AI Agents · Leased, Not Hired

AI workers, not AI tools — leased into your business from £6 a day.

A team of named AI agents who live inside your business and do the slow, boring work — PA, accounts, content, ops, bookings — while you do the thinking. You don't hire them. You lease them. No setup fee, first two weeks free.

Why bother

A chatbot answers questions. An agent gets the job done.

Named AI workers who actually do things — chase invoices, draft the newsletter, triage the inbox, book the next job — inside the tools you already use. A workforce, not a chatbot or an automation script. Pick one job. Then come back for the next.

PA Accounts Content Ops Bookings Named & dedicated

What you get

Everything you'd want from a great hire — without the hiring.

Named & dedicated

Not a shared bot. Your agent, doing your business's work, with its own name and identity.

Works inside your tools

Email, WhatsApp, your calendar, your CRM — the agent works where your business already lives, not in a separate app.

Done for you

No prompts to write, no models to choose. We match, configure and run the agent for you — you just hand over the job.

No setup fee

Nothing to pay to get started. A card on file for the trial, that's it.

Two weeks free

A genuine trial. Cancel any time before day 15 and you owe nothing.

Billed simply

£6 a day per agent, billed monthly from day 15. No usage meters, no surprise invoices.

Pick the job that hurts

PA, accounts, content, ops, bookings — start with the one job eating your week, add another when you're ready.

Real human backup

Something not right? You message Richard, not a ticket queue.

Pricing

One simple rate. No tiers to decode.

£6 a day, per agent. No setup fee. First two weeks free.

Not sure which agent fits first? Talk to Richard and we'll point you at the right one.

How it works

From "we need help with this" to a working agent — usually inside a day.

Message us

Contact form or a quick call. Tell us the job you want off your plate.

Get matched

We match you to the right agent and set it up inside the tools you already use — nothing for you to configure.

Two weeks free

A real trial. Card on file, but you're not charged unless you keep it running past day 15.

Scale when ready

Happy with one? Add another. PA, accounts, content, ops, bookings — same simple rate.

FAQ

Common questions.

What agents can I lease?

PA, accounts, content, ops and bookings roles today, with more added as the fleet grows. Tell us the job that's eating your week and we'll match you to the right one.

Is there a setup fee?

No. Nothing to pay to get started. A card on file covers the trial period, that's it.

Do I need to provide my own AI accounts or API keys?

No. It's done for you — we match, configure and run the agent. You just tell it, or us, what you need.

How does the two-week free trial work?

Two weeks free from day one, card on file. Cancel any time before day 15 and you owe nothing. From day 15, it's £6 a day per agent, billed monthly.

Is this a chatbot, or does it actually do the work?

It's a workforce, not a chatbot. Your agent takes real actions inside your business — sending emails, updating spreadsheets, drafting content, chasing invoices — not just answering questions in a box.

AI news · AI agents & tooling

Latest AI news for this service.

Newest first. Summaries of Julian Goldie's latest videos on AI agents, Claude Code, Cursor, MCP and agent workflows — with our honest take on what's useful. See all AI news →

AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 August 2026

Hermes Desktop Bot Mode: named agents that message each other, no terminal required

Hermes Desktop v0.20.3 shipped Bot Mode as default in August 2026 — agent profiles become named Bots with their own model, memory, and skills, able to message each other directly or meet in shared collaboration rooms of two to six. Julian Goldie walked through the update. Here is what changed and who benefits.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 August 2026

Hermes Agent OS /learn: how the agent that writes its own skills actually works

Julian Goldie's August 2026 video covers five new capabilities added to the Hermes Agent OS stack — the headliner being a /learn command that generates Python skills from plain English and refines them with use. Oracle, Jarvis voice, and an automated lead agent round out the update. Here is what each does in practice.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 21 August 2026

DeepSeek's open-source agent harness: why 95,000 GitHub stars in two days matters

DeepSeek released their MIT-licensed agent runtime on 14 August 2026 — a plugin-based framework where models, tools, sandboxes, and the agent loop itself are all swappable from configuration. Julian Goldie covered why it changes how coding agents are built. Here is what the harness actually does and where the current limits sit.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 12 August 2026

Prime Agent: the self-improving open-source coding agent — what it does and whether it matters

Prime Intellect released Prime Agent on 6 August 2026 under an MIT licence — a terminal coding agent that keeps a self-editing notebook of its own problem-solving steps. Each session, it reads what it wrote before and builds on it. Julian Goldie covered the release. Here is what the tool does and where the limits currently sit.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 7 August 2026

Agent OS can now improve itself — here is what Julian Goldie built and why it matters

