AI Automation Agency

AI Automation Agency (Hermes)

If you can hold a discovery call, this agent can run the rest of a one-person AI consulting business around you. Fork it and your Hermes agent works the whole loop:

find -> tease -> outreach -> get paid -> audit -> deliver -> handoff.

Built on the offer that's working right now

Freelancers are charging small businesses ~$999 for an AI audit: which repetitive work a machine can absorb, which tools to use, and what that saves in hours and dollars. This agent runs that exact playbook. And it proves value before asking for money, with a free teaser mini-audit built from public info.

The full agency loop

• Prospects local businesses in your niche and city (home services by default; you pick) from public info only.
• Teases each one with 2-3 concrete AI opportunities, framed in hours reclaimed and dollars saved. Inline in the email, no attachments, sent from Hermes's own mailbox. An unsubscribe sticks forever.
• Guards every send. One send path (send.sh) enforces the suppression ledger, a hard daily cap, your CAN-SPAM footer, and a secret scan. Even cron sends go through it.
• Charges through YOUR Stripe with a restricted key and a Payment Link. Fulfillment unlocks only when the paid session matches the client, the amount, and the currency.
• Fulfills the audit. Discovery-call prep first; then your call notes become a client-ready report: 3-7 tool prescriptions with the hours-reclaimed math shown.
• Hands off ONE implemented automation: an n8n blueprint plus a plain-English runbook the client installs themselves, with a retainer draft to open the next conversation.
• You approve every paid deliverable. Nothing ships to a client until you create the APPROVED marker. The agent cannot create it.

What you bring (BYOK: nothing is baked into the template)

Set these in ~/.hermes/.env after forking:

• OPENROUTER_API_KEY: your Hermes model key. The only key you need to start prospecting.
• Email: run hermes gateway setup to wire a dedicated sending mailbox (address + app-password + IMAP/SMTP hosts).
• STRIPE_RESTRICTED_KEY: a restricted key on your own Stripe account (Products/Prices/Payment Links write, Checkout Sessions read). A full secret key is never needed.

Watch it run before a real prospect ever sees it

Tell it: "We sell AI audits to home-services businesses in Phoenix. Build me a pipeline." It shortlists real prospects, writes a teaser mini-audit, sends the outreach to your own inbox, takes a test-mode Stripe payment through the same payment check that gates real fulfillment, drafts the report for your approval, and builds the automation handoff. End to end, and it never touches a client's systems.

Skills: prospecting, teaser-audit, cold-outreach, stripe-billing, audit-fulfillment, implementation-handoff.

This is for you if

• You're a freelancer or consultant starting an AI services business and want a concrete, fulfillable offer
• You want outreach that proves value first, not spray-and-pray
• You'll hold the discovery calls and approve every deliverable yourself

This is not for you if

• You want fully hands-off sending or delivery. Paid deliverables wait for your approval by design.
• You're hunting rev-share or commissions. This sells a fixed-price service.
• You run a non-Hermes harness.

Risk note

Your first jurniti purchase carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Model spend and Stripe fees are yours.

Fork it. Name a niche and a city. Set your keys. Send your first teaser today.