Build an Autonomous AI Company with Paperclip + Hermes Agent (The GOLDIE Method)The script explains how to use Paperclip with the Hermes Agent adapter to run a coordinated team of AI agents instead of a single chat-based agent. It demonstrates building an org chart (e.g., CEO, marketing roles, engineer, tester), setting a mission/goal so all agents share context, and using Paperclip’s dashboard, ticketing system, and scheduled “Heartbeats” to launch agents, delegate tasks via new issues, review and iterate on results, and then expand by adding more agents, goals, and tools. An example shows a Hermes tester completing AI SEO keyword research and generating an SEO strategy with live updates. It positions this workflow as the “GOLDIE Method” (Goal, Org chart, Launch, Delegate, Iterate, Expand) and contrasts Paperclip with Hermes Workspace and Aeon UI, emphasizing multi-agent coordination, multi-provider support, and multi-company setups.00:00 Paperclip With Hermes00:19 Agent Team Dashboard01:49 Goldie Method Overview02:08 Set The Mission Goal02:44 Build The Org Chart03:19 Launch With Heartbeats03:45 Delegate New Issues04:35 Iterate With Feedback05:24 Expand Your AI Company05:58 Mindset Shift Beliefs07:36 Multi Company Examples08:22 Hermes Vs Paperclip Recap10:33 Community And Coaching11:22 Live Q And A Comparisons15:28 Final Wrap Up
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So today we are going to be using Paperclip with Hermes Agent. This is using something called Paperclip plus the adapter for Hermes Agent. Make sure that you have both set up if you want to use Hermes Agent with Paperclip and once you've done it you're going to see something like this inside the dashboard right as you can see. Now what's pretty cool about this is for example you can have a full organization like this and so instead of just having one single agent you can have a whole team of agents working together right.
For example we've got like a CEO agent here and they're managing a Chief Marketing Officer who's managing a Facebook Marketing Specialist or the Hermes Engineer and Hermes Tester right here and you can see these agents actually message me so they send me a message inside my inbox as you can see right here. So whenever a task is complete like for example this morning we complete the task that we assigned to a Hermes Tester which was to find AISEO keywords. We found a bunch of AISEO keywords like you can see gave us a breakdown of the keywords the competition etc for each keyword and just automated it in the background right so we can have multiple agents. Now this is very different from using just one single agent inside the chat here.
So instead of just having one agent working one by one which is what you get inside Hermes Agent you now get a whole team of agents working together being way more productive getting stuff done and automate whatever you want right and so you have a swarm of agents not just one and the cool thing about this is you can make your team way more productive and you can build like an autonomous AI team right and so the future really isn't like hiring more humans I'd say it's building a company where AI agents do the work 24 7 and work together right where you have multiple teams of agents working together and I call this the Goldie method. This is a new paradigm for running autonomous AI agents. So most people think about AI wrong they use it like a calculator they ask a question they get an answer then move on that's the old way right. The Goldie method is a completely new operating system for how you run AI agents in 2026.
So number one is the goal right so inside a paperclip you're going to set a mission which you can do over here so you can set up a new goal like for me for example I've said help grow the AI profit border in my AI automation community that is a goal that every single agent inside my team is going to work towards right now why do we do that it's because we want the agents to know exactly what to do when to do it why they should focus on this and what they're working towards so that is G for goal right and so you define the mission and you basically explain okay what's your business trying to achieve and the AI agents need a why not just a task which is what you're giving them with the mission then you've got the org chart so you can see over here this is the organization chart right so you can build out a really complex agent team if you want to and you build your team and not with humans with AI agents every single role every reporting line every job description CEO agent CTO agent marketing agent SEO agent support agent all of them running 24 7 like you can see over here so we've got these different agents working in unison and they don't all have to be Hermes agents you could have one that's called code one that's open call however you want to run it right as you can see right here by the way if you have questions feel free to post them and I'll answer them at the end of this session and then launch right you hit goal your AI company starts working agents wake up on a schedule called heartbeats they check the tasks do the work and report back and then you watch from a dashboard so you got your dashboard over here you can see what they've worked on what they've been doing and what the recent activities and tasks as you can see and so for example three minutes ago all of this keyword research was done and then we can actually leave a comment and give more tasks here right so that's the launch stage and then delegate so you assign work like a real CEO you drop a task in the system an agent picks it up it gets done no babysitting no reminders no follow-ups how do you do that so what you do for that is you go to new issue here you set up the issue so let's say for example it's like build an SEO strategy or the AI profit border you can add a description here if you want to then you're going to add an assignee so I'm going to assign Hermes to this right Hermes agent has started you can see it's now running and we can just assign tasks to all of our AI agents and they work in parallel together as a team and they all know what the context is because you've given them the mission and you've already explained how to do it so that's a delegate section right to do that you just go to new issue at the top and you set up a task here and then your agents start running as you can see and you can see live updates as it goes through which is pretty cool from there you're going to iterate so you review the results your approval to redirect you stay in control but you're not doing the work you are the board of directors and the agents are your staff so for example if we go back to the work that was done by our AI agents so