DIY AI Assistants: Custom GPTs and Agents for NIH Workflows

Note: We highly recommend taking the Getting Started with AI Productivity Double Feature and From Prompt to Process classes prior to this. 

What if you could create an AI assistant that understands your work and helps you complete recurring tasks faster and more consistently? In this session, you will learn how to transform effective prompts and workflows into reusable AI assistants using custom GPTs and agent-style tools. Participants will explore how to design assistants that can draft communications, analyze documents, guide processes, and support common NIH workflows—reducing repetitive work and improving productivity. By the end of the session, you will understand when to build a custom assistant, how to structure its instructions and guardrails, and how to deploy AI helpers that save time while keeping human expertise in control.