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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain · Jul 1, 2026

Learn how to build your first AI employee using Hermes AI. This episode provides a step-by-step guide to automating sales prospecting.

Composio Acts as a Universal Connector, Giving Any AI Agent Instant Access to Your Entire Tech Stack

Instead of repeatedly connecting individual tools to every new AI agent, Composio centralizes these connections. You connect apps like HubSpot and Stripe once, then use a single Composio connector to give any AI agent or platform access to your entire tool stack, saving significant setup time.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Open-Source Model GLM 5.2 Dramatically Cuts AI Agent Operating Costs Compared to Claude Opus

The Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 offers performance comparable to expensive proprietary models like Claude Opus but at a fraction of the cost. This makes running AI agents at scale economically viable for more businesses, removing a significant barrier to adoption.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Scale Your AI Workforce by Cloning Pre-Configured Agents for Specialized Tasks

Once you have successfully configured an AI agent with the right tools, models, and prompts, you can simply clone it. This allows you to rapidly create a 'fleet' of AI employees, each of which can be tasked with a different specialized function, such as one for email outreach and another for checking its work.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Equip AI Employees with an Obsidian Vault to Serve as a Persistent 'Second Brain'

Provide AI agents with a structured knowledge base, like an Obsidian vault, to give them deep, persistent context on your business, people, and projects. This is faster and more reliable than having the agent constantly fetch information via APIs, making it a more efficient and knowledgeable worker.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Build Your First AI Employee Around a Single Workflow, Not an Entire Role

To successfully implement your first AI employee, start with a single, well-defined workflow, such as re-engaging past customers. This approach simplifies the process, reduces failure points, and delivers a clear win. Once one use case is perfected, you can expand its capabilities to adjacent tasks.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Autonomous AI Employees Require a Dedicated Virtual Computer, like Orgo, to Operate Effectively

For an AI agent to perform meaningful work, it needs more than just a model; it requires its own dedicated computing environment. Services like Orgo provide a 'computer in the cloud' where the agent can live, store files, and execute tasks, enabling true autonomy beyond simple API calls.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

For AI Employees, Agent Harness Reliability Is Paramount; Hermes Is Outperforming OpenClaw

When deploying autonomous AI employees, reliability is more critical than hype. The guest found Hermes to be a more stable and reliable agent harness than the more well-known OpenClaw. Since agent failures erode trust, choosing a dependable framework is a key decision.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago

Effectively Deploying AI Agents Requires Systems Thinking to Design and Automate Workflows

While AI tools will become simpler, the core skill for leveraging them is the ability to think in systems and workflows. People who can break down a business process into logical, step-by-step instructions for an agent to follow will have a significant advantage in the age of AI automation.

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Build An Army Of AI Employees To Run Your Business (With Hermes AI)

Marketing Against The Grain·2 months ago