AI Agent Build Impact Report

Training women leaders to build their first AI agents in one hour

Prepared by Jacqueline V. Twillie, MBA · bnedai.com

1. Executive summary and program vision

This report documents the first seven weeks of a live AI-agent training program built for senior professional women. The curriculum moves participants from passive AI users to managers of a digital workforce: "Agents are your employees; you are the manager." On Gumloop's no-code platform, participants build, test, and schedule their first working AI agents inside a single structured one-hour workshop, with scoped connectors, human-in-the-loop review, and a schedule set only after live testing. The program closes the AI fluency gap for women while the agents go to work on real calendars, inboxes, and searches. It has run without funding or sponsorship to date, taught entirely by one instructor.

This program grows out of a decade teaching women to negotiate and close the gender wage gap. Skills gaps compound the same way pay gaps do: fastest for the people already locked out of the room. This curriculum exists to close the AI skills gap before it hardens into another one.

2. Leadership network and professional profile

Senior professionals from leading global organizations, academic institutions, public agencies, and clinical networks. Participants registered as individuals; no employer sponsored or endorsed the sessions.

3. Digital influence and social amplification

1. Threads recap, June 30: 15,200 views, 344 replies, 339 likes, 4 reposts. Replies nearly matched likes: people asked to be included rather than scrolling past, and the next two sessions filled.
2. LinkedIn campaign No. 1, June 29: 1,859 impressions, 1,257 members reached, 19 comments. Viewer profile per LinkedIn analytics: 30% senior, 13% director, 9% C-suite, with founders, CEOs, and professors among the top titles.
3. LinkedIn campaign No. 2, July 8: 1,396 impressions, 966 members reached, in an audience weighted toward founders, engineers, and senior operators in major tech markets.
4. Referral traffic: referral links drew 57 visitors across the window; most activation happens live in session, outside link attribution.

4. What they built: working agents on real workflows

Live sessions teach token discipline, scoped connector access, human-in-the-loop triggers, and how to counter AI sycophancy. Participant builds on record include:

A working agent is the visible outcome. The real return is time: what a manager gets back once the agent runs the routine work, and what she does with it instead.

5. Workshop quality and live engagement

Builders have joined from New York, London, Salvador (Brazil), Detroit, Memphis, and Georgia, with at least a dozen live sessions and at least 122 agents built on record in seven weeks.

The curriculum is built to route around the traps that stall non-technical builders. AI sycophancy, an agent confidently confirming work it never did, burns through platform credits and trust in the same afternoon. Naming it early keeps a session on schedule. The guardrails hold across the room: builders from Amazon Web Services, the City of Houston, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, alongside DNP nurse leaders and FINRA-licensed financial operators, work through the same hour at the same pace.

1. Show rates and retention: 63% show rate on June 29 and 75% on July 20 (21 live builders of 28 registered). Participants stayed an average of 53 minutes in a 73-minute session.
2. Ratings and repeats: of 14 participant ratings exported from Luma, 13 are five stars. Nine women registered for two or more sessions inside the first three weeks.

6. The teach-one commitment and partnership opportunities

100% of surveyed participants made the teach-one pledge: each commits to teach one other person what she learned about building agents, a network effect that spreads AI fluency beyond any single room. Follow-through is the measure Report No. 2 will track. The pipeline already runs deeper than the pledge: Tina Getachew, PMP, came to the June 29 session, joined a Gumloop Learning Cohort, completed the Certified Agent Builder program in July, and shared her certification publicly. Christina Hawkins posted her one-hour build to her network: "If you're AI-curious but not sure where to start, I'd recommend keeping an eye on Jacqueline's posts for future workshops."