You know that feeling when you have a 50-page document and you need one specific piece of information? You ctrl+F your way through it, squint at tiny text, and somehow still miss what you’re looking for.

It is really annoying. So, Gaurav Bisen (our in-house AI wizard) built an AI Agent that reads PDFs and then allows you to chat with the PDF.

What does the AI Agent do?

Think of it like having a smart intern who’s memorized your favorite book. You can ask them anything about it, and they’ll give you the exact answer. But if you ask about something that’s not in the book, they’ll quickly Google it for you.

That’s basically what Gaurav built. His AI Agent is trained on the video production guide created by Mr. Beast. Ask it, “How do I hook viewers in the first 10 seconds?” and it pulls the answer straight from the document.

The cool part? It can also create new ideas. Gaurav asked it to write a video script, and it combined the PDF’s strategies, with the LLM working as the brain, and created a full outline. Also, if you ask it for some context not present in the PDF, it can scrape information from the internet using DuckDuckGo as another tool.

Try it for yourself:

How can you build something similar?

Here’s the thing – you don’t need to be a programmer. The basic recipe is simple:

1. Get your document ready: Upload whatever PDF, manual, or guide you want the AI to learn from. Add the knowledge base to the dashboard and train it beforehand.
2. Teach the AI its job: Use AI Agent Gambit as the brain of this structure. Write a base prompt that clearly defines the role, conversational flow, and boundaries of the AI Agent.
3. Give it tools: Now, along with an AI Agent Gambit, also add a Tool Gambit, where you add your KB as a tool, along with any other tool you’d prefer, like DuckDuckGo. Now your AI can read your PDF and search the internet.
4. Test and fix: Ask it random questions. See what breaks. Adjust the instructions until it works right.

What could you build?

Once you get the hang of this, the possibilities get interesting:

• Turn your company handbook into an Agent that answers HR questions
• Feed it technical docs so new team members can get instant help
• Upload research papers and quiz them for key insights
• Convert instruction manuals into helpful assistants

Someone could upload every cooking book they own and have a personal chef AI. Or feed it all their meeting notes and never forget what was decided. Let your creativity run wild!

Still not convinced…

We’re all drowning in documents. PDFs, manuals, reports, guides; they pile up and become impossible to search through efficiently. This flips that around. Instead of you hunting through documents, the documents come to you through an AI that understands them. It can handle the boring “where did I see that thing” searches, so you can focus on actually using the information.

Start simple. Pick one document you reference regularly – maybe a style guide, user manual, or research paper you cite often. Test it with questions you know the answers to. Then try edge cases. Fix what doesn’t work.

The goal isn’t to build the perfect AI Agent on day one. It’s to stop manually searching through the same documents over and over.

Your PDFs are just sitting there anyway. Might as well teach them to talk back.