7 Mind-Blowing Use Cases for Hermes Agent
A video by Rick Mulready covering 7 powerful ways to use Hermes Agent.
Transcript
So, a lot of you have probably already tried to get your business organized for AI. You know, your goals, your offers, your audience, how you like things done all in one place. So, the AI actually has your context. And if you’ve done that, great. That’s exactly the right foundation to have. But here’s the next problem that you’re going to run into. Even when you’ve organized everything, you’re still the one doing the upkeep. You’re updating it. You’re keeping it tidy. You’re reminding the AI to go use something every single time. Well, now there is a perfect solution for that. I’ve been testing a free AI agent called Hermes, and it’s the first thing I’ve used that takes the whole job off of your plate. Hermes doesn’t sit around waiting for you to feed it. As you work, it figures out what’s worth knowing about you and your business. It keeps that organized on its own, and it pulls up exactly what it needs in the moment. You’re not managing any of it. And it goes further than that. Essentially, it builds its own little shortcuts out of the way that you work. So over time, it doesn’t just know your business. It actually gets better at running parts of it for you. And the best part, it’s completely free and it runs on the AI subscription you’re probably already paying for. So in this video, I’m going to walk you through seven mind-blowing use cases for it. Everything from running your own projects to building your own dashboard to handling research that you would normally pass off to somebody on your team. And don’t worry, none of this is technical. If you can set a message and follow a couple of steps, you can do everything I’m about to share with you. Okay, for use case number one, this is something that I think every single one of us deals with. And that’s taking one idea and turning it into a whole week’s worth of content or a whole month or a quarter. Normally, that’s, you know, you’ve got the idea, then you got to go research it, find the right angles, outline it, write the newsletter, draft the social post. That’s an entire afternoon or day or even week. What I do now is I just hand Hermes the one idea and it splits the work into a little team where each piece has its own clear job and then they go do it. One researches, one finds the angle, one outlines, one repurposes it, one writes the post. All of that from a single idea. So check this out. So right now I run Hermes through both Slack and Telegram. So I have Telegram right here. They just now, by the way, have a desktop app that they just rolled out. Literally the day that I’m recording this, they just rolled out a desktop app. I like to do it in Slack because I find it easy to copy and paste if I need to store stuff or let a team member know or something like that. So, here’s what we’re going to do for this first use case. So, I’m going to I’m going to tell Hermes I’m recording a YouTube video about seven practical Hermes agent use cases for entrepreneurs, which is what I’m doing right now. Find out the best angle for this YouTube video. And then I’m asking it to create a complete marketing package from the topic. So title options, YouTube description, five LinkedIn post ideas, one newsletter section for what I’m seeing. So that what I’m seeing section that it knows about from my newsletter. That’s because I’ve told it and taught Hermes about my business and the newsletter that I send out every Sunday. So it is taking all that memory into account. Remember, this is getting smarter and smarter and smarter and it knows so much about your business. It can be so helpful. Charles, by the way, is my marketing agent in Hermes. So, right now, I currently have a marketing agent, also a sort of general overall agent that I like to call um Alex. Okay. In literally 30 seconds, it’s done all of that research and written out the content piece that I’ve asked for. So, it’s telling me what the best angle of the video should be, and then it gives the different use case ideas. It’s giving me title options for the video. It’s giving me its pick. Writing the YouTube description. Here are five po uh LinkedIn post ideas. Idea one, idea two. Then remember we asked it for the newsletter section for what I’m seeing. And then finally, a simple CTA to the AI playbook community that I could use within the video. And again, all I did was I asked it for what it I wanted it to do. I wasn’t super specific on any of it. The reason being is because Hermes gets smarter and smarter, has this amazing memory and I’ve taught it about my business. If you’ve watched my information hierarchy video that I did last week, it’s just reading off of that information in my folder structure on my computer that has all the information about me, my business, my voice, my audience, my offers, my pricing structure, my ICP, etc. And Hermes just knows all of this stuff because I pointed Hermes at that information. And now everything that Hermes has given me is super super relevant and helpful to my business. And by the way, I’m going to have all the use cases, the prompts I use, and everything that we’re talking about here in this video downloadable for you so you can just copy it and use it yourself. I’ll link to it in the description below. Okay, for use case number two, I’m literally in the process right now of putting together a new offer. And instead of guessing on it or paying somebody to, you know, go do the research and figure out pricing structure and comparables and all that stuff, I had Hermes go look at what everyone else in my space is charging and offering compared against what I was building and had already built and then actually come back to me with a recommendation like how to position it, what to charge, the whole structure of the offer. I said, I’m considering creating a cohort program. I’m giving you two URLs of two programs that are vastly different in pricing. I want you to analyze those offers. Compare them to my agent playbook challenge that I just did