7 Hermes Agent Use Cases That Run My Entire Life

0:00There are two ways to use AI. One is a

0:03chatbot. You ask and it answers, then

0:06you just close the tab. And the other is

0:09this. You give it a job and it goes and

0:12does it on its own while you sleep. This

0:15is Hermes. It's a free open-source AI

0:18agent and I run my entire life on it. My

0:21meetings, my inbox, my business, even my

0:24mornings. So, in this video, I'll show

0:26you the seven ways I actually use it.

0:29And the ones that genuinely changed how

0:31I work. Some of these you've never seen

0:34an AI do. And one of them means I might

0:37be on a beach right now. Let's get

0:38started.

0:39Number one, and this one fixed the

0:42problem that was costing us real money.

0:44Meetings. I use Fireflies. So, it sits

0:48in every call and takes notes. But,

0:50here's the magic. Hermes knows my

0:53calendar. So, the second a meeting ends,

0:56it goes and grabs that meeting's

0:58transcript on its own. It reads the

1:00whole thing, it finds every action item,

1:03and it figures out who owns what. And

1:06then it assigns it to me and my team in

1:09Notion automatically. Before this, we'd

1:12have these great meetings, decide on a

1:14bunch of things, and half of it would

1:16just evaporate. Someone forgets to write

1:18it down, task never gets assigned. I

1:22mean, we'd run into human error every

1:24single time. But, now nothing slips. The

1:27meeting ends and the tasks are already

1:30on Notion. Setting this up is honestly

1:32simple. You connect whatever meeting

1:34notes tool that you use to Hermes. Then

1:37you paste this prompt into Hermes. When

1:40a meeting ends on my calendar,

1:42automatically fetch its Fireflies

1:44transcript, or whatever meeting notes

1:46tool you have, pull every action item

1:49and who owns it, and create them as

1:51tasks on my Notion board assigned to the

1:53right person. If an owner isn't clear,

1:55assign it to me and flag it. Do this

1:57after every meeting from now on. It's

2:00literally this simple. A chatbot can't

2:02do this. It's not in your meeting. It

2:04doesn't know your calendar. And it's not

2:07going to open Notion after every call

2:10and hand out work. This just handles it.

2:13It's that simple. You just set it once

2:15and you're done. It'll do it for you

2:17after every single meeting from that

2:19point onwards. And speaking of things

2:21that used to slip through the cracks,

2:24number two is my inbox. And I'll be

2:26honest with you, I am terrible at email.

2:29With the volume that I get, I lose track

2:31of conversations constantly. And the

2:34emails that matter always get buried,

2:37which is a real problem because some of

2:39those emails are worth actual money. So,

2:42I have my Hermes watch my inbox. It

2:45flags the emails that matter, the leads,

2:48the deals, the time-sensitive stuff, and

2:51it has a draft ready waiting in my

2:53voice. I just review them and ask it to

2:56send them if they're approved. Okay,

2:58this next thing I'm about to say is not

3:00a flex. I just want to really highlight

3:03how small but valuable of a function

3:05this is. This exact setup has helped us

3:08close tens of thousands of dollars in

3:10deals in the last month that I probably

3:12would have let rot in my inbox. To run

3:15this, you would just have to connect

3:17Hermes to your email, then input this

3:19prompt. Watch my inbox throughout the

3:21day, flag anything that's a real lead,

3:23deal, or time-sensitive, and write a

3:26reply as a draft in my voice, learning

3:28my style from my sent folder. Never send

3:31anything automatically and leave

3:33everything in drafts for me to approve.

3:35Easy, right? The honest catch with this

3:38workflow is I highly recommend you keep

3:40it on draft mode and not on auto send.

3:43The last thing you want is Hermes

3:45hallucinating your rates and sending

3:48potential leads wrong information. You

3:50want your eyes on anything that matters

3:53before it goes out. So, the those two

3:55workflows clean up after your own stuff,

3:57but this next one watches the whole

4:00world for you. I call number three the

4:03sentinel, and this is the one that

4:05really shows you what it means to have

4:07an agent that is awake around the clock.

4:10There are two directions with this

4:12workflow. The first one is inward. It

4:14guards your world. For example, I have

4:17it watch my sign-ups, my site, my

4:19reviews, and the moment something is

4:22off, for example, a number dips or the

4:25site goes down, it pings me instantly.

4:27You can wire it to almost anything with

4:30a webhook. The magical part about it is

4:32that it's ahead of me. I find out

4:35something broke before it turns into a

4:37fire, not after a customer lets me know.

