So have you ever felt like your work day just
vanishes? Oh, definitely. You're busy compiling
data, tracking the news, maybe sifting for leads.
Yeah. And then suddenly the hours are just gone.
It's this common frustration, feeling consumed
by these repetitive, sometimes kind of mundane
tasks. Mm -hmm. It can be relentless. What if
you had a tireless digital colleague? One that
could handle those exact things doing the heavy
lifting with just, you know, simple instruction.
That's the dream. Well, today we're diving deep
into that very idea. We're exploring agentic
AI and specifically chat GPT's new agent mode
and how it's kind of making this real. Welcome
everyone to the deep dive. We love exploring
these pivotal moments in tech. And today, yeah,
our mission is pretty clear. We're going to unpack
how agentic AI is genuinely transforming how
we work. OK. We'll get into the core difference,
what makes it tick, and then lay out eight really
practical kind of groundbreaking applications.
And this isn't just some minor tweak, right?
No, not at all. It's a fundamental shift in how
we interact with AI big time. And of course,
we'll cover the best practices too, so you can
actually master it and use this power effectively.
OK, let's unpack that then. Agentic AI. It sounds
like a monumental leap forward. way more than
just another chatbot. It absolutely is, yeah.
When we talk about agent mode, we're defining
something really different. Think about traditional
chat GBT. It's a language tool, right? A super
smart conversational partner. Like asking a question,
getting an answer. Exactly. You ask, it answers.
You tell it to write something, it writes. But
it's all happening inside that text -based chat
window. It's kind of locked in there. Right,
like a brilliant pen pal, but still just text.
Perfect way to put it. Yeah. But chat GPT agent
mode, that's a task executor. It breaks free.
When you give it a task, it actually creates
this virtual workspace. It figures out a plan,
and then it acts. It can open a web browser,
go to websites, read documents, analyze files,
and even write Python code to process data. It
can even fill out forms online. So that Python
code interpreter thing you mentioned. Right.
That's basically just a tool inside it that lets
the AI write and run its own little computer
programs. That's how it can do stuff based on
your request, not just talk about it. The analogy
I like is it's the difference between asking
an expert how to drive a car, and handing the
keys to an actual driver. One gives you knowledge,
the other performs the action. That really clicks.
That makes sense. And activating it, you said,
is simple. Super simple. Open chat, GPT, start
a new chat, look under tools, and just enable
agent mode. That's it. OK. So what's the fundamental
shift here for our daily tasks? It moves AI from
just answering questions to actively doing complex
multi -step actions for you. changes the whole
partnership. Game changer almost feels like an
understatement. It's not just faster, is it?
It's like unlocking new ways to work. That's
it, exactly. So what are some of the most eye
-opening applications you've seen? Those real
-world examples, changing workflows. Yeah, and
what's cool is how quickly these things are getting
integrated. You know, it's not just theory anymore.
We've found eight areas where the shift is really
noticeable. Let's start with one everyone hates.
Presentations. Oh, yes. Okay, first one. Creating
professional present patients in minutes. The
pain is real, right? Presentations can take hours,
maybe even days. Research, putting it together,
structure, images, design. It's a huge time sink.
Totally. So the agentic solution. Delegate the
whole thing, A to Z. You give it a really detailed
request, and the agent researches and generates
the actual presentation file. Seriously? Yeah.
Imagine telling it, OK, I need a presentation
for the board. Topic analysis of trends and opportunities
in the Southeast Asian social commerce market
for 2026 Okay, then you specify like 15 slides
key sections market analysis consumer behavior
opportunities risks even the design stuff Leto
font navy blue color use this logo file set your
sources It handles the whole creative and research
part what might take an analyst say four to eight
hours the agent can knock it out in maybe 20,
30 minutes. That's incredible. Which frees you
up to actually rehearse and get ready for the
tough questions. That's a massive shift. So how
does that change the human's role then? It moves
you from tedious assembly work to being the strategist,
the orchestrator. It amplifies your impact. Okay,
next one. turning raw data into insightful analytical
reports. We've all got those, right? Excel files,
CSVs, just full of data. Sales numbers, customer
stuff, but getting real insights out, especially
if you're not like a data whiz or don't have
fancy tools. It's tough. Right. But here, the
agent solution is surprisingly simple. You just
upload your data file. OK. The agent uses that
built -in Python code interpreter we mentioned
to do calculations, stats, even make charts and
graphs, data visualization. And you don't need
to write any code yourself. Not at all. Nope.
