Watch this episode on YouTube: Best 2026 Guide To AI & Agent Tools For Beginners
In this episode, Jeremiah gives an updated 2026 beginner's guide to AI and agent tools, showing how to start using AI without getting overwhelmed and how to think about AI as a smart brainstorming partner instead of a replacement for your judgment.
He walks through the current landscape from chat-based tools like Meta AI and ChatGPT to more agentic systems like Lovable, Manus, Claude Cowork, OpenClaw, and Hermes, with practical examples for marketing, research, content creation, and building software.
If you're brand new to AI, this is a strong starting point for understanding which tools to try first, how to use them well, and how AI agents can begin doing real work for your business.
What Jeremiah Covers In This Episode
- Why the fastest way to learn AI is to start talking to it before you feel fully ready
- How Meta AI and ChatGPT can help with brainstorming, positioning, and marketing ideas
- Why Jeremiah sees AI as a smart intern or employee—not a replacement for your vision
- Creative AI tools mentioned, including HeyGen for digital avatars and Suno for music generation
- Closed-agent tools like Lovable, Manus, and Claude Cowork for building websites, apps, and workflows
- How OpenClaw and Hermes can operate computers and automate meaningful business tasks
- Real examples of using agents for research, content organization, offers, member archives, and software builds
AI Tools Mentioned
- Meta AI / MuseSpark
- ChatGPT
- Lovable
- Manus
- Claude Cowork
- Claude Code
- Gemini Deep Research
- HeyGen
- Suno
- OpenClaw
- Hermes Agent
Read the full transcript
Hey, what's up everybody? It's been a while since I've done a video. This one is going to be an updated AI video. I'm gonna be talking about all the different changes that have been happening with AI, AI agents, using AI the best way, as well as a tutorial for you to get started using AI if you're brand new using it.
I just got done teaching an amazing class online about this to a group that I've been working with. And so I wanna bring some of that to you here today. Number one, a lot of the landscape of AI has changed. And before we go any further, I wanna tell you this, is that if you try to understand everything out of the gate, try to figure it all out, you might have something inside of you that's like, I gotta figure it out before I use it because we're trained, we're taught, I gotta figure it out before I use this thing.
The truth is that really you just have to start chatting with it. You just have to talk to the AI and even say, hey, I don't know what to say, I don't know how to ask this question, can you help me with this? And that will literally get you 10 times further than most people. Most people won't even touch artificial intelligence tools because they think that it's too complicated, too hard and things like that, when it's one of the best ways that can help you brainstorm things.
Now, two of the best ways to start with AI, again, that's what this is, that's what this video is. This is kind of a beginner's crash course tutorial on using artificial intelligence. Meta.ai, they just released an incredible version like about a month ago. They call it MuseSpark.
And MuseSpark is one of the highest quality, smartest AI tools that's out there. Meta, they own Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. They've released this and this is actually the only really high quality AI that's out there that's free. There's other free options that exist, but they're not as high quality as what Meta is offering to people.
And so I would encourage you to check this out. Check out using the Meta.ai tool. And specifically if you're using it, I would select contemplating, multi-chain parallel reasoning. What this does, this actually deploys 16 individual AI agents to process any task that you're familiar with.
Let's say that you have a business. I help women better their relationships. Best way to start marketing this online. And I can literally put this prompt here and you don't have to worry about what's happening here.
This is all in the code behind the scenes. It's asking these 16 separate individual AI agents your question, that's contemplating them. And then it's synthesizing your answer right here. And this right here, my friends, is one of the most advanced ways of using AI that's out there.
And it's absolutely free for anybody to use that has a Facebook or Instagram account. I think it's really incredible that access to this level of intelligence is available to us. As well, again, one of the most famous AI tools, ChatGPT. ChatGPT is still one of the best AI tools that exists right now.
You can ask it any kind of question. We can ask it the same kind of question right here and see what kind of results that it gives us. With the thinking algorithm, you definitely wanna use the thinking algorithms. There's extended and even heavy, which I really like using heavy because it just, it thinks a lot more for the process and things like that, okay?
