What is an AI agent? Here’s one job it can do.

Hello,

Welcome to the first issue of AI Agent Insider.

My name is Jane Ward. I've been running a bathroom renovation business in Australia for more than 25 years.

At the same time, I've built my online presence through digital marketing. That includes affiliate marketing, building funnels, creating websites, running email campaigns, you name it.

Both my physical and digital businesses involve everyday tasks, such as researching products, understanding clients' needs, creating content, sending follow-ups, and managing different projects.

These are the kinds of tasks I've been doing for years.

But now, with AI, I can manage everything from one place without feeling overwhelmed by everyday tasks.

I can focus on running my bathroom renovation business while AI helps me manage much of my digital marketing work.

I've built multiple AI agents to help me with tasks like creating videos, writing posts, managing content, and following up with people.

That's why I created AI Agent Insider.

Here, I'll share practical ways to use AI agents in your everyday business, with real examples, simple steps, and ideas you can try yourself.For this first issue, we'll start with research. You'll give chatgpt a small job, tell it what you need back and check the sources behind its answer.

An AI agent is something built with code and tools to handle a specific task for you.

For example, you can build an AI agent to send emails. Another agent can create posts, while another can create videos.

You can also give these agents a large amount of knowledge so they can better understand your business and what you want to achieve.

That's why it's very important to set a clear goal for your AI agent first.

It can also research websites, read files, and connect with other tools.

So whenever you need information or want something done, your AI agent can do the work and present the results the way you want.

You start this research task and review its answer. It doesn't set up an agent to run every week.

Suppose you want to learn one useful AI task. A news story, a step-by-step guide and an event announcement can all mention AI, but they give you different things to work with.

Ask chatgpt to read three examples and tell you which one contains a lesson you can follow.

Open chatgpt.com and choose Work in the switcher, if available. Paste the brief below.

Copy this:

The brief names the sources, explains what you need and defines the result. To compare suppliers or competitors, replace the links and change the columns to match your decision.

Work and web access depend on your account settings. If Work isn't available, try Chat with web search. If a page won't open, copy its text into the conversation and say which page it came from.

Use these details from the linked pages to check your comparison:

For this exercise, I'd start with the Claude guide because you can follow a lesson on the page. The Neuron post points you towards a session; the announcement itself gives you less to practise.

Open the links in your result and check that each one supports its row. Watch for an answer that calls every page a tutorial or treats an old event as upcoming.

If that happens, ask: “Check each row against its linked page. Correct anything unsupported, and separate facts from your recommendation.”

For affiliate marketing, you could compare three products using their official product pages. Ask for the features, price and who each product suits, with a source for each claim. Check the details before using them in a Facebook post.

My free Notion guide, 3 practical AI agents for your business, covers email replies, social posts and lead follow-up, with instructions you can copy.

Start with Email Desk. You provide the business facts and review the reply before using it.

Thanks for being here for the first issue.

Jane Ward

Tool reference: OpenAI’s guide to using chatgpt and Work.