BCMC 2026 · Columbus, OH
Launch Your First
AI Agent.
A roadmap for getting agents running inside your own systems. Fill in the worksheets, then we go through them together.
An agent is one decision, running on its own.
Not a chatbot. Not another dashboard.
Pick one decision your plant makes from memory today. Write down how you make it. Connect it to the data it needs and the guardrails it has to respect. Then it runs without you.
The worksheets take you through that for your own plant. The call turns it into a build order.
Three steps to agents running in your system
Fill in the worksheets
Nine pages. Pick the decision, map it, write the prompt, set the guardrails. Do it with a pen, on your own plant.
Book a call
Thirty minutes. We work through what you wrote, page by page, and find where your first agent actually belongs.
Leave with a roadmap
What to build first, what it plugs into, what order the rest comes in, and how long each piece really takes.
Step one
The worksheets
Nine pages you write in, the same forms we worked through in the room.
- The seven tests for picking your first decision
- The decision blueprint, blank and ready to fill
- The six-part system prompt template, with a worked example
- The agent loop, all six stages, for your own decision
- The guardrail sort, so it only does what you allow
- The First Move card to bring to the call
Send it to me
The download opens the moment you submit. I read every reply myself. No drip campaign.
What you fill in
Nine pages, one decision
Bring a pen and you finish with a decision worth building, a written system prompt, and a way to tell whether it worked.
Pick the decision
List the calls your plant makes from memory, then run your best candidate through the seven tests: frequent, valuable, repetitive, context-rich, measurable, low risk, and fails loud.
Map it
The decision blueprint. Stage, decision, who owns it, what it needs to know, and how you would know it worked. Plus the three things only you can give it.
Write the system prompt
Six parts, one box each: role, context, inputs, output, decision logic, rules. A worked example to model, then blanks for yours.
Run the loop
Observe, understand, decide, act, measure, learn. Fill in all six for your own decision.
Set the guardrails
Sort every action into never, needs approval, or act on its own. Start further left than feels necessary.
Your first move
One failure point, one tool, one action, one date. This is the page we open first on the call.
Where the agent plugs in.
Five layers, built in this order. An agent runs on top of the first three, so your roadmap starts wherever yours stops.
Database
One place every job lives and every department connects to.
API
The permit. It is what lets your tools talk. Ask every vendor before you sign.
Integrators
The plumbing. One tool tells the next, with nobody re-entering anything.
AI
The intelligence. It comes fourth because smart AI on bad data gives confident wrong answers.
Interface
The dashboards and the chat window. Last, because it can only show what the four layers underneath already know.
Most plants already have layer one. Bring yours to the call and we start where you are.
Step two
Bring the worksheets to a call
Thirty minutes, no pitch. We open page nine first, work backwards through what you wrote, and put the build in order.
- Whether your decision is an afternoon automation or a real agent
- Which layer your plant is standing on today
- What to connect first, and what can wait until renewal
- A written roadmap from where you are to agents running on their own
Craig Mooney
AutoBuild Solutions · Bend, Oregon
I sell trusses for a living and I build these systems inside plants. Every demo at BCMC ran on real truss data.
The stack from the session
What these agents run on
Every one I use myself or have put into a plant. Most run under $30 a month.
Talk instead of type, in any app. The easiest thing on this list.
Try it GranolaMeeting notesNotes that write themselves, phone calls included.
Try it FirefliesMeeting recorderRecords, transcribes, and wraps the meeting. You saw it work on stage.
Try it QuoBusiness phoneCalls and texts logged to the job, not to somebody's personal cell.
Try it ClaudeAI layerThe intelligence. Only as good as the data under it.
Try it ZiteDatabase + buildA custom app on your own data, no dev team. AutoBuild is a certified partner.
Try it SmartSuiteDatabaseOne place every job lives. The database behind the demos.
Try it n8nIntegratorThe plumbing. Something happens here, the next tool hears about it.
Try it MakeIntegratorSame job as n8n, nothing to host. Good place to build your first one.
Try itSome are referral links and I may earn a small commission. I recommend them because I use them, and you can find every one without my link.
Asked on stage
Four questions everyone has
"Our plate software has no API."
Build the database first, connect what you can, revisit the plate question at renewal. No API limits what connects automatically. It does not stop you starting.
"How much does this cost?"
Low hundreds a month, and most of what I showed runs on free plans. You spend setup time, not budget.
"Where do I start?"
Layer one. Pick a database, set up a project record, connect one workflow. Everything else sits on that.
"How long does it take?"
An automation, an afternoon. An agent, a few weeks, because clean data comes first. Your first move is probably the afternoon.