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If you’re paying $20 a month for Cursor or $10 a month for Copilot, I’ve got good news. You can get an AI coding assistant inside VS Code powered by some of the best free AI models on the planet for $0 a month. In this video, I’m walking you through the entire setup step-by-step with nothing skipped. By the end, you’ll have Open Router connected to VS Code through the client extension, a free model picked out, and you’ll know exactly what to type for your first AI built project. Let’s do it. Here’s the problem with the paid coding assistants. Cursor Pro is $20 a month. GitHub Copilot Pro is $10 a month, and it’s now billed as usage-based AI credits. Copilot Pro Plus is $39 a month for heavier workloads. A subscription rents you models by the month, whether you code every day or twice a week, the bill is the same. But here’s what they don’t advertise. The underlying models cost fractions of a penny per task when you pay per use instead of per month. So, let’s cut out the subscription entirely. Here’s the replacement stack, and every piece of it is free. VS Code, the free code editor from Microsoft. Kline, a free extension that puts an AI coding agent right in your sidebar. And Open Router, which gives you one API key that unlocks more than 300 AI models, including a rotating set of free ones. Total cost, $0 a month. The only time you ever spend money is if you personally choose a premium model, and even then, we’re talking pennies, not subscriptions. So, what is Open Router? Think of it as a universal remote for AI models. One API key gives you access to more than 300 models. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Deep Seek, Qwen, Llama, all through the same key. Any model with column free at the end of its name costs $0, and you don’t even need a credit card. Paid models are strictly pay-as-you-go, many under a dollar per million tokens. The free tier gives you 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, and that jumps to 1,000 per day after a one-time $10 credit purchase. Free models rotate over time, so check the live list on their models page and filter by free. And what about Klein? It’s a free VS Code extension that puts an AI agent in your sidebar. This isn’t autocomplete. It’s agentic. It reads, writes, and edits files across your entire project. It runs terminal commands, always asking your approval first. You give it a goal like, “Build me a landing page.” It makes a plan, and then it executes that plan step by step. Here’s the key idea. Klein is the driver, and the model you pick on OpenRouter is the engine. If you prefer, Ruca is a solid alternative that works the same way. Same setup steps, different icon. Here’s the full roadmap before we dive in. Six steps, about 10 minutes total. One, install VS Code. Two, install the Klein extension. Three, create a free OpenRouter account. Four, create an API key. Five, connect Klein to OpenRouter. Six, pick a free model and start building. Follow along and pause the video whenever you need to. Every step is on screen. Step one, install VS Code. Go to code.visualstudio.com. Download the version for your system and run the installer. The default settings are completely fine. Open VS Code once afterwards so it finishes its first-time setup. If you already have VS Code installed, skip ahead to step two. Step two, install Klein. In VS Code, click the extensions icon in the sidebar or press control shift X, command shift X on a Mac. Search for Klein and make sure the publisher is Klein itself. Then click install. When it’s done, you’ll see a new Klein icon in your sidebar. That’s where your AI agent lives from now on. If you’d rather use RuCode, the steps are identical. Just search for RuCode instead. Step three, your OpenRouter account. Go to openrouter.ai and click sign in. Signing up with Google or GitHub is the fastest path. You do not need a credit card. The free models work without one. Once you’re in, you’re on the free tier. 50 free model requests per day, which is plenty to get a feel for everything. Step four, create your API key. In OpenRouter, open the keys page and click create key. Give it a clear name, like VS Code client, so you remember what it’s for. Copy the key immediately. It only shows once, and if you lose it, you’ll have to make a new one. Treat this key like a password. Never share it. Never post a screenshot of it. Never paste it into a chat window. Step five, connect the two. Click the client icon in your VS Code sidebar, then click the little gear icon to open client settings. Find the API provider drop-down and choose OpenRouter. Paste your API key into the OpenRouter API key field, then click done. That’s it. Client is now connected to more than 300 models through your one key. Step six, pick your model. In client’s model drop-down, choose any model ending in colon free. Those cost $0. My recommendation to start, Qwen 3 coder, the free version. The exact model name is on screen, which is arguably the best free coding model available right now with a huge context window. Copy the exact model name from OpenRouter’s model list if you don’t see it in the drop-down. And remember, you can switch models anytime from that same drop-down. No reconnecting, no new keys. Let me save you the research and give you the best free coding models right now. All on screen with their exact names. Qwench 3 Coder Free, the best free coding model with a massive context window. Open AI’s GPT OSS 120B Free, strong reasoning and great tool use. Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 Nano Free, fast with long context. Google’s Gemma 4 31B Free, a solid all-rounder. And ZAI’s GLM 4.5 Air Free, great for reasoning and agentic tasks. There’s also OpenRouter/free, an auto router that picks a free model for you automatically. One warning, free models rotate over time, so recheck the models page and filter by free every few weeks. Free isn’t unlimited, so know the limits going in. Free models allow 20 requests per minute and 50 requests per day if you’ve never bought credits. Make a one-time $10 credit purchase, which you can spend on paid models later, and that daily cap jumps to 1,000. Free endpoints can also be slower or queued at peak times. That’s the trade-off for zero dollars. And if you ever see a 429 error, that’s just the rate limit talking. Wait a minute and try again. Now, when should you actually spend money? When a task is genuinely hard and you want a stronger model, Gemini 2.5 Flash costs about 10 cents per million tokens. That’s insanely cheap. DeepSeek V3 is about 50 cents per million, and it’s an excellent coder. Claude Sonic class models run a few dollars per million. Reserve those for the genuinely hard problems. Realistically, $5 of credits can last a casual coder a month or more. My strategy? Free models for 80%of the work. Cheap paid models for the tricky 20%. Even then, you’re spending a few dollars a month, not 20. Time for your first build. In VS Code, go to file, open folder. An empty folder is perfect because you get to watch everything appear from nothing. Click the client icon and describe your goal in plain English. For example, build me a one-page portfolio site with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Client will make a plan, then ask your approval before creating files or running commands. Review each step as it goes, approve what looks right, and correct it when it doesn’t. You’re the boss, it’s the intern. A few pro tips that took me a while to learn. One, add a .client rules file to your project. It’s a list of instructions client follows every single time, like your coding style or project rules. Two, match the model to the task. Fast free models for drafts and boilerplate, stronger models for debugging. Three, start a fresh task for each new feature because clean context means better results. Four, always review the diff before approving file changes. And five, keep tasks small and specific. AI agents do their best work with clear, narrow goals. Quick safety talk because this matters. Never paste your API key into a chat, a video, a live stream, or a screenshot. Bots scrape the internet for leaked keys within minutes. If a key ever does leak, delete it on OpenRouter’s keys page and create a fresh one. It takes 30 seconds. Set a spending limit in OpenRouter so paid models can never surprise you with a bill. And use one key per tool. Name it VS Code Client, for example, so you can revoke keys individually without breaking everything else. If something breaks, here’s the quick fix list. Invalid API key almost always means a bad copy paste. Recopy it from OpenRouter’s keys page and watch for extra spaces at the ends. 429 errors mean you hit the free rate limit. Wait a minute or make that one-time $10 credit purchase to raise your cap. Model not found means that free model rotated out. Pick a current colon free model from the list. If the client icon disappears, disable and re-enable the extension, then reload VS Code. And if responses are slow, free endpoints queue up at peak times, just try a different free model. Let’s recap. One, install VS Code. Two, install client. Three, create your OpenRouter account. Four, create an API key. Five, connect client to OpenRouter in the settings. Six, pick a colon free model and start building. That’s Cursor Pro at $20 a month replaced with this setup at $0 a month. Optionally, keep $5 to $10 in credits around for premium models on the genuinely hard tasks. Same agentic coding power, you just stopped renting it by the month. That’s the whole setup. Six steps, $0 a month. Now it’s your turn. Go build something, then come back and drop a comment telling me what you made on your free setup. 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Do you think anyone can do this to get trade? No, I don’t think so at all because they come into the market trying to get rich quick rather than understanding this is a full-time career that is going to take many years for them to master if ever. I remember seeing your social media. You have like what 10 monitors? That’s why we have 10 monitors because since we hyper scalp, trying to find an opportunity of 5 cents is so much easier than finding a good quality stock that is going to move a few dollars on your favor. So, we find things to trade all the time. That’s when this one reclaims the highs, short sellers short at the highs, cover. It’s like an imbalance to the buy side. Retail jump in because it’s the stock making new highs and Robinhood is telling them to buy it. A lot of chat rooms are long on it as well because they know short sellers are underwater. Also, hyper scalpers are buying as well. Shorts themselves are covering and buying back creating those jumps. This small window where everybody’s buying and people that are selling are selling in panic. They just want to get out. And that window is where we see a lot of price dislocations and that’s where edge appears. So, does that mean you trade a lot less after open then? What happens after the open? It’s a secret. I can’t tell you that. Today’s guest is Marcelo, also known as Mighty Stocks online. Marcelo is a full-time day trader specializing hyper scalping, a style of trading that involves taking hundreds of trades a day to capitalize on tiny price movement in highly volatile small cap stocks. It’s one of the fastest pace and most competitive trading styles out there. To date, Marcelo has over seven figures in verified trading profits. But his journey started far from Wall Street. After immigrating to northern Canada, he worked painting houses before dedicating himself to committing and becoming a full-time trader. What also makes Marcelo stand out is his honesty and transparency. He openly says that most people shouldn’t become day traders, that the odds are so stacked against them, and succeeding requires an almost insane and unreasonable level of discipline and obsession. Today, we’ll be talking about hyper scalping, building a seven-figure trading career, and what it actually takes to succeed in one of the world’s most competitive professions. Welcome to the show, Marcelo.

