AI at Work with Sunny Israni
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Building Personal AI Systems
AI can be more than just another tool you open when you’re stuck. The real advantage of AI comes from building systems that know your work, retain the right context, and get better over time. In this weekly series with Sunny Israni, you’ll build the sort of AI system you’ll actually use.
In an easy 30 minutes once a week (plus a 15-minute Q&A), you’ll turn one real workflow into something you can keep using: a meeting-prep brief, a decision log, a first-draft engine that sounds like you, or a faster way to make sense of messy information.
You’ll learn how to give AI the context it needs to be genuinely useful, build workflows that save you time, and create feedback loops that improve your results. You’ll also see where human judgment belongs and why sometimes the right solution is an AI-powered spreadsheet, not an agent.
No matter which tools you use, you’ll leave with practical ideas you can apply immediately, and a clearer understanding of how to build an AI system that works the way you work. Stop prompting from zero. Start building a system that works the way you work.
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What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Build repeatable AI workflows for everyday tasks, from preparing for meetings and tracking decisions to drafting content and organizing research
- Give AI the right context so you can build on previous work and get more relevant results without starting from scratch
- Test and refine your workflows with realistic examples and feedback loops that improve results over time
- Choose the right approach for each task, whether it’s a prompt, spreadsheet, automation, or AI assistant, and identify where human judgment is essential
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a manager, team leader, or executive who’s looking for practical ways to encourage responsible AI adoption across your team.
- You work in operations, programs, product, marketing, sales, communications, or a customer-facing role and want to improve your daily workflows.
- You’re an analyst, researcher, knowledge worker, or technical professional who wants to use AI to work more effectively.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesdays at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- 30-minute interactive demo followed by a 15-minute Q&A.
Your Host
Sunny Israni
Sunny Israni is the cofounder and CTO of Lightswitch, where he builds agentic AI workflows for the real world. He has taught the evolving AI landscape to MBA and EMBA students as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School since 2022. He spent years as a software engineer at Bloomberg and Shopify and now writes and delivers AI training for Fortune 500 teams. He’s currently writing a book on n8n for O'Reilly, with a focus on building personal AI systems.