This Session's Deep Dives
Builds members shared during Show & Tell, expanded into a step-by-step you can run yourself.
He ran his HVAC company for a week without touching a single tool
Twelve agents, one orchestrator, zero manual tool use for a full work week
The problemEvery tool in Oscar's business still needed him personally to open it, log in, and do the work, even though he already had a working crew of AI agents.
Oscar challenged himself to do zero manual work for a full week, running his HVAC company, his AI-consulting clients, and his own course prep all at once, using a twelve-agent crew under one orchestrator on
Hermes. He has been auditing his entire stack for tools that work agent-first: he switched his email provider to
Superhuman because its connector reaches every agent he runs, tested a new browser built so agents can open their own tabs without taking over his computer, and moved every agent onto a remote server, synced to his second brain with
Syncthing, so they keep working even when his own laptop is off. For a client whose single agent was burning tokens re-pulling the same e-commerce data every week through slow browser automation, Oscar recommended a cheaper pattern: pipe every data source into
ClickHouse once through a connector like
Composio or
Airbyte, so the agent only has to build the dashboard front end afterward instead of re-fetching the same data on every run. On the HVAC side,
Housecall Pro runs his service technicians and
Connecteam organizes thousands of daily jobsite photos automatically into per-building folders, while
QuickBooks feeds a full six-month P&L forecast that gets checked against submitted technician hours every night.
- Run every role, HVAC CEO, consultant, course creator, through one twelve-agent crew on a single orchestrator
- Audit the whole stack for agent-first tools and swap out anything that isn't
- Move agents to a remote server so they keep working when your own computer is off
- Give each agent one narrow job and only the one connector it needs to do it
- Pipe repeat data pulls into a database once instead of re-fetching them with browser automation every time
A full week of running three roles without personally touching a tool, and Oscar became the group's go-to Hermes advisor, with three courses on the way.
- Give each agent exactly one job and one connector instead of one agent that tries to do everything
- Move agents onto a remote server so your own computer being off doesn't stop your business
- Stop paying an agent to re-fetch the same data every run, pipe it into a database once instead
- Audit your stack the same way you'd audit a hire, keep only the tools built agent-first
- Pick one orchestrator agent to route every incoming task
- Build narrowly-scoped agents for repeat jobs, each with only the one connector it needs
- Swap any tool that isn't agent-first for one that connects directly to your agents
- Move your agent crew to a remote server so they run independent of your own computer
- For any data you pull on a schedule, pipe it into a database once instead of re-fetching it live every time
- Connect your accounting platform directly so an agent can forecast and reconcile it automatically
You are my operations agent, modeled on the zero-touch week shared at the Agentic Society Boardroom (August 2026). I want to run my business for a week without personally opening a single tool. Interview me for: (1) every recurring task I currently do by hand and roughly how often, (2) which tools I use for each one and whether they have their own connector or MCP, (3) any task where I am re-pulling the same data repeatedly. Then: (1) propose one narrowly-scoped agent per recurring task, naming each by the role it plays, (2) flag any tool that has no agent connector and suggest an agent-first alternative, (3) for repeated data pulls, propose piping the source into a database once instead of re-fetching it live each time. Never touch a connector or credential without my explicit approval first.
Takeaway A generalist agent guesses which tool to reach for. A narrowly-scoped agent with one connector never has to guess, which is what actually saves tokens and time.
He secretly automated his call-center coaching, and his team never noticed
The problemChance's KPIs, project tracking, and content production were scattered across separate tools, and his customer-service team had no consistent daily coaching.
Chance built one dashboard that runs his whole day across a portfolio of companies. A Today page surfaces anything blocked and waiting on a human's approval, and a new project cannot move past the idea stage until a short template, definition of done, goals, risks, success metrics, is filled out, which he often completes conversationally while driving. Every project card carries its own built-in chat assistant already loaded with that project's full context, running on
Codex when he types and
Claude when he talks. Team members get their own connected agents inside the same dashboard, and he plugged
Composio into the back end so a new hire can link their own accounts with one click, no API keys required. On the content side, raw daily footage batch-uploads into the dashboard, which drafts a script and several hook variations, builds a shot list, and hands the recording to either AI or his editor for a final polish pass, tracking which version performs best on each platform. Every night, anything logged in the dashboard sweeps into a second-brain archive, so every tool he opens the next morning already has the full context of the day before. The detail that got the biggest reaction in the room: his customer-service reps believed Chance was personally listening to and grading their calls every single morning. In reality,
GoHighLevel pulls each rep's call recordings automatically, an agent drafts feedback on their best and worst calls, and it goes out under his own name, until he told them the truth.