and give me a recommendation on what I might create as a standalone offer in my own business. Make sure you ask me any questions you’re not clear on before doing this. And then literally after about 5 minutes, this is the output that it gave me. It gave me the standalone offer recommendation and then gave me the executive recommendation, a quick summary, ICP, broke down week by week, um, and then gave me a full pricing, recommendation, structure, tier structure. And again, I gave it basically couple of sentences. It already knows my business, so it could tailor the whole thing to me instead of handing me some generic advice. So before you go pay somebody to help you position or price your next offer, I’d at least run through this first. and you totally might not need to hand it off to somebody or pay somebody else to do it. Okay, use case number three. And honestly, this might be my favorite of the seven use cases I’m sharing with you here today. So, you can hand Hermes an entire project and basically let it run itself. Okay, so check this out. This is the Hermes agent actual dashboard. So, this is not something that I built. Now, they have a plugin. There’s a canban plugin, which is what you’re looking at here. And why this is cool because I can put something into the triage section here and then Hermes takes over. So what we’re going to do here is click on the plus button and under triage and I’m going to tell it that I want it to and I’ve not done this before. So I’m going to tell it we’re going to do it live right here. So I’m going to say create a better reason to choose the AI playbook annual plan. Then I’m gonna click go. And as you can see here it’s starting to move through the different uh status columns here. So, as you can see here, if you look through the to-do column, so it says create a better reason to choose the AI playbook annual plan. So, it’s created a task under the to-do column. Wrote the annual plan or write the annual plan reason to choose copy. Then, you can look over here under in progress. It says audit the current AI playbook annual offer angle. And then it says research annual plan conversion hooks. So, it’s doing all of this all on its own. Okay. And then, as you can see here, it just moved down to the done column. So it audited the current AI playbook annual offer angle. Now it has moved the research annual plan conversion hooks that’s in progress. So if I click on this and I scroll down here, number one, it has the description of the task that it created all by itself. And then if I go down to the bottom here, it’ll tell me what the output was from that particular task. And also if you look closely here, it’ll tell you what skills it invoked all by itself. And then again, you can see here where it goes through the audit and also it tells me where it put it into my Obsidian. So now I can go look at this in Obsidian. It just carried all this information over there and it keeps working its way through the entire project that way. So you’re not the project managing anymore. You’re just saying what you want done and Hermes handles the steps and it moves it through the entire project and it breaks it down by itself into individual uh steps within the overall project. All right, so use case number four and this is where having all of your context in one place really really pays off because Hermes already knows your business, your goals, your priorities, all of it. So you can basically use it as a strategic adviser. So let’s do this in Telegram. Let’s just say that you’re off getting coffee somewhere. And again, I’m going to show you on my computer on Telegram, but obviously you can pull it up on your phone as well. And so, I’m just going to speak to it based on everything you know about me, my business, what my goals are, where I’m at right now, what are the three highest leverage things that I should focus on this week. So, it’s going to take its body of knowledge about you and your current situation. Again, the more you’re using it, the smarter it’s getting. And so you can see here it’s invoking different skills, reading different files about the business, and then it’ll give me my three priorities. Okay. And here it is again. This is this is deadon for me. So finish the start here path for my community. We’re just revamping it. Uh record this YouTube video. Top three things for the week. And then it’s also telling me where it recommends I start. And you can see here your focus block 60 minutes in the morning because it knows that I am freshest in the morning with my ADHD brain. I work better in the morning. That’s when I’m freshest. That’s when I’m going to get more things done. That’s my magic time. And it knows that about me. And then let’s just say that I wanted Hermes to start working on the cohort offer that I have here. I could have it create a landing page for me. I could have it write sales page copy for me just just by telling it let’s start creating the sales page the onepage offer based on the above structure that you’ve given me and then it will go and do it and I can just start assigning things based off of these priorities and that’s the thing a regular AI chat just can’t do for you because it’s starting from scratch every time you talk about it. All right, use case number five. You can have Hermes build your own dashboard for you like a command center for your whole business. And I mean built completely from scratch just by talking to Hermes. And so here is my dashboard. Here’s my command center. And I had Hermes build it for me inside of Obsidian because Obsidian for me is my one source of truth. I have all the projects in there, context, all of my to-dos. So I’ve given Hermes access to my Obsidian via my VPS. And so it’s able to pull all of these things together really, really quickly. And so here’s my to-do, my in progress, my block. So it’s a canban board for that I’ve created for my own stuff. This is different from the Hermes Canvan board that I show you in use case number three earlier. So for example, create the money math one pager with current AIP