Julian Goldie's latest video covers a significant step in the Agent OS stack: the combination of Claude, Hermes v0.20 Herald, and Sakana Fugu can now write, test, and deploy improvements to its own configuration. Here is what the full stack looks like today — Oracle, Studio, GLM, Open Montage, shared memory — and what self-improvement actually means in practice.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 6 August 2026

Buzz tightened its AI agent controls — the remaining problem is structural, not a bug

Julian Goldie's 5 August video covers what Buzz recently fixed in how its autonomous Fizz agents handle errors and loops, then identifies a structural limitation in the Nostr-based architecture that the update does not address. Here is what changed and what it means for any business thinking of using Buzz in a real workflow.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 4 August 2026

Deploying Agent OS: local machine, VPS and Higgsfield in one walkthrough

Julian Goldie's latest video covers three deployment options for Agent OS: running Hermes locally on your machine and reaching it from your phone via a Tailscale tunnel, hosting on a VPS for always-on reliability, and wiring in the Higgsfield MCP so your agent generates 4K images and cinematic video from plain-English prompts.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 July 2026

Buzz is Jack Dorsey's free AI Slack — here is what it does and how it fits with Hermes Agent

Jack Dorsey's Block launched Buzz, a free open-source Slack alternative with AI agents built into every channel. Julian Goldie tested it against Hermes Agent. The two tools do different jobs — Buzz is the workspace, Hermes is the worker — and they connect more naturally than the comparison title suggests.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 29 July 2026

Hermes Agent 2.0: routing tasks across 200 AI models from a single gateway

Hermes Agent 2.0 — version 0.20 — introduces a Model Portal that connects over 200 AI models and routes different tasks to the right one automatically. One gateway can send your SEO work to Qwen, your coding to Sonnet 5, and your outreach to GPT, all from the same Hermes installation. Julian Goldie walked through the full release. Here is what changed over the v0.19 Quicksilver build, what the multi-agent routing does in practice, and whether a small business team actually needs it.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 28 July 2026

Hermes Apollo: controlling an AI agent by voice and what it means when you stop typing

Hermes Agent has a voice mode now. You speak, it replies the moment you stop talking, and then it acts — no wake word, no push-to-talk button. Julian Goldie built a full website in roughly 90 seconds without touching his keyboard. Here is what the setup actually does and whether it is useful beyond the demo.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 28 July 2026

Hermes Cloud: running an AI agent 24/7 without keeping your own machine on

Hermes Cloud takes a Hermes Agent and moves it into a cloud container you do not have to manage. The setup takes roughly 60 seconds: sign in to the portal, name the agent, pick a model, deploy. From that point the agent runs continuously — handling tasks, watching schedules, monitoring feeds — whether your laptop is open or not. Julian Goldie called the setup "TOO EASY". Here is what it actually does and what it still requires from you.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 28 July 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max: Alibaba's 2.4-trillion-parameter model and what it means for open-source AI

Alibaba announced Qwen 3.8 Max at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on 19 July 2026. The model has 2.4 trillion parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture, handles text, images, video, and documents in a single call, and is claimed to rank second only to Fable 5 on the benchmarks Alibaba ran. Julian Goldie covered the release and its implications for AI agents. Here is what the numbers mean and what is still unconfirmed.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 26 July 2026

Hermes Agent v0.19 Quicksilver: what 80% faster responses and persistent jobs mean for daily AI work

Released on 20 July 2026, Hermes v0.19 Quicksilver cuts time-to-first-token from 4.3 seconds to 0.9 seconds and writes every job to a database so tasks finish even if you close the application. Julian Goldie walked through the full release in detail — here is what actually changed and whether it matters for a working business.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 23 July 2026

Hermes Agent OS with Kimi K3 as the brain: what the combined stack does as a marketing system

Julian Goldie walked through the full Hermes Agent OS stack powered by Kimi K3 — a free, 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1-million-token context window. The combination runs Oracle (trending keyword to published SEO post), Astros (competitor monitoring), Jarvis (voice control), and a shared Obsidian memory layer from one dashboard.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 July 2026

Kimi K3: Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter open AI model and what it means for agent work

Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on 16 July 2026 — 2.8 trillion parameters, an open-source licence, a 1-million-token context window and a Swarm variant built for parallel agent tasks. Julian Goldie's ten-minute walkthrough covers the essentials. Here is what UK businesses running Hermes Agent or OpenClaw actually need to know.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 21 July 2026

Gemini Spark's July update is 50% faster and now edits your Google Docs: what changed and when UK access might arrive

