Stuck at install
Servers, API keys, config files. For a lot of owners, that's where it ends.
We set it up. You use it.
We install your AI employee. You get back to running the business.
You've heard about AI agents. Maybe you've tried one. The hard part isn't the idea. It's getting something installed, hooked to your email and calendar, and doing the same tasks every week without you babysitting it. We deploy Hermes Agent on a server, connect your tools, and set up the jobs that actually matter. You never touch a terminal.
3-5 days
typical go-live
24/7
runs on your server
Yours
data & config
No code
from you, ever
Hermes · Acme Landscaping
ONLINE
BRIEFING
Live
- 3 new leads overnight
- 2 appointments today
- 1 quote still waiting
CRON
Mon 8:00
Inbox summary → your phone
Follow up with leads from yesterday
AGENT
Drafted 3 follow-ups. Waiting on your OK before anything sends.
Gmail
Calendar
Sheets
SMS
The problem
Watching a demo takes five minutes. Getting it working takes weeks.
Someone pitches you on AI every other week. You get a login, maybe a walkthrough, and then you're on your own. Hermes is great software. Most small business owners never get past the install step.
Nothing's connected
If it can't read your inbox or calendar, you're just typing into another box.
Same conversation every time
No memory, no schedule, no continuity. You start from scratch every day.
Nobody to call
Something breaks at 2am on a Sunday. Good luck getting help from a forum thread.
What we do
You shouldn't get a download link. You should get something that works.
We deliver three things as one package: the server, your agent set up for your business, and the daily jobs it's supposed to run.
Infrastructure
The boring part. We handle it.
- Your server, spun up and locked down
- Hermes + web dashboard installed and kept running
- Backups, updates, restarts when something crashes
- AI model connected with a spending cap on the bill
Configuration
Tuned to your business, not a generic template.
- Talks like your company, not a robot
- Knows your services, hours, and how you operate
- Reach it by text, email, or Slack. Your pick.
- Asks before sending emails or doing anything sensitive
Workflows
This is where it earns its keep.
- 3-5 real tasks we pick together on the discovery call
- Morning summaries and scheduled check-ins on your phone
- Forms, CRM, follow-ups wired through automation
- First 30 days we adjust based on how you actually use it
You run the business. Text the agent when you need something, peek at the dashboard if you want, read the morning summary over coffee. We deal with what's under the hood.
Under the hood
We build on Hermes Agent. Open source, self-hosted, made for ongoing work.
ChatGPT forgets you every time you close the tab. Hermes doesn't. It keeps what it learns about your business, figures out repeatable workflows from real tasks, and runs scheduled jobs while you're on a job site or asleep. It lives on your server. Your data isn't training someone else's product.
Hermes Agent docs →- Remembers context between sessions
- Runs tasks on a schedule
- Text, email, Slack, and a bunch more
- Gets sharper on your workflows over time
- Web dashboard when you want the full picture
- Open source. Leave anytime, keep everything.
Examples
Stuff it can handle in month one.
These are real patterns we've set up. Yours depends on what we talk through on the call.
Morning briefing
Text by 8am with today's calendar, new leads, and the stuff you forgot to answer yesterday.
Lead follow-up drafts
It writes the replies. You approve before anything goes out.
Inbox triage
Twice a day: what's urgent, what can wait. So you're not living in email.
Monday numbers
Leads in, jobs booked, quotes still hanging. Pulled from your sheet or CRM.
Quote follow-ups
Open estimates don't sit there for two weeks. Drafts ready, you're still in control.
Site visit prep
Night before a busy day: who's on the schedule, notes, addresses, all in one place.
Review requests
Job's done. It drafts a review ask that sounds like you wrote it.
After-hours triage
Late-night inquiries get summarized. Your phone only buzzes if it's actually worth waking up for.
Don't see yours? Tell us on the call. We'll figure out if it fits.
How it goes
Usually live in under a week.
1
Discovery call
We ask about your tools, what's eating your time, and pick 3-5 tasks the agent should own.
20-30 min of your time2
We build it
Server, install, integrations, memory, automations. You don't need to be involved.
We handle this part3
Go-live walkthrough
We show you how to talk to it, approve actions, and ask for changes when something's off.
About 45 min4
Tuning period
30 days of tweaks included. After that, stay on a care plan or run it yourself. Your call.
Maybe 5 min/week from youYou're not logging into servers. You're not editing config files. If something's wrong, you email us.
Straight talk
This isn't ChatGPT with a fancier login screen.
ChatGPT / Copilot
DIY Hermes
Strohm Partners
Knows your business
A little, sometimes
If you set it up right
We seed it day one
Works while you sleep
No
Only if you build it
From launch
Hooked to your tools
Sort of
Your problem
Our problem
First useful task
Today, maybe
Weeks, if you're persistent
Days
When it breaks
Good luck
GitHub issues
You email us
Pricing
Three packages. No surprise fees from us.
AI model usage is billed separately, usually $30-$120/mo depending on volume. We put a cap on it so you know the ceiling.
Starter
Agent Foundation
$1,500 setup
Good if you're dipping a toe in. One owner, light daily use.
- 1 business profile / owner user
- Standard VPS + web dashboard
- 1 messaging channel (text or email)
- 2 workflows at launch
- Email + calendar hooked up
- 14 days of post-launch tweaks
$149/mo care plan
Get startedGrowth
Agent Operator
$2,500 setup
For owners ready to hand off 5-10 hours of admin work every week.
- Everything in Starter
- Bigger server for heavier workloads
- 5 workflows at launch
- N8N automation hub (3 active flows)
- CRM or Google Sheets pipeline
- 30 days of tweaks + check-in calls
$249/mo care plan
Book discovery callCustom
Multi-location / Team
From $4,500
Multiple users, picky integrations, or compliance stuff that needs extra care.
- Multi-user routing & approvals
- Custom skills for your stack
- QuickBooks, industry CRMs, etc.
- Onboarding for your staff
- SLA if you need one
Custom care plan
Request a quoteWhat owners say
Less time in the inbox. More time on the work.
I figured AI meant one more app to open. Now I get a text every morning with what I actually need to deal with. I haven't changed a single setting since launch.
We'd been messing with ChatGPT for months. Josh had quote follow-ups running within a week. The part where it asks me before sending an email? That's what sold my boss.
I'm not a tech person and I don't want to be. I wanted someone to own the server and tell me what to actually ask this thing. That's exactly what happened.
You own your data
Playbook included
30-day tuning
Real person answers
FAQ
Questions we get a lot.
We set it up and manage it. The account is in your name. If you ever part ways, you keep the server and a full export of your agent.
ChatGPT is a chat window. Hermes is software that runs on a server, remembers your business, connects to your tools, and does scheduled work without you sitting there. Different category entirely.
Usually $30-$120 a month for a typical small business running daily briefings and some email drafting. We set a spending cap and send you a usage summary each month.
It stays on infrastructure we set up for you. Credentials are locked down. The agent can't blast emails or messages without rules you sign off on first.
No. We hand you a short playbook with examples. The agent already knows your services and how you talk. You just ask like you'd ask an employee.
The website brings in leads. Hermes works them and handles the back-office stuff around email, calendar, and follow-up. A lot of our clients end up with both.
Get started
Curious if this fits your business?
Book a 20-minute call. We'll tell you straight whether Hermes makes sense for you, and which few tasks would pay for the setup in the first month.
- No pressure. We'll point you to the right package or say it's not a fit.
- We take on 4 new setups a month so we can do them properly.
- You'll hear back within one business day.