Most people who use automation never actually see it. A script runs at 7 AM, a message lands on your phone, and the work behind it stays invisible. We wanted the opposite. So we built Hermesville: our AI agents, living in a small cartoon city you can watch, tap and talk to.
Why a city?
We run a handful of AI agents every day: one writes a reel script, one turns it into a video, one reads the AI news, one delivers everything to Telegram. As the list grew, a plain list of scheduled jobs stopped making sense. Which ones ran? Which one failed? What happens next?
A city answers that at a glance. Each agent is a building. It lights up while it works, shows its status on a little sign, and fills with smoke when a job fails. You don't read logs. You look at the town.
A morning in Hermesville
Every day between roughly 6:55 and 8:15 AM the city wakes up. You can replay it any time with Replay this morning:
- 7:00, Writers' Studio: picks a fresh tech, maths or science fact and writes a 30-second reel script.
- 7:10, Film Studio: turns that script into a vertical 1080×1920 reel with voice-over, stock clips, captions and music.
- 8:00, Newsroom: scans the last 24 hours of AI news and writes a top-5 digest plus a Shorts script.
- Post Office: sends everything that's finished to Telegram, shown in the city as a paper plane taking off.
Tap a building, talk to the agent
Every building opens into the command center, a small terminal that works on your phone. You can see what the agent does, when it runs and how its last run went, and you can message it directly. Each agent keeps its own conversation, so the Newsroom doesn't get confused by a question you asked the Film Studio.
The Agents tab is the boring-but-useful view: every agent on one card with what it does, when it runs and where its output goes.
New agents in one sentence
There's always an empty lot with a crane waiting. Describe a new agent in plain words, for example "every weekday at 9, check my sheet for new leads and draft a reply", and Hermes drafts it for you: a name, a schedule and instructions. Nothing goes live until you approve it. Once it's approved it becomes a scheduled job and moves into its own building.
Private by design
A city of agents that can send messages needs guard rails, so these were built in from day one:
- The app is public, but empty. Your data, keys and agents stay on your own server behind a password and a 2FA code. Visitors only see a login screen.
- Three levels for every action: do it, ask me, never. Sending, posting, paying and deleting always wait for your OK, and you approve them on Telegram.
- Keys never travel through chats. They live on the server, not in messages.
It fits in your pocket
Hermesville is a web app, so it runs in any browser and you can add it to your phone's home screen. The same city, command center and plans, just in your hand.
What it could do for your business
We built Hermesville for ourselves, but the idea works for any small business that repeats the same jobs every day. A few agents we can add to your own city:
- Lead follow-up: new enquiries get a reply draft and a reminder until they're closed.
- Daily sales report: your sheets and tools summed up in one Telegram message every evening.
- Appointment reminders: tomorrow's bookings reminded, and no-shows followed up.
- Review requests: a polite thank-you with a review link after every visit.
- Social post drafts: next week's posts drafted from your offers, going out only after you approve them.
Hermesville is built on the open-source Hermes Agent, and it's still growing. A job-search helper is the next building going up. If you want to see it for yourself, open the live demo. It uses example data, and the chats are answered by a demo AI.
Every project with us also comes with a free 15–30 second launch video, so your new agents get their own little premiere.