Field service tech runs repair plans through Hermes, and it found the faulty partu/Purgii · Business operations · Oct 19, 2026Solo IT department for a 165-person travel company moved 80% of daily work into Hermesu/Physical-Economist27 · Teams & enterprise · Oct 15, 2026Runs Hermes assistants for French small business owners, 8,000 scheduled runs so far@julientalbot974 · Business operations · Oct 5, 2026A GTM team builds verified contact lists from one Slack message, on one shared subscription@coldemailchris · Business operations · Sep 29, 2026A drainlaying business runs quotes, invoices, CRM and stock through Hermes from the trucku/Sanvell · Business operations · Sep 24, 2026A tech-policy publication runs Hermes agents for editorial suggestions and client proposals@nixxin · Teams & enterprise · Sep 19, 2026An energy advisory firm runs one Hermes gateway for the whole team, scoped by role@MichaelVersluis · Business operations · Sep 18, 2026A food and beverage company runs ops, finance and approvals on three Hermes profiles@lecaj_ · Business operations · Sep 17, 2026Bookstore runs a staff agent on Discord and a customer agent on iMessage for under $10/mou/jack-dawed · Business operations · Sep 17, 2026Staff forward email threads to an update@ inbox and Hermes files them into the wikiu/thetomsays · Teams & enterprise · Sep 17, 2026A 17-person startup gives every team its own Hermes profile, from code to BizOps@JacquelineSYC19 · Teams & enterprise · Sep 16, 2026In 15 days he wired Hermes into his own tasks, clients and invoices system via MCP@marc_bara · Business operations · Sep 13, 2026Deployed LinkedIn prospecting agents for consulting firms and web agencies@leploutos · Marketing · Sep 11, 2026A daily work setup on Hermes for meetings, prospects and commercial proposalsSchezHugo (Hacker News) · Business operations · Sep 9, 2026Korean AI company runs dozens of Hermes agents on a Mac Mini farm across every team@rlaope · Teams & enterprise · Sep 5, 2026Family collectibles shop on a $12 VPS gets inbox triage and stock alerts across 4,000 SKUsu/GeekTekRob · Business operations · Sep 4, 2026Marketing business owner has Hermes find 50 prospects a day and run weekly SEO checksu/Forsaken_Coconut3717 · Marketing · Sep 1, 2026Podcast hosting founder shares his agent with the team to mine support tickets@TheCraigHewitt · Business operations · Aug 27, 2026A first-time founder uses Hermes as a daily boss for fundraising and compliancejjcm (Hacker News) · Business operations · Aug 27, 2026Owner of three commercial real estate firms runs a Hermes chief of staff over specialistsu/hvhprofessionalist · Business operations · Aug 25, 2026Construction company owner runs bidding, legal drafts and ERP invoicing with seven agentsu/crfr4mvzl · Business operations · Aug 23, 2026YC-backed design-to-code startup made a Hermes agent its on-call engineeru/avishic · Teams & enterprise · Aug 16, 2026A solo founder split his startup across seven Hermes assistants, from growth to SREtheanimeshs · Business operations · Aug 13, 2026Outbound sales agent researches accounts and queues every send for approval in Telegram@VibeMarketer_ · Marketing · Aug 13, 2026A startup's company brain runs daily standups and GTM tracking in Discordsanjuacodez (Indie Hackers) · Business operations · Aug 12, 2026A 50-developer team uses Hermes for code review, incident notes and ticket triageu/how_gauche · Teams & enterprise · Aug 4, 2026Swiss web agency drafts client invoices from Harvest and ClickUp, a human sends them@corxntyn · Business operations · Jul 30, 2026Film production company owner runs budgets, deal memos and sales follow-ups via Hermesu/chrisaumen · Business operations · Jul 29, 2026Media company agent brings 7 months of company memory into a shared team workspace@MartyBent · Business operations · Jul 29, 2026Company agents for sales and sprint reports went from hackathon to daily CEO and CMO useu/Osamu-Dazai-12 · Teams & enterprise · Jul 29, 2026A marketing founder runs WhatsApp replies, approval-gated jobs and Notion team check-insMarTech AI · Marketing · Jul 26, 2026Managed-service firm runs a separate Hermes agent per client to produce deliverablesu/Ecommerce_Addict · Business operations · Jul 21, 2026Gumroad runs much of the business through an agent on a dedicated Mac@scotty529 · Teams & enterprise · Jul 21, 2026Niche online store owner has Hermes turn B2B client emails into Shopify draft ordersu/bluffman · Business operations · Jul 18, 2026Attorney who also runs a local multi-site business automates payment reconciliationu/NeurosisByAnalysis · Business operations · Jul 17, 2026A prospect phoned his Hermes agent about the proposal, and it closed the consulting deal@alexcovo_eth · Business operations · Jul 16, 2026A business added a Hermes IT-support agent that now solves 90% of issues on its own@ThomasBekkers · Business operations · Jul 15, 2026Forwarded a 50-page Greek PDF over Telegram and got a reviewed PR backu/Elegant_Emergency859 · Business operations · Jul 14, 2026Razorpay gives 220+ employees their own isolated, always-on Hermes agentRazorpay Engineering · Teams & enterprise · Jul 12, 2026IT consultancy deploys Hermes for SME clients: CRM outreach, lead vetting, ERP supportu/NKB82 · Business operations · Jul 12, 2026What the agent is allowed to own decides whether it feels like a cofounder@code_rams · Business operations · Jul 11, 2026A DFIR analyst runs work, coaching and homelab as three