Your First Agent in 30 Minutes

Wake up to a lead list your own AI agent drafted overnight. Free guide, 30 minutes, no code.

Install Hermes Agent (the open-source agent by Nous Research), connect it to your Telegram, and give it one boring, reliable job — while you keep the send button.

You've watched people run AI agents and wondered what the actual first step is. This is the first step.

In 30 minutes you'll install Hermes Agent on your own computer, wire it to a Telegram bot only you can talk to, and deploy one pre-built agent: Lead Scout. Every weekday at 5 am it researches prospects in your niche and sends a draft list to your phone. Draft. It never contacts anyone. You review it over coffee and decide what happens next.

Every command was run and verified on a live Hermes v0.17.0 install before it went in the guide. Every terminal step tells you what success looks like on screen, because "run this and hope" isn't teaching. And the one setting that makes most new bots sit in silence (the Telegram allowlist) gets its own page, with both failure modes and the exact fix.

You'll need: a computer that can stay on (Mac, Windows, or Linux), a Telegram account, and a Nous Portal account (free tier available — check current pricing at portal.nousresearch.com).

WHAT'S INSIDE:

The designed PDF — 13-page hub guide, from empty terminal to your first 5 am delivery

Plain-text config files — every command in run order, the full Lead Scout prompt + cron spec, and the Telegram setup walkthrough, all copy-paste safe (straight quotes, no formatting traps)

Living Notion version — the guide stays current as Hermes updates; bookmark it once

Free lifetime updates — new versions land in your inbox, re-tested against each Hermes release, forever

HONEST SCOPE: this gets ONE agent running with ONE scheduled job, reliably, with you in the loop. It will not build you an autonomous business, and the guide is upfront about what starts breaking in week 2 — and what to do about it.

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