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Welcome to PolyAcademy — hands-on training for building production-ready agents.
Step-by-step guides for when you’re creating something new. Already have a live agent? Go to Maintain.

Before you start

Design principles

Core priorities, practical guidelines, and the reasoning behind agent design decisions.

Choose your path

Level 1: Get started

Blank project → functioning agent you can test, review, and promote.For: First-time users

Level 2: Advanced

Functions, response controls, audio management, advanced diagnostics.For: Experienced users

Level 3: Expert

Code organization, flows, natural speech, voice polish.For: Developers and senior designers

How it works

1

Learn

Concept + examples + best practices
2

Quiz

Test yourself with quizzes throughout each lesson
3

Try it yourself

Hands-on challenge
4

Track progress

Mark lessons complete as you go

What you’ll learn

  • Create and configure your first agent
  • Build simple FAQ topics
  • Test in Chat and Call
  • Manage environments and versions
  • Review conversations
  • Complex multi-turn topics
  • Functions and return values
  • Response controls
  • Audio and voice tuning
  • Global ASR biasing
  • Variant management
  • Code organization with imports and shared utilities
  • Flows for structured multi-turn interactions
  • Flow patterns: collection, validation, handoff
  • Writing natural agent speech
  • Voice polish: filler, turn-taking, personalization
Last modified on April 1, 2026