if we go back to the dashboard here and we check out what this agent did with the process of keyword research here you can approve it or you can give them more tasks right so we can say okay can you go more specific on best AI agent community keywords and so now this agent is going to do my AI SEO strategy for me using this process right here right and we've given the feedback and now it's going to it's queued up to get that work done it's going to do the first task soon and then it's going to start working on this so you can see here that it's beginning to work on that task and then you expand so you can scale from there you can have more agents you can have more goals you can have more tools the system grows with you so if we want to have more goals we just go over here and we set up a new goal right if we want to expand and add more agents we go down here and we set up a new agent right we can set up a new agent could be core code could be homies agent open code codex pi cursor open core gateway right seven different agents to choose from so that's basically it and then you don't manage your agents you manage companies made of them right that is the goldie method once you see it you really can't unsee it this is a totally different paradigm for managing your agents and so the old belief is AI is a tool that you use the goldie method belief is AI is a workforce you manage and that single mindset shift changes everything that's what paperclip and harmonization unlocks and that's what this guide is showing you step by step right and so let's talk about some beliefs that might be making you stuck and it's not because of a lack of tools number one some people believe that AI agents are just like a chat like chat gbt literally right but the truth is AI agents are full employees they use tools they search the web they write and edit files they run code they manage tasks they remember what they did last week permies agent alone has 30 native tools and 80 skills that's not like a chat that is a workforce right and you can see them all working together over here inside the organization structure right now other people say this is too technical for me the truth is if you can run a whatsapp group you can run paperclip right you install it with one command you can get cloud code to do it for you if you're struggling and that's it the whole platform spins up automatically you don't need to set up the database you don't need to set up the servers you don't need to code right it takes about i would say 30 minutes to one hour to get it configured properly some people want to say i already use claude and chat gpt i don't need this but the truth is using claude solo is like hiring one freelancer paperclip plus hermes agent is like running a whole company right one agent could do seo as you've seen one agent could do content one agent can handle customer support one agent can run your social media they coordinate with each other they report to each other they work 24 7 that's not chat gpt that's a whole team working together right and so this is the difference between all of them so it's a really powerful system really cool to use a lot of fun to set up and there's no limit really to what you can do you can even set up multiple companies so we've got one for julian goldie and then we have one for goldie agency right so you can set up multiple different agents working across different companies with different teams different missions etc right and you can see how it's working and finding more related keywords right here which is pretty cool so we've got these tasks being set up as you can see and super easy to set up and just get it done we can also see what tasks and how many tasks each agent is working on so for example hermes desk has two different agents in progress right and we can also see the live updates and what it's doing right so for example here it says set up a standard loan landing page at al pufferborn.com for seo control right and so it's coming up with the seo strategy we asked it to do earlier which is pretty amazing so that's basically it that's how to use paperclip just to recap here you might be saying okay what is hermes agent hermes agent is like a super smart agent that doesn't just answer questions it does things right runs locally and it can just get stuff done it was built by a company called news research and it's a super powerful agent right so it's basically an employee you give it a job it does a job it reports back now you might say what is paperclip so this is the company your ai agents work inside so imagine that super smart agent we talked about hermes agent what if you had 20 of them or 50 of them all different all doing different jobs one hand in seo one writing content one managing customer support one doing research one running social media one monitoring your competitors without any system to manage them that would be chaos you'd lose track of what was happening right you'd have no way to make sure that we're working toward the same goal and that's exactly the problem that paperclip was built to solve right you can see for example we can manage our agent here and we can see what it's doing and working on etc and so it's an open source platform which means it's free to use it looks like a task manager but under the hood it's a full company operating system so you get the org chart the ticketing system the heartbeats the mobile ready setup and multi-company setup as well so we have two different companies there so if hermes agent is the employee paperclip is the company they work for right and together they're the most powerful autonomous stack for ai agents on the planet right now so that's basically it that's how to use it how to set it up etc if you want the full guide i'll put that inside the ai profit boarding for you and just to recap on what we've talked about today what is hermes agent it's a super powered ai agent with 30 tools 80 skills persistent memory eight model providers right it doesn't just answer questions it does real work what is paperclip it's an open source platform that turns ai agents into a company right org charts heartbeats governance ticketing systems mobile dashboard free self-hosted right once when you combine them you get an autonomous team agents wake up on a schedule they pick up tasks from the ticketing system they do real work using your tools they remember everything across sessions they report back and you actually can give them a budget in terms of tokens as well and the goldie method that we talked about you define the goal build the org chart launch the agents delegate the tasks iterate and results and expand from there right and so if you want my full system all the notes from today 100 