Designing Stateful AI Agents Without Overengineering

Hosted by Dr. Aki Wijesundara and Manu Jayawardana

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In this video

00:00:37 Introduction & Welcome
00:04:19 Common Failures of AI Agents
00:07:38 Introduction to the N8n Platform
00:11:22 The Difference Between Chatbots and AI Agents
00:13:34 Short-Term vs. Long-Term Memory for Agents
00:18:04 A Walkthrough of the N8n Interface
00:25:48 Building an Agent with Memory in N8n
00:29:21 Live Demo: Agent Memory in Action
00:32:45 Five Design Principles for Stateful Agents
00:34:43 Q&A and Conclusion

What you'll learn

Build a stateful AI agent end-to-end in n8n
Design and implement a complete n8n agent workflow with state, memory, and control flow that behaves consistently.
Design agent state and control without overengineering
Model memory, decisions, and tool usage using simple n8n patterns instead of complex agent frameworks.
Test, debug, and iterate on agent behavior

Most AI agents fail not because they lack intelligence, but because they lack structure. Teams often jump straight to complex agent frameworks when a simple, stateful workflow would work better. This session shows how to design agents as systems, using n8n to make behavior explicit, debuggable, and extensible.

You'll learn from

Dr. Aki Wijesundara
AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Aki Wijesundara is an AI researcher, educator, and founder with a PhD in Machine Learning and experience at Google's AI Accelerator. He has taught over 5,000+ engineers, founders, and product leaders worldwide how to build production-ready AI systems using LangChain, RAG pipelines, and MLOps frameworks.

Career highlights

Ex–Google AI Accelerator researcher focused on responsible AI and applied ML.
PhD in AI & Cognitive Systems with published research across top universities.
Co-founder of Snapdrum — delivered AI systems for finance, education, and healthcare.

Manu Jayawardana
Exited AI Founder (Rise AI: 35k Users) | Co-Founder of Krybe and Snapdrum.com

Manu Jayawardana is a serial entrepreneur with multiple AI startup successes. He is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Krybe, an AI voice agent startup in London transforming how businesses automate customer interactions.

Career highlights

Co-Founder of Snapdrum — builds production-ready AI systems for Fortune 500s, YC startups, and global Series A–C companies.
Exited Founder of Rise AI — created an AI investment copilot used by 35,000+ users worldwide.

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