Build AI Agents That Investigate, Reason, and Retrieve with Knowledge Graphs
Stop building AI assistants that simply retrieve documents. Learn how to build intelligent GraphRAG-powered agents that investigate complex questions, gather evidence across multiple retrievals, remember previous investigations, and deliver trustworthy answers for production AI applications.
Traditional RAG works well when the answer exists inside a few documents.
Real-world business problems rarely do.
Enterprise investigations often require connecting information across people, organizations, events, products, research papers, regulations, and thousands of relationships that ordinary vector search simply cannot capture.
This is where GraphRAG changes everything.
In this hands-on live bootcamp, you'll learn how to build Agentic GraphRAG systems, AI agents that don't just retrieve information, but actively investigate problems, decompose complex questions, gather evidence from Knowledge Graphs, remember previous investigations, and synthesize reliable answers.
Unlike courses that spend hours teaching how to build Knowledge Graphs from scratch, this workshop focuses on what most AI developers actually need: using existing GraphRAG systems to build powerful AI applications.
Working with a production-ready Natural Language GraphRAG endpoint, you'll focus on designing intelligent agent workflows instead of wrestling with graph query languages or Prompt-to-Cypher generation.
Throughout the workshop, you'll progressively build an investigative AI agent that evolves from a simple GraphRAG client into a conversational research assistant capable of:
- Connecting an LLM agent to a GraphRAG system
- Retrieving structured knowledge using natural language
- Breaking complex investigations into multiple evidence-gathering tasks
- Synthesizing findings from numerous GraphRAG retrievals
- Maintaining investigation memory for follow-up conversations
- Extending agents with advanced graph analytics, traversal, sentiment analysis, timeline analysis, geospatial reasoning, and other specialized investigative tools
You'll also learn one of the most important architectural principles for production AI systems: treating the Knowledge Graph, the GraphRAG platform, and the AI Agent as independent, modular components that can evolve separately.
By the end of this workshop, you'll understand how modern investigative AI systems are designed and have built an intelligent GraphRAG-powered agent that can tackle problems far beyond the capabilities of traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
What You'll Build
- By the end of the bootcamp, you'll have built an investigative AI agent capable of:
- Connecting to a GraphRAG system through natural language APIs
- Investigating complex questions using multi-step retrieval workflows
- Gathering and synthesizing evidence from multiple graph queries
- Maintaining conversational investigation memory
- Extending its capabilities with specialized graph analysis and investigative tools
Whether you're building enterprise copilots, research assistants, fraud detection systems, intelligence platforms, compliance solutions, or knowledge-intensive AI applications, this workshop provides practical patterns for building AI agents that reason over connected knowledge—not just retrieve documents.
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David Knickerbocker
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- 6 hours
- Online
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Agenda
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Understand: Foundations of Agentic GraphRAG
Kick off the workshop by exploring the core concepts behind Agentic GraphRAG and why it's transforming how AI applications are built. You'll understand the differences between traditional RAG and GraphRAG, learn how Knowledge Graphs organize connected information, and discover how AI agents use GraphRAG to investigate complex questions. We'll break down the architecture into three independent components the Knowledge Graph, the GraphRAG layer, and the AI Agent and explain why keeping them modular leads to more scalable, maintainable, and production-ready systems. Through live demonstrations, you'll see a real Knowledge Graph and GraphRAG API in action and gain the architectural foundation needed to build intelligent agents throughout the rest of the bootcamp.
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Connect: Connecting Your First GraphRAG Agent
In this hands-on session, you'll build your first Agentic GraphRAG application by connecting an LLM agent to a GraphRAG API using natural language. You'll learn how an agent receives a user query, retrieves relevant knowledge from a GraphRAG system, interprets the returned dataset, and generates accurate, context-aware responses. Rather than writing complex graph queries, you'll focus on orchestrating the interaction between the agent and the GraphRAG service, giving you a practical "Hello World" implementation that forms the foundation for more advanced investigative and production-ready AI agents later in the bootcamp.
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Investigate: Building an Investigative AI Agent
Move beyond simple retrieval by teaching your AI agent to investigate complex problems using multi-step GraphRAG workflows. You'll learn how agents break a challenging question into smaller investigative tasks, perform multiple GraphRAG retrievals, gather supporting evidence from diverse datasets, and combine those findings into a single, evidence-based response. Rather than relying on one search, your agent will reason across multiple sources, synthesize insights, generate concise summaries, and produce comprehensive investigation briefs. This session introduces the core workflow that enables GraphRAG-powered agents to tackle real-world analytical and enterprise research problems with greater accuracy and reliability.