prompts on how to set up the custom framework and step-by-step operating procedure you can get that inside the ai profit boarding as you can see right here we add new daily guides like you can see with video tutorials and step-by-step operating procedures for everything that's new and interesting and this is my ai automation community that helps you grow learn and scale with a automation so inside here you can ask questions inside the community and i'll ask them i'll answer them with a video each day inside the calendar you can jump a weekly coaching call so there's four weekly coaching calls where you can get help and support in real time inside the map you can connect with people in your local area who use in a automation and ai agents like hermes and open cloud and then inside the classroom you get access to all my best trainings like you can see right here including the new daily guides and updates let's see what questions we've got now which do you think is the best setup hermes and paperclip or hermes and hermes workspace so if you want a team of agents paperclip is the best if you want a basic ui managing hermes then i would use hermes workspace and that's the difference right hermes workspace is great if you've got one agent paperclip is better if you want to put a team of agents across multiple platforms right so hermes workspace is just designed for hermes but for example hermes with paperclip is a team of agents working together what are the main differences between this and hermes workspace aion ui and other similar interfaces the biggest difference is the with paperclip you're managing a whole team right so that's the biggest difference here with paperclip you're managing a whole team and you're not just managing one agent right aion ui is just like a chat interface but paperclip is about building a team building an actual ai led company i see similar to aion ui but looks much better and more tools exactly hey guys sorry i just joined did you already connect hermes and paperclip yeah so you can get the adapter for paperclip with hermes and then you just ask hermes to set up for you and that's basically how you connect them it's pretty simple and easy hermes can already do multi-profile specialized workers and the main agent can coordinate with llm selection what's the advantage of shifting that to paperclip because with hermes if you're managing different profiles right let's say for example you're using like hermes ui or you're using hermes desktop etc you've got all these agents but they're not working together right they're not working together as a team and if you're using the tui as well the terminal user interface it's just not that nice to use right it's not that easy to manage whereas if you look at paperclip look how clean and easy it is to organize your agents right like you a list of your agents here they all work together at the same time and also when you've got these agents running it's not just hermes right so hermes yes it's got multiple profiles but you can't create a new agent for claude code codex open code pi cursor and open core at the same time and manage them all in that dashboard right so that's the biggest difference here and if you want to see an example of the outputs from these agents right so for example someone is saying like can you show an example so here's an example right so it's completed the whole seo strategy for the air profit bottom over here so it's created this full strategy here and then if we go over here we can paste that in and it's created this full strategy whilst i'll talk to you right it's broken down the keywords the summary the priority keywords the technical seo is planned out the whole link building strategy as well so everything step by step is set up including quick wins for the first two weeks key metrics to track etc and that's a whole plan set up whilst i was talking to you right now imagine you have a team of 50 agents all working like this as productively as that in the background that's what paperclip gives you and it's super easy to organize for enterprise how does that hold up so i think an enterprise company like this probably isn't going to set something like paperclip up right because enterprise they can't move as fast as solopreneurs and that's because people need to approve stuff like this if you're in an enterprise like you can't just set up paperclip and start running ai agents with all your internal documents like you just can't do that right and so like you have if you're a solopreneur or if you're running an agency or sme then you've got a massive advantage with ai because you don't have those layers of approval we have to worry about stuff like that i think aeon is the best according to bird so let's compare these side by side right so you got aeon and we'll pull this up now right this is aeon ui so it's totally different if you compare the differences here aeon ui is like a nice way just to manage your conversations with your agents but they're not going to work together they're not gonna you're not gonna have a full organization structure like you can see right here you can't manage your individual agents as well you can't set a set up a goal right paperclip is much more about setting up an ai company whereas for example aeon ui is more about like just talking and managing your agents across different platforms so it's a totally different use case has anyone heard of business hermes i've never heard of that all right so thanks so much for watching if you want to get all my training on this stuff feel free to get the ai profit boarding link in the comments description or go to the aiprofitboarding.com to check this out tech says thanks julian what about combining aeon and paperclip does it make sense it doesn't make sense you're adding the extra layer of complexity that you don't need to right so you can just go straight to paperclip and set up your agents directly inside paperclip and that's way simpler and easier than if you for example try to manage aeon inside paperclip which is going to get a bit messy and that sort of thing bird says said thanks for the explanation happy to help thanks for the clarification what's the best ai to install locally that can do basically yeah claude code and olama is pretty good yeah would recommend that and guru says thanks a lot julian always following learning here happy to help by the way for the air profit boarding we have over 156 pages of testimonials like you can see right here so tons of great stuff here if you want to learn about ai agents this is an amazing community and you can see all the wins and all the positivity inside here as well which i absolutely love
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