HDC Academy AI automations and agents Intro
Build your first AI automation
Free 6 lessons Planned
What is Build your first AI automation?
Build your first AI automation is a free course from HDC Academy. It is free with an account, needs no payment details, and is a complete piece of work rather than a preview. You can build a working form-to-CRM-to-notification pipeline with an AI step in the middle. You finish with a running automation handling real submissions.
Free means free: an account, no payment details, and the whole course. The paid levels of ai automations and agents are separate and clearly marked.
What you finish with
A running automation handling real submissions.
You can build a working form-to-CRM-to-notification pipeline with an AI step in the middle.
Where this sits
Practical automation: lead pipelines, enrichment, notifications and the agents that are actually worth building. This is the intro tier: free with an account. a complete piece of work, not a trailer.
What you need before you start
An Airtable or similar account. No code required.
Who this is not for
Anyone wanting to build an AI startup. This is operations plumbing.
Where the material comes from
This course is written from the documents HDC Consultancy delivers client work to, not assembled for a course. The ones behind this one:
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03-standards/integrations/crm-airtable -
03-standards/web/forms-and-lead-capture
Client names, figures and commercial terms are removed before anything reaches a course. Worked examples are fictional unless a client has approved the real one for this specific use.
Not open yet
We will not invent an opening date. Create a free account and you will hear when this one opens, before anyone else.
Questions about Build your first AI automation
Is Build your first AI automation really free?
Yes. You create a free account and the course costs nothing. We do not ask for payment details, there is no trial that becomes a charge, and the course is complete in itself rather than a preview of a paid one.
What will I actually have at the end?
A running automation handling real submissions. That is the point of the course rather than a bonus at the end of it — every HDC Academy course finishes with something that exists, not a video watched.
What do I need before starting?
An Airtable or similar account. No code required.
Who should not take this course?
Anyone wanting to build an AI startup. This is operations plumbing.
Is this course available now?
Not yet. It is planned, and we will not invent a date for it. Create a free account and you will hear when it opens.