You could give it, say, a Sales Q3 Treaty 25
.csv file. Ask it to clean the data, get rid
of duplicates, fill missing spots, then maybe
create a dashboard tab with specific charts,
like a line chart for daily revenue, a pie chart
for regions, a bar chart for top products, and
then maybe an insights tab that just summarizes
three important findings in plain English. And
it's actually calculating, not just guessing,
based on the text. Exactly. It ensures accuracy.
It can do complex stuff, too, like linear regression,
customer clustering, things that used to require
serious coding skills. It's like stacking Lego
blocks of data and building this tower of insight.
So this really lowers the bar for getting deep
data insights, doesn't it, for non -coders? Absolutely.
It democratizes advanced data analysis for pretty
much everyone. Huge barrier removed. Okay, speaking
of complex and time -consuming, let's talk automatically
finding high -quality leads. Ah, lead gen, the
grind. Right, it's notoriously slow, sifting
through tons of websites, LinkedIn profiles,
news, just trying to find the right contact.
Total time sack. The agenic solution here is
like setting up a digital scout. It works 24
-7, searching for leads based on the buying signals
you define. Then it delivers a qualified list.
So you tell it what to look for. Precisely. You
could prompt it. Like, find me 30 BDB tech companies
in North America. They need to have gotten series
A or B funding in the last six months. Specific.
Yeah. And add more criteria. Between 50 and 250
employees, they need a job opening for sales
development rep or marketing automation specialist.
And they can't be direct CRM competitors. Right.
And it'll spit out a table. Company name, website,
funding info, links to the news or the job posts.
The original source mentioned an agent doing
like 61 searches, reviewing over 400 sources,
all in about 45 minutes. Wow. The efficiency
is just wild. Whoa. Just imagine scaling that.
Finding, I don't know, a billion potential queries
a year. The sheer volume it could handle is incredible.
Oing boggling, isn't it? So how does this shift
the human effort in sales and marketing them?
It totally redefines the role, moves people away
from hunting and towards qualifying leads and
building relationships, more strategic stuff.
Makes sense. OK, next, staying updated on industry
news without feeling overwhelmed. Oh, yeah, the
information fire hose, especially in fast fields
like AI, right? Miss one key piece of news and
you feel behind. But trying to track everything
every day, exhausting. Impossible, almost. So
the agentic fix is like creating your own personal
news editor. I like the sound of that. It reads
hundreds of sources daily, but only reports back
on what really matters based on your rules. And
you can schedule it, have it run automatically
every morning using the schedule feature. Nice.
So you could prompt it. Act as my AI industry
news analyst. Run daily, 7 .30 a .m., my time.
Scan TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, the official
blogs for OpenAI, Google AI, Anthropic, plus
LinkedIn posts from these top 10 AI thinkers.
Okay. Only tell me about new major LLM updates,
that's large language models, big pricing changes,
acquisitions over $100 million, or new USEU AI
rules. Send it as a concise email titled, Daily
Strategic AI Briefing. And it finds specific
things. Yeah, the examples were like OpenAI acquiring
Statsig, details on GPT -5 launch and pricing,
new open weight models, Google AI Pro for education
updates, that level of detail. Got it. Now, it's
worth noting, neutrally, that the agent also
surfaced a news item about a U .S. executive
order preventing woke AI signed by President
Trump. It directed agencies to seek AI models
that are, quote, truth seeking and ideologically
neutral. OK. Our point here isn't to comment
on the order itself, just to report that the
agent did find and include this kind of news
based on its instructions. Understood. So the
value is getting critical info automatically,
turning chaos into actual intelligence. Exactly.
