For Founders
Understanding AI Agents for Business
AI agents are not chatbots. They are software systems that take actions, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks without being told exactly how. This course explains what agents actually are, which business processes they're well-suited for, and how to think about deploying them — without requiring any technical background.
4Modules
16Lessons
4 hoursTotal time
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What you'll learn
The difference between AI assistants, AI tools, and AI agents
How agents make decisions and what keeps them on track
Which business processes are best suited to agent automation
How to evaluate an agent proposal from a vendor or dev team
The real cost and timeline for deploying an agent in your business
Common failure modes — and how responsible businesses prevent them
Who this is for
This course is for you if...
Business Owner
Exploring automation options and hearing a lot of AI agent hype
Operations Leader
Running repetitive processes that feel ready for automation
Digital Transformation Lead
Responsible for evaluating and adopting new technology
Curriculum
Course syllabus
01What agents actually are50 min
- Chatbots vs copilots vs agents
- How agents reason and take action
- The role of tools and memory
- Agent taxonomy for business
02Business process suitability55 min
03Evaluating agent proposals45 min
04Deploying and maintaining agents50 min
Your instructor
Taught by the people who build this
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Arifur Rahman
CEO & Co-Founder, SocioFi Technology
Arifur is a BUET graduate and co-founder of SocioFi Technology. He has spent the last several years building AI-native software systems and working directly with founders and SMEs to take products from prototype to production. He teaches what he has learned from doing it — not from theory.
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What students say
"
I finally understand what everyone is selling me. This course gave me a framework for evaluating proposals that is worth far more than the price.
Sarah L.
Head of Operations, mid-size firm
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Went into three vendor meetings after this course and the vendors were visibly surprised by the questions I was asking.
Michael O.
SME owner
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