7 Mind-Blowing Use Cases for Hermes Agent
By: Rick Mulready
Rick covers 7 powerful use cases for Hermes Agent, a free AI agent that runs on your existing AI subscription.
Hermes is a free AI agent (used via Slack, Telegram, or a desktop app) that doesn’t wait to be fed — it learns your business, keeps that knowledge organized itself, and does the upkeep for you.
Key Points
- One idea → a week/month of content. Hand Hermes a single idea and it spawns a mini-team (one researches, one finds the angle, one outlines, one repurposes, one writes). In ~30 seconds it returns a full marketing package: best angle, title options, YouTube description, 5 LinkedIn post ideas, and your newsletter section — in your voice, because it already knows your business.
- Offer & pricing research. Instead of paying someone to analyze comparables, Hermes researches what competitors charge, compares it against your existing offer, and returns a positioning + pricing structure recommendation (it asked clarifying questions first and delivered an ICP + week-by-week structure).
- Self-running projects (Kanban plugin). Drop a task in a “triage” column and Hermes decomposes it — creating tasks, moving them to-do → in progress → done, invoking the skills it needs, and writing results into your Obsidian. You stop project managing; you just say what you want done.
- Strategic advisor. Ask “given everything you know about me, what are the three highest-leverage things I should focus on this week?” and it pulls from its stored knowledge of your goals, priorities, and even your energy patterns (e.g., it knows your 60-minute morning focus block).
- Your own command-center dashboard. Have Hermes build a business dashboard in Obsidian — a Kanban board of projects and tasks with statuses, due dates, and assignments to either your agents or human team members.
- A “researcher” role that makes you smarter over time. Its job is to watch for useful signals, compare them against your business context, and separate observed evidence from claims — logging everything to Obsidian with a verification queue so future research builds on stored, verified knowledge instead of restarting from scratch.
- Delegate real work from your phone. Dictate a newsletter idea on mobile; by the time you’re back at your desk, it’s drafted in your voice and format (three subject lines, preview text, full draft) — actual work completed while you were away.
Note
The through-line: a regular AI chat starts from zero every session; Hermes compounds — it gets smarter about your business the more you use it.