It's filtered, prioritized, actionable insight
right in your inbox. No more FOMO. So that's
about consuming intelligence, not just raw information,
right? Precisely. Curated, prioritized, actionable
insight delivered right to you. Huge difference.
Okay. Application five. Automate invoice management.
Never miss one again. This one hits home for
a lot of people, I think. Oh, for sure. So many
online services just don't email invoices automatically.
Great. So you or your accountant have to log
into each platform every month, find the billing
section, download the PDF. It's tedious, easy
to miss one. The agentic solution. Authorize
an agent to do it for you, recurringly. How does
that work with logins? when it needs your credentials,
it actually pauses the task. And you can securely
take over to input them just that once. Then
it remembers for next time within that session
or based on settings. So a prompt might be on
the fifth of every month, log into platform A
and platform B. I'll give you the credentials
securely. Go to billing, download last month's
invoice PDF, then update this Google Sheet invoice
tracking 2025 with the date, vendor, amount,
and a link to the PDF. OK, I have to admit, I
still wrestle with remembering to download every
single invoice myself. Sometimes I just forget.
This sounds amazing. You and me both. It's a
lifesaver, ensures compliance, saves accounting
time, no more lost invoices. But. And this is
a big, but be super careful with sensitive accounts.
Always best to use sub -accounts if possible
or accounts with limited permissions just for
the agent. Security first. Right, crucial point.
Beyond just the convenience though, what's the
bigger benefit for compliance? It creates a clear,
auditable trail. reduces human error and oversight
and financial records significantly. Okay. Number
six, monitor competitor pricing changes. This
is key in competitive markets. Absolutely. You
lose your edge fast if a rival changes prices
and you don't notice, but checking manually every
week? Yeah. Super inefficient. Yeah. So the Egentic
solution is an automated monitoring system. It
compares the live prices on their website to
a baseline data file. You have maybe a spreadsheet,
and it only bothers you if something actually
changes. Sorry, Bart. Yeah, a prompt could be
like, every Monday, 9 a .m., open my competitor
pricing tracker Google Sheet. Visit the pricing
pages for competitor A and competitor B. Check
their prices for basic pro enterprise tiers against
my sheet. If nothing changed, do nothing. If
prices did change, update the sheet, highlight
the change cell yellow, and send me an email.
Alert, competitor price change. with a quick
summary. That's really practical. And you can
expand it, right? Monitor new features they launch,
promo campaigns, key blog posts, press releases,
whatever digital footprint they leave. It really
feels like gaining a constant sort of digital
ear to the ground for market shifts. Precisely.
Real -time competitive intelligence without the
manual slog. That's a strategic advantage. Okay,
moving towards bigger projects now. Conducting
in -depth competitive analysis. Yeah, these are
usually massive undertakings. Weeks, sometimes
months, right? It needs specialized knowledge.
Or you're shelling out big bucks for consulting
firms. Exactly. So the Agendix solution here
involves a clever little trick. First, you ask
a powerful AI model like Jeep MP4 to actually
build a professional competitive analysis framework
for you. Ah, use AI to make the instructions
better. You got it. Then you use that framework
as the basis for your agent's prompt. Leverage
AI to create a near -perfect prompt for itself.
Yep, smart. So the detailed prompt might be,
perform an in -depth competitive analysis of
this company. Innovate tech in the project management
software space. Then you list the structure from
the framework. Company overview, product analysis,
marketing and sales, SWOT, online presence, checking
their site, social media, G2, capterra reviews.
And specify the outputs. Give me a word report,
a summary PowerPoint, and an Excel sheet with
all the source links. And the result. Well, a
project that might cost you, say, $25 ,000 from
a consulting firm. An agent can execute the bulk
of it in under an hour. Seriously? Yeah. It gives
you a really solid 80%, 90 % foundation, saves
enormous cost, and just speeds up decision making
like crazy. So it's not about getting a perfect
Final report instantly but about getting a massive
head start exactly that it drastically reduces
that initial heavy lifting Lets you refine faster
and focus strategically. Okay, finally number
eight Automating your personal life planning
and booking services Bringing it home. Yeah,
because a busy life means personal errands, trip
planning, making reservations can feel like chores.
