AI as Your Sidekick: Build the AI Agent That Helps You

Most recruiters use AI the same way: open a chatbot, type a prompt, copy the answer. Useful, but limited. The bigger gains show up when you stop asking AI questions and give it a standing job instead: an agent that knows your open roles, your market, and your calendar, and gets part of your work done before you sit down in the morning. Jan built one. It's called Bob, and it handles his research, market intelligence, sourcing outside the typical sites, and follow-up tracking every single day.

In this session, Jan opens up the whole system. How this agent is built, what it costs to run, what it does well, and what broke along the way. One honest warning up front: this isn't a no-code magic trick. You'll need a basic grasp of how the pieces connect, and yes, you'll touch some code. But you won't write it alone. Jan will show you how to use AI itself to write and debug most of it for you, and when it's smarter to buy a developer friend a coffee and ask for twenty minutes of help instead of fighting an error message for two days.

You'll leave knowing which recruiting tasks are worth handing to an agent, which ones aren't, and what Jan deliberately keeps out of his own system because of GDPR and candidate trust. If you've been waiting for someone to show the wiring instead of the demo, this is that session.