And so like right here, I'm gonna think through this. The best way to start is not by trying to market to women broadly, but to pick one painful relationship problem and become known for helping with that issue. Women who keep attracting emotionally unavailable men, wives who feel unseen and resentful in a marriage, Christian women trying to communicate without shutting down. And by the way, this is actually pulling from some of my background.
And so it's knowing that this is like connected to the type of people that we help. So this gives us an idea to start to market this. And this acts as a thought leader for us. Using AI is about being able to ask questions at the right time.
Now, I have a number of resources for you on my website where I actually teach people how to use these tools. If you go to jeremiahkrakowski.com, you can find free AI prompts right here that you can actually go grab on my website. And we also offer coaching inside of my Wealthy Coach Academy program where you can actually work with me to help you build and scale your business online. We use AI in every aspect of our business.
And in fact, we have AI employees that work with us. And that's one of the newer ways that AI is starting to pop on the scene is these sort of AI employees that you can use. There's two layers to that. I'll tell you a little bit about how that works towards the end of this training.
But I want you to start to do is this, is realize that AI is not a replacement for you. It's not a replacement for your thoughts. It's not a replacement for your ideas. Instead, it is a brainstorming tool.
It is a really smart intern that can work with you, that can help you, that can connect with you. Let's go check out what Meta AI came up with on this. And by the way, I think ChatGPT's response is actually a little bit better in some senses. In the other sense, this one's also pretty good.
This one is pulling from what it knows about me, that I'm a male coach. So that's interesting. It actually knows that about me from my Facebook profile. So this is custom tailored to what it knows about me.
So when you lead with a narrow problem, repeatable short form teaching loop that moves viewers to comment in the conversation. Define a niche you can own for 90 days. Your angle as a man matters. Frame yourself as a translator.
So that's actually really cool. It took a different angle because it's actually pulling from what it knows about me. And this would be maybe a follow-up question I would ask to something like this. Find me 10 competitors in this space that I could study their marketing and content to get ideas.
And so again, the agents are gonna go to work and start to do this. Everything in AI is actually turning into this sort of AI agent type of a thing. All of the different AI platforms are starting to use agents in some way or another. Meta is just showing it more front end.
But like as recently as today, ChatGPT just decided to release what's called workspace agents that can actually run 24 seven on your machine and solve problems for you. You can have a marketing workspace agent, you can have all these different things that are doing this. And so the ideas that are shifting in AI today in the landscape is instead of not just answering questions, but actually doing legitimate work for you in your business, on your computer, being able to take control of the computer and actually use it the way a human would to get the job done. And that's what AI agents do.
They're not going to replace you. They're gonna act as an employee that works for you. You're still the vision. Use AI to help you brainstorm, process and organize a lot of information.
That's the way that I use it. I take a lot of information, I help organize it that way. In fact, this video was the result of a two hour training that I did today, a bunch of Q&A, a bunch of questions and the top most important things that people were asking. You don't need to worry about it being inauthentic for you when you start looking at it from this perspective that it is an intern that is working for you.
AI gets all of its knowledge from the world that's out there from books and things like that. And it pulls it all in to be able to answer these questions. And there's companies that are literally spending hundreds of billions of dollars optimizing these AI tools to become smarter and smarter and smarter. They're smarter than they've ever been.
And yet at the same time, you need to direct them better than you ever have. And the possibilities with AI are better and more capable than they've ever been. There's so many different tools for AI that's out there. In fact, even there's tools for creating what's called digital clones of yourself.
Haygen is an AI tool that creates a digital clone avatar of you, where this is actually not. Your first dollar is the most. Digital clone avatar of me right here that looks like a video of mine. It looks like me talking.
It looks like me sharing on video, but it's not necessarily. It's a clone that looks and sounds like me that I could create video with if I wanted to. There's AI tools like suno.com that actually generate incredible music. I actually have used this tool to create either background music or one of the fun things that I'll do is for my son, my son Halston and Kyren, they love, I'll create affirmation songs for them.
Like Halston loves his brother and he's kind to his doggies and he loves his mommy and daddy every day. He eats all of his food, things like that. And it literally creates these high quality, literally like radio ready songs out of this tool. You need to check out suno if you haven't.
