[00:02] Hermes. What if finding the right people to reach didn't take a spreadsheet, no list, no guessing, no 12 tabs open, just one sentence. You describe who you want right? I thought so, too. I'm the digital avatar of Julian Goldie and my
[00:16] whole job is helping you actually learn and use AI tools in your real work, not today I'm pulling back the curtain on It's an outreach machine that runs on the Hermes agent and it turns one plain
[00:29] sentence into a list of real people checked and ready to reach. Stick with the one setting I always change first, the one that keeps the whole thing safe. Let's get into it. So, here's the big idea. Inside my Agent OS, I've got the
[00:42] Hermes agent wired up. Hermes is an open source AI agent from News Research. It's it remembers what it learns across sessions. On its own, it's powerful, but typing commands every time I needed to reach new people. So, inside my Agent
[00:57] OS, I built a proper dashboard around it. It feels like a real app. There's a lead section, a place to write, settings, the lot. And it all runs on I actually do with it. I use this to find the right people for the AI Profit
[01:10] Boardroom. I typed one sentence, "Agency owners in the US who care about link building." That's it. No filters, no spreadsheet. I hit find and enrich and the Hermes lead machine went off and found real companies and real people who
[01:22] fit that exact description. The AI Profit Boardroom grows when the right find them. Now, how does it actually pull this off? Under the hood, my Agent OS is calling the Hunter API. And this
[01:34] part is real, I checked it. Hunter has a feature where you describe the kind of then AI picks the right filters for you and returns matching companies. Then it company domains, then it enriches them so you get the company size, the
[01:47] description, the details. Every step you'd normally do by hand, Hermes does in one click. Then comes the part that saves you from looking bad. It verifies. checks whether each email address is
[02:00] actually deliverable. Hunter gives every email a confidence score and a status. So, you're not firing messages into dead inboxes and racking up bounces. On top of that, my Agent OS scores each lead for fit, zero to 100. If someone's
[02:12] [snorts] clearly not a match, it drops them. So, I'm not wasting time on people who are never going to care. And then it writes. For every single person left on the list, it drafts a personal opener and a short message using their name and
[02:24] their company. I'm not copying and pasting the same cold generic thing to actually looked at who they are. And nothing sends until I say so. I get to only then does it go out through my own inbox. Look at the dashboard for a
[02:38] second. Everything segmented, new, enriched, valid, contacted, replied. I can see exactly where every person sits. I can delete anyone who's not right. I a real SaaS tool, but it's just Hermes
[02:50] running inside my Agent OS. And this is exactly the kind of thing I go deep on inside the AI Profit Boardroom. If you want my actual setup, the full Agent OS file ready to install with the Hermes lead machine already wired in. We've
[03:03] built a full 30-day roadmap that walks you from a blank screen to your first There are walkthroughs on connecting your Hunter key and setting up a clean run live coaching calls. So, if your setup breaks or you get stuck on a
[03:17] screen, and someone will actually help you fix it. The AI Profit Boardroom was built for exactly this kind of hands-on, I want it running today, kind of work. simply because it sounds complicated and it really isn't. There are six moving
[03:31] parts, and honestly, you only ever touch the first one. Part one, you describe. English. That's your whole job. Part two, it finds. Hermes goes and gets real companies and real people that match. No list needed. Part three, it verifies. It
[03:46] checks every email is real before you send, so you avoid bounces. Part four, it scores. Every lead gets ranked zero to 100 on how well they fit and the weak ones get removed so you focus on the people most likely to reply. Part five,
[04:00] it writes a personal opener and a short message for every person by name and company. Part six, it sends through your own inbox after you approve it. And I'll address for this, not your personal one. Keep it sandboxed and away from
[04:14] told you I'd come back to and it matters. Now compare that to the old way. When Julian first started doing outreach with the Gold Agency, finding the right websites to reach was slow and painful. You'd build lists by hand,
[04:26] half of them would bounce. You'd have one tool over here for finding emails, inbox in a third place, all duct-taped together. Hours gone and half the people type one sentence, it finds the right people, checks them, scores them and
[04:42] drafts the message. Same outcome, tiny fraction of the effort. the Hermes Lead Machine to build a fresh outreach list of coaches and creators who are already talking about AI, the exact people who tend to love the AI
[04:55] one sentence, let it find and verify them and had it draft a personal first anything over. That's how I keep the right audience flowing toward the AI Profit Boardroom without burning a whole day on it. Now you might be thinking,
[05:09] thing? Here's the honest answer. If you can describe the person you want to reach, it works. Agency owners, online store owners, local services, coaches, whoever. You just change the sentence. Some people say this stuff takes hours
[05:22] to find good leads. That's the old way. This does the finding, checking and drafting in basically one click. Some people say it's too technical to set up. It really isn't. If you grab my Agent OS, you drop your API key into the
[05:34] you're going. There's an install guide for the email part so you're not guessing. I'm not hardcore technical person either and I built this. If I can, you can. And one more thing people worry about, AI writing your outreach.
[05:46] Nothing sends on its own. You approve every message before it goes out. You machine does the boring slow work. You keep the final say. And here's something step matters so much. When you send to dead or wrong email addresses, they
[06:01] wreck the reputation of the inbox you're sending from. Once that reputation drops, even your good messages start landing in the spam folder instead of in front of a real person. That's the trap the old way put you in. By checking
[06:14] every address is real before anything goes out, the Hermes Lead Machine keeps do reach actually see what you sent. That one small step quietly protects everything else you're doing. The same idea goes for your new sending
[06:27] email. Don't grab a brand new address and immediately fire out 100 messages on batch, then a slightly bigger one the next day, and give it time to settle. A fresh inbox that suddenly sends a huge volume looks suspicious and you'll get
[06:40] filtered fast. Slow and steady genuinely wins here. Treat that inbox like over time because that is exactly what you're doing and it's what keeps the whole machine working for you long-term. A couple of quick tips before I wrap.
[06:52] First, keep your describing sentence specific. SEO agencies is okay, but SEO agencies in the US interested in link building gets you far better matches. Second, start small. Run a handful first, read what it drafts, get a feel
[07:06] for it before you scale anything up. Third, remember this is experimental. Julian literally just built it. It's fun, it works, but treat it like a sharp new tool, not a set-and-forget robot. If you want the full process, the SOPs, and
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[07:34] Setting up the Hermes Lead Machine is where most people hit little walls. The API key, the sending inbox, getting that first described sentence dialed in so the results are actually good. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, we've got the
[07:48] full Agent OS zip ready to install, the Hermes lead machine already wired in, a 30-day roadmap to follow, and live coaching calls where you can share your screen and get unstuck fast. Over 4,000 members are in there building this exact
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