4:40It's like having someone watching the

4:42shop at 3:00 a.m., except it never

4:44blinks and it never sleeps. Now, you can

4:47also point it the other way because it

4:49can watch the outside world just as

4:52easily. You know, the stuff you always

4:54miss, like concert tickets the second

4:56they drop, the reservation that's

4:58impossible to get, the product that's

5:01always sold out. It can just camp on the

5:03page around the clock, and the moment it

5:05is live, it goes in, logs in, puts in

5:08your details, and grabs it. And you wake

5:10up to the reservation booked for you.

5:13This is the same skill in both

5:15directions. It watches your world or

5:17hunts the internet for you. No chatbot

5:20is refreshing a ticket page at 2:00

5:22a.m., but this will. To set this up,

5:25you'll need to ask Hermes to create a

5:27webhook to whatever website you want to

5:29monitor by literally just asking it,

5:31"Create a webhook for this website for

5:33me." Then you send it this, "Monitor my

5:35sign-ups, site uptime, new reviews,

5:38whatever it is you want, around the

5:40clock. If sign-ups drop below X in an

5:42hour, or whatever condition you want it

5:45to flag you upon, message me on Telegram

5:47right away with exactly what happened

5:49and the link. Only alert me if those

5:52trigger, no noise. Or, if you wanted to

5:54watch the outside world for you, then

5:56you paste that in. Watch this page

5:59around the clock. The moment something

6:01happens on that page, log in with my

6:04safe details and reserve it or add it to

6:06my cart. Then, stop and ask me before

6:09any payment. And just like that, your

6:11Hermes is watching that website around

6:13the clock. There are two catches to

6:15this. Number one, be specific about what

6:18something's wrong means, or it'll just

6:21cry wolf at you all the time. And number

6:23two, put a gate on anything that spends

6:26money. Let it take you right up to the

6:28checkout, but you approve the final

6:31click, or you make it yourself. All

6:33right, that one guards your business.

6:35The next one guards your clients.

6:38Number four is client pulse. If you've

6:41got clients, this one is gold. Hermes

6:44keeps a live read on every client chat

6:46we have. It tracks who's happy, who's

6:48gone quiet, who hasn't heard from us in

6:51a long time, and it flags it before it

6:54becomes a problem. The thing that kills

6:56service businesses isn't the big

6:58blow-ups, it's the quiet ones. The

7:00client who slowly goes cold and churns

7:03before you even noticed. Hermes catches

7:06that early, so I can step in while it

7:09still matters. This is another easy

7:11setup. The way I set it up is by

7:13creating a Telegram bot I add to all of

7:15our client groups, and that is how it

7:18reads all client chats 24/7. Once you

7:21have that up and running, then you can

7:23ask Hermes this. Once a day, review

7:25every client conversation across

7:27whatever platform it is that you want it

7:29to review. Flag anyone who's gone quiet,

7:32hasn't been contacted in x amount of

7:34days, or sounds unhappy, and send me a

7:37short morning list of who to check in on

7:39first and why. Don't message any client

7:42yourself. A quick note here, this is a

7:45radar, not a replacement. It tells you

7:48who to call, but I highly suggest you

7:51still call or you still make the calls

7:54yourself, especially for sensitive

7:56client emails or messages. Okay, so that

7:59is four jobs. Here's the thing that

8:01makes all four feel like one assistant

8:04and not four bots.

8:06Number five, and this is the one that

8:08quietly ties everything together.

