Agentic Specialist. Build agentic workflows.

Rebuild a workflow a team runs every day as an agentic one, with the proof, governance and rollout plan stakeholders need to greenlight it. No engineering background required.

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Five modules and a capstone

Define success, improve and iterate, build smarter workflows, know what you built, and launch with confidence.

  • 64–70 hours
  • 30–60 days

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Establish a clear baseline
What your workflow costs, how fast it runs and how well it performs, so every improvement can be measured.
Improve until it is reliable
Fewer errors, less rework, and the evidence trail that justifies scaling up.
Show stakeholders what is possible
A real, working agent demo you built yourself, no tech team required.

Project-based, built for people doing the work

Learn by building something measurable every day. Move fast and finish in about a month—or keep a lighter pace and take 60 days. Every module produces an artifact that measures quality, speed, and cost against a human baseline.

  1. Module 01

    Define Success

    Lessons
    2
    Exercises
    2
    Hours total
    ~9

    Before you build, know how you'll win. Take the automation you built in AI 101—or a workflow you designed yourself—and turn gut feelings into hard numbers. Create an answer template that shows what excellence looks like, build scoring guides that measure performance objectively, and set up automated tests that catch problems before they break production. By the end, you'll have the proof system that separates real results from wishful thinking.

    What you'll learn

    • Create an answer template that defines what excellence looks like

    • Build scoring guides that measure performance objectively

    • Set minimum passing standards that gate what ships

    • Set up automated tests that catch problems before production

  2. Module 02

    Improve and Iterate

    Lessons
    2
    Exercises
    2
    Hours total
    ~8.5

    Transform your single-agent automation into a specialized team where each agent does one thing brilliantly. Then use meta-prompting to let AI improve AI—while you validate what actually works. Learn to read how agents reason, not just what they output, so you fix root causes instead of patching symptoms. Build once, improve forever.

    What you'll learn

    • Decompose monolithic agents into specialized teams

    • Use meta-prompting to let AI improve AI

    • Read agent reasoning to fix root causes, not just symptoms

  3. Module 03

    Build Smarter Workflows

    Lessons
    3
    Exercises
    3
    Hours total
    ~13

    One agent can't do everything—but a team can. Evaluate workflow blueprints and pick the pattern that matches your risk tolerance, speed needs, and data sensitivity. Then orchestrate communication between your agents, other systems, and humans to create a workflow machine that divides work intelligently, keeps costs down, and scales without breaking.

    What you'll learn

    • Pick the workflow pattern that fits your risk, speed, and data sensitivity

    • Orchestrate communication between agents, systems, and humans

    • Divide work intelligently to keep costs down at scale

  4. Module 04

    Know What You Built

    Lessons
    4
    Exercises
    4
    Hours total
    ~16

    Most people can build a workflow. You'll master them. Create working Python-based agents from prompts, build an interface to measure real performance against realistic conditions, and analyze the generated code to understand exactly how your system operates. Debug individual agents before problems cascade, then debug agent teams to trace exactly how prompts decompose, how work gets delegated, and why agents surprise you. Go under the hood. Understand the machine. Own the system.

    What you'll learn

    • Generate working Python-based agents from prompts and analyze how they operate

    • Build an interface to measure performance against realistic conditions

    • Debug individual agents and agent teams to trace delegation and surprises

  5. Module 05

    Launch with Confidence

    Lesson
    1
    Exercise
    1
    Hours total
    ~5.5

    Results without a rollout plan are just expensive demos. Package everything—your working prototype, performance data, cost projections, risk mitigation, governance checks—into a launch-ready plan stakeholders can actually act on. This is how pilots become production systems.

    What you'll learn

    • Package prototype, performance data, cost projections, risk mitigation, and governance into one plan

    • Ship a rollout plan stakeholders can act on

    • Turn pilots into production systems

Capstone project

Reduce Your Workload

This is where everything comes together. Run your AI workflow end-to-end, measure real gains in quality, speed, and cost against your starting baseline, and assemble the complete evidence package that takes your work from course product to decision-maker-ready business case. Then test your plan—identify failures, iterate to improve, and ensure you're confident the automation is worth scaling. Graduate with a portfolio—rollout plan, governance trail, value case—that proves you can walk into any organization, find where AI creates value, build the prototype, and make the case to decision makers.

