Hey guys, Adel here. I joined the community a couple of weeks ago and I was reading part of your messages and of course part of the videos shared by @Nick Vasilescu. I want to start congratulating Nick for his generosity sharing knowledge and resources. I'm a software engineer for the last 9 years and I was working as consultant another 9 years before that. Right now I'm working in a small startup orchestrating payments. Why Am I here? Well, I want really to take control of my life, you know when you work for a company there are good things but also bad things. In my opinion, the worst things are related to don't have control about what you want to do or the lack of flexibility in different perspectives. I want really to change that, but I'm a husband and a father and I can't quit my job until I have something in place. I want to be part of this new era, I had a little of exposure to AI in my job, but I want really to learn, grow and take advantage of this opportunity we have in front of us. But I need initially to do it in parallel with my job. I'm Spanish but currently living in Ireland. In one hand I'm checking boring processes here (bookkeeping, logistics management, ...), in order to find gaps and processes with potential to be automated. In the other hand it's where I want to receive help/advice from you guys... I'm seeing a lot of content and I want really to start doing things... Based on your actual experience, if you had to start right now, what would be the main resources or steps you would take? Thank you in advance for your time and help, I hope I can provide updates here... Adel.

Just set up my own AI employee. He’s going to be the manager of my agency, and the manager of all the AI employees I build for clients. Each employee gets its own computer. And the manager has access to all of them.

Sharing this because it cost me more troubleshooting time than it should have, and it might save someone else the same rabbit hole. In my setup, I’m using a local Hermes/Merlin agent as my main assistant, and an Orgo VM as a secondary remote agent/computer. I’m using Obsidian Sync so the VM agent can access the same context vault. The simple lesson: The Orgo VM is its own computer. That means if Obsidian is installed on the VM, it has its own Obsidian app, its own local copy of the vault, and its own Sync settings. It is not automatically “looking through” to the Obsidian app that is open on your laptop. What tripped me up was that everything looked connected: - same Obsidian account - same remote vault - same vault name - regular markdown notes were syncing …but some support files still weren’t showing up on the VM. There were two things to remember. First, Obsidian has to actually be running on the VM for Obsidian Sync to keep that VM’s local vault up to date. If the VM restarts and Obsidian doesn’t reopen, the vault on the VM can fall behind even though your laptop vault is perfectly current. So if your agent relies on Obsidian as a context vault, make sure Obsidian starts again after a VM reboot. Second, check this setting on the VM too: Settings → Sync → Selective Sync → Sync all other types In my case, this was turned on locally, but turned off on the VM. That meant normal notes synced, but non-note support files did not. Quick checklist before you spend hours debugging: - Are you signed into the same Obsidian account on the VM? - Is the VM connected to the correct remote vault? - Is Obsidian actually open/running on the VM? - Does Sync say fully synced? - Are any folders excluded? - Is Sync all other types turned on? - If the VM restarts, does Obsidian reopen automatically? This may not apply exactly if your whole setup lives inside the VM, but the mental model still matters: A VM is a real computer. Apps inside it need to be opened, configured, synced, and restarted just like apps on your laptop.

Hi!! Thank you so much for the approval! I’ve been watching your interviews and YouTube videos, and I have to say… Orgo and everything you’re building is amazing!!! It feels like a whole new world—NEXT LEVEL! Lately I’ve been binge-watching videos about setting up VPN hosting, Hermes Agents, sub-agents, second brain/WiKi, Obsidian and so many. 😊 I wanted to make sure I’m building everything the right way for my use case. I’m a solo entrepreneur with years of valuable knowledge, but it’s scattered everywhere—Notion, iPhone Notes, YouTube bookmarks, PDFs, text files, saved links on my website, and more. I have a lot of information, but it’s completely disorganized. I noticed you installed Obsidian on the Orgo virtual machine. I already have Obsidian installed on my MacBook, but I haven’t created or set up my vault yet. I’ve also been watching videos about the Second Brain concept and Andrej Karpathy’s wiki-style approach to organizing knowledge. There are so many different methods that I’m not sure which one is best. Ultimately, what I want is one Obsidian knowledge base that all my AI models can access and learn from—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and whatever comes next. I have lots of PDFs, text files, and other documents. Should I import everything into the Obsidian on Orgo? What about the Obsidian on my MacBook that I use every day? What’s the best way to keep everything synced? Even with my iphone? I’ve watched someone showed GitHub and google drive method. Obsidian vault lives in a GitHub repository so all AI models and agents can access the same Second Brain. But with Orgo way… Would you be able to explain—or even make a video—showing what you do immediately after installing a fresh copy of Obsidian? I think that’s the part I’m missing. I downloaded your Obsidian PDF, and I’m finally signing up for the 3-day Orgo trial today. I stayed up all night. It’s 5:52AM. I’ll sleep then when I wake up, I’ll start signing up and install etc!!!!!!! 🎉 My goal is to build a Hermes Agent that truly knows me and grows with me over time—not just like a regular Claude conversation.

I just built a full AI employee from scratch in this video. Everyone’s hyped on agents but barely anyone’s actually showing how to build ones that can really work inside a business. Here’s the entire stack I spun up live (no holding anything back): • Cloud computer running Hermes on Orgo • Its own email (AgentMail) • Its own phone number (AgentPhone + iMessage) • Telegram as the main chat interface • Every tool & connector hooked up through Composio • Credit card so it can actually spend money • Obsidian vault as its knowledge base / second brain • Latitude for observability so I know when shit breaks I made one main orchestrator agent (named it Hubert) that stays in charge 99% of the time and just hands tasks off to specialized sub-agents underneath it. One giant bloated agent is a nightmare to debug. This way everything stays clean and purpose-built. Full live build, every prompt I pasted, every terminal I opened… it’s all in there. And I’m giving away the complete templates for the orchestrator + every sub-agent I build going forward. I'm giving you actual employees that can do real work. Watch the whole thing here: PS - the template is free here on Github: https://github.com/nickvasilescu/nicks-stack