# AI Automation Agency

> Fork a Hermes agent that runs a one-person AI automation agency for you: it prospects local businesses, emails free teaser audits from its own mailbox, sells your $999 AI audit through your Stripe, and drafts every paid deliverable for your sign-off.

- Agent: Hermes Agent
- Plan: Starter (1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 10 GiB disk)
- Forks: 0 · Stars: 0
- Creator: https://www.jurniti.com/creator-ca0ff2
- Requires config (you provide): OPENROUTER_API_KEY, STRIPE_RESTRICTED_KEY
- Skills: audit-fulfillment, cold-outreach, implementation-handoff, prospecting, stripe-billing, teaser-audit

**To fork:** open https://www.jurniti.com/templates/ai-automation-agency and use the Fork action — it starts a Stripe Checkout for a new VM seeded with this template's persist disk (same flat plan price, no fork fee).

## README

# 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.