Build your first AI agent, no code required.

An AI agent is a chatbot with tools and instructions. You give it a job, a written brief, and your own documents, and it does one task the same way each time. A chatbot answers a question and forgets. An AI agent keeps your instructions in view, so it can prepare, draft, and sort on your behalf while you stay in charge of the decision.

Picture a new team member on their first day. You give it context and access to what it needs, the same way you would onboard a person. Seen that way, it stops feeling technical.

Yes. The AI agents Jacqueline V. Twillie teaches are built with no code, in plain sentences, by people with no technical background. She has taught more than 300 people to build their first AI agent. You describe the job in your own words and add the documents it should use. The skill that matters is knowing your task well, not knowing how to program.

Jacqueline told Forbes, “As a non-technical person, I found that the idea of building an agent felt confusing.” Of the people she teaches, she said, “They go from asking, ‘What is an AI agent?’ to saying, ‘Oh wow, I’m actually building something.’” (Forbes, September 10, 2026.)

About one hour. In Jacqueline V. Twillie’s live sessions, people with no code background build a working AI agent from start to finish in a single hour. At Sistas In Sales Summit in New York on September 21, 2026, 32 people built the same negotiation prep AI agent in that hour. Getting it sharper on your own work takes longer, and it improves as you correct it.

In the first seven weeks of Agent Lab, there were 132 registrations and at least 122 working AI agents built in live sessions. Of the 21 people surveyed, 90.5% said they were confident they could build their next AI agent on their own.

One real task, one document your AI agent can use, and a Gumloop account, the no-code tool Jacqueline V. Twillie builds on in her sessions. Gumloop is not free: it starts with a 14-day trial that asks for a card, and keeping your AI agent running afterward means a paid plan. The Agent Lab sessions themselves are free.

Good documents to bring: a pricing sheet, a contract, or an offer letter. Open the Gumloop account the night before so the hour is for building, not sign-up screens. If you do not plan to keep it, put a reminder on your calendar to cancel before day 14.

One repeated task you can describe in a sentence, where the AI agent prepares or drafts and you decide. Jacqueline V. Twillie’s negotiation prep AI agent is a good model: it takes your real numbers, works out the objections you are likely to hear, and drafts a strategy, and you are the one who walks into the conversation.

A first build follows five steps. 1. Define a precise objective: one sentence on exactly what you need. 2. Upload explicit instructions that tell the AI agent how to process facts and anticipate objections. 3. Turn on self-improvement so it keeps your corrections. 4. Ground it in real data, such as your pricing sheet or offer letter. 5. Set strict boundaries so it drafts and never sends for you.

Human in the loop means a person reviews and decides before anything reaches the outside world. The rule Jacqueline V. Twillie teaches is that nothing sends without a yes. In her negotiation build, no connectors are turned on, so the AI agent drafts the strategy and you send anything yourself.

Jacqueline told Forbes, “Once participants start building these systems, they quickly realize that it still requires a human in the loop.” She described the goal this way: “We are designing systems that reason with us, not for us.” (Forbes, September 10, 2026.)

Through BNEDai, the AI enablement company Jacqueline V. Twillie founded, a team builds a working AI agent together in a live, hands-on session, on a real workflow the team already runs, with no code. The team owns everything it builds. The point is to close the gap between knowing about AI and being able to use it at work.

Forbes featured Jacqueline in September 2026 as one of the peer leaders closing the $5.5 trillion AI skills gap. That figure is Forbes’s, not hers. Teams start on the Work With Me page.

The Negotiation AI Agent Lab is a one-hour, hands-on session where every attendee builds the same negotiation prep AI agent, no code, on Jacqueline V. Twillie’s L.A.T.T.E. framework. She led it at Sistas In Sales Summit on September 21, 2026, at The Maison Project in New York, where 32 people built one. The AI agent drafts, and the person sends.

L.A.T.T.E. is her five-step negotiation preparation system: Look at the details, Anticipate the challenges, Think about your walk-away point, Talk it through, Evaluate options. The lab can also be booked as a talk.

Free Agent Lab sessions are posted with dates and reservation links on the homepage, under Live sessions. Pick a date, reserve your seat on Luma, and build your first AI agent live. To bring Jacqueline V. Twillie to your conference, ERG, or leadership team, send your event details through the Work With Me page.