numbers or or define the weekly repurposing flow. So it’s in progress right now. So I can click on this and it goes to the particular project page and it has all the details of that particular project as well as each of the tasks that are assigned within that project. And you can see here it has the status. I can come in here and set due dates or I can better yet I can tell Hermes what the due dates are. And uh I can also assign these specific tasks to Hermes, right? And so if I come back out here, I really like this because again it is all in one place and it knows my business. It’s categorized. So like for example right here, export active subscribers from kit. We’re waiting on this for somebody on my team to do it or myself to do it. So I can click on this and the project is within the beehive or the kit beehive migration. So Hermes created this entire plan step by step. I didn’t write any of this. It did it via research. It’s given me all the notes and links to specific pages. So all of this is is in one place and I love it. I just live out of this dashboard here, making sure that I know exactly what’s going on, what needs to happen, what do I need to do, what can I assign to different agents in Hermes here that I’ve set up, also to people on my team, etc. One central dashboard. It’s really, really good. Okay, use case number six. This is one of my favorite use cases because it shows where all of this starts to get really, really interesting when it comes to the Hermes agent. Most people use AI like a search box, right? to ask a question, get an answer, and move on. But what I want is something different. I want my business to get smarter over time. Thus using Hermes. So I created an AI role that I call researcher. Its job is to watch for useful signals out there, if you will, compare them against what matters in my business, and separate what’s actually been observed from what’s just a claim. Let me explain this because that distinction is huge. Because if AI just summarizes everything confidently, it can make weak information, for example, sound way more certain than it really is. So, researcher keeps track of the evidence, the claims, the weak signals, and the things that still need to be verified when it’s doing research for me. And then it writes all of that into my Obsidian vault that I just showed you in the previous use cases. So, all my other roles can use it later. So, check this out. I’m going to go over to Hermes in my Slack and I’m just going to type in Alex. So, Alex is the name of my Hermes agent. Ask researcher to run a researcher refresh for my AI playbook business. Focus on AI operating systems for online entrepreneurs. Write the evidence verification cue and content opportunities for me and my business to Obsidian. Then bring the operator brief back here. So, I’m asking it to go do a research project. But this isn’t your standard research project like deep research for example. Remember it’s researching through the lens and context of my business because it knows so much about my business. Okay, it’s just finished up its research. Did a very thorough research about 20 minutes or so. So here is the brief of the research that it gave me and now it’s telling me the files where it put it into my Obsidian. So let’s go check that out. And here are all the things that it just did in terms of the research. Gave me a whole bunch of content opportunities. And again, here is the operator brief that it’s just given me, why it matters for me, what’s verified, what’s not verified yet, content opportunities, recommended next action. So, it’s telling me what I could do. I could say, “All right, hand this off to uh to Charles or Alexander, my marketing agent, and on to the next step.” So, the big takeaway here is this. The value is not that AI summarized, you know, all the research for me that I asked it to do. The value is that my business now has a place to store evidence, uncertainty, and also useful signals that it gets through the research that are relevant to me. And all of that means that tomorrow’s AI, if you will, for me works smarter than today’s version of the AI that I’m using. Okay, for use case number seven, we’re going to delegate real work from your phone and come back to it finished on your computer. So, I might open up Telegram on my phone and I might say something like, “Alex, I just had an idea for this week’s newsletter. The point is that most entrepreneurs are using AI like a slot machine instead of building an actual operating system. Turn this into a draft for my audience. Use my voice AI playbook positioning and include three different subject lines, preview text, and the final draft. And then I can put my phone away. And then by the time I’m back at my desk after I get my coffee, it’s done and waiting for me. So let’s open up Telegram, which is the app I was using on my phone. So I’m back at my computer now and we’ll see what it did. So gave me three subject lines right here. Gives me preview text and then has written an email here. And by the way, this is following the format of my actual newsletter. It’s gone and done the research. It knows my voice. It knows my newsletter format. Um, and it’s written the whole thing. So, this is the part that for me makes it feel less like a tool and more like actual help. You can be away from your desk living your life and the work is still moving forward. Not just reminders, not just notes, actual work is getting done. So, there you have it. Seven mind-blowing use cases for Hermes. And honestly, I’m just scratching the surface here. The thing I keep coming back to is that this isn’t just another tool that you’ve got to babysit. It actually gets sharper about your business the more that you use it. Now again, if you want all the use cases that I share with you broken down with along with the prompts and requests that I did for each of the use cases, I’ve linked to it in the description below. You can go ahead and download that. And again, as always, thanks so much for watching today’s video. Appreciate you. See you in the next video.