Google's Gemini Spark agent received its most substantial update in mid-July 2026 — over 50% faster on long tasks, direct editing of shared Google Docs and Slides, Google Tasks and Keep integration, and real-time topic monitoring. UK and EEA businesses are still locked out. Julian Goldie walked through all the changes.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 17 July 2026

Anthropic moves the Fable 5 deadline again: what the third extension to 19 July means and how to use the time

Anthropic has extended Claude Fable 5 free access to 19 July 2026 — the third deadline change in three weeks. Claude Code's 50% rate limit extension runs to the same date. Julian Goldie's recommended approach: use the remaining time to build reusable workflows and prompt libraries before pay-per-token billing kicks in.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 12 July 2026

ChatGPT Work arrives as a direct rival to Claude Cowork: what both tools actually do

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work and Anthropic pushed Claude Cowork to iOS and Android on the same day — 9 July 2026. Two agentic tools, one head-to-head. Julian Goldie ran a full breakdown comparing what each does, where the differences matter, and which one holds up under real business use.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 July 2026

Five Claude Code loops that run without you: what loop engineering means in practice

Running Claude in a persistent loop with a builder, a judge, and a stop condition changes what single-person teams can produce — you set the brief and check the output, Claude handles every step in between. Julian Goldie walks through five specific loop patterns, from the builder/judge cycle to an Oracle monitoring loop that runs on a schedule.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 4 July 2026

Claude Fable 5 is back after the export ban: the best ways to use it now

After an 18-day suspension caused by US export controls, Claude Fable 5 access was restored on 1 July 2026. Julian Goldie covers how to get the most out of it — including the Olympus Protocol for Hermes Agent integration and a usage management approach for keeping costs in check.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 29 June 2026

Can Hermes Mixture of Agents match a new Fable? What the benchmark test actually found

With Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 locked behind closed access programmes, Mixture of Agents inside Hermes offers a practical route to frontier-quality output from models you already have. Julian Goldie tested whether MoA genuinely closes the gap — and what the benchmark numbers actually show.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 27 June 2026

MiniMax M3 plus Hermes Agent: what a free open-source AI does when handed an entire SEO workflow

MiniMax M3, an open-source Chinese agentic model with a 1-million-token context window, connects to Hermes Agent via Ollama to create a free local AI worker that handles keyword research, content creation, meta tagging and internal linking from a single prompt. Julian Goldie tested the setup live. Here is the honest take on what it actually produces.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 25 June 2026

Hermes Agent adds Windows and Linux computer use, a built-in quality loop and live Grok search: what this update actually changes

Hermes shipped a notable update in late June 2026 with three new capabilities: computer use extended from Mac to Windows and Linux, a Loop Engine that reruns tasks that fall short of a quality threshold, and Grok integration giving the agent real-time access to X's search index. Julian Goldie demonstrated all three live.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 24 June 2026

Sakana Fugu Ultra tops the SWE-Bench Pro table and costs a quarter of Fusion: what it means for AI agent budgets

Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra routes prompts across a panel of models, fuses the results, and scores 73.7 on SWE-Bench Pro — ahead of Opus 4.8 at 69.2 and GPT-5.5 at 58.6 — at roughly 25% of OpenRouter Fusion's cost. Julian Goldie ran the full test. Here is the plain-English read on whether those numbers hold up for UK businesses.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 16 June 2026

OpenRouter's Fusion API claims Fable 5-level output at half the price: what it means for AI agent costs

OpenRouter's Fusion API sends one prompt to up to eight models simultaneously — Opus, Gemini, Grok and others run in parallel with live web search — then a judge model synthesises the best reply. Julian Goldie covered this alongside the GLM 5.2 and Kimi K2.7 releases and the continuing fallout from the Claude Fable 5 export ban.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 12 June 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5: what the new reasoning tier means for AI agent work

Claude Fable 5 landed on 9 June 2026 — Anthropic's most capable publicly available model, with a 1-million-token context window and multi-day autonomous task execution. Julian Goldie ran through five practical use cases and what the reasoning improvement actually changes for AI agent workflows.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 June 2026

Hermes Agent gets an email brain: what the inbox integration means for business owners

Most AI agents sit in a terminal or browser tab, waiting to be asked something. Hermes Agent's new email integration changes that — it polls your inbox every 15 seconds, reads incoming messages, and replies in-thread using the same persistent memory it carries across every other session.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 8 June 2026

Hermes Agent's voice layer gets a proper brain: what the Minimax M3 setup changes

Typing commands into an AI agent is still the default for most setups. Julian Goldie's latest video changes that — a Hermes Agent configured with Minimax M3 as the reasoning layer and voice mode enabled produces a working voice-first agent that takes on tasks, not just questions.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 May 2026

