A plain-English guide to building your first working AI agents — with templates for Lindy, Gumloop, n8n, and Relay.app. Free download.
Every AI newsletter is selling "agents" right now, but almost none of them show a small business owner what an agent actually is, where it lives, or how to get one running before dinner. Most SMBs don't need a multi-agent swarm or a custom-built framework. They need one agent that reads the shared inbox and drafts replies, or one that qualifies inbound leads, or one that turns a sales call into a CRM update. That's it. That's the whole game. This free starter kit strips out the jargon and gives you a working mental model for AI agents plus five ready-to-fork templates. You'll learn the difference between a workflow automation, an AI workflow, and a true agent — and when each one is the right choice. You'll see side-by-side comparisons of the four platforms most SMBs should actually evaluate in 2026: Lindy for email and meeting agents, Gumloop for multi-step document and data workflows, n8n for teams that want full control and self-hosting, and Relay.app for human-in-the-loop agents where approval matters. Then you get five starter agent templates you can copy today: an inbound lead qualifier that scores and routes new form submissions, a meeting-to-CRM agent that pushes action items and next steps into HubSpot or Follow Up Boss, a support inbox triager that classifies and drafts first-response replies, an internal SOP assistant that answers team questions from your docs, and a weekly reporting agent that pulls numbers from your stack and writes the summary. Each template includes the platform it runs on, the exact setup steps, and the prompts you'll need.