Marcelo, let’s start right here with a tough questions. You say the stock market is rigged. What do you mean by that? I genuinely believe the stock market was created for the wealthy to be able to get wealthier at the expense of retail traders. Um at the end of the day, as a retail trader myself, I’m constantly battling against brokers because they charge commissions. I’m battling against all other retail traders because they’re trying to take my money. I’m battling against Wall Street. I’m trading against market makers. I’m trading against algorithms that are like tuned to trade against me and try to make me as poor as possible. So, when I say that, it’s mostly me accepting the fact that I’m fighting an uphill battle, and that the chances of being a profitable traders is is is going to be very hard because you need to be better than all these other participants in the market. So, so I guess rigged is not the right word, but definitely definitely you know, day trading as a career shouldn’t even exist. It’s It’s almost like us exploiting a a flaw in the market that shouldn’t really exist. So. That’s a really good way to put it. Like I don’t think anyone really created the stock market for Oh, let’s attract day traders to make money amongst us, right? So, really I guess it is true. Only what, 90 90%95%of all traders make money? Exactly. I I just think that um eventually, when markets become efficient, if we ever get to that place, there won’t be any day traders because the price of the stock is going to perfectly replicate the intrinsic value of that company. And then there won’t be any delays or any gaps that a day trading can like take advantage of. Although I guess as long as the markets are also driven by emotions and humans stay humans, maybe there’s still they’re always going going to be edge there. I think as long as uh money and capital remains relevant, there will always be a market like the stock market for us to trade with, hopefully. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It It’s just a a matter of jumping from one deficiency to another cuz edges and strategies that work for a a few years and then then die out because they fix them. Okay. you just got to be resilient and see what else is working. So, that brings me back to a question of how if if in general the stock market is rigged against us retail traders, how are you specifically for yourself like trading and making money in the market? Right. So, the markets are a zero-sum game, right? Which means if there’s a lot of people losing money, it must also mean that people make money on the on the other side of those trades. And the way I trade specifically is I I I’m what they call a hyper scalper, small-cap stocks, which are like the hot penny stocks, the hot momentum stocks, um to the long side. And the reason why I do that is because these are stocks that run normally like 50 to 100%, pretty much every day or every other day, um, which is something outrageous, something that shouldn’t happen. But because of a lot of fear and FOMO and, and you know, pumps and stuff, we do have a lot of small caps that run way beyond the interesting, interesting value of the actual companies. And because of that, a very popular strategy is to short these. Okay. Right most of my friends are short sellers. Um you know, these are stocks that go from a dollar to $10, a dollar to 20, and their goal as a short seller is to make money on the downside, right? As they come back down. They’re They’re betting that the price is going to come back down. But eventually, some of these stocks and some of these short strategies get out of control, right? Um and that’s when I make money. When whenever a a stock that goes from a dollar to 10 doesn’t fade as it should have faded, that’s when I’m longing, and and pretty much I’m trading against short sellers. So, I love trading short squeeze. I love I I love trading stocks that are halting up multiple times because that’s when I can pretty much smell the blood in the water and understand that there’s someone losing on the other side of this, which are short sellers. And if there’s someone losing on the other side, that gives me an opportunity to make money. Again, going back to that zero-sum game. People are losing here, maybe I can make money off of their pain. So, it’s funny though because a lot of my training has been learning a lot from Steven Dux and learning a lot from uh the Clover guys. They’re all short sellers, right? Oh, okay. So, their risk management is pretty much my long strategy. I see. So, there’s a lot of a criteria that Steven Dux follows of what he would never short. If I remember correctly, something like low float, biotechs, um priced below I think $5 or like penny stocks. Um He has a whole list of statistics that he has concluded is not worth shorting, and that to me is like my A+ setup setup for a long side. Especially if he has fresh breaking news pre-market and he has all that criteria, I’m instantly just buying, right? Buying to the long side. Um I I typically I typically only trade stocks that haven’t extended beyond 200%because that’s when Steven Dux wakes up and and goes all in short on these stocks because the statistic going on his favor. So, I make my money from stocks that run from 50% gap to 150, 170 to the long side, well. And Clover was the same thing. I see. Yeah, I think that’s a interesting take and it makes so much sense now that you’re talking about it. But I think most traders don’t think about, “Oh, if my strategy is going long, then I got to make sure the other side of the trade is in pain or like losing money,” and that’s the perfect time to take advantage of that. Exactly. Yeah, so so you you do have to learn short selling. That’s pretty much Right. Like you kind of learned it as a way to to how do you supplement your edge as a long? Totally. I remember I love trading around halts. Okay. A halt is like this measure of the market that freezes the trading of a security for 5 minutes so that people can get a hold of what the hell is going on. Typically stocks are, you know, going parabolically they’re up or down. Okay. Um so I I I when I started trading I loved trading around halts because I just I just this was like a very beginner thinking back then. I just felt like every time a halt a stock halted up, it was going to keep halting up a few times so I instantly bought without really understanding what was going on, but I just knew understood the pattern. So I was like if a stock halted up with this criteria, I instantly buy it because it’s going to halt up a few more times. That was like the beginner strategy, but then, as I learned more about short selling, I realized that a lot of short sellers are terrified of halts and. Because they can gap up huge and they’re no longer under control of, you know, how much they’re risking, and because a stock in theory can go up to infinity, they can blow up in a halt if it. If it decides all of a sudden to resume 100 points higher, they just blow their accounts. So uh short sellers are terrified of the first halt up and because of that whenever the stock resumes, they’re going to instantly cover and get the hell out of it. And that means a lot of buying and a lot of buying back which inevitably is the reason why it halts up again. It’s they themselves buying up the stock as they’re recovering. So there I was buying it without really understanding who was in pain on the other side of the trade, but after I understood that, now I have even more confidence to to go in with bigger risk. And you know, all in those trades pretty much. Yeah, I think it’s so important to think about the psychology of these trades. I think especially when trading small caps. With large caps, I think there’s less There’s still emotions, but a lot less cuz small caps usually full of retail traders. Exactly. Right, like you and I and then some institutions, but like smaller funds. For a large cap to be manipulated by emotions, it has to be incredibly in play. It has to be like the move of the year, maybe right after earnings, maybe after some huge breakdown or breakout on the daily chart. If there’s enough volume, I feel like Tesla particularly sometimes trades like a small cap whenever there’s enough volume and and enough emotion. But for the most part, yeah, it’s it’s harder to trade large caps because they’re It’s like trying to play chess against a computer, whereas trading small caps is more like trying to play poker. It’s like human against human. It just happens that the poker table is a small cap. But like the stock doesn’t even matter. It’s just a battle of longs versus shorts pretty much. That’s a really good analogy. Yeah. Yeah, cuz poker is probably the only way uh the only kind of gambling that you can have some edge. Exactly. Exactly. Cuz you’re going to human against human. Yes. Someone has to win. Whereas the other games are like human against the house. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s take a step back. And you mentioned earlier that um you’re a hyper scalper. So So is that um like kind of explain to our viewers, how’s that different from just scalping? And what kind of strategy is that? How’d you get into this in the first place? Yeah, totally. So hyper scalping is two things. Um a lot of people think that the word hyper means taking a lot of trades per day. Oh, that’s what I thought, too. And although that is true, cuz if if I was to show you one of my charts, you’ll see arrows everywhere. Um it’s mostly a a testament to cutting a loss. So hyper means you instantly buy and if you are not in the profit, you cut the loss instantly. Like you’re hyper about cutting a loss. And that’s what creates a lot of trades because we’re almost like fishing for the right entry on the stock. Um and if but if it’s not breaking out right away or if we’re not seeing like that that short squeeze because most of the time we are buying extended extended stocks, there’s no holding for a test of VWAP, there’s no holding until a daily support level. It’s pretty much breakout or bail out because we are buying a stock probably with no news, Chinese, up 300%. It’s like we can’t afford a stop loss. So, if if you jump in on a halt on the third halt up thinking that the short squeeze is going to continue, if you’re wrong, you have to cut it instantly. So, there’s a lot of us cutting trades fast. That’s why the hyper comes. Um, but also because we do take a lot of trades and we pretty much trade like market makers. Uh, we try to make money off of the spread, we try to make money off of like micro micro movements on the tape. Like there’s a lot of because we trade during windows of short squeeze, there’s a lot of beginner short sellers that like marketing out, right? And all of a sudden you see like burst of of of green in the tape and the tape can jump a lot. So, we try to scalp those as best as we can and instead of trying to hold for a profit targets, we are kind of like going in and out as the price action allows us. So, it’s like if I believe a stock is going to run run from four to 10, I’ll be instead of holding from four to 10, I’ll be like buying and selling all throughout that move. I know, hearing a professional hyper scalper talk about executions can make it sound like you need a space center control room just to place a trade. But thankfully, trading doesn’t have to be that complicated, especially with tools like Moomoo’s new technical engine. One feature I found very impressive is the new and improved real-time order book and market depth. Instead of showing only the bid and the ask, the price ladder here shows where buyers and sellers are lining up and order size at each price visualized through these dynamic color bars. So, you can quickly see where larger orders are sitting and where buying or selling pressure may be building. Down here, you can also see a summary of the stocks order inflows or outflows, order sizes, and money flow across different time frames. 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I I believe a stock is going to run run from four to 10, I’ll be instead of holding from four to 10, I’ll be like buying and selling all throughout that move. Because for example, I honestly think you can make more money that way because let’s say another example. If you’re trading if you’re if you’re trading a stock from one a penny stock that just crossed over one. That’s a really popular strategy that I like trading. A penny stock goes from penny stock to real stock. It breaks through one and you can either choose to buy it at one and hold it to till 110 or you buy it at one and that’s 10 cents worth of profit, let’s say, right? From one to 110. But what but these stocks very often do is that they go to one, then they go to 105, then to come they come back down to one again, then they come down to 95 cents, then they come back down back up to one, then back again to 105, and all throughout that range, there’s already 15 cents of profit. Instead of Oh, I see. instead of from one to 110 holding it and not doing anything about that fluctuation, we are trying to time even the micro movements making 15 cents out of a 10 cent move. You know what I mean? Right, but there will be like three trades of five cents. Exactly. Instead of one trade of of 10 cents. 10 cents. Yeah. Oh, wow. So, that’s kind of like the hyper style. Your broker must love you. Well, we do we do turn a lot of shares. It’s very funny because when we meet up in real life we brokers at events like this um they’re like, “But you have to do at least a million of a a million shares of volume a month.” And it’s like, “Oh, yeah, we do that every day.” Like he’s like, “What is the What is like the lowest commission you have?” The lowest commission the is the 5 million a month tier. Holy yeah. Cuz I was like, “Oh, yeah, that’s fine. We do that every week.” Yeah. But it’s But it’s because we turn so much. And and these stocks are cheap, so you can buy 20,000, 30,000 share blocks in and out like crazy and in one day you make a million you you trade a million shares. Okay. So, hyper scalping, eh? Okay, very interesting. So, you talked about the advantage, right? Which is um instead of like what we said, instead of taking a trade of five cents, you are taking three trades of five cents during that fluctuation and make a total of 15 cents. That’s obviously the advantage. You get all the small moves and they add it up, right? So, what are some disadvantages you see with this kind of strategy? It’s not very scalable. So, I would never make um you know, a million dollars a month. I would never make eight figures a year. Really? Cuz uh I I myself as a trader will eventually, but not with this strategy because it’s not it’s not very scalable because it requires a lot of speed and good fills. And the moment you start trying to put more capital into the trades, slippage becomes a big problem. So, the second you start suffering slippage, the strategy dies pretty much. So, so it’s like you can do it with smaller accounts, right? I can buy 10,000 shares in and out like no problem and I can make like let’s say my daily goal of $1,000 a day. That’s fine. But if I try to replicate the same trade, but now 100,000 shares, I’ll just be cleaning the book myself going long, like, you know, cleaning the ask myself trying to get long 100,000 shares rather than 10,000, and then all of a sudden I myself move the stock those five cents that I’m looking for, and the strategy’s done. So it’s like I can’t make a thousand a day like I would want to make 10k a day just by 10x my risk. Oh, and you also can’t. You you can only do that through I guess the quantity of trades. Right. Right, exactly. instead of more capital, more share size. and you trade more of stocks and you go insane. Yeah. Yeah. Is that why you have I remember seeing your social media, you have like what 10 monitors? That’s why we have 10 monitors because since we hyper scalp, right? Trying to find an opportunity of five cents is so much easier than finding a good quality stock that is going to move a few dollars to a few dollars on your favor. So we find things to trade all the time. Pretty much as long as it has volume and range, it’s tradeable for us. So that’s why I have so many stocks up at all times. And like you’re saying, because scalability is an issue, we focus more on frequency and trying to find more five cent trades. You make more money. Well, have you thought of or I’m sure you’ve tried. What about instead of a small cap that moves 20 cents in a day, or a penny stock moves a day. What about a large cap like say like Sandisk that moves like $200 a day? Right. Well, we’ve tried plenty, believe me, and we end up losing on everything except this strategy. Like trust me, we’ve tried so many things and and nothing has really worked for us. So we end up coming to small caps. I guess it has to be because we know how to read emotions better than actual patterns. So I don’t know. I guess people could do that but for us it’s it’s better to stay in the pennies small cap world. Yeah, I think it’s it is true to stay within like your range of what your expertise instead of trying to trade all these different kind of stocks. Right. And like a few thousand bucks a day, 300 300 grand a year, it’s not terrible. It’s really good. Can’t complain. Do you think this kind of trading strategy, obviously super fast-paced, do you think it suits your personality or or is that why you pick this strategy and you feel like you’re comfortable with this or is it the other way around? Right. Well, it’s funny that you mentioned that because most of my friends were gamers and they loved playing video games their entire childhood. They have very fast like reaction speeds. They’re very like tech-savvy. We have incredible advanced hot keys. So, it’s definitely not a not a strategy that I would teach my mom. Um I would teach my gamer friends this strategy. Um but also this reminds me of something my my good buddy Tariq said. Um My personality is like water and whatever makes money, my personality is going to mold right into that strategy. So, he was kind of like I was a struggling trader for 3 years. I tried so many things and this is the only thing that actually connected and started working. So, instantly my personality became that and I and and I just been doing that ever since. Do you ever find this kind of trading style um stressful? It’s horrible. It’s horrible? It’s very stressful and and I I have a lot of stomach issues. Oh. And um for the longest time me and my mom couldn’t figure out what was going on and until I I I’ve been to many doctors until one doctor told me like what do you do for a living? I’m like I’m a trader. He said okay, so it’s stress. What you have in your stomach is stress and um I genuinely believe it’s because of how I trade and and and the markets in general. Oh, no. Okay. yeah, it’s one of those things that Mhm. It’s all right. I thought you can like slowly adapt just like water. Yeah. No, no. Like no, no. It I mean it’s been better especially when when you’re not trying to make a living from trading exactly month after month. After you build a cushion and and you build up savings, you know, having a red day or like having a losing trade, it it doesn’t it doesn’t feel the same way as it used to before. Has it changed over the years, you think? How how long have you been hyper scalping? I’ve been trading for successfully for 5 years. Okay. And I’ve been just doing that same strategy. Um as long as small caps are here to stay, I think the strategy is going to is going to stay around. Yeah, but I know um I asked that because a lot of traders I talk to, especially I guess more so options traders, um they say a lot of options chains and liquidity has changed after 2021. Um I get it’s almost like the premiums got jacked up, like it’s a lot harder for them to make money trading the same strategies with options, intraday day trading. So, that’s why I’m like, oh, has small caps changed? Because they changed a bunch of rules with um halts and then like you don’t get the crazy um you know, like the the Chinese super micro float stocks, you don’t really have that anymore. Right. No, you’re right. Um it has changed and over the past few years, it has been the slowest years for us. We made less money. Um we’re still profitable, but less money than 2021, 2022. Yeah, that’s with everyone, I think. We were hoping that after PDT was removed, we were going to see an influx in volume, but we haven’t seen that much. Actually, I think it’s more of a, um, something that’s brewing behind the scenes as people slowly get accounts and and start learning about day trading, and eventually it’s going to the PDT, the PDT volume is going to explode, maybe a year or 2 years down the line, rather than right away whenever they announced it. But what I was going to say was, since we are looking for very small opportunities, 5 cents, 3 cents, we don’t need stocks to run you know, from a dollar to 10 to find trades. Um so, given given that the trades and the standards of our trades are very low, even under slower conditions, we still find trades. But it’s also because it’s summer. Summer’s generally just slow slower for small caps, I remember. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Even this week has been awful. Like we’ve been waking up at 3:00 a.m. for no reason. It’s been very tough. Oh. But um you know, I don’t know. It’s been slower this summer, for sure. But it’s a it’s a cycle as well. It’s like short sellers get comfortable, everything that pops drops, they they get very confident, and then all of a sudden one goes from one to $30. And then from there the cycle shifts, and we get a few weeks worth of hotter action. We try to make the bulk of our money there, and then you know, there’s not much there’s not much to do afterwards for another few months. So, how many each I guess on just an average week, I know this week’s slower, but on an average week, how many trades, I guess round trips, would you take in your style? In a week? Yeah. Maybe a thousand. A thousand? Yeah. So, that would that’s like 200 a day. Yeah. Oh. And then what’s I’m just curious, what’s the risk reward kind of like with with high risk scalping? Oh, it’s normally like is is is one of those strategies that is higher accuracy, lower lower risk reward. So, we might have a negative one um two to one negative risk reward, Mhm. but high accuracy. Because it’s not too hard to predict a five-cent move based on the tape. You can tell when the stock is turning. We use a we use a lot of sub one-minute charts as well. So, you can like tell when the stock is turning, and then say you go for that quick pop or that quick drop. Doesn’t it it’s easier to predict a smaller move like that than a stock than a swing trade of a stock going from 200 to 400. So, higher accuracy, a lot of winning trades, but when we do get caught on that um big false breakout or or jackknife, that can wipe like 20 of our small winners. Oh, shoot. Yeah. Cuz it’s like, you know, all of a sudden you’re fishing for five cents at a time, and then it costs dollars. Yeah, then you’re screwed. Mhm. Have you ever been caught in offering before? Yeah, I’ve been caught in an offering before, especially pre-market. Oh, yeah. That’s how your drawdown start. Oh. Cuz then you have a five a five cent shovel to dig out of that. Holy. And then when they drop, they drop in dollars. They drop in dollars. Especially pre-market cuz there’s no halts. But um it’s one of those things that come with the strategy and you get used to it. And eventually five cents at a time you get out of it. I see. Yeah. What’s a I you said um it took you three years to become profitable. And since then like what’s the I guess what’s a what’s a hot streak like for you? What does the week in the market have to look like for you to have like a super hot all green streak and like where it’s like lots of opportunities every day for hyper scalping? Right. That’s a good question. For me a hot week looks like something is in theme. Like for example, Bitcoin is is going up, is bouncing like like you’ve seen yesterday. Um or there’s hot news around SpaceX, or there’s hot hot news around COVID. There has to be a theme because then a lot of small cap companies jump on that theme and they start uh dropping breaking news related to that theme. So that’s when I do the best, whenever Again, whenever Bitcoin has stabilized and is now curling up. Um tomorrow or next week we’re going to see a lot of small cap companies saying like, “Oh, we invested $10 million in Bitcoin.” And now we have a you know, a strategy based around Bitcoin and stuff. And those headlines pick up. They pick up a lot and that’s when we have stocks run from 100%to 200. And that’s when I do the best. And normally we have a few. It’s like there’s like a few headlines per day, the stocks hold up, the the the breaking news is relevant. That’s when I do the best. Um when there’s nothing going on um you know, that’s when I try to lose as little as possible. Yeah. What can you just What would a day have to look like for you to not trade? Wow. Yeah. I don’t think I even remember when was the last time I had a no trade day. I think it’s impossible, honestly. As long as there’s a stock gapping up more than 30%. Okay. And I think 30 is not that high. It’s not that high. But, I say 30 because over 25%that’s where most short sellers algorithms turn on to short, and that’s when there’s danger of a short squeeze for them. I wouldn’t be trading something up 10% because there’s no short sellers in it. It’s not extended enough for them to try to write it back down. Yeah. But, as long as there’s something up 30% and it has volume, I would try to find a few cents out of it. So. Okay. So, a slow day might be like 10 trades, but still trades. Oh my god. And a hot day, sometimes I had a a friend that came here to came here with us. His name is Tim, which I which I met at Warrior Trading. He took 4,000 trades like last Thursday or something. What on what in one day? In one day. What was the ticker for that day? S N O A. It’s S N O A something like that. I can’t remember. Okay. But, what’s funny though is like if you look at this chart, somebody that’s a real trader, let’s say at a prop firm, would say like there’s nothing here. Like the stock went from $2 to $30 and it was range bound all day long. It was just going like a like a ping pong from two to three, two to three, two to three. And for most people it’s like the stock didn’t go anywhere. But, for us it’s like my god, it had the range and it had the volume. We can just scalp away all day long this range. And that’s what he did. Oh, okay. Yeah. Interesting. So, you said you I think you mentioned that you start your day pre-market, right? What’s Kind of walk us through what your pre-market process and research process is like to prepare for the day? Right. So, I wake up before 7:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time because I don’t trade 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. Eastern only because most retail brokers are not on yet at that time, and I need retail brokers to buy stuff. Because that’s the fuel to create a short squeeze. So, you know, the strategy doesn’t work as well in that under that environment. So, I start at 7:00 and then first I start reviewing gap scanners. Um, I’m typically looking at the top three, top four gappers and then I’m looking at their stats, Steven Duck style. Are they biotech? Are they not? Are what industry are they in? What float is what what float is their float? Are they micro floats or like or like more like mid caps? Um, but for me it has to be a micro float, at least up 30%with breaking news. Um, if it’s Chinese, that’s the only one that I would trade without news. Because then that means That’s funny. they’re rigged and they’re going to like send them up. It’s so fun. It’s so crazy. And then and then I just wait for for a short squeeze, right? I wait for normally the pattern looks something like there’s a PR release, they stock an algo on Wall Street jumps on it. Instantly this the stock spikes like 50% and then it fades and then that’s the end of that stock. Unless all of a sudden it starts curling up and then everybody that’s short at the top of that spike starts like crapping themselves thinking like, oh-oh, this is the runner the runner of the day. There’s there’s normally at least one runner per day. And that’s when that’s when this one reclaims the highs, short sellers short at the highs cover and we get all the retails long in this. It’s like an it’s like an imbalance to the buy side. Retail jumping because he’s the stock making new highs and Robinhood is telling them to buy it. Then a lot of chat rooms are long on it as well because they know short sellers are underwater. Also hyper scalpers are buying as well. Um, shorts themselves are covering and buying back creating those jumps and it’s like this small window where everybody’s buying and people that are selling are selling in panic. They don’t really care about good fills or like, you know, managing risk as best as they can. They just want to get out. Um, and that window is where we see a lot of price dislocations and that’s where edge appears. And that’s what I try to scalp as much as I can. Fish my 5 cents. And also that’s mostly happening pre-market. That’s mostly happening pre-market. Sometimes that’s like that’s a that’s a good catch because in 2021, 2022 it would happen pre-market and then carry on into the open. Yeah. Also like the golden times of day trading, yeah. crazy. And what’s the sad thing about the sad thing about it is that I traded 2020 and 2021 in a simulator because I was still learning. That’s okay. I saw I saw GME go from like 70 bucks to like Oh. I don’t know if we’ll ever get another stock as epic as GME ever again. yeah, but so that would be like a I guess larger cap stock that you would scalp. Right. Right, cuz it’s so liquid. And it’s so hyper in play. It’s like a grown-up small cap pretty much. A grown-up small cap, yes. So so as long as emotions are manipulating the price action that’s where that’s I would know how to read it and trade it. Amazing. But yeah, those are the windows that we trade when there’s imbalances to the buy side. Okay. to find our scalps and then stop. So why do you think So So does that mean you trade a lot less after open then? What happens after the open? It’s a secret. I can’t tell you that. Oh, yeah? kidding. I’m kidding. Let’s hear it. You got to tell us now. Okay, so what happens after the open the agenda of these companies change from trying to pump their stock up and trying to achieve warrant prices the agenda That’s the agenda pre-market, right? They They make up a headline that they think it’s going to catch attention and that they think it’s going to send their stock up 100, 150%. Um once they attract volume and they attract retail just before the market open they might they might paint a very nice bull flag or something. That attracts retail. Okay. And then once the market opens the agenda shifts from making the stock look good and strong to dilution. And that’s when they start like unwinding their ATMs, unwinding their shelves, selling millions and millions of shares into the market, raising money for their company. Um and you know, the imbalance now is to the sell side at the market open. So, it’s harder for us long-biased traders to like try to trade against the headwind of a whale unwinding 10 million shares. Um if they are smart rigors, they would unwind slowly, right? And then let it let it like run for another leg, unwind slowly. But I guess people in China waking up at their stock up 100%. Up millions of dollars, it’s like who cares about another leg? It’s like unwind everything now. So, at the market open unless it’s a very hot environment like 2021, normally stocks just fade. And that’s when my short-seller friends are short. Yeah. So, they are short. I know the agenda has shifted. I just like you know, and based on my stats, I don’t make money after the open. Oh, interesting. So, so you’re basically saying that there’s a lot of multiple multiple day runners with small caps then. By the way That’s like multi-run multi-day runners, right? They just gap up and fade. Right. Is what you’re saying is the most prevalent. Yeah, exactly. After the gap, it’s very hard for them to like hold up. Mhm. Um and if they do hold up, that would be like a different setup, more of a a short squeeze. It It’s more of a you know, short-sellers piling short thinking looking for the typical fade and the fact that it doesn’t happen across a few days, most likely it’s going to send it to a thousand or something. Mhm. Yeah, or or sometimes I I haven’t traded small caps in a few years, but sometimes there’s like yes, you get a pre-market pop and then you fade after open and then they they kind of come back like in the afternoon. Do you ever trade those? I used to. Um I used to. Like I said, I used to make money more consistently at the market open when when the market was hotter, but right now it’s like only pre-market and I try to leave because if not, I come back and and give money back. Um I do trade a bit of after hours. I find that after hours, we get fresh headlines. So, it’s kind of like pre-market all over again. Oh, okay. So, I do more of that rather than coming back midday. But, for for the most part, like you know, the money I make now is beyond my wildest dreams, so it’s fine. It’s enough. Amazing. Yeah, so I just leave. So, you did mention earlier that you look at the tape a lot. So, are you using both level two and the tape a lot in your hyper scalping kind of strategies? Yeah, so we do use 1-second charts. We use the level two, which is like the box, the bid and the ask with the different market makers. Um, and then the time and sales, which 1-second charts. Yeah, 1-second chart. Like I’m saying like what I told you, it’s like very hyper. Oh my goodness. to the penny. So, okay. So, what’s your Maybe I’ll ask you to have a screenshot of what your layout is. So, you have 1-second chart, level two, and the tape. And do you like where are your eyes looking at? Are you just glancing at all three to kind of see what the next move is going to be? Um, I’m staring So, so I have different time frames. So, I have the daily chart is where I start. Then I go into the 5-minute, then I go into the 1-minute, and when I’m about to trade Okay. um, churning around the level two and the 1-second chart. But, it has to be a bigger bigger I call the 1-minute time frame a bigger picture pattern. So, it has to be a a pattern in the 1-minute that I want to scalp. But, when it when it’s time to execute, I just focus on the level two. Um, and then I’m looking at the tape. Like, for example, based off of the 1-minute chart, there’s a level that I that I like. I I memorize that level, and then I go into the level two looking to see how the stock reacts to that level, and then I execute based on what I’m looking. Mm. Yeah. So, it’s more so on the level two than the tape? It’s It’s both. Like, I have them both next to each other. Yeah. Um, but it’s most on the level two, like how the bid stacks. Like, for example, if I’m going for a breakout, I do like when the spreads tighten up, right? That’s a good signal that the breaker is going to happen. I like um, with the corner of my eye, I’m looking at the color of the tape. Green, red, or blank. Um, I like to see how thick the bid is, how thin the ask wall is. Um, Um, if we should have broken through a level and there’s no sellers on the ask, but for some reason we don’t go, I instantly think like hidden sellers and I like get out. Um, or vice versa. If we’re dropping and all of a sudden something holds up and there’s no bid, it’s like hidden buyer and I just buy. No wonder you have stomach issues. There’s so much going on. You’re not looking for just the colors, you’re looking for like a skipping prices and the spreads. Yeah, it’s like a this funnel of things that go into a 10-second execution. It’s like this funnel of things that go into a 10-second long trade. Yeah, and it’s one trade out of the I guess average 200 that you take in a day. But it got it gets easier. It becomes almost like second nature eventually. But that’s one of the things about this strategy that is like you either become very good at it or you never get it because there’s a lot of what I call tacit knowledge, which you can’t teach. I can’t teach you how to read the tape. It’s like you have to stare You just have to look at it. at it for years. Yeah. And all of a sudden you know, eventually you’re going to notice signals that actually push the stock up or make it drop. Mhm. Yeah. So then that that also means like your platform and your execution, it’s is the the the thing that matters the most. Yeah. For this style. Latency matters as well. I have some friends that moved to New York just for latency because the trades are so quick. Like being far away makes a difference. I have I have a a friend that wanted to do a backpacking trip in the Philippines. He couldn’t because of latency. So he went there for a week untradable for the way we trade. You can trade like a normal human everywhere. Yeah. But if you want to be a crazy hyper scalper, you need the fast latency. So he came back. He cut the trip short. short. backpacking. Yeah, I know. So okay, internet speed matters a lot, too. Not just latency, but speed. Okay, let’s talk about the brokerage platform side. Like on your what are you looking for in a platform that tells you that you can execute your trades to have uh uh extremely competitive commissions. It has to have free routes. I see. Like no ECN fees. Okay, then those will be like the routes that add to liquidity. No, there’s some free routes now. I think they’re fairly new. Like routes that just don’t charge you commissions if you want to use them. Okay. Um these are like slower routes for the most part, but I’d rather be I know I don’t know if if if I pay ECN fees I I would be giving away more than 50% of my profits just on ECN fees. So it has to have free routes. Commissions don’t have to be completely free, but at least they have to be very close to zero. Like a few zeros and then like a three or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um and then DAS Trader Pro. I have to have DAS Trader Pro. I’ve been trading with DAS for almost 6 years. So I have I have to have it. Yeah. That’s the best platform. I agree. Yeah. Um those three, I think. Okay. What’s your Okay. What’s your So you never trade on your phone then? No, no. Yeah, it’s too slow. I can imagine. Never. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, no. What’s your hotkey set up like? Uh I actually sent you a picture of this as well. All my keys have different stickers. Okay. Um but I have a lot of hotkeys. I have hotkeys to take liquidity from the ask, to buy the midpoint, to buy a few cents below the ask, to buy at the bid, to buy a few cents above the bid. It depends like how spread the stock is, how desperate I am to get in the trade, the the the less convinced I am of of taking a trade, I try to buy as close to the bid as possible. Kind of like saying if I don’t get filled, it’s fine. I see. Um the more I like a stock, the better the hotter headline, I’m eating through the ask and I don’t care. Mhm. Um for selling, I have a lot of hotkeys to sell a quarter, to sell half, to build out entire position, to add liquidity. I have different dark hotkeys on on different dark pools just in case I have a bigger position, which for a hyper scalper is never that big. If I want to have access to different liquidity, I can use that as well. I have a lot of hot keys. Oh, okay. Yeah, we definitely need to show people what the setup’s like. What about position sizing? How do you decide cuz hybrid scalping you said like every trade like you want them to be liquid, has a lot of range. How do you decide what’s an A+ setup that you can kind of 10x or 5x your normal position size? Um similar to what I mentioned earlier, the Steven Dux criteria. So, like if all the criteria is aligning, I instantly go in with bigger risk. And like I said, that was a a micro float penny stock biotech with news. Okay. Um I would instantly start pushing bigger size because I know that’s an environment where short sales are going to be more scared. Steven Dux wouldn’t even get out of bed for that. And I know the imbalances are going to be more to the buy side. So, as long as I know that imbalances are to the buy side, I can go more aggressive. And then I also take what I call warm-up trades. So, if I’m looking, if I’m reading the price action correctly, if what I think should happen is actually happening as I’m reading the tape, if I’m jumping in and out and liquidity feels good, I can start risking more and more as I’m getting more comfortable with the price action. And also, if I’m on a hot streak, I risk what I’ve made the day before on the following trade. I kind of like roll the profits into the next trade. Okay. Um which is something we’ve done since forever. And yeah, that’s how how I base my risk pretty much. That kind of makes sense. So, if you’re on a hot streak, you slowly increase your size, but if you’re in a drawdown, you slowly decrease Yeah, exactly. It’s like whatever I’m doing is working, so I do more of it with bigger size and vice versa. It’s very important and that’s the hardest part to do is reducing when it’s not working cuz you get stubborn and it’s like you want to make the money back and stuff. That’s why we get into drawdowns because we don’t we don’t flip the switch fast enough. It’s like something is not working, your breaking news plays are not working anymore, they’re reversing, but you’re stubborn and it’s like oh, maybe the next one, the next one.”But that’s The secret to success is reducing the risk as you’re losing, so you’re going like logarithmic, and increasing your size as you’re winning, you go exponential. Oh, I like that. for us, for me especially. Yeah. Yeah, risk management has to be probably like the most important thing for scalping. Totally. Like going break even, scalping is success for for the most part, cuz eventually like you’ll catch winners as long as you keep cut cutting your losers. And And I like saying that your winners work um instantly anyways. Yes. So, if it’s not bad, why even want it? It’s like Oh. I try to tell myself that when I’m trading. It’s like,”Cut it, cut it, cut it.” Okay. So, as a hyper scalper, you’ve been doing this for 5-plus years now. What’s still like the most difficult thing you have to kind of battle with? Um oversizing. Like sometimes I I try to, you know, sometimes I I have friends that trade different strategies, and I see them make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single trade, maybe even in the exact same stock that I’m trading. Mhm. But because, you know, they’re accumulating against VWAP and holding for a few legs, um they just simply trade different the way I trade, and scalability for me has been the biggest issue. And when I when I try to go outside of of my mindset of capturing 5 cents and then locking it in, and let’s say I try to hold for 10 cents or 20 or 30, Yeah. almost always my entry come comes back down to break even. Or worse, the winning trade turn turns into a losing trade. So, I battled with that multiple times. Um It’s kind of like a a blessing and a curse. Like what keeps me consistent is also the same reason why it’s harder for me to scale. Yeah, I see. But that’s like That’s what I’m like trying to grow and and fix now as a trader. I’ll eventually find a a midpoint where I’m still scalpy, but maybe not as hyper, um so that I can size up bigger. Yeah. Because I find that my friends that make the most money are the biggest in size. They’re not better They’re not better in skill. They’re not better at stock selection. They’re not even better about pattern recognition. They’re just bigger accounts, bigger size. So, scalability is is is part of the problem, but I’ll figure it out. Yeah, that’s what I was going to ask you next to that. Do you think there’ll be a point where there’s a lot of algo trading already, especially with the advance in AI and coding? Everyone can code up almost anyone can code up an algorithmic trading system now. Do you think there’s eventually a day where like your edge in at least small movements would decay and make it like or the commissions get a lot more expensive will make just make this style a little bit less pro-less profitable and harder to execute in general? I do think that is possible. Um I do think algorithms are getting smarter. Yeah. Um I do think there’s less deficiencies in the level two and and in the different jumps in prices. Um but at the same time, part of being a trader is like not living in fear and and accepting that strategies can fade and and stop working. Um and I’ll just figure out what’s working what’s what’s the other thing that’s working and I’ll jump on that whenever the that the time comes. Um but for now, I’ll just be hyper Mhm. and try to maximize this as much as I can. But I do think you know, it might stop eventually. Yeah, you eventually like evolve into Like I I remember earlier you were mentioning that you’re doing a bit swing trading on the side, right? Right. I do I do a little swing trading. Swing trading is honestly honestly like very easy, I feel like. Especially if you’re like swing trading large caps, like Mhm. you swing trade against levels in the daily and if they don’t bounce, they become a a longer swing trade than you wanted and then you sold them and then they come back. Um and so, but that’s harder to do when you’re broke. Yeah, you need a larger account Exactly. Yeah. You have to day trade, go through the ringer, accumulate a few millions, and then swing trading with a few millions is like free money almost. So, you know, that’s the way it goes. I feel like hyper scalping is the vehicle to generate cash, and then from there I’ll graduate to I already do it with Tesla. Um you know, that’s when you can make more money than different with different methods in the market. Okay. So, speaking of account size, so how do you remember what’s what account what kind of account size you started with? I started with 26,000. Oh, that’s pretty good. I was expecting like, I don’t know, 5,000 like most people. No, because PDT, right? And because of the nature of how I traded, I had already blown a few small accounts offshore just purely on commissions. So, after blowing a few accounts offshore, knowing that I was I wanted to be a hyper scalper, I knew that I had to get into a American broker with free commissions. So, I worked my ass off. I used to paint houses over the summer, and I after 2 years I saved like $9,000. Um and then I borrowed the rest from a cousin, which was young and also like an entrepreneur like myself. He doesn’t trade, but he understands what the market was. So, he gave me a loan for the rest, and I knew I was never going to touch his money. I was only going to risk my 9,000. So, I guess my account was 9,000, but it was leveraged from his loan so that I could get over PDT and trade freely. Um 20 26,000 dollars, I remember I started trading with like one to 10 shares just making sure that whatever I was doing in the simulator also worked with a real account. Um it did it did work, and I did that for 3 more months. And then all of a sudden I started adding zeros. Instead of buying one share I added I buy instead of buying one share I bought 10 shares. Instead of 10, 100. Instead of 100, 1,000, and then 10,000. And everything kept on working. But if if I added an extra zero it stopped working. So, that’s when the scalability became an issue. Okay. Obviously, it’s been a few years since that initial small or smallish account of 26,000. Um what’s your goal now with your trading? Cuz I remember on social media I see like you have like a series of like your daily recap and you’re talking about like road to eight figures. Right. Tell us about like what that vision is like. Right. Okay, so I started what I call the eight-figure protocol, which is me starting this mission of wanting to become an eight-figure trader, which pretty much means crossing over $10 million worth of profit. So right now I’m a I’m a low seven-figure trader, which is beyond my wildest dreams already. Um but something that I used to tell myself when I was broke and an aspiring trader was dreaming is free. And if it’s free, I can dream as big as I want. So this is me dreaming bigger. Um and also I love trading and I I I love the challenge. I love growing, getting better. Um I have eight-figure trading friends. So it’s like why can’t that be me? Yeah. Um and there’s no reason why. So I started this challenge at at the peak of a drawdown that I was in because I had like 2025 was a rougher year for us hyper scalpers um because it was a very dry dry year. We had a lot of friends getting banned from different brokers and stuff. So when I was at my lowest of lows is when I decided to dream the biggest and I started this protocol. And yeah, my my social media’s are pretty much I pretty much like a a journal of my life. And every day I just show up, do the eight-figure protocol, post how much money I’ve made or lost, and I won’t stop. I’m I’m serious, I won’t stop until I cross $10 million. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah, so you mentioned getting banned by broker. Did that happen to you? Well, that’s a great question. Nobody can ban me. I banned the broker. Okay. So I left a broker um thinking that brokers with commissions were not going to be profitable for my strategy because like I said earlier, ECN fees were too expensive. Yeah. They were like half a penny to go in, half a penny to go out. I was still I was still making money on these, but I was losing like 60%to commissions and fees. But now brokers have become so competitive with each other that they have free routes. Yes. And they also have like almost nothing worth of commissions. So, I’m a full-time hyper scalper in a direct access broker now. Okay. Which is great. Yeah, I think I remember you mentioning that’s very important from a broker cuz otherwise yeah, otherwise the fees just too much. Yeah, for example, uh for Canadians, they don’t have free commissions, right? No. Because payment for order flow is illegal. Yes. And I remember I used to have a Oh, what is it called? I think Interactive Brokers or Okay. Trade Zero account. Oh, yeah. And and the hidden fees would be way too much. Oh, [ __ ] Like I could never hyper scalp on those brokers because they were so expensive. Yeah. In Canada, it’s actually like that’s also the reason in Canada we don’t have free commissions. Right. Because the brokers cannot sell your order flow. Right. Yeah. So, people need to know why their commissions are free Exactly. US. I remember in 2024, there was a lot of chatter in Wall Street that they were going to make selling payment for order flow illegal, which meant brokers were going to start charging commissions again. And we were all like terrified of that. We were like,”Please, sell my soul, but don’t don’t charge me commissions.” Yeah. So, then you I guess you don’t worry about your order flows being front run. Like your Not really. No. No, not really. I guess because of the nature of how I trade, uh it hasn’t really affected us. I keep saying us. It’s a pod It’s a group of traders that we travel and trade with. trade hyper scalping. We all hyper scalp like the hyper scalper group, yeah. Um no, it hasn’t affected us. I guess because we’re so fast. Um I think it’s mostly it mostly affected people that are doing more position trading cuz they can know where their or stop losses that their stop losses are at, how many shares they’ve accumulated, where. I see. for a slower trader maybe worse, but for us not really. Yeah, cuz you don’t really it’s not like you have a stop loss. You just get out. Exactly. Yeah, I see. So going back to road to eight figures, do you think you can get there with your current strategy? I will get there with this current strategy eventually. It may take me longer than I would want. Maybe a few five, six years. Which is not that bad. That’s not that bad at all. But I would like to I would like to accelerate that by either doing some bigger swing trades on the side or maybe carry on with this battle of trying to see how I can grow this strategy to be more scalable. Even if it means sacrificing a few scalps that are more mediocre and just focusing on the higher quality scalps. I think there’s room for improvement even within this strategy. And hopefully that will be good enough to send me over eight figures. Yeah, there’s always ways you can optimize. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I’m sure there are some stocks that can you can add one zero hopefully. Yes, I agree. Yeah, specific ones, yeah. Specific ones under specific cycles as well. When whenever we get a hotter cycle and PDT wakes up like the no PDT thing wakes up. I agree there’s a few that you can add that extra zero. Yeah, so once you hit that goal what do you think happens after that? Like is that going to change your life or Yes, I’ll delete my social media, buy a farm, and have seven children. Oh, okay. about trading for once. Really? I hope so. That you know, I’ve interviewed a lot of traders on this podcast. They always say that. And then they never But then they’ll hit that goal and just the goal post just gets moved. Right. They always say they want to stop trading once they hit that. I haven’t seen anyone all of them are still trading. That is true. I guess at the beginning my goal was to make 50k a year cuz that would replace my current job, my real job. And it’s been moved. You’re right. I’ll try my best to not move it. Like know how I’d like to do it. Just whatever’s right for your Or maybe I would tame tame it down a bit and not be as crazy about trading. Cuz right now trading is my life. Like, from the second I open my eyes to to the to the moment I go to sleep. So, I have train train train trying to get better. Oh my god, I remember reading your survey. I remember you said something like my main hobbies and side hustles are basically just eating lunch and going to sleep. Exactly. I don’t do anything else but trading, going over trading strategies, reviewing the tape, reviewing my recordings, reviewing my trades. It’s like I’m obsessed, not in a healthy way. I I I remember I’m a big fan of Lance and he always says that um he’s done trading his health for wealth. Yeah, yeah. And he’s like, I’m trading my health for a few thousand dollars. Hopefully it’s going to be a bigger Hopefully eight figures. No, actually it’s not hopefully. It will happen. It will happen. Yes, yes. Um but that’s how I feel. Mhm. So, hopefully I can get to a point where I tone it down a bit, trade less, study less, enjoy my family a little bit more. Yeah. But I’m also young at the same time. feel like these are my years of pushing. It’s true. And I like it. So, it’s a it’s mixed feelings. Yeah. I think I honestly think like when you’re young, when you’re in your 20s, mid 20s, or even late 20s, that’s that’s kind of where I was like kind of grinding really hard. Are you not mid 20s? I mean, no, I’m not. Oh. Um 20s. Yeah, low 20s. Um I think it’s it’s worth it to sacrifice a few years and just work very very hard and then, you know, like potentially coast a little bit more later when you’re you’re 30s or in your 40s. So, I think it’s worth it. Totally. I agree. Yeah. And that’s been my vision since I started. Um I love this quote from Dave Ramsey that says, “You have to work like no one else so that then in the future you can live like no one else.”So, it’s either you completely sacrifice your 20s so you can be well off in your 30s and 40s, or don’t sacrifice anything but never retire either. It’s kind of like just cruise off on a 9-to-5 till the day you die, pretty much. Yeah. Which is fair, I guess. It’s fine for some people. Yeah. But I think as long as you kind of recognize that there will be a day in which you want to work a little bit less, then you That’s That’s part of the vision, part of the goal, too. See, to me, eight figures is that exactly because imagine, if you have $10 million on spy or on a few, you know, properties or maybe a real-life business. By real-life, I mean like you do things rather than being online. Like like in buttons. With $10 million bucks, you can make like what? Like 50 grand a month passively forever. It’s like what else do you need? Yeah. That’s true. that’s my number as well. Okay. eight figures is like I do think most traders I’ve interviewed, they they have to go through a few a few years of obsession like you are right now to get to that point where you like trading becomes I wouldn’t say easy, but easier and becomes like second nature. Right. Then you get to like relax. Ironically, I think you become a better trader when you’re more detached from it, too. Mhm. Um I can see that. Because I I don’t know. I have a few rich, very rich friends that don’t really care too much about trading that are still the ones making the most money because they’re not forcing trades. If the market’s off, they take off the entire summer. Um They’re not living off of trading. They have so many other things going on. And if the market is hot, it’s like, yeah, I’ll throw a few million on that trade and make your year in one trade. So it’s like ironic how that works, but Mhm. I don’t know. Yeah. Yeah, but then you definitely need a lot bigger capital to Yeah, so there’s like both sides to this, I guess. Like you need obsession, but you also need to be detached. Right. to make it. It’s It’s a weird mix. Yeah, it’s ironic. Do you think anyone can do this can trade? No. I don’t think so at all. I think I actually discourage people from even trying. I have a lot of friends back home that want me to teach them how to trade. It’s like, no, don’t even try. It’s like It’s very hard. For most people. The best advice is to like invest on spy and have a well diversified portfolio of ETFs, you know, save 20%of the income and throw it on on on the stock market every month. But if you’re not insane like we were, like I am now, and maybe you still are, going through that learning curve of trying to figure out how day trading works, it’s not going to work for most of them. It’s going to be a lot of wasted years of, you know, money, time you could have invested in some other venture or some other job. I try to discourage people because the discouraging is it it does two things. If you’re weak-minded, the dis- my discouragement is going to be enough for you to not even try. And if you actually gave up because I said so, you don’t have the personality to trade. On the other hand, if my discouragement makes you makes you want to prove me wrong, you might be the type of guy that actually figures it out. That’s very true. So, I try to discourage everyone, and if they still want to try after I’ve said multiple times,”No, no, no, no,”then I’ll help them. Well, then what what about your seven kids? If they want to trade, what would you do? Um if they want to trade, no, I don’t think so. Oh, no. Okay, I get it though. In your opinion, why do most traders fail? Because they come to the market trying to get rich quick rather than understanding this is a full-time career that is going to take many years for them to master if ever. It’s kind of like a pilot trying to fly a plane on day one. It’s never going to happen. Um they have to go through training, through schools, through simulators, and only once they graduate, they can they can actually pull it off. So, it’s that mindset of trying to sprint rather than going in for the long journey. Mm. What advice would you give to struggling traders right now? Um watching this. To trade in a simulator. A lot of people like bashing on simulators, but I learned how to trade in a simulator because I didn’t I didn’t have money to afford a real account. Um you can learn tape reading in a simulator. You can learn about hot keys, about execution, about stock selection. There’s real There’s really not an excuse for you to be wasting real money if you can’t even prove to me or to yourself that you can have at least 3 months of consistent trading in a sim. So, for them, if you don’t have 3 months of consistent trading in a sim, there’s no reason why you should be wasting real money. Mhm, makes sense. Yeah, it’s like a proof of concept. Yeah, it’s like just um Yeah, but then also, how what’s the maximum amount of time you’d think people should trade in a simulator? Cuz you don’t want to stay in there forever. Yeah. if you If you don’t make money ever in the simulator, then I guess you stay forever. But um That’s fair. What I used to tell people is like 3 years is 3 years worth of trading practice in a simulator might be good enough for you to be able to tell if if this is something that one you like or if you can ever be good at. Um but at the same time, most of my friends and myself included didn’t have like a time frame. It’s like we were all all in and we were willing to like die trying pretty much to try to figure out this trading thing. So, so 3 years before you quit and the simulator never unless you become consistent in the simulator at first. The simulator is like easy because there’s no emotions. And if you can’t make money there, you won’t make money in a real account. Yeah, it’s not real fills. Yeah, either, yeah. But if you can’t even with fake fills and no emotions, if you can’t even with that environment make money, you’re just going to get destroyed with a real account. Mhm. So, to me, you have to graduate from the sim. Yeah, I see. It’s a It’s a rite of passage. Yeah. That’s a That’s That’s easy mode. If you can’t even do that and don’t bother. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. Um okay, what does success look like for you over the next 10 years? What does that look like for young Marcelo? Mhm. I will have crossed eight figures. Okay. Right? I hopefully I’m going to be married then. Seven kids, maybe not seven kids, maybe five by then. Okay. I want to have a big family, you know what? I want I want to be like that old grandpa with a huge family behind them. You see in those pictures up there? Yeah. Um and then hopefully I have I’m still going to be trading um more passively. I want to either focus more on my other real life businesses. Um and I want to carry on traveling with my trading friends. Mhm. And I would also like to do something to what Lance is doing, with which is shedding a light on all the tricks that happen in the market, all the scammers, um all the fake gurus and stuff. I would like to be involved in something like that, trying to like guide the beginner rookie trader uh of being abused by predators and stuff, because I was what I was that once. Yeah. So, I would like to join the the Lance the Lance crew of Yeah. anti-gurus. You want to join the bright side. Exactly. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Any final tips you want to give to our audience members listening to this? Give them Give them one juicy tip. One juicy tip? Yes. Yeah. Um that trading is very hard, but if you’re able to stick with it for long enough and as long as you are with urgency studying your trades, um sharpening your strategy and getting a little less bad every day, I genuinely believe if you want it bad enough, it can happen. So, just keep going at it. If this is your dream and and you’re all in, I think it can happen for them and it’s worth the struggle. Like it changed my life, it changed your life. Um and we only live once, like Yeah. it’s worth going for it. Amazing. Yeah. Thank you so much, Marcelo. It’s been a blast. Thanks for having me.

