Agents for Non-Techies 🤖
In this 5 minute read you will learn about agents. If you follow this 3 minute tutorial, you’ll be able to build your own without code 🤯
2025 will be a year we remember as an inflection point for AI. Since the "ChatGPT moment," we have become familiar with chat assistants that can pass the Turing Test. While ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini excel at retrieving and finding information, they have lacked the ability to perform actions. Until now…
What Can An Agent Do?
What even is an agent? My definition in non-tech lingo:
An agent is a digital assistant that uses artificial intelligence to understand what you want, make decisions based on your needs, and take actions to complete tasks for you automatically. Like having a smart helper that can work independently on your behalf.
These are some real world examples of what agents can do today. Below are examples of how Agents add value in my day-to-day…
Creating Files on your computer
Checking availability and Scheduling Google Calendar Events (demo coming in a later post)
Marathon Prep Agent that texts you in morning about today’s workout, nutrition, and recovery.
Sending a Slack message when someone posts on Linkedin about your company
Creating a qualified in Salesforce from Linkedin DM
Uploading Files to Box from Gmail Attachment
I use these tools daily through my personal Claude Desktop to automate tasks! If you have an agent you think would be valuable, send me an email ( adam@simple.company ) and I might build it!
Demo: Video of Agent performing this task for me (no hands) 🤯
Example: Asking an Agent to Browse the Internet For Me
Giving Agent Request: The Chat Assistant (ChatGPT most popular; I am using Claude from Anthropic here) determines if this is a question or task. If it's a task, it checks if it has a tool that can perform it.
If the chat finds a tool to perform the task, it performs the action. In this case, using a browser tool from Puppetter, the agent opens browsers on my local computer for me and opens Unpopular Opinion subreddit.
How You Can Do This In 3 Minutes 🫵
I’ll walk you through it - Low Technical Knowledge and no coding needed.
https://x.com/adamanzzz/status/1911410858430734585
Download Claude Desktop. You need a paid Claude account during the Beta (sorry, it’s $20/m). Trying Cursor or Windsurf is free, but a little more technically demanding.
Go To Smithery and Copy Puppeteer Terminal Command. For the nerds; this is a MCP Server that I will go into more details about in future blog (content roadmap at bottom).
Open Terminal on Mac (Command + Space then type Terminal)
Paste
npm install -g npxand hit “Return” or “Enter” on keyboardPaste in Command into terminal and hit “Return” or “Enter” on keyboard
Open Claude. If you see a number next to the Hammer Icon it worked!
Try the example above for yourself 🤖
Send me an email ( adam@simple.company ) if you get stuck.
Want to learn more about AI?
Every day there is so much activity in the AI world, which is why two weeks ago I left my previous role as CTO at Fundwell to start The Simple Company (check out release blog).
My Recent Content
Video Recap and Slides from my talk at Google Cloud Next “Structuring your Unstructured data with Gemini for Scaling Businesses” with Google and Box.
Content I’m cooking up 🧑🍳
Podcast with OmniAI
Blog Post on Building a Personalized Agent that performs actions within Salesforce, Google Calendar, Slack, etc.
Blog on underlying technology making this Possible; MCP and Agent2Agent
Never been a better time to build 💪
