Has anyone experimented with these other agentic platforms? They seem a little simpler and less complex to setup and run, maybe not as customizable. Curious if any gurus have tried them all and have any feedback?

Every Hermes tutorial out there ends the moment the agent turns on. Usually with a Hostinger link underneath. That's the easy part. Claude Code takes a Hetzner API token, picks the server, installs Hermes and connects itself over SSH. The one I spun up on camera costs about $6 a month. I never log into the dashboard. I type /bob in Claude Code when I need to fix or teach it. The rest of the time I text it on iMessage. The hard part is everything after, and that's what this video is. Bob gets his own Gmail, his own phone number, his own GitHub repo and his own Supabase back end, so everything he does carries his fingerprint and not mine. Composio wires him into the apps without me building a developer app for each one. Five Gmail accounts, Slack, calendar, all in one place. The tools nobody mentions: Unipile for Instagram and LinkedIn DMs older than 24 hours, about $5 an account. Photon for iMessage without owning a Mac mini. Doppler so your keys stop getting "rotated" by the model every time you paste one. And the nightly job: read the last 24 hours of your own work and rewrite your own instructions. Skills, tooling, rules. Get those three working together and you have an employee. Watch it here Do you have your own Bob?

I am so excited to share my passions for AI automation with you. I created this community for actual business owners that want to start implementing AI into their businesses to scale faster, with less staff. This community will NOT be free for long. I will be adding my automations piece-by-piece. These are the SAME automations I use in my Inc 5000 agency that enable us to scale to $700K/mo with few staff. Now some next steps... 1. INTRODUCE YOURSELF in the comments on this post. 2. ASK FOR HELP if you need it by posting in the 'Automation Help' category. Include loom videos. My team and the community will try to help. BEFORE asking for help, search for your issue in the search bar. 3. GIVE VALUE. Help others if they ask. Share your own automation templates and walkthroughs. 4. BLUEPRINTS are available inside the Classroom and separated by use case (Sales, content, etc). You may need to pay to unlock certain modules. 5. WAITING is available for our AI Automation Insider Ultra program. Details coming soon. Welcome to the AI Automation Insiders!

I ran my August numbers and threw out 2,024 of them on purpose. That is how many messages my automations sent last month. Every one of them delivered. None of them are in the number I am about to show you. Jay has been saying it all week in here. The slop problem is not that the AI is bad. It is that the output looks like everything else the AI made. I found the sales version of that in my own CRM. 1,289 messages I typed myself in August. 1,105 of them emails, one person at a time, with real research behind each one. 439 texts off my own phone. 62 a day. Every day. 28 days straight. The published benchmark for personalized outreach is 15 to 17 a day. Meanwhile the phone side was dead. I had been dialing so much from one number that I burned it. No alert, no dashboard. The call rate fell off a cliff, so I dialed my own cell from it. Spam Likely. Right there on my screen. 67 people answered out of 1,278 dials. One in nineteen. 41 closed. Best unit month I have ever had. 34 live calls the whole month. Do the math on where the rest came from. Here is the uncomfortable read for a room full of builders. The automated 2,024 ran flawlessly and I cannot point at a single close from them. The 1,289 I typed by hand carried the month. I am not saying stop automating. I automate more than most people in here. I am saying I know exactly which half of my stack made the money, and it was the half that does not scale. That is the thing worth solving next, and I do not have it solved yet. 👇 If you have an automation that runs clean and still does not convert, put the number below and what you think is actually missing. I read every one of these. Ian Ryan Kirk

A brand new premium member on the call last week is starting an AI consulting business. His worry was standing out. Selling AI services is the first thing anyone young and learning marketing wants to offer now. Here is what I told him. And it applies to every one of you. Do not start as an AI generalist. Pick one thing a business owner already knows they want. Get in the door with that. Then sell them what they actually need. Then I pulled up the ghost ink system I released last week. The one for getting warm email out of the promotions tab and into the inbox. I know somebody charging $10,000 for that. Framed as a six month engagement. You can set it up for a company in a week. That is the pattern. Every module in here is a business someone is already running. A deliverability fix. An always-on agent. A dashboard of their whole company. Each one is a standalone offer waiting for a name and a price. So stop going through the trainings as a student. Go through them as someone hunting for their next offer. Steal these. Turn them into an offer. If you take one of my systems and build a business on it, that is a win for both of us. I want to hear about it. If you want access to all my AI systems so you can sell them to customers, join my premium membership here.