This is a real ebook, title page, contents, and it was written with a free AI. No paid plan, no special software. In this video, I’ll write one with you start to finish. It works with ChatGpt, Gemini, or Claude, whichever one you already use. And not the way most tutorials do it, with one giant prompt and a copy and paste. One chapter at a time with a check for repeated points, a check for madeup facts, and a check for the phrases that make a book sound like a robot wrote it. You’ll see every step, including the ones most tutorials skip. And at the end, I’ll show you three places to sell it, and what each one takes from every sale. Quick bit of context if you’re new to this. An ebook is just a book you sell as a file, usually a PDF. Someone pays, downloads it, and reads it on their phone or laptop. And ChatGpt, Gemini, and Claude are AI assistants. ChatGpt is made by OpenAI, Gemini by Google, and Claude by a company called Anthropic. The free version of any of them is enough for this. Here’s the whole route in one breath. Six stages. First, a topic someone would actually pay for. Then a short brief that tells the AI how the book should sound. Then the outline, then the chapters, one at a time, then the checks, and finally turning it into a PDF and picking where to sell it. What you need is a free account with one of those three, a Google account for Google Docs, and a few hours spread over a couple of days. So, why not just type, “Write me an ebook about this,” and be done. I’ve watched a lot of those tutorials and in my opinion, the books come out generic. The same point turns up in three chapters and nobody in the video checks a single fact. There’s a practical problem, too. Free plans have usage limits. When you hit one, you wait before you can carry on. And Claude’s own help pages say it plainly. Longer conversations use more of your limit. So, one enormous chat that writes a whole book is the fastest way to hit the wall halfway through chapter 5. The fix is simple. Give every chapter its own fresh chat. And give the AI a short brief it can read every time, so the book still sounds like one book. All three have a feature for exactly that. I’ll show you each one in a minute. Stage one, the topic. The most common mistake here is a topic that’s far too big. How to make money online isn’t a book. It’s a library. A topic that sells is narrow and it promises a result. So, I’m going to ask the AI to be honest with me about mine. My topic is a beginner’s guide to getting your first affiliate sale with zero followers. An affiliate link is a special link that pays you a commission when someone buys through it. So, I’ll paste in this prompt. I will give all these prompts in the description below. It asks whether the topic is narrow enough and to turn it into one promise. And here’s what it came back with. One line starting after reading this, you’ll be able to. If it still sounds vague, ask it to try again or narrow the topic yourself. It’s worth getting this line right. That promise matters. Every chapter has to move the reader towards it. Stage two, the brief. This is a short note that says who the reader is, the promise, roughly how long the book is, how it should sound, and a list of phrases the AI must never use. There’s one more rule in here that does a lot of work. If the AI isn’t sure about a fact, it has to write the word check in brackets after it. That gives me a trail to follow later. Now, where it goes depends on your AI. All three are free. In Claude, it’s a project. In Chat GPT, it’s also called a project. And in Gemini, it’s called a gem. Each one is a home for one piece of work. You add the brief once, and every chat inside it can read it. I’m using Claude here. So, I’ll make a new project and add the brief to its knowledge.

