Hermes Agent + Ioni: Build Your Own AI Agent Team Today!
Transform your computer into an agentic operating system using the power of Hermes Agent and Ioni. Learn how to automate lead generation, spreadsheets, and complex workflows with a proactive team of AI agents that runs locally on your machine.
00:00 - 00:00 - Intro
00:43 - The Brain: Hermes Agent
01:10 - The Interface: Ioni
02:03 - Building an AI Agent Team
03:22 - Agents vs. Chatbots
04:52 - Loops and Local Memory
06:16 - Privacy and Data Security
06:46 - Step-by-Step Setup Guide
Full transcript
Hermes Agent plus IonWii is insane. Together they basically turn your computer into an agentic AI operating system, not one assistant. A whole team of AI agents living on your machine. They write code, they browse the web, they open your files, they read your spreadsheets, they run workflows for you.
And the wild part, they get better the longer you use them. I want you to picture this for a second. You wake up, you open your laptop, and there's already a team of AI agents working on your business. One is pulling new leads from the web, one is sorting through your emails, one is building a landing page, one is updating a spreadsheet with your numbers.
You didn't tell them this morning, you set it up once. Just keep going, that's what this combo unlocks. And it's already here, right now, free. Your computer.
Let me explain how this works in plain English, because most people are getting this wrong. Hermes Agent is the brain. It's an open source agent framework built by the News Research Team. The same team that's been quietly shipping some of the best open AI tools for the last two years.
Hermes Agent lets you spin up AI agents that can plan, think, use tools, and finish real tasks. Not just answer questions. Hey, if we haven't met already, I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie, CEO of SEO agency Goldie Agency. Whilst he's helping clients get more leads and customers, I'm here to help you get the latest AI updates.
Noi is the body. It's the desktop interface that gives Hermes Agent hands and eyes, lets these agents click, lets them type, lets them open apps, lets them read your screen, lets them save files, lets them talk to each other, put them together, and you have something most people have never seen. Real agentic operating system. Sitting on your laptop, running your work for you.
And here's the part that should make you sit up straight. This isn't a closed tool you have to rent. It's open. You can run it on your own machine.
You own the setup. You own the agents. You own the workflow. Now why does this matter for you and your business?
Because most business owners I talk to are stuck. They're doing the same tasks every single day. Emails. Spreadsheets.
Reports. Client onboarding. Follow-ups. For an over.
They know AI can help. They don't know how to glue it all together. They use one tool for writing. Another for images.
Another for research. Nothing talks to each other. Hermes Agent plus Ionwe fixes that. It's the glue.
It's the missing layer. The one place where all your AI work can finally live together. Let me show you what this looks like in real life. Say you run a small business.
You want to grow your audience. You want more leads. You want to stop touching the boring tasks. With Hermes Agent plus Ionwe you can set up an agent that opens your browser every morning, checks a list of websites, pulls the names of new potential clients, drops them into a spreadsheet and writes a short personal note for each one.
You sip your coffee while it works. One agent. One simple setup. Saved every week.
And it gets better. Because these agents can talk to each other. So Agent 1 finds the lead. Agent 2 writes the message.
Agent 3 checks the message for tone. Agent 4 logs it in your tracker. Agent 5 reminds you to follow up in three days. You're not building one tool.
You're building a tiny team. This is the part most people are missing. AI agents working alone are cool. Agents working together are a different thing entirely.
That's what Hermes Agent plus Ionwe gives you. A team that never sleeps, never forgets, never gets tired, never asks for a day off. Quick pause. If you want to learn how to set this up for your business step by step, come check out the AI Profit Boardroom.
Inside we have a full 30-day roadmap built around tools like Hermes Agent and Ionwe. We show you how to spin up your first agent. How to chain them together. How to use them to save time, get more leads and grow your customer base.
Four live coaching calls every week where you can ask questions about your exact setup. Daily tutorials. Members already building with agents like this one. Link in the comments and description or go to aiprofitboardroom.com.
Okay, back to the good stuff. Let me walk you through what makes Hermes Agent so different from the chatbots you're used to. Most AI tools you use right now are reactive. You type something, they answer.
You type again, they answer. That's it. The second you stop typing, they stop helping. Hermes Agent is proactive.
You give it a goal once, it keeps going. It plans the steps. It checks its own work. It fixes its own mistakes.
