Hermes Agent
13 real, sourced cases of Hermes Agent by Nous Research at work. About the platform
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Plan a multi-week family road trip with a private itinerary site
A father used an always on Hermes Agent to plan a multi-week family road trip to Florida around his daughter's dance competition, including a private itinerary website and a calendar of bookings.
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Let an agent answer sponsorship emails and book discovery calls
A marketing agency founder runs Hermes Agent in the team's Slack, connected to the call and CRM tools, and lets its revenue agents send sponsorship replies and book customer development calls on their own.
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Triage support tickets daily and verify facts before replying
Gumroad runs a Hermes Agent that handles parts of daily operations. On a schedule it triages support tickets, checks the facts in internal admin and analytics tools, and replies, closes or escalates each one.
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Run the outbound prospecting week while a salesperson handles replies
A consultant has deployed Hermes Agent prospecting systems for several clients, including consulting firms and web agencies. The agent builds LinkedIn and email sequences, reads replies and escalates warm leads, while the salesperson keeps the conversations that matter.
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Audit ad performance and get creative variations in your team chat
A growth marketing agency runs Hermes Agent inside Slack for ad strategy. One person asks for an audit of dozens of ad posts, the analytics agent shows where spend is wasted, and a creative agent drafts new variations, all in the same thread.
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Scan new support tickets for help doc and blog post ideas
The founder of a podcast hosting company shared his Hermes Agent and knowledge base with his team, starting with support. Its first automated scan of new tickets suggested six help doc updates and two marketing posts.
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Summarize inbound chat leads and ask before replying
A consultant who sets Hermes up for small French businesses says one engine-cleaning shop has it check Facebook Messenger leads every 15 minutes, summarize each one and ask the owner how to reply. Another client dictates quotes straight into a CRM.
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Brief sales reps on a prospect's stack before discovery calls
Artie, a 17-person startup, gives its sales team a Hermes Agent profile that researches each prospect, maps their current tools, and pulls deal context before a discovery call. Because it also knows the company's product docs, it can warn the rep where a prospect's existing tool tends to break before the call starts.
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Give every employee a morning and evening digest
Razorpay's engineering blog says more than 220 employees each run their own isolated Hermes agent. One example reads its owner's Slack, GitHub and Google Workspace, posts a 07:15 morning digest and a 19:00 end-of-day digest to a private Slack channel, and nudges a task tracker every two hours. Any new skill the agent writes for itself can be held for human approval.
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Let marketing design and ship landing pages without an engineer
At the 17-person startup Artie, two Hermes profiles work as a pair: a design profile works inside the existing component system and checks whether a component already exists before making a new one, then hands off to a code profile that builds the page. The co-founder says marketing now ships landing pages on its Next.js site this way, and a person reviews the work before it goes live.
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Research and rank sales leads into tickets
A three-person Polish software house had Hermes write a brief on each lead in its list, each a ticket with a company profile, the likely problem, a first-contact suggestion and a hot/warm/cold rating. It also produced a long competitor report and critiqued the team's first outreach email as too generic.
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Give each team its own agent profile for ops work
A 17-person data startup (Artie) runs Hermes on one self-hosted machine with a separate profile per team. Its BizOps profile handles pipeline reviews, reconciliation and tracker updates, and flags exceptions for a human; staff mostly use it through Slack.
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Draft client invoices from task and time logs
A Swiss web agency gave Hermes access to its time-tracking and task tools plus a written invoicing skill. The agent checks completed, approved work, creates invoice drafts with a client summary, and a person reviews and sends every invoice. The poster says support billing is about half of revenue and the time saved is large but gives no figure.
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