready-made tools that collect public information from sites like Instagram or TikTok. Apify calls them Actors.
Pull this venue's recent public Instagram posts so I can see what they've featured lately.

Stuck?

Want to see what one does before moving on? Copy the sample prompt next to that connector and ask it.

A4: Nothing sends

Where: Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors
Time: 2 minutes
Do: Look at your Connectors list. It should hold Gmail, Google Calendar, Exa, Firecrawl, and Apify, or just Exa and Firecrawl if you skipped Apify.
You should see: Gmail, Google Calendar, and your research connectors under Connectors. No Slack, no CRM.

Stuck?

See something you didn't add? Remove it for today.

Stop and check.

The file you just uploaded tells your AI agent to draft replies and never send. When you connect something new later, from your own account, add that rule first.

A5: Run it on real work

Where: Gumloop, in the chat
Time: 4 minutes
Do: Ask it for today's brief. If you connected Gmail and Calendar, it reads the real thing. If you pasted your list, it works from that. Then try your research connectors on something real, using the prompt builder below or the sample prompts next to each connector: Exa for news, Firecrawl for a site or press page, Apify for a public profile.
You should see: A short brief: today's calendar, the emails that need a reply with a drafted reply for each one, and your open loops. Plus results from your research connectors. Every reply is a draft.

Real-work run

Prep me for my 4:30 call with the venue partner on today's calendar.

Stuck?

Nothing in your inbox needs a reply today? Ask it to draft a reply to one email anyway.

A6: Correct it once

Where: Gumloop, in the chat
Time: 1 minute
Do: Read what it gave you. Tell it one thing that's off or missing, in one sentence, for example the tone of a draft or a task it missed.
You should see: The next reply reflects your correction instead of repeating the first answer.

Optional connectors for later

Optional

What it is

Your AI agent can read a Doc or write into one.

What you'd ask it

Write today's brief into a new Doc instead of just showing it to me here.

Yes, your Google account. Optional today.

For later

What it is

Your AI agent can read your team's chat. Set the rule for what it can say, and to whom, before you let it post anything.

What you'd ask it

Read my team's morning channel and tell me what needs my attention.

Yes, a Slack workspace with permission to add apps. Left for later, for anyone running a team.

Part B

Content Manager

Your Content Manager AI agent takes one piece of content you already made, a video, a caption, a draft, and turns it into a week of drafts in your voice. You also get a newsletter blurb and a 7-day plan in a Sheet.
What you need open: Gumloop, and one piece of content you already made: a video, a post, a chapter, a song. Paste its words, or use a YouTube link or a Google Drive file.
About 18 minutes.

B1: Create the AI agent

Where: Gumloop, on your laptop
Time: 2 minutes
Do: Open Agents and create a new one. Name it Content Manager.
You should see: Your new AI agent's own page, with its name at the top and a chat box.

Stuck?

The plus button is in the same corner as before.

B2: Upload its instructions

Where: Gumloop, in the chat box
Time: 3 minutes
Do: Upload content-manager-agent.md from this page the same way. Send: "Use this file as your instructions." Turn on Self-Improving Instructions in its settings. Then paste 2 or 3 captions or posts you've written.
You should see: The file attached, and a reply confirming it has your sample captions.

content-manager-agent.md

# Content Manager AI Agent ## Who you are You are my Content Manager. I bring you one piece of content, a video, a document, a caption, a pasted paragraph, and you turn it into a full content pack in my own voice: hooks, captions, a newsletter blurb, and a plan for the week. Everything you draft matches how I sound. ## Before you draft anything

This is a preview. Add your name and email one time to open the full file.

Download content-manager-agent.md, Markdown text file, 4 KB

Stuck?

No sample captions handy? Paste any three sentences you've written publicly before, an Instagram caption, a bio, an old post.

B3: Connect your content

Where

Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors

Time

3 minutes

Open Connectors, select Add Connector, and add Google Drive, where your raw drafts and past captions already live. If your content calendar lives in Notion or Airtable, you'll swap that in for Sheets in B4b.

No login? Skip this and upload one file instead, using the same plus button: a caption, a script, a PDF.

You should see

Google Drive listed under Connectors, or your uploaded file sitting in the chat.

Connectors in this step

Google Drive
Google sign-in
Where your drafts, scripts, and past captions already live. Your AI agent reads them straight from Drive.
Look in my Drive for the script I wrote last week and turn it into a content pack.

What it is

If your content calendar lives in Notion or Airtable, connect that one in B4b in place of Google Sheets.

What you'd ask it

Write this week's posting plan into my content calendar database instead of a new Sheet.

Yes, whichever one you use.

B4: Give it a real piece of content

Where

Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors, and in the chat

Time

3 minutes

Add the YouTube connector if you have a video of your own to repurpose. It reads titles, transcripts, and comments.

No YouTube, or no login? Paste a transcript or a block of your own text into the chat instead. Either way, tell the AI agent: "Turn this into a content pack."

You should see

YouTube listed under Connectors with your video pulled in, or your pasted text acknowledged in the chat.

Content pack prompt

Turn this into a content pack: a behind-the-scenes reel from today's shoot.

Connectors in this step

YouTube
Google sign-in
Your AI agent reads the transcript, title, and comments on your own videos and turns them into new drafts. It only reads.
Pull the transcript from my last video and turn it into a week of captions.

Research only

What it is

Your AI agent sees what has worked on your account, or one like it, before it drafts something new. It only reads.

