Book · by Dr. Vinay Joshi
Mastering Hermes Agent
25 Practical Automations for Small Businesses
Stop chatting with AI. Start delegating to it.
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What you get
What this book helps you do.
Mastering Hermes Agent is the practical handbook for small business owners who want an assistant that remembers. Built on Nous Research's open-source, MIT-licensed Hermes Agent, it shows you how to build a digital teammate that remembers your procedures, turns them into reusable skills, and runs them on a schedule while you get on with your day.
No programming required. You will type commands and edit a setting or two, but you will never write software.
- The Delegation Ladder, a six-step method for handing work to an AI safely, and a four-week runway for your first month.
- A straight answer on privacy: where your client data actually goes, and how to keep it on your own premises when it matters.
- Troubleshooting that names your actual error, 35 prompt patterns, a command reference card and a plain-English glossary.
Inside the book
Chapter by chapter.
Bringing Hermes to Life: Quickstart and Setup
The Three Fundamental Layers: Memory, Skills and Cron Jobs
Your First Thirty Days
Choosing the Right Model, and Reaching Your Agent Anywhere
Giving Hermes Hands: Tools and MCP Servers
Teaching Hermes a Skill It Keeps Forever
When One Agent Isn't Enough: Profiles, Delegation and Multiple Agents
Security and Trust: What Happens to Your Data
Production Deployment and Infrastructure
When This Book Goes Out of Date
The Playbooks: 25 complete automations for real small-business jobs, each with the exact words to type and when not to automate
Who it is for
Written for these readers.
- Small business owners who answer the enquiry at eleven at night.
- Operations and marketing managers with no IT department.
- Freelancers and consultants who want their time back.
Excerpt
Read a sample.
Every Sunday, Tom lost a day to his business.
Tom runs a small engineering design firm, and it was doing well. About ten new inquiries arrived each week. He replied to a few of them, usually a day or two late, and the rest went quiet. Invoices went out when he found the time, often weeks after the drawings were delivered, and the overdue ones were chased only when the bank balance forced it. So on Sunday he sat down to catch up: the invoices, the project status reports his clients expected, the reminders to the clients who hadn't paid. It took the whole day, every week.
Nothing was wrong with Tom's business. It simply had one person doing two jobs: the owner, and the assistant the owner couldn't afford.
We automated the work he did on Sundays. [...] And Tom got his Sundays back.
From the Preface, “An Assistant for the Rest of Us”.
About the author
Dr. Vinay Joshi, Founder & CEO of Suvichar Technologies.
Dr. Vinay Joshi is the founder and CEO of Suvichar Technologies, an AI and automation company in Pune, India. He has more than 33 years of experience in technology and consulting, from enterprise systems to small-business automation. He holds a master's degree in computer science from BITS Pilani, completed the Advanced Management Program at IIM Bangalore, and received an honorary doctorate in digital transformation and AI-driven business solutions from Dunster Business School. Mastering Hermes Agent grows out of his work with businesses that have no IT department of their own.
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