Ops & automation

Build an agent that knows everything about your company

Founders who struggled to set up a Hermes agent with full company context turned that into Almanac.

By kushagrchitkar on Hacker News · Posted · Added Oct 15, 2026

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What they did

kushagrchitkar’s team set up Hermes for their company so they could ask questions with full context, and found it very hard.

How it went

They launched Almanac (YC S26) from that experience.

Worth knowing

Context setup and permissions are the hard part.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Hermes or a similar agent
  • Connectors to docs, chat and tickets

Steps

  1. Write down the manual process step by step.
  2. Automate the deterministic parts with plain workflow steps or scripts.
  3. Use the model only where judgment is needed, with confidence checks.
  4. Add alerts and a human fallback.

Starter prompt

Using company docs and Slack, answer: what did we decide about [topic], when, and who owns it?

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Agent Hermes
Industry Software

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