Stage three, the outline. Inside the project, I’ll start a chat and paste the outline prompt. It asks for seven chapters. Each one gets a title, one sentence on what the reader can do after it, and a word count. And it sets three rules. No two chapters cover the same ground. Chapter 1 gets the reader to a small first action, and the last chapter tells them what to do next. So, look at this. Seven chapters, each with its own job. Now, read it like a buyer would. Do any two chapters sound like they’d say the same thing? Merge them. Is a chapter in the wrong order? Move it. Is a title dull? Rename it. This is the cheapest place to fix the book. Moving a chapter now takes 10 seconds. Moving it after it’s written takes an afternoon. Once I’m happy, I’ll add the final outline to the project, too, next to the brief. Stage four, the chapters. This is where the book actually gets written. And here’s the habit that makes this work on a free plan. Every chapter gets a brand new chat inside the project or inside the gem if you’re on Gemini. So, I’ll start a new chat and paste the chapter prompt. It says which chapter to write, how long, and to follow the brief and the outline. It also tells the AI to skip the chatter. No, here’s your chapter at the top. No, let me know if you’d like changes at the bottom, just the chapter so I can copy it straight across. And then it writes. Now, before I copy anything, I read it. Two quick checks. Is it roughly the length I asked for? And does it sound like the brief or like a press release? If it’s way off on either, don’t patch it by hand. Tell the AI what’s wrong in one line and ask for the chapter again. That’s usually faster. Now, the step most people miss. Before I leave that chat, I ask for a short summary of the chapter, four lines, the main points, and any examples it used. Why? Because the next chapter is written in a fresh chat. It hasn’t seen chapter 1. Without a summary, it will happily explain the same idea again with the same example. So, I paste that summary into a separate Google Doc, chapter summaries, and then I update the project with it, so every new chat can read what’s already been covered. On Gemini, there’s a nice shortcut here. If you add that Google Doc to your gem from Google Drive, Gemini’s help page says changes to the file show up in the gem. So, you just keep the doc up to date. That’s the whole trick. The outline says where the book is going. The summaries say where it’s already been. It’s the difference between seven chapters and one book. From here, it’s a loop, new chat, chapter prompt, read it, copy it across, ask for the summary, update the summaries. The chapter prompt for chapter 2 onwards has one extra line. It tells the AI to read the summaries first and not to repeat anything already covered. And this is what that buys you. When a later chapter needs an idea from earlier on, it points back to it in a line instead of explaining it all over again. If you do spot a repeat, it’s usually because a summary was too vague. Make that summary more specific and ask for the chapter again. Now, at some point on a free plan, you’ll probably hit the limit. The AI tells you, and you have to wait before you carry on. The good news is nothing gets lost. The brief, the outline, and the summaries all live in the project. So, when the limit resets, I open a new chat and carry on from the next chapter. Stage five, the checks. And this is the one I’d never sell a book without. AI writes facts with exactly the same confidence, whether they’re true or not. A price, a rule, a percentage, they all sound right. So, for each chapter, I paste it into a fresh chat with this prompt. It asks for a list of every claim a reader could check. Numbers, prices, rules, names, and how sure the AI is about each one. It doesn’t rewrite anything. It just gives me a list. Then I check the ones that matter myself on the real source, not by asking the AI again. So this one, let me open the official page and see if it’s right. If it is, it stays. If it isn’t, I fix the sentence. And if I can’t find a source at all, the sentence goes. And remember those check tags from the brief. I searched the book for them, too. Everyone gets checked or the sentence goes. The second check is quicker. The phrases that give AI away. You’ve seen them in today’s fast-paced world. Let’s delve into unlock your potential. Nobody talks like that. And readers notice. The brief already told the AI not to use them, but some slip through anyway. So, I keep a short list in the paste file and I search the whole book for each one with controll and F. And there’s one. The counter at the top shows how many times it turns up. For each one, I either delete the phrase or I paste that paragraph back into the AI with a short rewrite prompt. It says, “Keep every fact, cut the filler, same length or shorter.” And I read the first line of every chapter out loud. If three chapters open the same way, I change two of them. Stage six, turning it into a book. The simplest route costs nothing. In Google Docs, I add a title page,

make each chapter title a heading, and start each chapter on a new page. Here you can add images and illustrations to make things easier for your readers. Then Google Docs can build the contents page for me from those headings.

And when it’s done, I download it as a PDF, open it, and check the page numbers in the contents match the real pages. Claude can also make a Word file or a PDF for you on its free plan. Just know that making files uses more of your usage limit than a normal chat. Now, if you want it to look like a designed book with a proper cover and layouts, there’s a tool called Designer that turns a document into an ebook. It’s a onetime price, $27 when I checked. Last stage, where to sell it? I looked at three places and checked their fees on the 7th of October. PayHip has a free plan. It takes 5% of each sale and PayPal or Stripe, whichever handles the payment, takes its own fee on top. Gumroad has no monthly fee either. It takes 10% plus 50 cents per sale and 30% if a buyer finds you through Gumroad’s own marketplace. The upside is that it handles sales tax for you and Amazon’s Kindle store. One rule worth knowing, if AI wrote the text, Amazon wants you to say so when you publish, even if you edited it heavily afterwards. If you only used AI to brainstorm or tidy up your own writing, you don’t have to. So, which one? If you want the smaller cut of the first two, PayHip’s free plan. If you want sales tax handled for you worldwide, Gumroad. And if you want Amazon’s shoppers, the Kindle store with that one box ticked honestly. Now, all that copying between chats, the brief, the summaries, the checks, it works, but it’s the slow part. So, I made a tool that does that part for you. It’s called Ebooksmith. It works with the AI you already use, Free Chat, GPT, Gemini, or Claude. For each chapter, it hands you a prompt that already carries the outline and a summary of every chapter written so far. You paste the reply back, and it checks the length and keeps the summary for the next one. You can also add images, links, etc., and export your document as PDF, doc, or text file. Then it goes through the whole book, the robot phrases, the points you’ve made twice, the facts you still need to check, and it lays it out as a proper PDF with a contents page that has real page numbers. It opens in your browser like an app. Nothing to install, and it works offline. The links in the description. So, that’s the whole route. A topic with one clear promise. A brief the AI can always see an outline you fix before writing. chapters in fresh chats with a running summary, a fact check on the real source, a search for the robot phrases, and a PDF from Google Docs. None of it needs a paid plan. It does need a few hours and a bit of copying between chats, and writing the book is only half the job. Getting it in front of people who want it is the other half. That’s a big topic of its own. Every prompt from this video is in the description. They work in ChatGpt, Gemini, or Claude. Swap in your topic, your reader, and your promise, and you can run the same steps today. If this was useful, subscribe. There’s more like this coming. Seven chapters, seven fresh chats, one book.

Welcome to the most comprehensive Hermes Agent course available. I’ve been using Hermes for the past few months and really stress testing it and using it in every part of my life and business. Hermes Agent has been helping me get customers, create high performing content, monitor my community, help my customers, better my health, trade stocks for me, and so much more. Everything I’m going to be showing you in this course is stuff that I actually use it for every day. And if you build alongside me all the way through, you can even use it to build a oneperson company with AI agents doing most of the heavy lifting. I’ve actually been helping people go from zero to building and selling these exact systems for thousands in recurring revenue. And I wanted to put together one resource with every tip, trick, shortcut, basically everything I wish I knew and picked up along the hundreds of hours I spent building and selling with Hermes agent. So here’s how this course is going to work. First, we’ll start off with why this matters. what Hermes agent actually is, why it’s different from other agents like OpenClaw, Cloud Code or Codeex. Then we’ll go over the good, the bad, the ugly, and then we’ll get into setting it up fully from scratch and the right way to do so. We’ll be building a personal chief of staff, an agentic operating system with Jarvis, a mission control dashboard, a multi- aent command center with a memory graph, everything we need to set up an agentrun company from scratch. Then we’ll use Hermes agent to help us build and sell a product with a full team of AI agents running the operation with a project manager to keep everything in check and organized. An automated social media agent to get leads and traffic that’ll make long and short form content, articles, carousels, slide decks, beautiful websites, and even do customer service. Create ads, trade, analyze stocks, work as a personal trainer and longevity coach, and how you can even use it with your team. So it has context across your whole organization and can work in your team as an AIO employee. Basically, you’ll have an overall AI workforce. And even if you’re just a beginner, we’ll cover all the core concepts along the way like what model to use, how to optimize for costs, making sure you’re secure, how to use skills, MCPs, cron jobs, sub aents, agentic workflows, and how they can be applied in life and business. And once you understand how all these pieces fit together, we’ll build a few systems so you can experience what Hermes agent is really capable of. And then we’ll talk about how to take these bills, how to sell it with the exact pricing, offer structures, and full endto-end client examples. And that’s important because I find that most people that are watching this are probably interested in a Hermes Agent, not just for their own hobbies, but for financial reasons. You want to make money with the things we build. And I want to show you how to do that. So, if you’re brand new, watch this in order. And if you already have Hermes Agent, use the timestamps in the video to jump to whatever section you may need. But I’m sure if you go from scratch, you’ll learn things you didn’t know that may be incredibly useful for you if you only follow my one recommendation, which is to build alongside me. Now, with that out of the way, let’s get into it. Okay, the first thing I quickly want to cover is what Hermes agent is to set a deep foundation so you have a good understanding. And at a high level, if you take the smartest AI model available, it can be chatbt, claude, grock, whatever, and you give it eyes, hands, and you sit it at a desk with a mouse connected to your computer, then what you can do is message it like a coworker, and it can do everything a regular person could sitting at that computer, and it does these things on its own without you having to ask it constantly. So that’s similar to OpenClaw, but what makes Hermes agent special? Well, it’s the fundamental philosophical differences of how they were built. So for example, OpenClaw is more like here’s an AI agent that can use your computer. Hermes agent is more like here’s an AI employee that grows with you over time. And the biggest reason is its self-improvement loop that it goes through automatically. And what that means is if Hermes learns how to do something for you like how you edit your videos or how to write in your tone, it will automatically save that process as a reusable skill. And it does so on its own without you having to manually ask and making it way more userfriendly. Which means the next time you ask it to do whatever thing you already did with it, it’s already learning from the last sessions. This creates that self-improvement loop. That means if you give Hermes a task, it does the task, it maybe figures out a better way to do it or you correct it and it can remember that as a skill. We’ll cover this much more later in the course, but what that really means is your Hermes becomes better at working with how you like to work specifically because it understand and grows with your specific way of working. And here’s a current example. I was looking for apartments in New York and it found out that I was preferring things that are highrises in x amount of budget and later on when it’s looking for other apartments it’s giving me those kind of similar examples and I didn’t have to ask it. It already understood from the context of what I’ve been doing. And how this is done is because Hermes in the background under goes a process that improves its own memory. And that happens as you talk to it. Every 10 turns or so, it basically tries to understand what you’re doing and improve itself. It has the idea of a curator that cleans up old skills, maybe improves them and archives things that aren’t useful anymore. This keeps the agent from being messy over time. And that’s why, like how OpenClaw used to get bloated and kept breaking, Hermes doesn’t have that issue and is way more reliable over time. So the agent not only just remembers everything blindly, it strategically archives things. So, it’s effective in the things you work currently day-to-day. And that’s why people are switching over. It’s not because Hermes has one flashy feature. It’s because it feels way more like a real employee. And most importantly, it gets much more useful the longer you use it. And that’s the real difference. Now, with that out of the way, let’s go over some fundamentals you should know before we start putting this on our computer. So, it’s more secure and it’s way more cost effective. Now a quick note on the difference between what a model is like GPT 5.5 or claude opus and how it differs from Hermes which is called an enidentic harness because this is worth understanding before we move any further and how you can think of it is like a car. So the model is the engine. It’s powerful but by itself it just sits there and doesn’t have wheels, steerings or brakes to actually go anywhere. Hermes is the rest of the car. Hermes is what wraps around the model and lets it actually do the work. So when I say model, I mean something like GPT 5.5, Claude Opus or Grock or Google Gemini and that’s what’s used for the intelligence. But Hermes is the agentic harness that comes bundled with the ability to let’s say control everything on your computer. It runs on the machine 24/7. It has the gateways so you can start messaging it on all the different channels and it can get work done like an employee and it’s it has its own memory system. So there are other really good harnesses out there like claude code or codeex but there’s a reason why I use Hermes as my chief of staff and not only something like claude code. You see these tools like cloud code were designed for different jobs fundamentally. Cloud code like the name suggests was built to code. Hermes agent on the other hand was designed to be an AI employee built to know you your business your customers your preferences and all your workflows over time because of how its memory system was built. Also, another big advantage is that Hermes is model agnostic and it’s local. That means all its data lives on your computer right next to you and you’re not locked into one provider. And since these models are always leapfrogging each other, Hermes agent lets you be nimble. You always get to use the best model for each specific task. And now that’s all good. Let’s cover the bad and the ugly. Because you see, you’re still the one in charge. Because there’s a version of this where it sounds like you hand Hermes the keys and you disappear. But that’s not really how any of this works. Because these agents are powerful, but they’re not autonomous decision makers. You can’t let it loose without structure. And it’s on you to give it the right access and to protect yourself from giving it too much too fast. For example, a researcher gave her agent access to her email inbox and the agent just deleted it. She lost years of emails and that actually happened. And that’s why it’s on you to verify the outputs before you trust them. And I’ll show you how to put all these safeguards in place before you let your agent send an email, move any money, or publish anything. But the reality right now is that the gap between people who use these agents and people who don’t is getting a lot wider. Every company is going to need something like this. And most have no idea that it barely even exists or how to even start with it. But the people who understand this right now, while it’s still early, are the ones who end up building businesses and careers everyone wish they started before. The same systems we’re going to be building in this course, people are already selling to other businesses as done for you digital employees, and they charge from 500 to 5,000 a month to set it up or $200 to $1,000 a month just to maintain it. The business owner doesn’t need to understand how this works. They just get an agent that runs 24/7 at a fraction of what a human would cost. And we’ll go later into this with the exact pricing, offer structures, and full endto-end examples later in the course. But now that you understand the bare minimum, let’s actually get into installing Hermes Agent onto our computer. All right, we’re going to be setting up your Hermes agent from scratch to a multi- aent working system. And you should also be able to text it from your phone. And I’m going to be showing you this. And you can do this in two paths. And the first path is using a VPS or hosting a server in the cloud. The second path is doing it on a Mac Mini or an old computer or PC. It can be Mac or Windows and it doesn’t matter. Right now, I’m going to be showing you how to set it up on Mac because it’s much much easier. You only have to pay one time, and I’ll also show you how to make sure that these cons are not a con anymore. All right, so let’s get into that. And it’s really simple. All right, so after we have chosen what to use, either a VPS or a personal computer, I personally like using an old computer because it gives me an easy interface and it’s much easier to control and I can see what’s happening on my screen. But after we have that, the next thing we need to do is make sure we choose a brain for our Hermes. Okay. And just as a recommendation, I like using the plans by chat GPT OpenAI because it’s the most bang for buck you can ever get in terms of intelligence and accessibility and ability. All right? And I’ll show you how to do that. So in terms of managing cost there’s two ways we can be using the intelligence to feed and run keep our Hermes agent running right number one is just using a subscription from chat GPT and what that gets you normally is unlimited access to chat GPT within a certain time window. All right and the why I like starting with this is because you’ll get way more usage and your costs stay flat. Okay. Because what may happen is if you don’t know what you’re doing and you start out with using API based token billing is if there is something running that you may not want it may rack up hundreds or thousand dollars in credits and you may not be very happy with that. All right. So this is basically there’s a pay for this is pay per usage. This is when somebody asks you for an API key to run Hermes. That’s when this gets activated. Right? So, I’m going to be showing you and on level one on how to use our chat GPT subscription to make sure we use we get our Hermes agent up and running. And you can see it’s pretty affordable. You can actually even start free and you can go up as you need. This is just the chat GPT subscription page. And after you have this up, I want to show you how to set up the buddy system. So, if we run into any issues, we can use our buddy to solve that. All right. First, I’m going to be showing you how to set up the buddy system. And this is basically because we’re going to be using Hermes and Codeex with the same brain, which is GPT 5.5 with the subscription. What I’m going to be showing you is setting up Codeex as our buddy. So, if you do potentially run into any problems, whether on your whether you’re on VPS or Mac or whatever, if you do get stuck, you can always just ask Codeex to fix it and Codeex will be the doctor for your Hermes agent. So whatever issues you may run into, Codeex will fix it for you. And the nice part is that you can also control Codeex from your phone through the Chat GPT app. And this makes it really easy that you can be anywhere in the world and and controlling your computer with Codeex if something were to break or were to happen. Right? So this is basically just insurance for our Hermes agent. And right here, this is the steps we’re going to be using. If a problem happens, we just ask Codex to fix it. The Codeex will fix it and then we apply and move on. And it makes it really simple for anyone that’s new getting into this tech. And this is really cool because you we’re already paying for Codeex and it becomes our developer buddy that’s going to fix stuff as we go, right? One brain, two rules. So, let me show you how to set that up and it’s really simple. So first what you want to do is you want to go to codeex by chatbt and all the links and everything will be down below and you want to make sure you download this for Mac or Windows or whatever you’re using. You can also use this on a VPS. Okay. And after you download that and log in with your chat GPT account, you should and you see this screen, you’ll be good to go. And now let’s move on to the second step. And one more thing I want to show you the cons of running a Hermes agent on your Mac Mini or your computer is that the power m The power needs to stay on and access is limited offline. Right? So the reason I’m telling you to use Codeex is because there was a new update by Codeex where now Codeex can basically securely use apps on your Mac from your phone. Even when your Mac is locked and the screen is off. This is huge and makes it so that for one payment which is just for the hardware. We get to keep everything there and if anything turns off we can still use codecs from our computer to fix Hermes or whatever. Right? This is why I really like using this with my Mac Mini because I get best of all the worlds with a very simple setup. Okay, now that we have our buddy done, what we want to do right now is make sure we install our Hermes agent. Great. We’re finally here. Now, let’s install Hermes agent. And it’s really simple. Want to make sure just googling Hermes agent or look at the link down below to find this Hermes agent news research. And all we need to do if you’re on a desktop because it’s much easier. You just download this. Okay. So, after you download this, you can see you can set it up really easily just by following the directions.

