Can you build a custom AI agent in 10 minutes?
From Deep Learning with PolyAI by Team PolyAI
May 14, 2026 · 23 min
About this episode
In this episode, Frank Ferro and Ruari Phipps demonstrate how to build a custom AI agent in just ten minutes using the Agent Development Kit.
Send us Fan Mail Ten minutes to a working AI agent, tested and ready to deploy. In this episode of Deep Learning with PolyAI, Frank Ferro sits down with Ruari Phipps, Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer at PolyAI, for a live demo of the Agent Development Kit — and a look at what it actually means to give developers real control over how they build AI agents. They explore why enterprise AI platforms so often force a tradeoff between speed and control, how the ADK changes that equation, and wha...
People in this episode
Host: Frank Ferro
Guest: Ruari Phipps
Topics covered
- AI development
- Agent Development Kit
- enterprise AI
- technology
- control vs speed
Keywords
- AI agent
- Agent Development Kit
- enterprise AI platforms
- development speed
- control over AI
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Organizations: PolyAI
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