Agentic Institute
Test your AI agents with someone other than their builder - a framework, training and a Health Check your organisation can use now, whatever the labs and governments decide. Built on the AI Agents Manifesto. Every price in Australian dollars.
Four steps, each adding more independent checking of your own agents
Start free. Go as far up the ladder as your clients, insurer or regulator will one day ask you to.
Manifesto Kit
AI Agents Manifesto (2026 edition) with an evidence test under every principle, 10-minute scorecard, 2026 preface, Agent Evidence Index, weekly briefing opt-in
Get it free →Foundations
Self-paced, 2-3 hours, graded quiz, designed to issue a certificate of completion
Book →Evaluator Workshop - bring your own agent
One live day. Test your own agent across all eight principles, in pairs, with the full harness. Leave with a signed-off evaluation - the builder never signs.
Founding price $695 inc GST for the first workshop, capped at 8 seats. Next date announced by email.
Health Check - decisions about people
Fixed scope, up to 10 agents or tools. Finds where they inform decisions about people and records the oversight you have, tested by someone other than the builder. Facts pack for your lawyer.
Fixed fee $4,950 + GST · Each extra agent or tool $450 + GST · Quarterly re-check (optional) $1,450 + GST · Founding price $3,950 + GST for the first five firms.
We don't review agents that Netlifestyle AI or a related party built.
Not accreditation, not a regulatory or ISO/IEC 42001 certification, not an EU AI Act conformity assessment, and not legal advice.
The AI Agents Manifesto - 2026 edition
Eight principles for deploying AI agents that augment people, stay transparent and operate within boundaries. Every Institute curriculum is grounded in them.
Get the Manifesto Kit (free)Augmentation over Automation
AI agents should enhance human capabilities rather than simply replace them - empowering people to achieve more, working alongside humans as partners.
Bounded Adaptability over Rigid Programming
Systems that learn and respond to changing contexts, within limits that have been tested - and that hand the decision back to a human when they move beyond them.
Transparency over Black-Box Operation
Users should understand what an agent is doing and why - building appropriate trust through visibility.
Human-Centred Design over Technical Efficiency
Technical performance matters, but serving human needs, preferences and values matters more. Agents should be intuitive and aligned with human intent.
Accountable Collaboration over Isolated Operation
Agents that communicate and coordinate with humans and other agents, while each stays within its own mandate and answerable to people who can see, and stop, any one of them.
Responsible Operation over Unrestricted Capabilities
Powerful capabilities must be matched with appropriate safeguards, operating within boundaries that prevent harm while maximising benefit.
Paced Improvement over Static Deployment
Agents that learn from experience and evolve through feedback, at a pace we can understand and govern - when capability outpaces assurance, we slow down.
Verified Trust over Self-Assessment
Trust in an agent rests on evidence that others can check, not only on the assurances of those who built it - safeguards, evaluations and incidents are open to independent review.
Manifesto Training
Learn the principles and the test behind each one, then apply them to an agent your organisation runs. Two ways to take it: Foundations, self-paced, or the Evaluator Workshop, one live day with your own agent.
Written for partners, directors and the people who sign off on agents.
Designed to issue a certificate of completion.
Evaluator Workshop - bring your own agent
One live day. Bring an agent you work on, test it across all eight principles in pairs, and leave with a signed-off evaluation your managing partner can read. The builder never signs.
- ✓All eight principles and the full harness - the free Evaluator Lab covers three.
- ✓You evaluate your partner's agent; they evaluate yours.
- ✓Bring the agent's spec, its tool list, sandbox access and test data with no client or personal data.
Date: Next date announced by email.
Compared with the defaults
What each option produces as evidence about your own deployment.
| Option | What it gives you | What it doesn't |
|---|---|---|
| Free vendor AI courses | Good grounding in one vendor's tools | Independent evidence about your own deployment |
| AI governance credentials and e-learning | Individual knowledge of policy and regulation | Tests of how your agents actually behave |
| Doing nothing | No cost today | Anything to show a client, insurer or regulator who asks |
| Agentic Institute ladder | A self-assessment first, then more independent checks of your own agents | - |
We recommend vendor courses as pre-work - they teach the tools; the Manifesto helps you check them.
More from the Institute
The floor is EU AI Act Training. Since 27 July 2026, Article 4 of the EU AI Act asks providers and deployers to take measures to support the AI literacy of their staff and others using AI systems on their behalf; it does not require a guaranteed level of AI literacy. The ceiling is the Manifesto ladder above: oversight competence and records for the people accountable for each agent. Our guide shows where each applies, in Australia and in the European Union.
AI transparency: Australia and the EU
What Australia's automated-decision transparency rules and the EU AI Act mean for the agents your firm runs, streamed side by side, with the free Agent Evidence Index to start your inventory.
Read the guide →EU AI Act Training
Article 4 AI-literacy training for staff and for boards: the compliance layer beneath the Manifesto's principles.
EU AI Act Staff course: $95 inc GST per seat, volume tiers from 25 seats. Board briefing (in-house): $4,950 + GST per session.
View the curriculum →Evidence you can show - and what we don't claim
Agentic Institute courses are designed to issue a certificate of completion when you pass a graded assessment. CPD points are shown only for courses whose accreditation has been granted. The AI Agents Manifesto is not accredited, and neither is the Agentic Institute.
How it is designed to work
EU AI Act Training certificates and completion records: see the EU AI Act Training page.