And then you open it up.

And you can see Hermes will open like an application on your Mac. So all you need to do is just hit install Hermes and it’ll go out and do its thing. So let me come back after this is done. Awesome. So now you can see you can launch this from anywhere or just by saying Hermes desktop. So we’re going to do launch Hermes and then you can see the app starting up. All right. So once we’re in this desktop, I want to take you on a tour of how to set this up on the best way, right? So this is really this is honestly a really great desktop app and that’s why I want you to use this with a personal computer and you can see right here you can start new sessions just by hitting new session. There’s skills all the messaging that you know we’ve been talking to it from. We have skill all our skills in one place. All the channels we want to connect it to and this is going to be really important as we go and even anything that you develop in here we can be working on it right. Okay. So the first thing I want to show you is right here I want you to open settings. Okay. Then the first thing we want to do is make sure we set up our provider for our models. So number one, we want to make sure we have OpenAI codeex as our model. Okay. So right here, let’s set up our OpenAI codeex right here. Let’s hit this button. And then this comes up for me. And then you see it’s very easy to basically authenticate with our chat GPT just with a simple click of a button. And then if you go back to your Hermes thing, you’ll find this. You go back to your chat GPT and then you paste this in and then you hit continue. Great. So we should be good now. And you can see let’s set up Hermes agent and you can see it was that simple to set up GPT 5.5. So let’s begin. So now you can see is this is our primary model. All right. And one thing I want to also show you how to do is whenever let’s say let’s say you run out of credits or let’s say chat GPT is somehow down right the second best thing I like using is this thing called newsportal okay so news portal is this thing so if you just Google newsportal so newsportal is the company behind Hermes agent all right and you can see right now what I do is I have this as my backup And the reason I have this for my backup model and I’ll show you how to set this up is because so the reason I use that as my secondary fallback model is because of this. Number one, I immediately get access to all the top tier models. Number two, I don’t need 200 different subscriptions like image models and I can use my Hermes because I get access to audio models. I get to use my Jarvis like that and it’s also a backup brain. So if anything is down, it makes it really easy for me. All right, so that’s my personal setup of how I like using it. And to set it up, it’s really simple. Just if you’re curious, if you just hit newsportal right here and you hit set up news portal, you can connect it just like that in one click. Okay, just make sure you have an account and you’ll be good to go. And you can see you can switch between your news portal and all the models here or your open AAI codeex. Uh that makes sense. Just like that. And make sure you enable fast mode. And what I like using is high. Okay. So I’ve just seen this as the best mixture. And you can see this is the first model it uses. All right. So this is the most cost effective setup that I’ve noticed that works for me. And right here I would also just put newsportal. And let’s say you can pick something like Claude Opus. And you can here you can pick something like GLM 5.2 or claude opus if you want to go local. All right. So so there’s one these are two references and you have a fallback and now you should be set up. Cool. This is number one. All right. So now that we have our model, let’s test it out. Right. The way we do that is just by going here hitting new session and right here on the bottom right here you see you can select which model you want to use right so let’s use GPT 5.5 fast high and right here you can see all the models right here and you can see where you’re using it from okay so if I just say hello and responds back and you can be working with this right here now this is cool and all but let me show you how to actually make it useful step by step because the next thing I I want to show you how to do is how to connect it to different channels so you can use this while you’re on the go. All right. And to do that, what I want to show you is this thing called computer use. All right. So, what computer use is is basically what I’m telling you is this computer, imagine belongs to Hermes and it’s going to be able we’re going to be letting it use it. And this makes everything Hermes does will do or need to set up for us significantly simpler because all we’re going to need to do is going to go here and I’m going to go here. I’m going to say, “Hey, can you help me set up Hermes computer use?” And then now it’s going to go ahead and start installing a package such that Hermes agent can control and access this computer whenever it needs to do something for you. Right? Which means you don’t have to use your computer anymore. you can just talk to it and it’ll get everything done. Okay, this part is really important. Now, it’s going to say ask for some permissions to make sure you give your Hermes agent permissions to do stuff. So, I’m going to give it all the permissions it needs. And what this is is you want to give this thing called KUA driver access. All right. Now, all right. So, I’m going to hit enable this and hit quit and restart. By the way, this part is totally optional. It just helps me use my Hermes agent to its fullest potential because now it feels like it has its own computer and it can do whatever it wants with a mind of its own. Let me just zoom in real quick and check this out. I run into my first snag that it’s saying it’s not fully done but I’m I can see that in my settings that I have given it the access. So all I did was just screenshot it and giving it to my Hermes agent. And this is just some basic troubleshooting where it says it needs the permissions. So I just turn these things on and I give the screenshots and it’s saying this is good. Now I should be able to verify. So right here this is not required but I’m just showing you how it’s done. Okay cool. So now Hermes agent should be able to use our computer. Okay. So let’s open a new session. And now what we want to do is make sure we have our Hermes agent connected to all our texting channels so we can use it from anywhere we want. All right. Okay. So really quickly I want to show you how I have my actual Hermes agent that I use set up. Right. So first of all I use Telegram a lot and there’s two ways I use Telegram. So first you can see I have one channel where Hermes and I just talk solo. Okay. So this is just a long thread and I don’t want to scroll up and done too much but anyways I also have a team of Hermes agent. So this is my capture channel and capture channel is basically let’s say anything that I want my Hermes to just ingest and it doesn’t need to respond to me like let’s say I found a really cool Instagram video or a YouTube video that I might want to do later. I just dump it in here and my Hermes remembers that all stuff for me. Okay. And then you can see this is called Telegram topics. And the way I use this is right now whatever topics that I’m thinking or doing in my life, I have a topic chat for. And I can also use it for other things if I need to. So for example, if I just click into trading, I’ll show you how to build this trading bot later, but right now it’s just giving me updates on the positions on what it’s doing. So right now it just bought a leap of Uber for some reason. Uh I think I told it to or something like that. I forgot. And it also made me a little bit of a dashboard. So you can see this is I just let Hermes loose with its own portfolio. And you can see it has a 33% overall return already. But we’ll get to that later. But right now what I’m trying to explain to you is that the reason this is so important and the channels is so imperative to set up first is because we want to measure the helpfulness of our Hermes agent. And the the most effective way I found it to measure the effectiveness of my AI agents if it’s actually getting meaningful work done for me is first I try to measure the amount of work done while I’m away from my desk. And if I don’t have these channels set up it literally can’t get a lot of work done while I’m away from my desk right and also I have no input or insight over it. Number two I want to see the percentage of work that’s automated by Hermes. So if I have some vision of hey this is doing all this stuff for me like it created that dashboard by on its own and deployed it I didn’t have to do that that is some work that I would love to have done and it just does it on its own. And number three because we want to treat Hermes as an AI employee we want to measure our revenue per employee in our company. If it’s just one person that’s fine too. If it’s many people, that’s fine, too, because we’re going to be giving everyone in your organization to work with Hermes as an employee. So, I’ll show you how to get all of this stuff set up. But first, let’s connect Telegram and then I’ll show you how to connect iMessage, Discord, and a bunch of others. All right. All right. to set up all the channels just quickly so you have reference. I in my free community if you go to classroom and inside the YouTube video resources you can see uh I have a bunch of resources but one of them is Hermes agent channel setup guide and it’s basically a resources with all the prompts and stuff you can be using to help you set up a lot of this stuff. Right? So, a bunch of those resources, including the mural board, will be in the description below, just if you’re curious. But let me show you how to make sure that you can connect your Telegram. So, you can watch me right here as well. So, the first things first, you want to go to messaging. Okay, first of all, you see it wants us to run this bot father thing and then user infobot. And in the setup guide, if I just go back to that just because it’s a little easier. So, if I just go back to the setup guide, you’ll see I have some links here. And if you hit this, you can open up automatically botfather and then hit start. Okay. And then let’s go back to the Hermes desktop just so I can show you. And I’ll make this smaller. Okay. So, let me make this smaller. And Telegram is right here. So, first we need the bot token, right? So, we’re going to go here and then we’re going to do / newbot, right? Let’s call the name. Let’s say you let’s say Hermes course video_bot

and good. Now let’s choose a username for this pot. Okay. And I’m just going to copy and paste this same thing. Maybe I should have named that something else. Okay. Now I have all of this stuff. Right. So, what I’m going to do now is I am going to copy this token and paste it here. And then I’m going to hit save changes. Great. Now, now you can see Telegram setup has been saved. Now, new credentials. You need to restart it to take effect. Now, I’m going to scroll down and then hit save. Now, it’s restarting right now. So, this yellow thing means it’s restarting. Okay. See, this is kind of cool. So now for whatever reason my Hermes has just stopped and is not restarting, right? So what do we do? We can go to something like codeex and then I’m going to be opening a new chat. So I just opened up a new chat and I’m like, “Hey, my Hermes agent is not working. It was trying to set up Telegram, but it just failed and it keeps restarting, but it’s not restarting. Something’s going on. Can you help fix it?” And then I’ll tell it to do that. And in the beginning, expect to have some of these difficulties. But once you have this buddy system underway, anything you kind of any snag or bumps in the road that you hit, you should be able to fix like this. And I’m actually very glad I did hit something right now.

Okay. Awesome. So, check this out. Uh, it’s doing something. But now I can see it went from nothing to connected. Telegram is now connected.

Great. So now this should be good. What I’m going to show you now is if I take this away, what we need need to do now is this token got saved. So, what we’re going to do is right here, this link, we’re going to hit this one and then do slash start. And then here’s our pairing code. Now, we need to pair this thing. So, what I’m going to do right now is make sure I go back and then let’s even start a new session. Make this a bit easier. I’m just going to copy this and say, “Hey, I’m trying to connect my Telegram bot. I just got this message. Can you help me out?” And then right here, right here, I just entered all of the stuff. And right here, Telegram should just help me pair Hermes. Awesome. So, send a message to the bot now. It should recognize you automatically. Let’s say hi.

Okay. So, you can see some new stuff is happening. And it’s great. It’s now responding to me and it wants us to set a home. So, I’m going to set this chat as our home chat. Great. So, that means any random updates that Hermes may need to give us will come here. But that was a really easy showcase of the buddy system on why we use it and if we ever run into any roadblocks with Hermes, if it’s not restarting correctly, where we can get that done. All right, so this is number one. Number two, I want to show you how to set up a topic chat so you can have multiple topics and you you’re not only just messaging from one thread over and over. All right. Okay. To make a new topic thread is really simple. All you do is first you make a new group. So first you don’t need to add anyone but let’s call it YouTube course topics. And then let’s hit create. Cool. So there’s YouTube course create uh topics. Now, if I go to my Hermes bot and click on him right here and then add him to our thing right here, then what I want to do is to actually become an admin. Add bot as an admin. You see?

And this will give it all of what it’s needed. So now if I come here and then I say hi,

you can see the bot is right here. And now this is the big part. What I want you to do is right here click your telegram topic and then enable topics by going to edit and then what you want to do is go to topics and then enable topics. And I like it as tabs. Okay. So right now what you’re going to see is this will have a general chat. So what I can do right now is make multiple tabs like I have right here so I can be more organized with how I talk with it. And I can even ask my Hermes to make different channels. So for example, hey can you make three different uh topic threads? One of them can be for this builds for this YouTube course. Uh, another can you make it for trading? And another one just make a capture channel.

Okay. So, I’ll let this keep going and then we’ll come back when it’s done. And you see right here, this is very important and that’s what this is one of the reasons I really really like Telegram is because other channels don’t have this as well. But right now while Hermes is working on your request right here what it’s going to happen is going to Hermes is typing is going to keep showing up and this makes it really easy for me to understand why when it’s working and when it’s not and I can use I can hop between different threads and make it work on different things simultaneously. All right. And one other thing I want to show you is make sure in Telegram what you want to do is very very important in your phone. Use this from your phone. Okay. So you can see I can see the same updates from my phone. And this is what you want to do so you can be mobile and working with it. And also one more thing is I don’t want to probably see all these reasonings. So I’ll show you how to make sure we don’t see that anymore. Quick thing, just make sure all these are turned on, right? And Hermes has all the permissions inside that channel. And if you’re wondering how to get there, really simple is just click this and then edit admins. And if you click this, you should be able to find it, right?

Try now.

Awesome. So you see right now it’s created all these different channels and now I can say hi in all of these. Hi

and you can use different threads and or open up and manage different threads with Hermes managing them. All right. So, this is a very early start of what you can be doing with Telegram. We’re going to be diving much more into this later, but right now, since we have this set up, let’s dive into the other channels, and we’ll get those set up first. All right, so this I will say, is probably one of my favorite channels to use Slack. And it’s because you can use it to manage your whole team, and it basically works like an AI employee that is integrated with your team. So just to show you how we use it in our team, for example, you can see some of my teammates, they are using Hermes agent to get stuff done. I can whitelist it so other people can talk to him really easily. And you know, this is behaving like our own teammate. It has context and talks to everyone in the team. It knows what everyone’s up to and it helps us not have siloed information and helps us really really work a lot faster and smoother because we can just tell it to do something and it goes out and does it. Okay, so let me show you how to set that up because it is probably one of the most valuable things you can be doing. All right, so to set up Slack, what we do is first we go to messaging and then you can see there’s Slack right here. So first we want to make sure we get our bot token and I’ll show you how to get that. All you need to do is click this button and you can see this is my Hermes that’s already set up. And now what we want to do is create a new app from scratch. And then let’s call it Hermes YouTube course. And then let’s put AI answers and make it go in there. Cool. Now that we have that, first what we need is our bot token. And where you get that is first you have to go to OOTH and permissions. And after you go there, then we need to give it a couple different scopes. So if you if I scroll down right here and I’m going to add two scopes. So I’m going to add commands. I’m going to add I am write and I’m going to write I am read.

And for reference you can give it a lot more. This is just the minimum uh I’m giving it so it has some access to do things you need to. If you need to give it more access, feel free to add more scopes. Okay, so after this is done, then what we want to do is we hit install to AI answerer US. Okay, so right here you can see I am going to allow to install it and then I’m going to get this bot token. So we’re going to need this and then what I’m going to do is I’m going to go back to Hermes and I’m going to paste this in. But don’t hit save yet. I’m going to go back and now what we need to do is go to socket mode and turn on socket mode. And let’s call this YouTube and generate. And what we’re going to do is copy this. Now we’re going to go back and paste this inside the Slack app token. All right. Okay. Then I’m going to hit save changes. Now it needs a gateway restart. If this doesn’t work, just close it and restart it. So I’m going to restart this gateway right now. So let me get that done. And then once this is back up, I’ll come back.

