What Should Your First AI Agent Be?
Gumloop has made it really easy for non-technical professionals and teams to get started with an agent to prompt.
If you have a routine that you repeat frequently, you can customize this agent to take on that repetitive task.
The first thing you type
In general, we're going to start off with a chief of staff agent today. That's something most people can relate to.
There are three rules that I like to follow as a best practice for setting up an AI agent. Number one, give the agent a persona. So for those of you who are building a chief of staff agent alongside us today, we're going to first tell our agent, you are my chief of staff agent. So go ahead and type that in the screen.
Hear this at 4:45 and 9:13 in the recording.
Two ways to set up an AI agent
Inside of Gumloop, there are two ways to set up an agent. We can set it up manually, but the quickest way to do it is to use the system that they have. So using this chat feature to set it up. You may notice on this screen, there's a few drop downs, data analytics, et cetera, all the way down to sales outreach.
Hear this at 10:08 in the recording.
Where this comes from
Every sentence above is Jacqueline V. Twillie's own, spoken live with Women Applying AI on October 7, 2026. The headings, questions, timestamps and links are the only additions. Filler words are cut, and a passage that skips a few seconds starts at the timestamp shown.
Build Your First AI Agent in One Hour: the full build, with the clips, the prompts and the transcript. This article's clip is The three rules: persona, goals, deliverables.
Related reading: What Is an AI Agent Persona?, How to Build Your First AI Agent: A Single-Session Guide for Mid-Career Pros, How Do You Dictate Goals to an AI Agent?.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a technical background to build an AI agent?
I have a non-technical background. Over the summer, I started teaching a group of friends to build agents in one hour. Since then, over 300 people have joined me, and I am most excited to be with WAAI today for us to build our agents.
Do you work for Gumloop?
I don't work for Gumloop. I found this tool over the summer through Lenny's podcast, and I started using it and have since made myself an ambassador for them. I've created a relationship with Gumloop.
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