Time consuming ones. They really can pile up.
Yeah. So the agentic solution is just delegating
those complex multi -step personal tasks. You
can bundle multiple requests into one command.
Like a travel agent. Kind of, yeah. Think about
this prompt. Plan a weekend trip for two people
from Ho Chi Minh City to Del Lot. Second weekend
of next month. Then you detail it. Find three
round -trip flight options via Jet Air or Vietnam
Airlines, leaving Friday morning, back Sunday
afternoon. Find three four -star vintage -style
hotels or homestays must have a balcony, 8 .5
out of 10 rating or higher. Create a three -day,
two -night itinerary, include famous but non
-touristy places to eat, cloud hunting spots,
a flower garden visit. Put all the options in
a nice comparison table for me. Wow, that's comprehensive.
Right. just shows the potential. It could be
your personal assistant, travel planner, shopping
helper, freeing you up from those daily chores.
This really does blur the line between automating
work tasks and personal life tasks, doesn't it?
It truly extends automation's reach into almost
any task you do through a web browser. Makes
life smoother. OK, so we've seen the power. Eight
incredible examples. But a powerful tool needs
the right technique, right? How do we command
these agents effectively? Absolutely. You got
to know how to drive it. These are the sort of
golden rules for interacting with agents well.
Lay them on us. OK, first, specificity is efficiency.
Don't be vague. Instead of just analyze this
data, be precise. Create an interactive dashboard
showing monthly revenue trends by region and
completion rates for each product line. Specifics
matter. Got it. Second. Context is key. Always
explain what your data actually means. What's
the order things need to happen in? What's your
ultimate goal? Give it the background. More context,
better results. Exactly. Third, start simple.
Then add complexity. Don't try to write the perfect
massive prompt right off the bat. Start basic.
See how the agent handles it. Then gradually
add more requirements. It's iterative, like refining
a conversation. You build up to it. Fourth, think
in signals. Especially for searching or monitoring
tags. Ask yourself, what's the digital footprint?
What trace indicates the info I need? Is it a
keyword in a job post, a specific phrase in a
press release, a number on a pricing page? Find
the signal. Makes sense. Be the detective. Kind
of, yeah. Fifth, always quality check. Agents
are powerful, amazing even, but they're not perfect,
not infallible. Always review the output. Treat
it like a really, really good first draft from
a smart assistant. Not the final finished product.
Human oversight is key. Crucial. And finally,
understand limitations and safety. Be really
cautious with sensitive info logins, personal
data. Remember, agents might struggle with complex
cat PCHAs, those prove -your -human tests, or
tricky multi -factor logins. And always, always
prioritize security. So the real skill here isn't
necessarily coding anymore. It's more about clear
instructions, iterating, and careful management.
Precisely. It's about thoughtful prompting and
critical review. It's much more like leading
and managing a really capable autonomous team
member. It's a great way to think about it, sponsor.
So let's just recap our deep dive today. What
we're seeing here, it feels like a truly fundamental
shift in, well, how work gets done. Tasks that
honestly used to eat up. hours, sometimes days,
now potentially take minutes. It's a huge leverage
point. And just to reiterate, this isn't about
AI replacing people. It's really about AI liberating
us, freeing us up from that repetitive, mundane
work. Yeah, the drudgery. Which lets us focus
on the things machines just can't do. You know,
the critical thinking, real breakthrough creativity,
building genuine relationships, making those
strategic calls based on intuition and experience.
Amplifying our human skills. Exactly. Amplifying
our uniquely human capabilities. So we really
hope you try Agent Mode. Seriously. Give it a
shot today. Start small. Pick one application,
one thing that frustrates you daily. You see
pretty quickly how much time it can save and
what possibilities start to open up. It's quite
exciting. It really feels like the competitive
advantage is shifting, doesn't it? It's less
about who just works harder and more about who
can effectively command and manage this army
of AI systems. That's the new game. So the question
really isn't if AI will change how we work anymore.
It's already happening. The real question is.
How ready will you be? Altiro music.