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Two people in London built something that made international news. It cost them about €200.

Matt Cortland and John Fleming noticed that the CSO stopped tracking the price of a pint of Guinness in Ireland back in 2011 — the last official figure was €3.93 and they wanted an update. Using an AI voice agent, Twilio and Claude Code, they called over 700 pubs across Ireland and got live pint prices in real time. The Guinndex was live by St. Patrick's Day - access it here to find out where to get the best priced pint of Guinness.

With fuel prices driving protests across the country, they then applied the exact same method to US gas stations. Same AI agents. Same logic. Real-time prices from the pump, crowd-sourced by a bot named Bobby. And only one person in 700 told him where to go.

Two people spotted a problem. Solved it with just a couple of hundred euro, because they had the know-how.... and that's were we come in.

This week on ChattingGPT

Matt and John walk us through exactly how they built both projects- the tools, the decisions, what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. It's the episode that shows you what's actually possible right now, without Anthropic-level resources or a team of engineers.

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Meanwhile, in the AI labs...

Anthropic announced a new model called Claude Mythos. They're not releasing it publicly — not because it isn't ready, but because it's too capable. During testing, Mythos was placed in a locked environment and told to escape, and it did.

Then, without being asked, it emailed one of the researchers to let him know it had succeeded, and posted details of its own breakout to several publicly accessible websites. Anthropic called it "a concerning and unasked-for effort to demonstrate its success."

That's the frontier. And it's moving fast.

What this means for you is that now is the time to bring AI into your work if you haven't done so already. And we're not talking about summarising emails here.

Software engineers are barely writing code any more. AI is doing most of it, and the software engineers who aren't using AI are not keeping up with the ones who are.

Here's the thing about engineers: they already speak the language. They can pick up AI tools without needing a course.

If you're not a software engineer, you don't have that shortcut.
AI is coming to your work too, and the way you adapt and augment, especially with the new agents, they just aren't as instinctive as chatbots so it has to be learned.

Ready to build your own Guinndex?

We're proud to be offering a Claude Code + Cowork course for people who are ready to go beyond Chat. A tech check, and two live sessions, built around a real project you'll actually want to use. No coding background needed - you direct in plain English, Claude does the technical work.

Join a merry bunch of early adopters and leave knowing how to use Claude Code to build tools, automate workflows, and produce polished, branded deliverables that would normally require a developer.

Tech check is on 23 April and the course starts the week after.

​Find out more and secure your spot →​

If you're earlier in the journey, Core AI Skills (June) and M365 Copilot (starts this week) are where to begin.

Yours, watching the sandbox closely,
AI Institute