It tries a new path if the first one fails. It only stops when the job is done. Think about that for a second. You stop being the worker.
You become the boss. You set the goal. The agent does the work. And Ionwe is what makes this real.
Because most agent tools live inside a terminal window. Black screen. Green text. Not friendly.
Ionwe gives you a clean window where you can see what the agent is doing. You can see the files it opens, the websites it visits, the notes it takes. You can stop it. You can change the goal.
You can give it more tools. This is huge. Because for years, agentic AI has been locked away from normal people. You needed to know how to code.
You needed to know how to set up servers. You needed a tech team. Now you don't. Ionwe puts the whole thing in a window you can actually use.
Here's a small example. Say you want to grow a community of people interested in AI automation. You ask Hermes Agent to find 50 small online groups where business owners hang out. It opens the browser.
It searches. It reads. It pulls the names. It checks if they're active.
It saves the list. You didn't lift a finger. One small ask. Hours of work done.
Now let's go deeper. Because the real power isn't the single task. It's the loop. Hermes Agent can run on a loop.
It can wake up every morning. Do its job. If the work, sleep. Wake up again.
Do it again. Day after day. Week after week. That's the part that breaks most people's brains the first time they see it.
They think AI is a tool. It's not. It's a worker. Clocks in.
It clocks out. It shows up tomorrow. And it gets better. Because Hermes Agent remembers what it did before.
If you ran a task last week and it didn't work, the agent learns from it. Next time it tries a different path. Over time, your setup gets smarter. Sharper.
Faster. More useful. This is why I keep telling people. The folks who learn this now are going to look like wizards in six months.
While everyone else is still copying and pasting prompts into a chat window, you'll have a team of agents quietly running your work in the background. Now, I want to be honest with you. This isn't magic. There's a learning curve.
The first time you set up an agent, you'll mess up. You'll give it a goal that's too vague. You'll forget to give it a tool it needs. You'll get stuck.
That's normal. That's how this works. The second time, way faster. The fifth time, you're flying.
The tenth time, you're building stuff that would have taken a small team a month in an afternoon. And the beautiful part is the skills carry. Once you know how to set up one agent, you know how to set up 10. Once you know how to chain two agents, you can chain 20.
It's a skill that compounds. This is why I keep pushing people to start now. Not next year. Not next month.
Because the gap between people who use agents and people who don't is about to get really, really big. And the longer you wait, the harder it will be to catch up. Let me talk about something most people don't think about. Trust.
When you run agents on your own machine with open tools like Hermes Agent and IonWii, you control everything. Your data stays with you. Your client info stays with you. Your business logic stays with you.
Nothing leaves your laptop unless you say so. For a lot of business owners, this is the deal breaker. They love AI. They don't want their client data sitting on some random server.
With this setup, they don't have to. They can run the whole thing locally. Their secrets stay their secrets. That's a big deal.
And it's one more reason this combo is special. Okay, let me give you a real workflow you could build this week. Step one, you set up Hermes Agent on your laptop. IonWii gives you the window to control it.
Step two, you give it a simple goal. Find 20 small business owners interested in AI automation, write each one a short, friendly intro note, and save the notes in a folder for you to review. That's it. That's your first workflow.
Run it. Watch it work. Fix it where it gets stuck. Run it again.
Soon, you'll wake up to 20 fresh leads every morning, with notes already written, ready for you to send. Now scale it. Add a second agent that follows up after three days. Add a third agent that tracks who replied.
Add a fourth that schedules a call when someone says yes. Now you have a full lead engine running on your laptop. Free. Built by you.
That's what Hermes Agent plus IonWii unlocks. Not chat. Not tips. Real workers doing real job.
Look, Hermes Agent and IonWii are not toys. They are the start of something new. A real agentic operating system on your computer. Open.
Yours. You can build a team of workers on your laptop today. You can save hours every week. You can finally stop drowning in busy work and start focusing on the parts of your business you actually love.
If you want help getting set up, come join us inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Inside, we have a complete 30-day roadmap built around tools like Hermes Agent and IonWii. We show you how to set up your first agent, how to chain them together, how to use them to save hours every week, find more leads, and grow your customer base on autopilot. Four live coaching calls every week where you can bring your exact setup and we walk through it together.
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