01What the Hermes Project Manager Agent Is and How It Works
The Hermes Project Manager Agent is a system inside Agent OS that turns one line of text into a finished project. You type an idea, click one button, and a team of AI agents builds it for you. Julian Goldie calls this part the Idea Foundry.
The whole process works in five steps. First, you drop in an idea using the capture bar. Second, an agent reads your idea and classifies it.
Third, if the idea is worth building, another agent writes a full plan. Fourth, you approve or reject the plan. Fifth, once approved, a project manager agent and its helper agents build the real thing and ship it to your dashboard.
You only do two things: type the idea and click approve or reject.
02Main Features of the Hermes Project Manager Agent
The Idea Foundry has several features that make it different from using Hermes in a terminal. First, there is a capture bar at the top of the screen where you type your idea and hit enter. The card shows up in a capture column right away.
This makes starting an idea take only five seconds.
Second, the system classifies and routes ideas automatically. An agent decides if your idea is a project to build, a quick task, something to save for later, a link to keep, or something to flag for you. Good ideas move forward, and noise gets filed away.
The system can even say no to some ideas. Third, an agent writes a real plan showing the idea, how it was sorted, the build approach, first milestones, and which helper agents will do the work. Fourth, you have one gate with two buttons: approve and reject.
Nothing gets built unless you say yes. Fifth, after approval, a project manager agent spins up and hands jobs to helper agents. They build the real thing, like a landing page or a small app, and ship it to your dashboard.
All builds and plans get saved into an Obsidian vault as plain text files. This creates a memory galaxy where every note links to others. Your agents can read these notes later to answer questions like "What boardroom pages have we built this month?"
03How to Set Up the Hermes Project Manager Agent in Agent OS
To get started with the Hermes Project Manager Agent, you need to install Agent OS inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Here are the steps Julian shows in the episode:
- Go to aiprofitboardroom.com or use the link in the description to access the AI Profit Boardroom.
- Download the full Agent OS zip file. It includes the Idea Foundry already installed.
- Connect your Obsidian vault to Agent OS. Obsidian is a free notes app that keeps your notes as plain text files on your own computer.
- Follow the 30-day Idea Foundry roadmap. On day one, install Agent OS and connect your vault. On day two, drop in your first three ideas and approve your first idea. On day three, set up your agents to run on a free or local model so they can keep building in the background.
- Join four coaching calls every week where you can share your screen and ask about your own pipeline.
04How to Use the Hermes Project Manager Agent Step by Step
Using the Hermes Project Manager Agent is simple. Julian walks through the whole process in the episode. First, look at the capture bar at the top of the screen.
Type one line about your idea and hit enter. A card appears in the capture column. This step takes five seconds.
Second, the system classifies your idea. An agent reads it and decides what kind of thing it is. Good ideas move forward, and useless ones get parked.
Third, for any idea worth building, an agent writes a full proposal. You can click into the card to see the plan. It shows the idea, how it was sorted, the build approach, first milestones, and which helper agents will build it.
Fourth, you see two buttons: approve and reject. Click approve to start the build. The card moves from the human gate column to the build column.
Fifth, once approved, a project manager agent spins up and hands jobs to helper agents. They build the real thing, like a working landing page or a small app. Then it ships and shows up inside your dashboard ready to use.
Everything flows left to right on one board. You start at the inbox, move through capture, human gate, build, and finally to shipped. You can leave the page and come back later to find every build still there.
05Results and Comparisons Shown in the Episode
Julian shows the old way next to the new way to make the difference clear. The old way: You write an idea in a notes app. You tell yourself you will research it later.
You open a blank doc and stare at it. You close it because you do not have time. Then you forget why the idea mattered.
Or you hand it to a freelancer who takes two weeks. Most ideas never get built.
The new way with the Hermes Project Manager Agent: You drop one line into the Idea Foundry. No setup needed. Agents sort the idea.
An agent writes a full plan. You approve it once from anywhere. Helper agents build the real thing, and it shows up running in your dashboard.
Ideas become real things you can click on.
Julian also compares using Hermes in the terminal versus using it inside Agent OS. In the terminal, finding builds a week later is hard because stuff gets lost in a wall of text. In Agent OS, you can leave the page, go to goals, come back to pipeline, and every build is still there.
The memory is also saved in your Obsidian vault.
06Tips, Limits, and Mistakes to Avoid
Julian shares several tips and warnings in the episode. First, the system can say no to some ideas. It parks ideas that are not useful enough.
This prevents your board from filling up with junk. Second, keep your ideas short. You type one line into the capture bar.
No long descriptions needed.
Third, use the approve and reject gate every time. Nothing gets built unless you say yes. This keeps you in control.
You can approve from your phone or laptop from anywhere. Fourth, set up the Obsidian vault for memory. Every build and plan gets saved there.
Agents can read those notes later to suggest new pages or answer questions. Fifth, if you try to build this system from scratch, you would need to wire up Hermes, memory, the board, voice, and helper agents to all talk to each other. That is a lot of work.
Julian suggests using his prebuilt setup instead.
One mistake to avoid: Do not skip the classification step. Let the agent sort your ideas. If you try to sort everything by hand, you waste time.
The filter saves you from spending effort on noise.
07Who the Hermes Project Manager Agent Is For and Why It Matters
The Hermes Project Manager Agent is for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone who has lots of ideas but no time to build them. Julian built it because he had loads of ideas that hit the same wall: no time to research, plan, or build. Ideas sat in a notes app and were forgotten.
This system solves that problem.
It matters because it turns ideas into real things you can use. You stop losing ideas. You stop starting from a blank page.
You spend only a few seconds being in control. The agents do the rest. Julian says there is a window right now where most business owners have not figured out AI agent teams yet.
They are still writing ideas in notes apps and forgetting them. This setup gives you an advantage. You can build landing pages, small apps, calculators, and more without hiring freelancers or spending weeks planning.