All right. So the gateway just restarted. And the gateway is basically what’s responsible for Hermes being able to talk to all these channels, right? So whenever you add or subtract any of these channels, you basically just have to restart the gateway. Okay. So now what just happened? Just imagine is Slack there’s a gateway to Hermes. But the thing is we just need to install inside our Slack that application for Hermes. Okay. So let me show you how to do that now. So what you want to do is go back to your Slack and right here inside app home just make sure you show your bot as online and then you check these on. Okay. Okay. So this should be called Hermes YouTube course. So basically, if you just copy this and then go back to your Slack and then go find it, Hermes YouTube course, you should see it. And then hopefully this is high. If not, we’ll troubleshoot it. Okay. And you see it responded here. So I can be like, “Hey man, who are you?” And we can now talk to Hermes through any channel in Slack. So let’s say I can make a new channel right here just like this. Hermes YouTube test and then let’s say I’ll make it a private channel. If we want we can invite other people. Awesome. So now what we’re going to do is we’re going to add right here. I’m just going to say Hermes YouTube course. If I’m just going to add it here and I’m just going to hit add and say add Hermes. How are you man?

And then you can see it works in threads. Uh, I should make sure these don’t come up anymore. But you can see the reply, how doing well, etc. And you know, it’s very simple to do that if you really want to just be like, hey, hey, I’m not trying to see all these uh useless texts. Just send me your response. That’s how I want to see responses in the future. There we go. Okay. And then it’ll go and work on that. But it’s that simple to get Slack inside your how to get Hermes bot and Slack configured together. Now, if you want your teammates to be able to use this bot, you can just be like, “Hey, whitelist this user or just inside your Slack integration right here. Add their Slack IDs or just say allow all users equal to true.” Or in Slack, you can literally just say, “Hey, whitelist this user and it’ll be fine.” And you can see right here, memory user only wants Hermes replies. Anyways, we’ll leave that there. And now, let’s actually set up another channel. All right. Now, to set up iMessage, and I love using iMessage for like quick stuff, especially when I’m texting. It’s really simple. It’s done through this application called Photon.codes. And all you have to do is sign up, and it’s free to get started. So right here, I’m just going to sign up. And then it wants your phone number.

All right. So once you sign up, you’ll see something like this. Then you need to create a project. And let’s call it Hermes YouTube course. Great. Let’s create a project. And you know, we can use iMessage right here. And then let’s create that. then it’s really really easy to set up. And right here, this is the IN message number we’re going to be texting. But what we need to do, scroll down, read the docs. Okay. Now, I’ll show you why we gave our Hermes the ability to actually control our computer. So, I’m going to go back to my Hermes and right here, I’m just going to paste this docs in and I’m going to say right here, I’m going to go back and I’m going to take this, copy it,

and first I’m going to say, hey, uh, I want you to use these docs to set up my Hermes gateway so I can be messaging it in iMessage. Um, here is my credentials. Can you set this all up? Let me know when it’s done.

And right here, this should be good to go. And then I’m going to hit enter. And then this is the cool part. This one is pretty easy to set up because now with all the different skills that we have already set up for Slack and Telegram, this should very easily be able to set this up for us. And now what I’m going to do is I’m going to go back here. I just want to make sure I scan this code. And what that does is basically enables you to text this number. And I’m just going to say hi after this is done. So I’ll wait for that.

All right. So this is saying done. Photon IME message is configured and the gateway is running. Let me refresh this window right here. And then let me go back. Then let me go to my phone and then message this number. Hi. Awesome. So, it’s responding now all this GPT context, all the stuff. And then it responded hi back. And that’s as easy as that. We just connected iMessage with our Hermes agent. So now we have Hermes agent in a bunch of different places. Okay, with that done, let’s actually start making our Hermes agent better. will give it a personality and making sure that it can actually do real world tasks and have a really robust memory. Okay, let’s get into that. Awesome. So, now that we have our Hermes connected to multiple channels and we can talk it and we can talk to it through our computer and every other channel, what we want to make sure is how we talk to it, it’s actually pleasant and it knows us over time and you know there’s like a general good vibe, right? And the way we do that is through this thing called identity files. Basically, we want Hermes to remember who we are and we want to control how it behaves and we want to make sure it remembers everything, right? So, first off, let’s start with its personality because that’s the easiest to understand. So Hermes’s personality comes through its soul and all that is is just a file that gets loaded in each time it talks to you and it basically tells Hermes, hey, how to speak, what tone to use and its purpose, right? Basically, this is also going to be evolving over time if you ask it. But let me give you a quick example so you can understand. So this is just an example of me talking to my Hermes a while back. So I had my flight and it told me about my flight right here. And just notice this. This is kind of funny. It said airport goblin tax included. I think I said this a while back and I just picked up on it. I don’t know why, but then this is this is kind of funny. And then I wanted to use the lounge in the airport, right? So you can see it just says if you want to maximize your lounge goblin mode, leave her on this. So it’s kind of like kind of fun to talk to, you know, like it tells me and it also remembers stuff about me. And you see how it’s talking in lower caps. It’s just in line giving me some quick links rather than all those chatgpt nonsense. You see where it’s droning on for pages and there’s no useful signal or information. So I’ll show you how to get that and it’s really easy and it’s done through the soul file, right? And I’ll show you where that’s located. So if you open up your Hermes agent on the bottom left right here, you see it says default. If you click the manage profiles, this is the soul. So, you technically don’t have to touch this at all, but this is what the default soul for your Hermes agent is. Right? If you wanted to talk a little differently, what I’d recommend is for you to do this. By the way, this whole board is going to be in the link in the description below in my free community. But uh right here you can see this is the identity files and this is an some interview questions so your Hermes can get to know you. It answers everything. Basically all you need to do is just this. You copy this. Okay. You go back to your Hermes. You can paste it and just say interview me. And you can go back and forth and it will know all of your details. Okay. So that’s number one. That’s the easy way to do it. And this will ensure that your Hermes knows who you are. And you can see there’s a lot of questions and little things about you that I made sure that Hermes should know. And it has very specific questions that you can go to as well. And if you just want to be a little faster, I also gave you my soul.md. And my soul.md basically I just want the point. I wanted to lead with answers. I wanted to actually have opinions and use evidence to support it. This is a soul that I found really good. And you know, I like how it sounds like this. So, if you really want the easier way, if you just want to use how I like talking to Hermes, you can just go here. You can manage profile. And a profile is just one Hermes personality and bot. And it has all the connections. And we’ll get into profiles in a little bit. But if you just paste these here and then you save your soul.md then your Hermes should act a little differently a bit better than how you really talk to it. Okay. All right. So that’s the first thing I wanted to cover and that is the soul of the Hermes and then I want to take you through how the user MD works and the user MD is basically an identity tag. So this is a file where Hermes writes all this stuff about you. All right? And that’s why I told you to answer all these questions and put it into Hermes. All you need to do is answer all these questions. You put it inside Hermes and just say remember all the stuff and then your Hermes basically just remembers you across days and weeks and it’s not just a generic chatbot, right? And it feels more like working with an assistant and I really enjoy doing that. So the easiest way again is just to make the agent interview you. And if you can start from blank, it becomes really easy to use. All right, so just answer all those questions, dump it in, and you should be good to go. But after that’s done, let’s get to the fun part because now I want to show you what the memory is like and different options of memories you can use for your Hermes such that it’s actually intelligent over time. So this part is super important. All right. So let me tell you why this is actually not a very simple problem. Because once you understand this, you can see why what we’re doing matters so much and why Hermes is so impactful with the right setup that I’m going to show you, right? Because most people think memory is simple. It’s just that the assistant should remember what you said and bring it up later. That’s the basic version. Like if I tell an assistant I’m working on Hermes course, it should remember that in a later or in the same conversation or in some other random conversation, right? This is just a low table stakes. Most memory products, even the in-built Hermes memory can do that and it’s built into everything like cloud code, codecs, everything. But real agentic memory is harder than that. And let me describe why. The first problem is single session memory. So imagine there’s a long conversation you’re having and the assistant has to remember what the user said earlier. So if I say in the conversation, keep this direct, no fluff, and then we talk for let’s say 40 more minutes, the assistant should still follow that preference, right? It has to also remember what the assistant did. If the assistant created the file, made a plan, or promised to follow up on something, it should not lose track of its own work. The second problem is knowledge updates. And this is where memory starts getting a little tricky. Let’s say I ask the assistant about my job. It should not talk about the job that I had before in the past. It should know that my life has changed. Same with preferences. Maybe last month I liked long explanations. Now I keep saying give me direct scripts. Good memory should update and it should not treat old facts equally as true as new facts. And the third problem is multi-session memory. So this is where useful information is spread across different conversations. So if I’m having a conversation in Telegram, Slack, maybe let’s say I planned the Hermes course in one chat, created a visuals in another one, and then debug the setup in cloud code later, right? A good memory system has to connect all those different moving pieces together. Otherwise, every new session feels like I’m starting over from scratch. The fourth problem is temporal reasoning. And this is the hardest one. The assistant needs to understand time. What happened last year? What happened yesterday? And then what’s changed in between them, right? For example, if I ate a lot of ice cream last summer and then later I started disliking ice cream for some odd reason and now maybe I like sundaes again. The assistant has to know which preference matters. Right now it can’t remember the fact as permanent truth, right? It has to understand that preferences change over time. That is what real memory means. Not just what did the user say, but when did they say it? Is it still true? Does a new fact replace this? All of this. And should this affect the answer right now? And this is why memory is such a hard problem to crack because for agents, memory is not a nice extra feature. Memory is what lets the agent stop acting like a new intern every time you open the chat. And that is the problem we’re going to be solving with Hermes plus Honcho. So let me show you why that’s so impactful. And Honcho is one of the fastest growing open source projects that currently exist and for good reason. And I’ll show you why. So first of all, Honcho helps us solve the cold start problem. So let’s say you start a new chat. Normally it’ll forget who you are and there’s no working relationship. So you don’t if you have Honcho installed, you become the memory router, which means you don’t have to do anything with memory. Doesn’t matter which chat you’re on, it will always have context and you can start up new sessions where normally these agents work much much better. All right, so the continuity for your agents becomes really good and you can just have incredibly long conversations with your agents. And the second one, I love this one. Basically, how we’re going to be using Honcho. So with this diagram, Honcho is going to be one shared brain. And it doesn’t matter if we’re using cloud code, codeex, o open code, Hermes, openclaw, it doesn’t matter. It all we’re going to put everything in one shared brain, making that bigger and bigger over time. So whatever tool is best for the job, we can use that. All right. And then one really cool thing Honcho has is this concept of diiacronic identity. And what that means really is that Honcho creates peer cards for everyone in your life, whoever you’re talking to or even your AI agents. What does that mean? Right? So that just means imagine there’s you and then there is let’s say your manager, right? And then there’s like a coworker and then let’s call him Bob. Okay, so let’s say Bob is non-technical and he can’t code. So you probably think Bob can’t code. Okay, and your manager probably thinks of you as let’s say hardworking. And these are all different relationships, right? Your manager also thinks something of Bob. What diiacronic identity really does is helps honcho know all of this stuff based on whatever you’re telling your honcho or in your agent messages. It will glean from this context and save it, right? And let me show you an example. So this is my honcho and you can see I have a lot of different sessions. I use this a lot because I love it so much. But uh it creates like different peer cards for me. And then you can see they have a lot of little things I can search for. So the these are peers. So for example, peers can be different co-workers, whatnot. There’s a lot that keeps going, but Honcho basically ingests all your conversations from everything. So let’s say you’re using Cloud Code, Codeex, Hermes, it all passes through Honcho. So it gets access to all your messages, right? From that it does the output and the output is always much better. So it’s going to be storing and because it’s going to be storing it and processing it, it makes it really easy for your agents to have one working brain, right? So, here’s a couple different examples that you can see of how it helps, but I don’t want to get too deep into this, but essentially, you can see how it uses little context clues and like ties things back and forth between different conversations, right? And it does that through this thing because it’s dreaming. And this is one of the most important parts about honcho. Like, for example, let’s say you learn a lot of information in one day. you’re probably going to go to bed and then you’re going to reason over it in your head over time and really internalize those things. Honcho kind of has that same things where it takes all those raw chats and then creates it into useful memory because it reasons and it does that through this thing called neurommancer. It’s basically just a fine-tuned model and you can use any AI model to do the reasoning but basically you’re parsing all the AI messages or whatever you’re doing with your AI through a model and which means all the knowledge updates are happening all the logical implications your agent is drawing all of that any contradictions any peer card so if I’m talking to 10 different people I’ll make 10 different peer cards and know my relationship with all of them and act accordingly. Right? And this is the most important part. The reason why I’m showing you this is this. This is the reason why we use Hermes agent plus Honcho as an AI employee and why it works 10 times better than Claude and Codeex alone. Okay? They’re meant to work together and I’ll show you how easy it is to set it up. But just a quick word of caution. Honcho is dangerous. The reason it’s dangerous is because if you give it a lot of power, it has a lot. You have to be responsible with it, right? So imagine giving all your details to one memory system from everywhere. It’s really good. It’s really useful, but on the wrong hands, it’s problematic. But the nice part is that, you know, it is open source. And because it’s open source, you can self-host this thing in your Mac, Mini or wherever you want, right? And which means nobody has access to it but you. And you get a really good working system that’s private. Okay. So, with that being said, let me show you how to set this up because it’s so simple. And all you need to do to set it up is it actually comes prepackaged with your Hermes agent, which is really cool. So, what you want to do is first you go into your settings. Then you go to memory and context. And right here where you see memory provider, you want to make sure you choose Honcho, right? And then you’ll see this thing right here. Connect via OOTH. You want to connect via OOTH. Make sure you make a Honcho account. And then let’s say I’m going to put my name and then authorize and write. And then that’s it. I’m connected. Awesome. It’s that easy to use. and your Hermes agent just became a hell of a lot better. Okay, so with that being done and hopefully you understand all the memory and whatnot, let’s move on to making this Hermes agent way more powerful. All right, so now that our Hermes has memory, the next big question is management. So, if one agent can remember things and take actions, how do we manage multiple agents and our team without losing track of what we’re trying to do and the goals we’re trying to accomplish, right? And this is what that section is about. It’s to set up our AI workforce so that we have visibility and control. And how we’re going to be doing this is fundamentally humans, we like to work in a collaborative chat. So something like Slack. So you can see right here, me and my team, we talk with our Hermes just like it’s a person. But that’s not enough. What we need to do is like how actual big organizations work is through a project board so we can keep track of everything, right? And think about like a normal team. Everyone works in private DMs and people honestly just do not want to update their boards or whatever ticket they’re working on, right? If the work was on a board, it’s very easy to manage. And we’re going to be using this service called Multica that’s free and we can get our AI agents to do all the updates for us. And our team and agents can work from one place. All right. And I’ll show you an example of mine. And this is my Multic board that I’ll show you how to set up. And right now, we’re in this runtime section. And all runtimes means is everything that I subscribe to. So stuff like Claude, my codeex, my Hermes agent, my openclaw, all these I can manage from one place, right? And I can also see where they’re running. If they’re locally running on my MacBook or my Mac Mini, whatever computer you have or even your team’s computer, right? And the nice part is my team is in here as well. So you can see me and Danny are on this and we’re working with our agents in one board. And the cool part is now it’s managed in different projects. So I can see there’s some projects that we’ve been working on and that are in progress that Hermes is leading. I gave Hermes its own squad. So it is my chief of staff that’s using my codeex and my claw to get work done. And we can see all the issues it’s been working on over time. So for example, let’s open this one up. You can see I can add some comments here and there and then what’s happening is it’s learning this skill that I really liked and I can track whatever is happening and I can even leave a comment here if I want to and in that way how I’m working with my agents I’m really really organized right so you can also have different workspaces for your life so for example this is a personal one I also have one for my cloud club and we have a lot of different ways to organize how we’re working with agents, but the nice part is that we don’t technically have to use this if we want. This is just to make sure we have observability into our agents, what they’re doing, and making sure we don’t lose track of millions of different threads if we’re working on them at the same time, right? And I’ll show you how to set this up. And it’s really simple. All right? And to set this up, the one concept you need to understand is the concept of hooks. And what a hook really is, it’s basically an automatic trigger. So when Hermes does something like every time you send it a message or it starts work, updates or finishes a whole segment, the hook will basically automatically always fire and it’s deterministic. So it is 100% of the time will happen and it won’t hallucinate. Right? So what we’re going to do because with the concept of hooks we can get Hermes to do something each and every time after it finishes the message. We’re going to set up two hooks. And one hook is we’re going to set up for our honcho which is already has been done. And what this is doing is every time we send Hermes a message and it finishes, it’s automatically going to load our memory. And the other hook we’re going to place in Malta. So let’s say we ask it to make something what it’s going to do because of the hook it will always update the board or make a new issue or update the project and in that way your board is always going to be managed by Hermes and you just have to look at the board and you can see reply everything which means you have an agentic project manager from scratch. So now with that being said let me show you how to set it up. All right to set this up the first thing we’re going to do is go to multica.ai. Then let’s get started. By the way, this is also free and open source so you can self-host it. So if you’re curious on how to do that, here’s the code right here in GitHub. But all you need to do is get started and then let’s log in. Okay. So I’ll log in with Google in a brand new fresh account and you can download on the desktop or just continue on the web. Okay. Then what you want to do is ideally download it to your computer. Okay. So you download it and then you open it up. So I downloaded Multika in my computer. Now I’m going to open it up and you can see it automatically knows that I have a couple different things on my MacBook. So remember at the very start we downloaded Codeex and Hermes. So we have all of those, right? So I’m going to pick Hermes and then I’m going to start exploring, right? And then you can just make sure your Multa can start doing stuff. And I just picked the last one and your MultiA helper is doing this. So what happened now, right? Let me make this bigger.

So, what happened now is in my runtimes, you can see my all my agents are here, right? And this is my MacBook Pro that I’m filming on right now. And then here is all the workspaces. So, we’re working on Hermes course right now. And you can see inside issues, it’s building the stuff. It’s building the slideshow for me so I can learn multicol. And you can see there’s no project yet. So let’s create our first project. And when we’re going to be doing our builds later, everything is going to be a project. So let’s say test project. Great. So you can see in your inbox whenever it has an update for you, you can look at it and you can leave any comments that you need to. Okay, so first thing what we want to do is I’m in runtimes and we want to make sure our Hermes agent is our project manager and is like our AI chief of staff, right? And the way you set that up and I’ll show you the easiest way. If you want to go to settings and then you’re going to go to API tokens and let’s create a new token. Let’s call it project manager.