What you'd ask it

Look at what's performed well on my Instagram lately and use that to shape this week's captions.

Yes, an Instagram account with permission granted. Research only, not part of the live build steps.

Research only

What it is

The same for TikTok. Your AI agent looks at videos, profiles, and comments to see what's working. It only reads.

What you'd ask it

Check what's trending in my niche on TikTok before I write this week's hooks.

Yes, a TikTok account with permission granted. Research only, not part of the live build steps.

Open sample-content.md

sample-content.md

# Sample Content: Fictional A made-up short video transcript for anyone without a piece of their own content to repurpose today. Any match to a real person, brand, or channel is by accident. ## Video: "Why I stopped charging by the hour" **Length:** 2 minutes, 40 seconds **Format:** talking-head, filmed on a phone

This is a preview. Add your name and email one time to open the full file.

Download sample-content.md, Markdown text file, 2 KB

Stuck?

Nothing of your own handy? Use the sample-content.md transcript from this page.

Stop and check.

The YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok connectors only read. Your Content Manager AI agent never posts anything.

B4b: Send the plan to a Sheet

Where: Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors
Time: 2 minutes
Do: Add Google Sheets. It uses the same Google sign-in as Drive if you used one account. Your 7-day posting plan goes here, in a spreadsheet you can edit. If your content calendar lives in Notion or Airtable, add that instead.
You should see: Google Sheets listed under Connectors.

Connectors in this step

Google Sheets
Google sign-in, same as Drive
A spreadsheet your AI agent writes the 7-day plan into, one row a day.
Write this week's posting plan into a Sheet, one row per day.

Stuck?

No Sheets login? The plan shows up in the chat instead.

B5: Confirm nothing posts

Where: Gumloop, AI agent settings, Connectors
Time: 1 minute
Do: Look at your Connectors list one more time. It should hold Drive, YouTube, and Sheets (or Notion or Airtable in place of Sheets), plus Instagram or TikTok if you added them for research.
You should see: No connector that publishes anywhere. If one appears that you didn't add, remove it.

B6: Run it on real work

Where: Gumloop, in the chat
Time: 4 minutes
Do: Ask it to build the content pack: hooks, captions per platform, a newsletter blurb, and a 7-day posting plan, written into a Google Sheet.
You should see: A Sheet (or a message in chat if you used the paste fallback) with hooks, drafted captions in your voice, a short newsletter blurb, and a day-by-day plan for the week.

Real-work run

Turn today's build into one post about building an AI agent as a working photographer.

Stuck?

Voice sounds off? Tell it which line sounds wrong and paste one more sample of your real writing.

Try it

Try-it prompt builder

Your name

Your lane

Chief of Staff prompt

Hey Chief of Staff, prep me for a booking call with a couple or a venue. Look up recent news on them, read their site, and check what they've posted publicly. Give me a one-page brief and a drafted reply in my Gmail drafts.

Content Manager prompt

Hey Content Manager, turn my behind-the-scenes reel from a shoot into a content pack: hooks, captions for my platforms, a newsletter blurb, and a 7-day plan in a Sheet.

Exit

Run both on real work

Both AI agents are built. Ask your Chief of Staff for today's brief once more, then have your Content Manager turn today's build into one post.

Take-home

Download chief-of-staff-agent.md and content-manager-agent.md if you haven't already. Both are also in the copy boxes above.
Both AI agents are in your Gumloop account when the call ends.
Optional connectors for later: Slack for Chief of Staff, and Notion or Airtable for Content Manager if your calendar doesn't live in Sheets.

Download chief-of-staff-agent.md, Markdown text file, 5 KB Download content-manager-agent.md, Markdown text file, 4 KB

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The words, defined

AI agent: A helper you set up once, in plain English. It does the same job every time you ask.
Agent Instructions: The plain-English brief that tells your AI agent what its job is. Today it's one of the two files you upload.
Self-Improving Instructions: A setting that lets the AI agent rewrite its own instructions when you correct it.
Knowledge Sources: The documents your AI agent is allowed to read. Today: your real inbox and content, or the sample files.
Connectors: Other tools your AI agent can use, like Gmail or Google Calendar. Today each AI agent gets only the ones it needs.
Chief of Staff AI agent: Reads your calendar and inbox, drafts replies, proposes calendar holds, and looks up a person or brand before a call. It never sends one.
Content Manager AI agent: Takes one piece of content and turns it into a week of drafts in your voice, and writes the plan into a Sheet.
Content pack: Hooks, platform captions, a newsletter blurb, and a 7-day posting plan, all in one Sheet.
Build Map: The progress map at the top of your phone screen, or on the left on a laptop. It shows where you are and which connectors you've connected.

Set up

Start your Gumloop trial

What an AI agent is

Pick your creative lane

Two builds today.

Chief of Staff

A1: Create the AI agent

A2: Upload its instructions

A3: Connect your inbox and calendar

Gmail

Google Calendar

A3b: Give it research skills

Exa

Firecrawl

Apify

A4: Nothing sends

A5: Run it on real work

A6: Correct it once

Optional connectors for later

Content Manager

B1: Create the AI agent

B2: Upload its instructions

B3: Connect your content

Google Drive

B4: Give it a real piece of content

YouTube

B4b: Send the plan to a Sheet

Google Sheets

B5: Confirm nothing posts

B6: Run it on real work

Try-it prompt builder

Run both on real work

Take-home

Day-14 reminder

The words, defined