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Your AI can write the perfect email, but can it actually send it? It can analyze your calendar, but can it schedule the meeting? The gap between AI's intelligence and its ability to take action has been the biggest barrier to true automation—until Model Context Protocol (MCP) broke it wide open. MCP is the revolutionary protocol that gives AI agents actual agency—the power to discover, select, and use your business tools autonomously. When you tell an AI agent to "add this travel expense," MCP enables it to list your spreadsheet rows, identify what's missing, and add the expense directly—no human intervention required. It's the difference between an AI that tells you what to do and one that does it for you. Think of MCP as the universal translator between AI intelligence and your computer systems. It allows AI agents to automatically discover available tools—from email senders to CRM updaters to database queries—and use them in intelligent sequences to solve complex problems. The AI enters a powerful loop: assess the task, select a tool, execute through MCP, evaluate results, and repeat until the job is done. You provide the goal; the AI handles the execution. This course teaches anyone—regardless of technical background—how Model Context Protocol actually works. We skip the technical minutiae and focus on the concepts that matter: how MCP enables AI autonomy, how it uses tools, and why it's transformative. You'll learn to integrate MCP into the AI tools you already use, like ChatGPT and Claude, transforming them from smart assistants into autonomous agents that can check your calendar, update your spreadsheets, send your emails, and manage your workflows. This isn't about becoming a programmer; it's about understanding the technology well enough to design solutions, lead implementations, and strategize competitive advantages. By the end of this course, you'll possess the knowledge to evaluate MCP solutions, identify automation opportunities, and lead your organization's transition to autonomous AI. You'll understand not just what MCP can do, but how to harness it strategically—turning AI from a productivity tool into a force multiplier....

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By Vibhav A

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Oct 22, 2025

The first video in the first module threw me off a little bit - maybe an introduction could have helped.

By jojo A

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Nov 23, 2025

Sufficiently high level to give directors/executives a glimpse of how generative AI interacts with existing technology and data stores to do next level work enhancement. If basic genAI is a fresh-grad intern (a bright one occasionally), the glimpse into MCP shows how one can use genAI agents to have a brilliant executive assistant or analyst; the executive still needs to do own human-in-the-loop thinking. Post the glimpse, an interested executive may actually want the next course to do some hands-on to be able to properly judge (and invest in) initiatives

By Jose A

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Oct 25, 2025

The course revealed the incredible potential of MCP to redefine the role of AI, transforming it from a passive Q&A assistant into an active, autonomous collaborator capable of executing end-to-end tasks. It shows the practical power of generative AI agents.

By Space R

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Oct 28, 2025

Very clear and yet deep and significant insights in this course.

By François V

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Oct 29, 2025

The subject is interesting, but the concepts covered don't go very far; this two-hour training course could be done in 15 minutes! It feels like a training course generated by AI, with topics repeating themselves all the time, which is annoying and a waste of time. The exercises involving AI conversation are well done but also far too long. The AI asks the same things four or five times, which is also very tedious.

By Stefano P

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Nov 5, 2025

poor content