Create a Personal AI Assistant
Create a Personal AI Assistant is a project-driven course where students design and build their own fully functional AI tool — customized to handle real tasks in their actual lives.
Starts Thu, Jul 30
7:00 PM UTC · 1h
4 sessions
Chrysti
Outcomes, not lecture notes.
Define a clear use case for your AI assistant and map out its core capabilities, personality, and workflow before writing a single prompt
Build and configure a Custom GPT using OpenAI's platform, including setting instructions, tone, and behavioral guardrails
Connect your assistant to real-world tools and apps using Zapier to automate tasks like scheduling, notifications, and data entry
Extend functionality with ChatGPT plugins to give your assistant access to live information and third-party services
Design multi-step workflows that allow your assistant to handle complex, recurring tasks from start to finish
Test and refine your assistant's responses through iterative prompting, identifying failure points and improving reliability
Evaluate your assistant's performance against your original use case and build a plan for ongoing improvements
Meet Chrysti.
Chrysti
Chrysti Reichart is a professional AI trainer who has led training programs for companies including Microsoft, Bausch & Lomb, and She-Tek and AI bootcamps for several colleges and universities. Blending her formal corporate training experience with her early-adopter, AI-native mindset, she prides herself on staying ahead of the curve on new AI tools and models, integrating them into her “classic” AI syllabi and developing new courses specifically to capitalize on the ever-evolving developments in tech.
Create a Personal AI Assistant is a project-driven course where students design and build their own fully functional AI tool — customized to handle real tasks in their actual lives. Using platforms like OpenAI's Custom GPTs, Zapier, and ChatGPT plugins, you'll define your assistant's purpose, shape its personality, and wire up the workflows that make it genuinely useful — whether that's managing a study schedule, drafting emails, or answering repeated questions automatically. No coding background required; what you need is a clear problem you want to solve and the drive to build something that solves it. By the final session, you won't just have a cool project — you'll have a working AI assistant and the skills to keep evolving it as the technology does.
Live Q&A
Cameras / mics optional
Recordings
Available within 1 hour, kept 90 days
Materials
No special materials required
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