8:10Everything I've shown you so far, it's

8:13not a pile of separate little bots each

8:15doing their own thing. It's one

8:17assistant with one unified memory behind

8:21all of that. So, when it drafts a reply

8:23in my inbox, it already knows what got

8:26decided in this morning's meeting. When

8:28it flags a client gone quiet, it

8:31remembers the last few things we

8:32actually talked about. It's all

8:35connected. Now, there is a cool hack

8:37here that you can set up if you want

8:38that same brain to carry over across all

8:42of your different tools. Say for

8:43example, if you use Claude Code as well

8:46or GPT separately, you can plug all of

8:49your tools into one shared memory

8:51system. I personally use Memola for my

8:54setup. It's free if you make less than

8:5610,000 saves and 1,000 lookups a month,

8:59but you also have multiple other options

9:02like Super Memory, Zap, or Leta. Super

9:05Memory is fast and it's cloud-based. Zap

9:07actually tracks how facts about you

9:10change over time, so it knows what's

9:13still true and what isn't. And Leta is

9:15more than just memory. It's a whole

9:17agent setup with the memory baked into

9:20that. If you have a shared memory system

9:22installed, you'd stop sharing a

9:23conversation from zero every time you go

9:26to use another tool. I'm not

9:28re-explaining my business, my clients,

9:30or my preferences every single time when

9:33I switch to Claude Code to say edit a

9:35website. It just knows. All you need to

9:38do to set this up is go over to

9:40whichever memory provider you want and

9:43follow their on-screen instructions. In

9:45my case, since I'm using Memo, I can go

9:48and copy this right here and Hermes send

9:51it to it or even ask it like, "Hey, I

9:53want to install Memo. Do it for me." And

9:56then, say for example, if you use Claude

9:57code or Codex, then you go over here and

10:00you can if you use it in the terminal,

10:02you can copy these commands or you can

10:05add it as an MCP or you can even do it

10:07straight from Claude code itself by

10:10literally clicking plus, connectors,

10:12browse connectors, and then you look up

10:15the provider. In my case, it's Memo, but

10:17you can go ahead and choose whichever

10:19one that you want. The honest catch is

10:21that most of these tools are paid unless

10:24you have a dedicated local machine, then

10:27I'd suggest you look into Memo. If you

10:30run it with a local model on your own

10:32machine, then it costs you nothing to

10:34run. And because it's all one brain

10:37sitting on one machine, I can reach her

10:39it from anywhere. Number six, and this

10:42is the most underrated one by a mile.

10:45You can just text it from your phone.

10:47Mine's plugged into a Mac mini at home,

10:50so my entire work desk, all my files,

10:54all my tools, they're all sitting there

10:56ready for me at any time from anywhere

10:59in the world. And I'm a bit of a

11:01workaholic, so every time I used to

11:03travel, I'd get that itch. I wish I had

11:07my laptop. I need to send that email or

11:10I wish I could access that file or I

11:13don't know, make that thing. Now, I

11:15don't get that itch anymore. I just pull

11:17out my phone or I send a voice note to

11:20my Hermes agent from Telegram and Hermes

11:22takes over my desk and does that for me

11:25from anywhere in the world. This is how

11:28I've actually gotten to enjoy my trips

11:30with my wife where I'm not itching to

11:32get back because my laptop is basically

11:35in my pocket. Who knows? Maybe I'm on

11:38holiday right now. Maybe it's just good

11:40enough that you never know I'm filming

11:42this on a beach right now. All right, I

11:45have one use case left that I want to

11:47share with you and it's the one I

11:49genuinely can't imagine going back from.

11:52Number seven, the morning brief. Because

11:55here's the best thing about Hermes. You

11:57sleep, but it doesn't. So every night

12:00while I'm out, it's working. And I've

12:02got a cron job set up. So the very first

12:05message I receive when I wake up in the

12:07morning is just one question. What's

12:09your number one priority today? And

12:11while I'm still in bed with my coffee in

12:14my hand, I just send it a voice note.

12:16Today the main thing is this. And while

12:19I'm literally drinking my coffee,

12:21scrolling the news and you know, just

12:23trying to wake up, it starts working on

12:26how to get me started. And sometimes by

12:30the time I actually sit down on my desk,

12:33my number one priority for the day is

12:35already done. Gone. Finished before I've

12:38even started my day. This one by far is

12:41the easiest one to set up. You literally

12:43just have to send Hermes this message.

12:45Every morning at whatever time you want,

12:47send me a Telegram message with today's

12:49calendar, the overnight emails that

12:51matter and my key numbers. Then ask me

12:54my number one priority. When I reply,

12:56start working on it and get as far as

12:58you safely can before I sit down without

13:01spending money or sending anything

13:03externally without asking first. And

13:05from that moment onwards, it will ask

13:08you for your number one priority every

13:10single morning. This is the moment I

13:12realized this isn't a tool anymore. It's

13:15working for me while I sleep and while

13:18I'm waking up. So all that being said,

13:21is this worth actually setting up?

13:23Here's what I think. Once you stop using

13:25AI like a chatbot and start handing it

13:28real jobs. You just don't go back. A

13:31chatbot saves you a few minutes, but

13:33this gives you back your entire day. And

13:36the best part is that Hermes is free and

13:38it's open source. The only thing between

13:41you and all of this is maybe one

13:43afternoon of setting all of these up.

13:45Everything that I shared in this video,

13:48every single prompt, every single cron

13:51are copy-pastable. They're in the first

13:53link in my description. just open it and

13:56steal every single one of them. Or just

13:58send that entire article to Hermes.

14:00It'll just know what to do. So, tell me

14:03in the comments, which of the seven are

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