12–17.5 hours6 phases

An agentic workflow

Your blueprint, prompt pack and Python agent.

Measured gains

At least 3 runs measured against your baseline.

A case for scaling

Executive value case, rollout plan and governance trail.

Before you enroll

Think you can skip AI 101?

Already building real automations and measuring their impact? Take the placement quiz to see whether you're ready to start here.

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18 questions · ~5 minutes

Pick a pace that fits your week

Agentic Specialist is self-paced. Here is what each plan asks of a week.

30

days

Accelerated

Heads-down. Best if you can protect evenings and a weekend block.

Hours per week

Agentic Specialist
15–16 hrs

60

days

Standard

The pace most learners pick. Fits either side of a full-time job.

Hours per week

Agentic Specialist
7–8 hrs

From learning to earning

Some learners use this where they already work. For anyone who wants the next job, the path is three steps.

  1. Complete a specialized track and submit your capstone.

  2. You enter LaunchCode's candidate pool.

  3. We match you with employers rebuilding their workflows.

Placement depends on employer demand and on the work you produce. Cost will never be the reason you do not get there.

500+ hiring partners

Hire Human is an initiative of LaunchCode, the nonprofit that has spent more than a decade placing people into technical roles at companies that do not hire on a hunch. The same network hires from these tracks, and we are placing graduates weekly.

Mastercard
Centene
Boeing
Spectrum
Broadcom
Worldwide Technology
Cigna

Why it costs you nothing

LaunchCode is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, built to get people into technology careers without asking them to pay for the privilege. Employers pay us when they hire, and that is what funds the training. You never pay us to learn, and you never pay us to be matched with an employer.

No tuition

Not now, not at the end.

No deposit

Nothing to put down to hold a seat.

No income share

Nothing taken from your pay, ever.

Sponsored by

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Start today. Finish with something you built.

Self-paced, open now, and free for good.

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Questions before you start? Email enrollment.hirehuman@launchcode.org.

What happens next

  1. Today

    A confirmation email with your course login.

  2. Your first week

    You finish your first lesson, its quiz, and your first hands-on lab.

  3. When you finish your course

    A capstone you keep, and a completion certificate.

What people ask before they enroll

Do I need a degree or a coding background?

No degree for any of them. AI 101 and Agentic Specialist assume no coding at all. Agentic Engineer expects real developer experience. You also need to be 18 or older.

Agentic Specialist curriculum →Agentic Engineer curriculum →

Can I do these courses if I am not looking for a new job?

Yes. Plenty of people take these to automate work at the job they already have. You decide whether you want placement, and nothing happens unless you ask for it.

Can I skip AI 101?

Yes. The placement quiz tells you whether AI 101 would mostly be review for you. It is a recommendation, not a gate, so you can enroll in a specialized track either way. It takes about five minutes.

Take the placement quiz →

How long does it take?

AI 101 is 51 to 57 hours, Agentic Specialist 64 to 70, and Agentic Engineer 72 to 84. You choose whether that lands across 30 days or 60, and Agentic Engineer adds a 90-day plan. Every course is self-paced, so you can stretch the calendar.

Build your plan →

Is it really free?

Yes, and there is no upsell at the end. LaunchCode is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so we are not selling you a course. Employers pay us when they hire the people we train, and that pays for the courses.

Will I get a job?

If you want placement, finishing a specialized track puts you in LaunchCode's candidate pool, where we match you with employers at no cost. We place graduates weekly. The hiring decision is always the employer's.

What do graduates earn?

We do not have that figure yet. We will publish one for these tracks once enough placements are behind it.

Is there a certificate?

You get a completion certificate, but it is not an accredited degree. The capstone is what proves you can do the work.

Here to hire? See how teams hire from these tracks.