And then right here I’m going to copy this. And then I’m going to go back to my Hermes chat, right? I’m going to enter this. I’m going to say multic API key and like, hey, I want to set set it up such that you are my AI project manager and my chief of staff, right? And to do that, what I want you to do is set a hook such that every time I ask you to do something, you update our Multic project board with and create an issue for what I’m trying to do. If it pertain pertains to be a new project, I want you to make that. But essentially, you are the project manager and everything I say to you should be tracked inside the multicole board and use this API key. set all that stuff in motion such that we can see a test issue and I want you to create a test thing that you have created and I want to see it moved across the board to done. All right, I want to communicate with you through multico as well. So remember you are my AI product more organized way. All right, so I gave it my key and I just told it what I’m looking for. So after this is done, I’ll come back and you will see right here ideally in issues, we’ll have a new issue that is going to be dragging across and we can interact with it. All right. And remember this is one big part is I already told it to set a hook right here. I s told it to set a hook and that’s why I wanted to teach you that concept so that it does it every time. All right. All right. So once this is done, I’ll come back and I’ll show you what’s going on. All right. So this got done. It did a bunch of stuff and you can see it created a multi project management skill without me having to ask and it’s saying it moved a bunch of projects. So let me go to Malta and then check that out. Right. So in Maltica you can see there’s a bunch of stuff in my inbox which means if we go to projects. Ah there we go. That’s awesome. Hermes AI project manager chief of staff. So it made this project on its own and then you can see all these tasks are in done. So first it started with those tests and I can see everything very organized. Okay. So now we know that our Hermes is always going to use Maltica. And just to verify this is just for fun. What I did I asked it hey just answer me yes or no. If I ask you to create a website will you create a multa issue first? I can track from there because there’s a hook set without having me to say save this to multico or anything. And it just said yes. Basically, it knows that it needs to always use the board to work with, right? Great. So, now you can see we have a bunch of our agents in Multicom and all of this is hosted on our laptops. So, even if you have a VPS somewhere or any other computer, you can see different computers and what agents are on those and you can control any of them from anywhere with this tool. All right. Okay. So now now let’s say in our Hermes we have a bunch of things we can do right Hermes is super powerful but let’s say there are different bots or sessions we want to make sure we are protected let’s say we can have one customer service bot another is a chief of staff another is responsible for development and we want our multica to control all of those right so it’s very simple to set that up and let me show you how Okay. And to understand that, what I want to show you first is this concept of profiles. And the concept of profiles is basically how we’re going to be taking one Hermes desktop setup and turn it into different AI employees. So instead of mixing our personal work and our business work and our client work, we’re going to set up different profiles and each will get its own role model, memory, skills, and tool access. And for example, I can have one personal agent and one for my business ops. If I have 10 business, I can have 10 more. And one for even each client if you want, right? And each one will have their own soul, own model, own connectors, everything. If you want, you can clone them. It’s really easy. But let me show you how to set this up. All right. So, setting up a new profile is really easy. On the bottom left right here, you see you already have one profile. Uh, if I hit manage profiles, I already have one profile. And I can hit a new profile by calling it, let’s say, personal. Okay. And you can clone from your default. It’ll have all the stuff that you’re already doing or none. So I’m going to choose none just to show you how it works. So now I have a personal profile. You see, right? Okay. And then what you want to do is reload. Okay. So after you reload, then you’ll see there is my default profile and my personal profile. And it’s now waking up personal. And now all there’s new chats, all the new different skills, everything, right? So you can set this up as a completely new Hermes agent from scratch. So right here, let’s go look at it. So you can see you can have your personality and let’s call make this like a I don’t know, let’s make this catgirl for fun. And um let’s see what model is it using. So see, you want to select the model first, which is very important. So let’s if we want let’s say to use our gro API that you can use or our open AI API you can do that but let’s choose codeex and then I’m going to choose 5.5 and this one I’m just going to want it to be really fast so I want it to be low and I’ll apply there. So this one will be snappy right this will be my snappy model. Cool. Okay. So, now that I have that set up, what I’m going to do is right here, I’m going to go back to my multicol in my runtimes. What I can do is again, you go to settings. You can get a API token. I would say make a new one for your personal agent. Personal Hermes agent. And then let’s create that API key. Copy this. And then let’s go back to Hermes. And then here, this is your API key for Maltica. Go do research and onboard yourself onto Malta so I can see you in the runtimes or the agents. Uh and and let me get this done and then I’ll come back. All right. So, this just got done and it’s just saying it’s good. And if I go back in my runtimes, you can see this. All right. This is the default profile and this is the personal profile. Cool. So now we have two agents inside our multica and we know which one’s what, right? We have this one as well. Okay. Now what I’m going to show you is this concept of squads. So let’s say you can always have different models for each different Hermes profile. And if you go into squads right here, you can just create a new squad. Let’s say team club. And you have to select a leader, right? So you can either choose your default or your Hermes. Let’s say chief of staff. And you can have people that it can work with. So let’s say you can assign stuff to me. I can assign stuff to Ed. And then the personal profile is another employee as well. Okay. And that’s really cool. Now you can see there’s three members in the squad and this is the leader. And what that means is basically Hermes chief of staff can assign things to me or the personal profile, right? And if you want to see what happens is if I just hood this agent detail, you can see you can put instructions of when to use what, right? Like when to use each model. And I’ll show you an example of what I use, right? Okay. So, I’m in my personal multicolor now. And I’ll show you this. This is my SAM squad. And this helps me do stuff. And Hermes is my leader because it’s the chief of staff. It remembers all my context. And you can see it uses codeex and claude. So I have both these subscriptions. So whenever each whenever which whichever one’s better, I just get it to use that. So for example, Claude is significantly better at design. So you can see planning, product design, high reasoning. Codex I found to be much better at coding. So if I go to these instructions, you can see it’s better for implementing cloud’s plans and all its jobs. Right? The thing is I didn’t write any of this. You could just go to back to Hermes and then say, hey, set up my team, set up my squad such that I have XYZ and I’m using different models for different things. And in that way, you can set up a squad, right? And a cool part about squad is that they also you can give them their own things like you can each thing can have their own skills and their own environment variables. So for example, my codeex has a bunch of skills. So you can see there’s a lot of skills that my codeex has and a lot of them are like these YouTube skills. For example, whenever I want my Hermes to do something, it can call my codeex if it’s the best model for the job and I don’t have to worry about that, right? It takes care of all this research. So, that’s one concept we’re going to be diving into in a bit. We’ll get be getting a lot more into this later. This is quite an advanced topic, but for now, just understand that this is my chief of staff. This is my Hermes, and it can control my codeex or cloud code. whatever subscriptions I have. Again, this is not necessary for most people, but with this setup, it keeps me very organized and very flexible. And to show you an example, what I did, I just told my Malta to go ahead and create tasks for my life and business so I can show how you can manage something. And you can see there’s there’s two workspaces now, right? There’s Hermes course. Imagine this is business. And then there’s personal, right? In my Hermes course, you can see there’s business follow-ups, things you may have to outreach and then keep track of and there’s also, let’s say, a demo of YouTube pipeline. So, this is like things I have to do, create my multi talking points, etc. And then very, I can stay organized because I can also see my life projects that I have in my personal life, right? So whenever I have errands, home maintenance, I can see for example, go inside, I can see, oh, I need a to order vacuum replacement parts, create summer home maintenance, all of these little things. You can stay organized very well with the setup. So this is basically how we keep our AI workforce and our AI agents all organized and we can see and interact with it as people, right? Because remember, you can always just assign it. You can just come here and chat with your AI agents really easily. all all of these. Right? So now that we have our structure set up and we have a good foundation on top of which we can build a lot of projects on, let’s actually get into building things that are useful for us longterm. Okay. Now, if you want to build things that are actually robust, we need to understand the building blocks first. And Hermes is not magic and it can’t access external applications like Gmail or Google Slides and build automations without you giving it the right access first. Right? So we need a way to control external apps and use their functionality. And this usually happens through a connector and these connectors can be referred to as either an MCP, it can be a CLI or it can be an API. All these terms mean is just different ways to communicate with external applications and use the app’s functionality. And if you want to make sure you have the right foundation in my clot club, actually I have this guide where I tell everyone to go over as pre-work. And honestly, once you go over this, you can see like for example APIs, we have a little picture, a little um game interaction. And these help non-technical newer people become really good experts into using this type of technology because it just breaks it down with stories, analogies really easily, right? But as an overview, I’ll show you how to use each and every one of these. And let’s start with MCPS. Okay? And for MCPS, the easiest way I can explain it is we’re going to I’m going to show you how to use this thing called Composeio. And Composio is basically what it says. Your agent decides what to do and then they handle the rest. So what you want to do and the nice part is this is also free. You after you sign into your account what Composeio really is is let’s say your Hermes agent right here. It needs to access let’s say your Google calendar, your Gmail and all these different apps, right? So Composio serves as the gateway that it accesses all these different applications. Okay? And you can see it makes it really easy to authenticate because that’s normally where the hard part is. And you can see they have like hundreds and hundreds of apps, right? So what you want to do if you want to authenticate with your Composio is let’s say you go in here. Let’s say I’m going to uh Composeio for you on the top. And then right here, let’s say I want to connect. I’m already connected to my Gmail. But what I can do is let’s say I want to add linear. All you do is hit connect. And in one click you can you can sign into all your applications really easily. Right? So right now uh I will show you something really easy. And let’s say we want our Hermes agent to control our calendar. So you can see Google calendar is right here and there’s like a I don’t know hundreds and hundreds of more other stuff. But make sure I connect my Google calendar. And then I will go back to my Hermes. And then let me go to my right profile and have a new session. Then I’m going to say, hey, I’m trying to connect to Composio MCP with OOTH. I already have a lot of my stuff connected. Can you give me the link so I can authenticate and you can set up Composio MCP for me? And this basically helps you install Composio. So what we’re doing right now with this thing is we’re giving Hermes access to Composio. Okay. And through that we can connect to hundreds of different apps really easily and we can manage it all from one place. So here’s all the apps. You can manage your I don’t know Slack, your HubSpot, your Twitter. Now that’s actually kind of cool from all one place. So let me get this done and then I’ll come back once this is good. Okay. So, it just opened up this thing and I guess I just have to click allow access. Authorization successful. Let me go back to my Hermes and uh let it keep working. Cool. So, this is now available. And just to verify, if you go to settings and then go to MCP, you can see Composio right here. Now, I can do cool stuff. So, I can ask it to be like, “Hey, what’s my uh what do I have for tomorrow in my calendar?” Awesome. So, it picked up everything on my calendar. And that’s cool. Now, it can access my calendar and I can get it to move stuff around, make appointments for me, everything through any channel, even from my phone. Awesome. So, that’s the basics of MCP. Okay. Now, let me show you a really useful CLI that is super useful, right? Okay. And the CLI I want you to know about is this thing called Google Workspace CLI. Okay? And Google Workspace CLI is fantastic because it lets us use Google Drive, all our Google chat. It lets me use Google Drive, Google Slides, Google Docs, make all those changes with my Hermes agent, and it has a lot more functionality to it, right? And it’s a lot easier to use. So this is uh GitHub and I’ll have this link down below as well. And GitHub is basically if you’re curious where everyone stores their code and a lot of different CLIs, MCPs will be stored in GitHub, right? So all you would need to do is take the link for this, go back to Hermes and then say, “Hey, can you help me install the Google Workspace CLI?” And it’ll help you do that. All right. So you just go through the steps and then you’ll be good to go. All right. So now that you have Hermes connected to Composio which connects to any other app, I want to teach you about this concept of cron jobs, right? And this is basically how to get your AI agents to do work for you autonomously, right? And here’s a quick little examples we can go through so you can understand what we can do now. Right? So since we can connect our applications to our Hermes and we can ask it to do things, we can make really easy autopilots by saying let’s say we want to update our clients every Friday, right? We can always pull the report from Slack Drive, Google Docs, our project boards, generate a weekly report and automatically send it to them. You saw we connected our Hermes to Slack, how we did that. And you can just connect it to whatever apps you need. So you can make a Google Drive and send it to them. So we’ll be building these in a little bit. I’m just getting you to understand the idea. You can also get your agent to just search for your niche, new content things that are coming up so it can find trends in your niche and give you content ideas every day. This is how I stay up to date and I’ll show you how I made mine and it’s really cool. Other things people I’ve seen use it for is also just competitor monitoring. So every day you can just get Hermes to scrape your competitors and monitor their prices. Any pricing changes, you can change it every day, every hour and just alert you and make changes on your behalf, right? And this one I’ve seen a lot of people get a lot of value from, which is basically just a invoice payment checker. So basically you can connect it to your Stripe or your QuickBooks and then if there are any unpaid invoices then you just draft follow-ups and get Hermes to send it over them. Right? And this is done through this thing called cron jobs. So this is really simple. Let me show you how to set one up. All right. So the first thing I want to teach you to build is basically a morning briefing. And you know, this really helps because it really sets you up for your day and you can be clear on the things you’re going to be doing. And here’s the reason why. Because let’s say overnight or if you miss something, a lot of things happen. Let’s say you get flooded with emails overnight your team works. Essentially, you want from all your context, whether it be Gmail or Slack or any changes in your client that people ask or people having conversations in Slack, you want to or even just like things happening in the news, right? If you wake up and you have a short summary of, hey, all of this stuff happened and this is what you choose action, then it works really, really well to essentially keep you up to date. Teach you a cool hack as well. And the hack is basically this. So, every night we basically will get Hermes to ask, “What’s our biggest tree tomorrow?” And honestly, if you can just get in the habit of doing this over and over, you’ll see you’ll make tons of progress on your goal. And this is super simple, but I’ll show you how to supercharge it, right? And it’s so easy to do. So, for this one, I’m actually just going to be opening up Telegram because I want to be receiving, you know, Telegram messages. And it’s really simple. I’m just going to open up Telegram, and I’m just going to speak to Hermes. Hey, every morning at 8:00 a.m., create a morning briefing for me. Use my calendar to show me what meetings I have coming up. Maybe do some research on what I should be saying. Use my Gmail to find any urgent or important emails from the last 24 hours. And make sure you make a draft and send me links so I can look at it. Give me a brief overview of what my team is talking about in Slack. and if I need to do anything. Keep the whole briefing short and practical. Include today’s schedule, urgent emails, any important docs, any follow-up tasks, and anything I should prepare before meetings. Send it to me here. If there’s nothing important, keep it short. And what I want you to also do is use Twitter to go find out what are the trending topics in AI that I can be talking about for my channel. Let’s learn learn this over as we go. What I want you to do right now is send me an example morning briefing and set the crown jobs. Okay,

awesome. So, and it’s going to be working right now. So, after this spits out it its response, I’ll show you what this looks like inside the desktop and inside Telegram. Okay, so this just got done. So, this is the morning briefing for Wednesday, July 1st. And you can see it has a couple of my things in my calendar, some of my emails. Um, I told it also to, you know, scrub out and make some fake emails just because I don’t want to show everyone my email. So, I said make some stuff from Bill Gates and Sam Alman, etc. But you can see Slack overview. It reads my composio. It tells me all the stuff, trending topics. It did really well. Um, Sonnet 5 just got released and some other cool stuff that’s like cloud science that was literally released like today. So, it did pretty good research and you can see, oh, this is kind of cool. Multica and Hermes setup. So, all of this is live right now. So if I want to show you right now, you can see for Hermes agent, what you can do is if I go back to the Hermes app, you can see in the bottom left there’s a cron job and this is the morning briefing. So this is the thing we’re running and you can see it’s going to run every day at what time, right? And this is kind of cool as well. If I open up Multicom, if I go to my project, you can see there’s a daily briefing autopilot and that is basically the thing that was just created. And also there’s an autopilot. So autopilot and cron jobs is the same thing. Um you can see the next run is at July 1st, 8 a.m. And this is the daily briefing that’s going to keep running. And we have one place to manage all our cron jobs. and I’ll show you what we can do next. All right. So, let’s say you go back and forth with this and then you’re you’re happy with what this morning briefing looks like. Normally, it’s not that you’re always going to get it good in the first go. You’re probably going to be like, “Oh, change this language and u maybe I don’t need this detail or that detail.” So, make sure you massage it just by talking to it. And then now, let’s say it is massaged. What we want to do is learn this concept of making a skill out of what we’re doing in our cron jobs, right? So, hey, can you make this into a skill? And the fact that we’re making these morning daily briefings and this skill I want you to also put in multi so I can see that. All right. So while this works, what I want to show you and tell you the concept of is skills. So skills like we just saw, it can do anything that you’re doing with your AI agents, whether it be research, writing, making a video, and or doing things step by step. Basically, if you have a playbook of one thing you like, so you can see how the research might be different every day, but it’s still the same format that you want the output, right? It’s basically the package and the playbook is called a skill. So what we want to do is whenever we know there’s a process that we like and we want our Hermes to keep doing it, we want to turn it into a skill because it makes it really easy that we can even share with others and on our team. Okay, basically now we have our Hermes agent and our Hermes agent can essentially connect to other apps like let’s say our Google uh Google or our Slack and now it can actually you know it runs a job every day and is sending us messages right all of this is a lot of work so it’s doing all the research writing and this is what we call an agentic workflow right so agentic workflows are basically just a very simple loop. It’s not one prompt. It’s a cycle of different things happening. And aentic workflow is that’s why they call this thing in multica autopilot is what I realized. Um I’m not the biggest fan of this name, but essentially you can see these active autopilots. These are the agentic workflows that we have and we know that are going to keep running without us having to say anything. Right? Basically Hermes is doing all the research. It’s curating. It’s creating, it’s doing some review and it’s, you know, giving it to us. That is basically what an agentic workflow is. And this is probably one of the most important concepts you can be learning on how can I take something that I find useful or that will save me time and how can I get my agent to keep doing that without me having to ask and it getting better on its own. Right? And it fundamentally comes down to the concept of building out a lot of different agentic workflows. So your work is handled by itself. And if you can get creative with other agentic workflows, I’ve actually made a little list right here of all different other use cases you can do just by talking to it. But essentially, it becomes your executive assistant. So for example, this last one I told you, it becomes like your exe executive assistant loop or maybe at night it asks you, hey, is there any coding project or something you want me to work on overnight? And you know, it will spend the night doing things while AI tokens are potentially a little cheaper. The models are more available and you can just do large goals that I’m going to be showing you later. Right? These are all different use cases you can use your Hermes agent to do and they’re all forms of different agentic workflows. It’s I just showed you one, but it’s literally all the same where first what you need is you need an agent like Hermes and then you connect it to the necessary apps like let’s say Google Chrome or Slack or whatever. And then what you do is you make sure you massage it to a point where it’s good. And then you set it into a loop and then you make that into a skill. So that’s a package. Then that means you can share it with anyone that you want. And I’ll show you how to do that in a bit. And just to show you something more important. You can see in Hermes desktop, you have access to all your different skills. All these are different skills that you can use. And Hermes comes pre-built with a lot of them. All right? And this is how we make our agents better. And having more skills isn’t a problem because how it looks for skills is there’s an index. So it’s actually very efficient to have a lot of skills. So don’t worry about having a lot of skills. You’ll be fine. But you can see Hermes is so good out of the box because they already prepackage a lot of useful skills for you. So you can very simply use Hermes out of the box and you get a lot better experience, right? And you can see all the skills, cron jobs, all these tools, the tool sets are all pre-built in like I can search my X without having to configure anything, etc. And now if I go back to my Maltica and if I go to skills, you’ll also see that morning briefing skill is over here, right? So everything that we’re doing with our Hermes is saved in two places. And the nice part about uh this multico thing is you can use this on your desktop in the web browser and it becomes really easy to use, right? Okay, so that’s what I wanted to teach you about skills and we’re going to be diving a lot deeper into Agentic Workflows and building out things that are super useful. So let’s get into build number two. All right, so for build two, we’re going to be creating an animated website. And this is where things get a bit more advanced because we’re going to be doing this with one command, right? And we don’t want to build just any random AI slopping page. We want to make sure we have stuff like moving sections, animated backgrounds, graphics, photos, videos, and a lot of small details that look polished. So instead of oneshotting with a normal prompt, I’m going to be showing you how to use this thing, and it’s called slashgoal. Okay? And goal basically gives the agent an outcome and makes a loop until the job is done. So the goal is not just make me a website. The goal is make a beautiful animated Hermes website that explains the offer, creates the visual, has a strong copy, all of this stuff, right? The agent is going to build it, check the results itself, fix what missing, and keep going. So it’s going to keep doing it over and over. It also needs to do other things. And like for example, it needs to make photos. It needs to see how the photos look. It needs to insert them. It needs to make videos, insert the videos. There’s a lot of little things we’re going to be doing, right? Uh I want to make sure you understand the reason we’re using the slash goal here is because there’s a lot of things that goes into this and we’re going to be building, reviewing, fixing, and repeating. But we don’t have to do any of that. We’re going to get Hermes to check its own work and then make sure it gives us the end result that is ideally really, really good. Right? Okay. So first of all, what we need to do is we need to find a way to let’s say generate photos and images and all that stuff. How do we do that? Well, we do that with this thing called Hicksfield AI. And if you sign up to Hickfield AI, we can and if you go to this thing called MCP and CLI, right, we can give this to our Hermes agent. So right here, I’m just going to click Hermes. And right here, you can see npm/install all the stuff. And then all I’m going to do is imagine I don’t want to do any of the stuff. I’m going to go to my Hermes agent and I’m going to say, “Hey, can you install this Hicksfield CLI and help me authenticate it with OOTH?” Okay, so I’ll let this load. And then what we’re doing right now is basically we have our Hermes, right? And then we’re connecting it to Higsfield. Uh both start with H, but um we’ll live with it. So Higfield will basically give us the ability to create a lot of photos, images, websites, deploy it even all these different things, right? And I think it’s a fantastic uh skill. So we can also install the skill as well. And it’ll automatically install the skill like this. But if it doesn’t, what you can do is just go here and then boom, give it that and it should take care of it. All right. So, let see how long it takes and what how I need to Oh, oh, there we go. It just opened it up and all I need to do is hit allow and our device is authorized and we should be able to use Hicksfield and Hermes together. Great. Okay, so now we should have our Hicksfield authenticated. Now, what we need to do is we need to add two more skills to make sure this works really well. All right. And the two other skills what we’re going to need is number one, we’re going to need firecrawl. And we’re going to need firecrawl for a bunch of different use cases. So firecrawl and what we’re going to do with firecrawl is make sure we can scrape our site, we can monitor it, and we can go to other websites that may be competitors and get a lot of inspiration. Right. And installing it is also really easy. You go right here and also the links are going to be in the description below. I’m going to copy this thing and then I’m going to go back to Hermes. I’m going to say, “Hey, can you install Firecrawl?” And the other thing I want you to install is this thing called here.now. Also links in the description. All you have to do is copy the setup, right, and paste it in here and say install this. And to go back to Miro, what here now helps us do is deploy. So let’s say after we make the websites, we need to host our videos and photos somewhere, right? It needs to live somewhere. That is going to happen in here. now and it’s going to be easy for you to deploy any app, website, whatever you can think of in here now. And it’s the best thing because it’s literally free instant web hosting, right? It’s the best thing I found and I highly recommend you use it. And actually, I’ll show you a cool little use case that I use here. Now for so for example, I use here now for a lot of different things. So right here in my trading, I’ll show you. So you can see in my trading bot, it was telling me it did all of this stuff. Right now I make it whenever it wants to respond to me. I don’t want to look at this stuff. I want to look at a nice dashboard. So I make it make me a here now dashboard each time. And I can always see what’s going on. So you can see right now it has a overall 33% return and this is what its portfolio is like. And this makes it so easy that when I’m on my phone and I’m on the go and I’m using Telegram to talk to my agent, I can just open this up and I can see these dashboards and sites right in front of me and I don’t have to be on a computer to do all of this stuff right here. Now is a fantastic app. So I highly recommend you use it. Awesome. So now we should have all of this stuff authenticated. So remember what we just did. If I go back to my mirrorboard. So remember, we just installed a couple skills and MCPS right now. One of them was Firecrawl. Another one of them was here. Now, another one of them was Hicksfield. Right? So with all these three, we’re going to be now using a /go command. So Hermes can oneshot a website for us. Right? So let me go back to Hermes. Actually, let me make this a little nicer. So, imagine you’re on the go and you want your bot to make this website, right? So, let’s just up the stakes a little bit. So, I’m going to say right here. So, I’m going to slash with slash goal and then you can see set a standing goal Hermes works on across turns until achieved. All right. So, we’re going to make a goal right now. And then I’m going to give it a prompt. Okay. So, I want you to build me a website. And to build this website, what I want you to do is make it an animated website. So, it should have an animated background, maybe some really good motion in the front. And the offer for the website is simple. Basically, let’s say we’re going to be building Hermes agents as 24/7 AI employees for people focused on building content and lead genen systems, right? So let’s say it can create stuff like Instagram carousels, reals, YouTube videos, clips, ads, those kind of things, and even scrape what competitors are working for using fire crawl. So the site needs to feel premium, animated, maybe make it black and white like notion and how the go find the Hermes logo and then use that and put that everywhere. And uh the call to action is just to book a call. All right, so build me that website, please. And then after you build that website, what I want you to do is give me that link, the here now deployed link inside here so I can check.

