Hermes is changing the way I run my studio.

One of my biggest pain points as a solo developer & studio owner is all of the little mundane tasks that I have to do in my day to day to keep the engine running.

Posting on socials, outreach, project management, and always trying to achieve inbox zero. And I don’t have the luxury of a team to delegate tasks to.

Or do I…

Hermes is an AI agent harness. That’s a fancy way of saying that you bring your own AI provider, and it supplies you with an interface & features to get the most out of your LLM.

Think of it like a project muscle car that you have to bring your own engine for, but the transmission, interior, etc. is semi-finished.

Out of the box, an agent is powerful. Give it context and it gets genuinely useful. That context is where Hermes earns its keep.

Hermes is interesting in the fact that it keeps a curated memory for context into what you’re working on. It is character limited — it holds onto the latest and most relevant, and quietly drops the stuff that's gone stale. The more you talk to it, the more it learns. That's what turns a chatbot into something that actually feels like it knows your work.

When exploring Hermes, I found that you can keep multiple profiles within the interface. These profiles can share context & memories, or be completely isolated from each other. In my use case, I kept mine separate (Gotta keep ‘em separated!).

I've got one for general use, one as an engineering assistant for coding projects, and one as a content specialist that helps me shake loose ideas when I'm in a creative lull. Keeping them isolated means each one stays sharp on its job instead of drowning in unrelated context. If you're not a token-maxxer, this is also where you stop lighting money on fire.

If you’ve been on twitter for any length of time, you’ll see tech bros walking around with their laptop lids cracked open. Most agentic AI workflows stop when you shut your laptop lid.

But not Hermes.

Since Hermes is best run in the cloud or on a separate machine, like a Mac Mini, you can give it jobs that run at the time and frequency of your choice. Congratulations. You’ve now turned your agent into a 24/7 worker that can manage your email, draft up ideas in Notion, and more.

Here’s a few things that I have Hermes doing.

Hermes helps me keep my Notion workspace organized and allows me to riff on content ideas that get stored in a workspace database. If I ever need to tweak anything in these databases, Hermes can help me do so.

I hate a messy inbox. Hermes archives anything older than 30 days, flags what looks important, and clears out the marketing noise. My quest for inbox zero never ends, but I'm losing by a lot less now.

Ok this one is sick. Hermes reaches into my project management tools, pulls tasks and due dates, checks my email, and drops a brief in my inbox every morning. Exactly what a personal assistant would hand me with my coffee.

Although tools like Hermes are very cool, I still do not support the idea of replacing creatives with generative AI. In my personal opinion, AI is here as a tool, not a crutch.

That is why I hand off the grunt work to Hermes. Every hour I'm not spending sorting email or shuffling tasks is an hour I get back for the thing only I can do: creating.

Support your fellow creatives.

Stay Creative. Stay Caffeinated.

Paps.