Workshops/Workshop 3: Building Agents for Sales
Workshop 3: Building Agents for Sales
Hackathon Prep Edition — what agents are, why sales is the hottest vertical, and a real agent system you can copy.
◹Talk-led with a real agent system on the projector — Prompt's own Head of Outreach pipeline. Bring questions, leave with the patterns to copy at the hackathon.
DATEMON · 08 JUN 2026
TIME18:00–20:00
LOCATIONStartup Sauna · Maarintie 6
HOSTOlivia Rönnemaa
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YOU'LL WALK OUT WITH
01
A clear mental model of agents (vs workflows vs mega-prompts) and when each is the right tool.
02
Five workflow patterns you can recognize and reuse — chaining, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer.
03
A real agent system to copy at the Sales Hackathon — Prompt's Head of Outreach, end to end.
SCHEDULE170 MIN · RUN OF SHOW
#SEGMENTWHAT HAPPENSMIN
01What agents are (and aren't)Workflows vs agents, three failure modes of the mega-prompt, the three ingredients (model + tools + instructions).25
02Why sales is the hottest verticalYC + a16z signals: sell the service not the software, the CRM will die, 50%+ of YC S25 was agentic AI.15
03A real agent system — Head of OutreachPrompt's own 9-skill outreach chain on the projector. Separation of concerns, human-in-the-loop, CRM after every touch.30
04Agent examples by levelBeginner → intermediate → advanced. Lead qualifier, follow-up drafter, full SDR agent. Pick what you'll build this weekend.20
05Stripe in an agent systemWhere agents start touching money. Quote-to-checkout, subscription manager, invoice + follow-up. Safety rails.20
06Build block50 minutes. Pick a starter agent and ship it on your own laptop, hackathon-style.50
07Show & tell + hackathon prepA few demos, then practical hackathon logistics.10
SOURCES & FURTHER READING5 CITED
This talk leans on real sources — here's everything referenced, so you can go from 'saw the demo' to 'shipped one' on your own time.