Claude, Hermes and OpenClaw as one system: what the Agent OS build actually shows

Julian Goldie connected Claude, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw into a single locally hosted dashboard — shared memory, shared goals, one screen to manage all three. It took roughly an hour to build using Claude Desktop, Next.js and Tailwind. Here is what the Agent OS setup looks like and what genuinely changes when your AI tools stop running in isolation.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 27 May 2026

Hermes Agent's latest release and why it's now the one to beat

Julian Goldie ran Hermes Agent against the leading commercial AI agent on identical real-world tasks and argued the result isn't close any more. Here's what's actually new in the update and what it means if you're considering an AI agent for business work.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 27 May 2026

Hermes Agent's new video skill: what the AI video agent actually produces

Hermes Agent has added a built-in video generation capability that runs inside the same workflow you already use for SEO and content tasks — no separate tool, no extra login. Julian Goldie walked through the new skill live.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 May 2026

Hermes Agent v0.14 arrives with Grok OAuth, X search, and a 180× faster browser layer

The 14th major release of Hermes Agent shipped on 16 May with 808 commits from 215 contributors. Key additions: xAI Grok as a first-class OAuth provider, native X (Twitter) search, a local proxy that makes Claude Pro or ChatGPT Pro work inside any OpenAI-compatible tool, and browser operations 180 times faster via persistent connections.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 22 May 2026

Claude plus Hermes as a unified Agent OS: what the four-layer mission control setup actually looks like

Connecting Claude to Hermes through a shared Agent OS dashboard gives each tool its proper role — Claude handles reasoning, Hermes handles execution and persistent memory. Julian Goldie walked through the four-layer Goldie Mission Stack. Here is what the configuration involves and what you get from running them as a coordinated system.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 15 May 2026

Three AI agents, one honest comparison: OpenHuman, Hermes and OpenClaw

Julian Goldie ran OpenHuman, Hermes Agent and OpenClaw against the same brief. The comparison cuts through the YouTube hype to show where each tool earns its keep in a real workflow — and where Hermes has pulled into a clear lead on open-source AI agent usage.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 11 May 2026

Running an AI SEO team from one prompt: Hermes Agent swarms with Claude

Julian Goldie tested Hermes Agent with Claude powering a coordinated swarm of specialist AI agents on a single SEO brief — planner, builder, and reviewer all working in parallel. Here's what the workflow actually produces.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 10 May 2026

Google is building Remy — an AI agent that takes on OpenClaw on its own turf

Google is quietly building a Gemini-powered AI agent codenamed Remy, designed to manage tasks across Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Android apps. Julian Goldie covered what we know — here's the honest take on whether it poses a real challenge to OpenClaw.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 9 May 2026

Hermes v0.13 Tenacity: the platform changes that matter for teams

Most coverage of Hermes v0.13 focused on /goal and Kanban. The changes that matter most for teams building with it long-term are quieter: swappable AI providers, eight security closures, proper state persistence, and support for seven languages.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 5 May 2026

OpenClaw 5.3: file transfer, 200 fixes, and what the update actually changes

OpenClaw 2026.5.3 is a repair release — over 200 bug fixes, a new bundled file transfer plugin with path-based security, and cleaner plugin management across Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp and Slack. Julian Goldie walked through what shipped. Here's what matters.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 4 May 2026

OpenClaw 5.2: what the new multi-agent update means for teams using AI automation

OpenClaw 5.2 adds proper multi-agent mode — sub-agents that run in parallel with isolated sessions and automatic recovery when a task stalls. Julian Goldie walked through the release. Here's what changed and what it means for anyone running AI agents in production.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 3 May 2026

Hermes is a free AI agent that runs your SEO workflow from one prompt to finished output

Hermes takes an SEO goal — keyword cluster, content calendar, landing page build — and works through every step in a loop until the job is done, no prompting at each stage. Julian Goldie tested it on real SEO targets. Here's what it produced and where it still needs human oversight.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 30 Apr 2026

Hermes Agent in Aion: run your AI agent without touching the terminal

Aion is a free multi-agent dashboard that wraps a proper graphical interface around Hermes Agent — chat, session history, model switching, and task management in one place. Julian Goldie walked through the setup; here's what it changes for day-to-day use.

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AI news · AI agents & tooling · 24 Apr 2026

Claude Code + Obsidian: how to give your AI a memory it actually keeps

By default Claude starts fresh every session — it doesn't know your clients, conventions, or history. Connecting it to an Obsidian vault through MCP gives it a persistent knowledge base it reads before every task.

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