The inaugural Opal University cohort. 1 week of hands-on AI agent building with Optimizely Opal.
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Each day includes a live recording, slides, and homework.
Figure out what to automate and why. Set your goal for the week. Build your first agent.
Practice exercises for today
Head to the Agent Creator and build two more agents based on your time audit. Try different use cases.
Open Agent CreatorWork through the "Your First Agent" track to sharpen your prompting skills before tomorrow.
Start Track 1How quality context transforms generic AI into high-quality, brand-specific outputs. Learn the skills workflow.
Practice exercises for today
Spend 30 minutes refining your brand instructions. Add context like tone of voice, customer language, and winning examples.
Open InstructionsOpen one of your agents, use backslash to reference your instructions, and test the improved output.
Go to AgentsGo beyond single agents — build workflows, schedule triggers, evaluate output quality, and set up continuous improvement loops.
Practice exercises for today
Chain two or more agents together into a workflow — one agent's output feeds into the next. Try a scheduler or webhook trigger.
Open Agent CreatorOpen one of your agents, run the eval suite, and use the auto-improve loop to boost your score.
Go to AgentsDeep dive into custom tools, file handling, and evaluating agent output. Live Q&A on real builds.
Practice exercises for today
Pick one of your agents and connect a tool (web search, code execution, or a custom API). Test it with a real prompt.
Go to AgentsOpen your best agent, run the eval suite, and use the auto-improve loop to boost your score before Demo Day.
Go to AgentsShow off your best build. Celebrate. Get certified.
Join a small group of ~5 people. Share wins, give feedback on each other's builds, connect on LinkedIn, and hold each other accountable throughout the week.
Make sure you can access Opal. Open a chat. Ask it something. Anything. Just confirm you're in and it works. If you hit access issues, email the Opal team (support@university.optimizely.com) so we can sort it before Monday.
Grab a notebook or doc and jot down: What do you do daily, weekly, monthly? Which tasks do you dread? Where do you spend the most time on something repetitive? This becomes the raw material for your agent builds all week.
We use this in our very first exercise on Monday. Pick a competitor's landing page or homepage you'd love to analyze. Have it copied and ready.
Head to the agent directory in your Opal instance and see what's already been built. You don't need to understand everything — just get a feel for what's possible.
Questions? Reach out to the Opal team anytime.
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