- Build one dashboard that centralizes KPIs, a project pipeline, and content production across every company
- Require a short template before any project can leave the idea stage
- Give every project its own AI assistant preloaded with that project's context
- Let a call-recording platform and an agent quietly handle daily team coaching
One dashboard now runs KPI tracking, project management, and content production for an entire portfolio of companies, plus a customer-service coaching system that ran invisibly for weeks before anyone knew it was AI.
- Require a short intake template before any idea becomes a real project, so nothing starts without a clear definition of done
- Give every project its own AI assistant that already has that project's context loaded
- A one-click connector tool lets new team members plug in their own accounts without ever touching an API key
- The most effective AI on a team is sometimes the AI nobody knows is there
- Build a single dashboard front end that pulls in your KPIs, project pipeline, and content queue
- Require a short intake template (goals, risks, definition of done) before any idea becomes an active project
- Give each project card its own chat assistant preloaded with that project's files and history
- Connect a one-click tool so new team members can link their own accounts without API keys
- Route call recordings through an agent that drafts coaching feedback under your own name
- Sweep everything logged each day into a second-brain archive overnight so tomorrow starts with full context
You are my operations dashboard architect, modeled on the system shared at the Agentic Society Boardroom (August 2026). Help me design one central place to run my business. Interview me for: (1) the KPIs I actually check day to day, (2) how new ideas or projects currently get greenlit, (3) whether my team already records customer calls. Then propose: (1) a short intake template that has to be filled out before any idea becomes an active project, (2) a plan for giving each project its own AI assistant with that project's context preloaded, (3) if calls are recorded, a way to have an agent draft coaching feedback on the best and worst calls automatically. Always tell me before anything goes out under my name without my review.
Takeaway The best AI rollout for a non-technical team is often the one they never notice, because it's built into a system they already use, not bolted on as a new tool to learn.
His agents cut a three-day security fix down to minutes
Security-fix SLA: three days to minutes
The problemRecurring cybersecurity audits generated a constant stream of findings that used to take expensive outside consultants days to triage and fix.
Jay built a suite of agents that ingests every audit finding, triages it, proposes a fix, and automatically opens a ticket in
GitHub, a build Roman had challenged him to take on a few weeks earlier. A human review gate approves the fix before the agents implement it and deploy it to a staging environment, operating under a least-privilege model that only requests elevated access when a specific change genuinely needs it. Task routing runs through a model router that picks between
Claude,
Codex, and other models depending on the job, defaulting to a mid-tier model for most fixes and a cheaper model for heavier data-processing work, and rarely reaching for the most expensive tier at all.
- Ingest every audit finding automatically and triage it
- Propose a fix and open a ticket without waiting on a human to notice the finding
- Route the fix through a human review gate before anything ships
- Implement and deploy the approved fix under a least-privilege model
The team's SLA for implementing a fix on a triaged finding dropped from three days to as little as a few minutes for routine cases.
- Let agents triage and propose fixes automatically, but keep one human approval gate before anything deploys
- A least-privilege model means an agent only ever asks for the access a specific task actually needs
- Route tasks to the cheapest model that can do the job instead of defaulting to the most expensive one
- Recurring compliance work is one of the most repeatable places to hand off to agents first
- Feed every audit finding into an agent that triages it and proposes a fix
- Auto-file a ticket for each finding instead of relying on someone to track it manually
- Insert one human review gate before any fix is approved to ship
- Let agents implement and deploy the approved fix to staging under a least-privilege access model
- Route each task to the cheapest model capable of doing it well, saving the most expensive tier for genuinely hard cases
You are my security-remediation agent, modeled on the pipeline shared at the Agentic Society Boardroom (August 2026). I run recurring compliance or security audits that generate a stream of findings. Interview me for: (1) where my findings currently get tracked, (2) what access levels exist in my infrastructure today, (3) my tolerance for automated fixes versus ones that need review. Then: (1) triage each new finding and propose a specific fix, (2) open a tracked ticket automatically, (3) wait for my explicit approval before implementing anything, (4) once approved, implement the fix under the minimum access level the change requires, and request more only if the approved change genuinely needs it. Never expand your own access without asking first.
Takeaway A self-healing security pipeline still needs exactly one human checkpoint, before a fix ships, never before it's proposed.
Oscar Hidalgo
Chance Forman
Lauren Goldstein
Adam Weisberg