It's just so fun. Your creative juices will start flowing and it's not expensive either. It's actually really cheap, like 10 bucks a month. Even the $5, the free dollar version is incredible, but the $10 a month one uses their new 5.5 model.
It's amazing. So cool. So AI, these chatbots, that's one way of doing it, but then how do we take it a step further to get AI to do work for us? Well, that's the sort of next level right here that we call closed agents.
And what a closed agent is, is it's a platform that can do a certain amount of work for you. One of those platforms I've been telling everybody about that's really great at this is called Lovable. Lovable can build any website that you want to build based on any concept off of this. So I can actually take one of these ideas right here.
Let's say Christian Women Heal Relationship Patterns. I'm gonna bring this into Lovable and I'm gonna say make me a website for a brand around this. And what it's gonna do is it's gonna start planning this website. We're gonna come back to this and you're gonna be able to look at it and see exactly what it was able to create and develop using a tool like this, using like Lovable, okay?
We're gonna come back to this. Another great kind of closed agent system, Manus.im. This is from Meta. Meta purchased this company.
And what you're able to do is you're able to build apps and websites. It's even able to run your Facebook ads through it to be able to use this. It can manage your Instagram. It can use your web browser through a tool like this.
Another great closed agent system, Clawed AI. In the higher levels of Clawed, you're gonna need the Clawed Max plan, which is between $100 and $200 a month for this. But what you get out of it is you get Clawed Code, Clawed Cowork, and a lot of usage with it. Clawed Cowork is a closed agent that you put on your computer that can do work for you using the Clawed system.
And it's extremely intelligent and capable at doing a lot of work for you on your computer. And so those are agentic systems that can do work for you on your computer. You just prompt them, you give them a task. Maybe they might not do it right the first time, but then you can help teach it how to do those things.
How do you teach it? You either tell it to go research it, or you can go grab some research using ChatGPT Deep Research or Gemini Deep Research to be able to answer these questions for you, okay? Now, the next level, and this is a bit more advanced, and I do teach this in my mentorship program. I teach how to use all of these different agentic tools inside of my Wealthy Coach Academy program over at my website, jeremiahkrakowski.com, is what we call the currently OpenClaw or Hermes agent.
These are two agent platforms that are out there right now. OpenClaw is right here. It's a completely free, autonomous, full system access machine. It runs on any machine, and it literally just can take control of your computer.
I have 150 AI agents right now that are actually running across different machines that I have that are doing work for me in my business. It's incredible. And you can manage it from your phone or things like that. The other one that's really popular is called Hermes Agent.
Again, very similar. This is from Nowse Research. And Hermes Agent does a very similar type of a thing where it can basically take control of your computer, full automation, full web and browser control, and operate at an incredible level to be able to get a ton of things done for you in your business. What are some of the things that I'm having these agents do for me?
They can take all of my coaching calls and put them into our members archive. They can analyze my business and create offers for me. They can literally build these offers out, and they can create a website, all of these different tools. They can work together to create pieces of software in my business.
Anything that I wanna create, these agents are able to do for me. If it's a vision that I have in my mind, an agent can build it for me. And that's what's incredible about tools like Hermes Agent and like OpenClaw, to be able to do these types of things at an incredible level. If you wanna work with me more on doing this, I highly recommend you jump into my Wealthy Coach Academy program, or subscribe to this channel.
Stay plugged in to what we're teaching on this channel about using AI. And if you're brand new to AI, again, start with chatbots, start with these closed agents. This is what I recommend to people. Start with those closed agent systems, like Lovable, Manus, Clawed Cowork.
Start using chatbots like Clawed, ChatGPT, or even MetaAI, which is free to be able to accomplish these things for you. And start using them to see the type of results that are created with them. One of the things that I wanna show you is what we can create here with a tool like Lovable. We're gonna come back to this here in just a second, I'm gonna show it to you.
All right, so this is the result that Lovable actually created for this type of website right here. This one prompt, it was able to literally build an entire website with images and everything that you could publish right now and use for a business in this niche. And that's just one example of using these tools to do this. Again, if you wanna learn more on how to use these tools and get better at using them, I'd love to work with you inside of my coaching program, the Wealthy Coach Academy Program.
Let's stay connected and we'll talk soon. Have a good one.
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