separate profilesu/stan_frbd · Teams & enterprise · Jul 9, 2026Agents as YAML org nodes: a local company, not one big chatbotu/TotalGod · Business operations · Jul 8, 2026A real service business ran lead to payment over Telegram, owner approving each step@hewi333 · Business operations · Jun 30, 202611 construction WhatsApp groups, 82 messages boiled down to 3 linesu/Godzillaton · Business operations · Jun 28, 2026Managed agent cut a real estate client's accounting fees by $18k a year@jaredclucas · Business operations · Jun 24, 2026Asking internal business tools about orders and inventory over Telegramleansensei (Hacker News) · Business operations · Jun 23, 2026A three-person software house uses Hermes for lead research and competitor analysisHalfbit Studio · Business operations · Jun 22, 2026A daily SEO loop: Search Console analysis, drafts, approval, then publishingAI Ranking (YouTube) · Marketing · Jun 22, 2026Connected an entire business to the agent through one Obsidian vault@milesdeutscher · Business operations · Jun 20, 2026Nontechnical teammates query BigQuery, Stripe and Amplitude through Hermes in Slackbrettcvz (Hacker News) · Teams & enterprise · Jun 18, 2026A Kubernetes operator so team agent config goes through PR reviewu/noah-h-lee · Teams & enterprise · Jun 18, 2026Replaced the helpdesk: Hermes briefs a local support agent and escalates to the teamtheturtletalks (Hacker News) · Business operations · Jun 15, 2026Route manager at a 400-pools-a-week service company has Hermes flag bad tech reports liveu/andrewtcombs · Business operations · Jun 14, 2026€2,700 a month installing Hermes for French small businessesu/pacmanpill · Business operations · Jun 13, 2026One isolated Hermes profile per client — sell AI ops to local businesses@IBuzovskyi · Business operations · May 30, 2026Ad agency team runs spend audits and creative refreshes with Hermes in Slack@ericosiu · Marketing · May 29, 2026Runs Hermes as a 'junior operator' across 5 money-making workflowsSharbel A. (YouTube) · Business operations · May 25, 2026Startup founder runs support, banking, Stripe and SEO through Hermes agents@LoicBerthelot · Business operations · May 21, 2026Four levels of setup, from one main agent to a cron-driven team@shannholmberg · Business operations · May 18, 2026A maternal-fetal medicine specialist runs clinical documentation through 94 skillsDoctorsWhoCode · Business operations · May 17, 2026A PR agency runs sales ops in Slack: CRM lookups, lead research notes and email triagePressWhizz (YouTube) · Business operations · May 11, 2026An e-commerce SEO agency splits Hermes into Shopify, search and client-prep agentsStewart Media · Marketing · May 11, 2026PM competitive briefing went from 20 min to 8 min over 6 weeks — same prompt@aakashgupta · Business operations · May 1, 2026Auto-transcribe Meet calls, control from Teams, local models for client dataJulian Goldie (Substack) · Business operations · Apr 30, 2026Hermes as CLI/gateway-first — 13 platforms under one processKen Huang (Substack) · Teams & enterprise · Apr 27, 2026Day 297 of my streak: $100K of client work automated@NathanWilbanks_ · Business operations · Apr 25, 2026UGC ad studio on Hermes (4 minutes, zero prompt engineering)@codewithimanshu · Marketing · Apr 24, 2026Live inventory tracking on Hermes@akashnet · Business operations · Apr 21, 2026Client research, follow-ups, podcasts, leads — all on Hermes@mvanhorn · Business operations · Apr 19, 2026A software consultancy built an internal Slack assistant that knows the companyEchobind · Teams & enterprise · Mar 25, 2026Ported a competitor-analysis swarm from Codex to Hermes@zedosplasticos008 · Business operations · Mar 21, 2026Why 95% of AI users see no results — Hype's Hermes deep dive@hypepartners · Teams & enterprise · Mar 16, 2026Vertex AI for GCP-standardized enterprises@prasadus92 · Teams & enterprise · 2026EU AI Act compliance via Ombre@pypl0 · Teams & enterprise · 202624/7 assistant with a Supabase CRM, built in a demoDerek Cheung (YouTube) · Business operations · 2026Azure-compliant prompt patch so the safety filter doesn't kick inolafgeibig (GitHub Gist) · Teams & enterprise · 2026Hunter.io email-finding for sales outreach@isakcarlson5-del · Business operations · 2026Create and edit Google Slides decks@zednik-max · Business operations · 2026Task-centric memory for a printing factory@Xwm1234 · Business operations · 2026Kubernetes pod-hop handoff across restarts@samdu · Teams & enterprise · 2026Hermes inside an MCP infrastructure behind Higress@bsxyswsy6n · Teams & enterprise · 2026I built a Hermes skill pack on top of Meta's CLI@masonjames · MarketingHermes Agent for my team — repos, onchain debug, protocol docs@megabyte0x · Business operationsHermes on my k8s cluster for a daily cybersec + AI briefing@m05tr0 · Teams & enterpriseBuilding a roofing lead-gen app for my friend with Hermes@cyberfarmacist · Business operationsHermes triages and works tickets in my PM software@dalekc72 · Business operationsHermes as my Chief of Staff with sub-agents per project@ogiberstein · Business operationsGot Hermes running on AWS VPS with Google Workspace automation@smantena · Teams & enterprise
Running a business with Hermes
These reports come from people using Hermes inside real businesses. Read them for the shape of the work: which tasks were handed over, how many agents were involved, and where a person still signs off. Savings and results are the authors' own accounts.