Awesome. So I’m going to let this go.

Okay. So it says goal set 20 turn budget. I want you to build me a website. And it got its thing. And you can see because it’s typing, it’s going to be working right now. All right. So, it just told me it’s done. It created the full Hermes works workforce website. Deployed it here. Uh built it as a premium animated landing page. All the stuff for visual direction. I made it feel very clean, clean, modern. Here is the flow. Uh it told me all it did make thing uh is premium. Okay, let’s look at it. So, okay, this looks really cool. Wow. You see how it did this in one shot. There are it’s basically an animated background. It was saying how in the response how it made the content with Higsfield and also used Firecrawl to scrape things and is now hosting this in here. Now, so it’s really cool. You can see it made this little graphic. It’s like moving Hermes hired shipped these your brand’s content on autopilot. It even wrote the copy. I didn’t do any of the stuff, right? Uh, hire Hermes as a content employee. It writes, design, films, clips, you post so you get more leads while your team stays focused. Okay, this is really cool. One employee, the whole content stack. So, we’re going to be building this as well as we go. Oh, look at this. It’s like moving a little bit as we go. It generate these other images. So, it’s like clipping your videos. It writes and build ads that are ready to run. Okay, this is awesome. An extra employee on your team works with your team, not around it, because it has the Slack, keeps everyone in check, runs 24/7. Okay, this is really cool. And you can see the book a call, book a call buttons everywhere. And it can see the content agent, operations agent, ad creative. Wow, it did a much better job than I thought, honestly. Uh, on the first go, Hermes is fantastic, but I love how it built all these graphics. If I go to my Higsfield, actually. Okay. So, in my images, you can see these are all the images it just generated and then put them on. And then in my videos, I should be able to see the same thing. So, here, oh, I guess it generated some audio as well. So, this is the the thing it made for this one. Awesome. So, it’s that easy to make really beautiful websites with Hermes Agent, right? Remember, we covered a couple different things. And make sure you have those skills installed so it can do a really good job at being aesthetically pleasing. Like make sure you have Higsfield and make sure you have here now so you can deploy it. And you can noticed how like it just gave us a link and it gave us a link because it could just deploy it to our here. Now app and also host all that over there. All right. So build two very simple because we use this new concept of slash goal. All right, make sure to use this and keep this in your arsenal because Hermes with slash goal is super powerful after you give it the right skills and you understand these concepts. Awesome. So with that, let’s move on to build three. All right, so with build number three, I’m going to show you how you can actually monetize the skills and Hermes agent we just built, right? And it’s actually crazy. This is how good of an offer this one is. And remember, we went through a lot of stuff. Now, our Hermes can generate videos. It can generate photos. It has access to fire crawl, so it can scrape a lot of things. And it can keep going and review itself. Right? So, with that, the offer I want to teach you about is basically in real estate, you’ll see there’s going to be a lot of listings all the time, right? And normally the photos are not very desirable. I’ll give you an example. So this is uh a listing I found and we can, you know, use our talents and our Hermes agent to spice this up. So look at these photos. They’re good, but you know, there’s a lot to be desired. I can’t really feel myself living here or anything. Right? So what you can do is now with the help of AI, we can generate a whole marketing kit for different real estate in properties, right? You’ll see how this offer is so cool. So I’ll give you an example. So a lot of apartments only give you their floor plan, right? You can’t really understand anything. But you if you make that into literally a design like this, you can really envision what’s happening, how you can literally like go in and then you can see what everything is happening, where the bathroom and all these rooms are. And also what you can do is you can generate pictures of the rooms. So now you can be like, “Oh, okay. The person can like experience and feel like they’re inside.” And just to get a bit more in-depth, I already went out and generated these for you. So this is basically these images we just saw, right? So all these images, I’m showing you how you can get Hermes agent to notice this. So for this one, there’s just barren land right here. And now we can show that, you know, it’ll look so much nicer with all of this stuff. And honestly, it would feel a lot better to the ten to the tenant and they would potentially buy more. And we have more. You can see right here, this is just an empty space, but if we can put this, basically Hermes is being our designer and Hermes is going there and helping us sell this more. And here’s a couple more examples of, you know, you could see all this table can fit here. Like what do you even do with the space, right? And another one like this is I think the biggest one to me is wherever there’s like a room, you can just see baron empty space and you can’t really envision everything, but when you actually put things inside there, you’re like, “Oh, okay. I can understand. Now, now imagine you take this and then you send it to this realtor. He would probably love it, right? So, I’m going to show you how to do that and a lot more. And this offer you can sell around a let’s say 200 depending on how big the listing is. You can sell it from 250 to a,000 and per listing. And basically you can get Hermes to basically, you know, have a self-running loop and it can find it can find new properties. It can build all the stuff and send them on autopilot. So I’m going to show you how to do all of that and it’s super simple. Okay. All right. And to do that is super simple. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to say, hey, what I want you to do is go find, let’s say, properties in New York. And inside those apartments, I want you to generate basically property marketing kits. Okay? And and how I want you to do that is by using the skill. And inside my cloud club in the skills vault, I actually have the skill. It’s called property marketing kit. I’ll open it up just to show you. And in this property marketing kit, it’s basically a cloud code skill that helps you build all of that stuff, right? So I’m going to go back. I’m going to paste this and I’m going to be like, make sure you install this skill in both Maltica and Hermes and use that to essentially build a marketing kit for a property. And to keep things fast for you guys, uh, I’m just going to give it this one. So, here’s an example property. So, build out a property marketing kit for this, please.

But I also want you to generate a list of other properties. use firecrawl to scrape those properties that I can potentially find and send these emails to. Uh, basically I can find, I can build the kits and send it to the realtors. So, what I want you to do is make sure you find the email address for the company that’s hosting it or phone number and also the property link. Okay? So, get that back to me, please.

And then I want to make sure this is a goal because this is going to take a while. All right, let’s go. Okay, I’ll let it get done and while this is going and I’ll come back once this is good. Okay, now check this out. So, it just responded back to me. It just said, I finished building out the property marketing kit as an example and it opened up this thing in my finder. Uh, right here you can see it has all these source photos. This is all the stuff we just saw.

I wish I could make this bigger. Uh, this is all the stuff we just saw. And then it also has some photos of me showing it around. I guess it tried to use uh my Hicksfield thing. Although didn’t ask it. Oh, yeah. It’s in the skill. But let’s try and open these out. Test it out. All right. This is the bedroom. Simple, bright, and that window. That’s the favorite part. Okay, don’t judge me. The windows are the whole reason I took it. And yeah, the kitchen’s tiny, but it’s mine. Okay, this is the kitchen. Not fancy, but it just works. Okay, it doesn’t look very much like me, but I probably just have to train a bit more. But you see how it kind of built all the stuff. And I see uh it used it and I see it did it for another property as well. It’s Clear Water Beachfront. And that one also has a bunch of like post photos and it also has a website. So, let’s check that out.

Wow,

I love the vignette and all these little things it’s added. It’s very nice. So, you can like send these to whoever you’re trying to sell very easily, right? And you can see if I go back to my Telegram, it says, “Hey, here’s some other properties uh that I pulled with Firecrawl.” And right here it has their number and their rent hop, all the stuff. So, let’s check this out. Oops. I don’t want to do that right now. Let’s check out this property if it’s actually good enough. Oh, you see these people actually do have the the 3D space, but this they can potentially do something here to show it off. You know, just making sure there’s five five $6,000 almost a month property sells a little easier, right? And you know, it literally is saying, would you like me to generate a full marketing kit for all these listing next and start sending to these contacts? It literally found out all the contacts and you can just have this going on autopilot. And if I go back to my multica. So here in the project we should Oh, there we go. We can see the Hermes 24/7 AI workforce website. Ah, this is the thing we built. Build a premium animated front end. All the stuff. And also the New York City property marketing kit. Awesome. So, it just Oh, that’s really cool. It even cued up the different things it may have to make. I didn’t tell it to do that, so I don’t waste all my credits, but that’s really cool. You can see how you can just set this on autopilot. Uh, and I guess that’s why it’s called autopilot. And you can make a skill here where every day it can find new properties. You can make new kits and then send them these emails and make the offer, hey, can I make more for you? Would you pay me? So that’s the bill three. It’s super lucrative if you can do this right because you literally have an engine that’s going on autopilot that’s potentially making you money, right? Awesome. So with that, let’s get into build four because now I’m going to be showing you how to build an endto-end content agent that you can use to post on socials like and grow your organic audience. And that’ll basically help you in whatever realm you are get more customers and essentially build a personal brand. So you can sell whatever you want and you have and you can build a lot of income with it. All right. All right. So we just went over a lot of different things and how we can actually build an offer and sell it to realtors, right? But if you want to get clients for, let’s say, any random business, there’s really only a couple ways. Number one, it’s if you post free content and that can be inside platforms like Instagram, Tik Tok, LinkedIn, X or YouTube, right? And all of these kind of go through the same process where you have to research a topic, you have to create the content around it, you have to post consistently and then you attract leads. Okay? and or you can do something like you know outreach where you can send them a message or an email with something you’ve created for them. So like in the example or the build above we build for their exact properties some marketing kits that they potentially would they would potentially like. Then you book a call and then you win clients, right? And I’ll take you more through this as we keep going because you can do a lot of automated outreach at a personalized level with Hermes. And the third thing you can do is honestly just run paid ads. And running paid ads is again going to do a lot of research, making creatives. So that’s creating their video, their pictures, etc. And then you optimize and scale the costs, right? And all of this is to get more clients. So all of these kind of do the right thing. And then let’s start with number one. So number one, we should make sure we make good quality content to scale our personal brand or our business brand to make sure we actually use it to make more money, right? And to do that, you there’s a lot of things you can do. And number one, I just want to show you this across every platform. This is the common core format. So in Instagram, there’s like reals, there’s carousels. In Tik Tok, there’s also reals and carousels. In LinkedIn, you can also do carousel. Oh my god, carousels is everywhere. Maybe we’ll start with this first. So you can see there’s a lot of different types of con content and format and they kind of undergo the same workflow where we need to first research different trends, keywords, things my ICP or your client would potentially be educated by. Then you write the script in a specific format. Then you create film and then you edit and then you post and then you analyze. Right? So, we’ll I’ll be showing you how to do all of this stuff and let’s start with actually how you can use Hermes to make carousels for you on autopilot and even post it for you, right? And you know, I think this is the best way to start is because honestly, it’s high reach. It works on every platform. It’s easy to reproduce and it’s pretty scalable for Hermes to be doing, right? So, this is the easiest one to do and it’s common across all the platforms. So let’s get into that and let me show you how we can actually make really high quality carousels at scale. Okay, so I’ll show you a couple types of carousels. And the first one is just a simple one that looks pretty, you know, plain. This is pretty high converting, too. And it looks like a Twitter post. So let’s say something new comes out. You can always make a carousel like that and post it on your Twitter, right? And you can see there’s I’ll show you some other ones too that are like have a really nice design. So you can see it’s really cool. it it has these little graphics, etc. So, I’ll show you both of these and how to create them. Okay? And to create the Twitter one, it’s really simple. I actually in my Claude Club made you a skill. And so, inside here, uh there’s a video if you want to know how to use it. But right here, if you copy this and then go to your, let’s say, Hermes app, and then hey, uh Fable 5 for Claude just came out. Can you create a carousel of fable about fable 5 and what that means using this Instagram thread carousel skill and um and what I’m going to do is I’m going to paste my headsh shot. I also pasted my headsh shot so you can use that. Great. So it was that simple. Uh honestly most of the heavy lifting is done by this skill that I showed you. And after you have the skill, you should be able to make a lot of cool looking carousels. So, uh, just for a live result, let me show you how this looks after this is done. Awesome. So, this just got done. And you can see it gave me a quick little preview of all the carousels. And oh, this is kind of cool. If you guys didn’t know this, inside artifacts, if your Hermes agent does generate something for you, you can see all of them will be all stored here. And you can see it made a bunch of different carousels, right? And you can get your Hermes agent to honestly just post these as well. And I’ll show you how to do that. But first, what I want to show you, we can make this Twitter style. And this one’s simple. And I like this one because it doesn’t cost you to use an image model or a lot of tokens. This is purely mostly just code and a lot of research. And you’re good to go. Right. So the biggest thing we put work into here is about the writing and the image model. So you can see um how it formats a lot of stuff in a really nice way. Okay. So now that we can create carousels like this, let me show you how we can actually create carousels like this one as well. So let’s say there is some random um style you like. It doesn’t have to be specifically this one, but let’s say you do like this one. I personally really like this style. Um, what you can do

is again, uh, right here I also have this pixel pal carousel style. If you download this and then give it to your Hermes bot, it should be able to create these kind of carousels as well, right? And I’ll show you. So, what you want to do is download this. Okay. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to drag this in here. And then all I’m going to say is, hey, can you use this um pixel style skill? Download this into yourself and then create an a carousel about I don’t know sonnet 5 maybe

oh I mean fable

coming back and I want you to use hakes field if you need to generate any images. So remember that we set it up a while back. Okay. So remember how uh we made sure we have connected Hfield. It just gives us a lot more ability and flexibility to do a lot of creative work. So I’ll let this load and I’ll come back when it’s done. Okay. So it just got done and opened these up and you know you can see this is actually pretty nice. I love the style honestly. So

this is really cool. Yeah. And then it becomes really easy to post these right. So what I want you to understand is like you know you can take any picture you can just insert it into Hermes and what you can do is let’s say you like that style and you want to develop that style after you have the MCPS installed you can just be like hey can you make a skill in that style and then Hermes with Hicksfield will create that style of carousels and then you should be like use that skill to generate me a carousel and it doesn’t matter matter what style it is, you can just screenshot it and give them the inspiration and then Hermes will be able to create any styled carousel based on what you want. All right, so this is the easy part. So now we just know how to create carousels. And remember what you can do is now that you know Hermes can create carousels

and you can put this on autopilot. So you can be like hey do this every day day. Uh this is looking weird. So what I’m trying to say is what you can do is you can put this on a cron job or even in multica. So hopefully this is still in. So hopefully in Maltica, if I see in my projects, you could see this is the Fable 5 carousel campaign. You can put this on an autopilot and it’ll be running every day, right? So you can be po generating content every day and you know Hermes will be the one that’s doing the research, writing it. All you would have to do is approve. Now let me show you if you want to also post this on autopilot what you can do. All right. And to post these on autopilot, there’s two things you can do. And number one is the easiest one since you’re already uh authenticated with Composio. Uh you know, you can go and find Instagram. You can connect your Instagram account right here.

Boom.

Awesome. And if you have other stuff like Tik Tok, I don’t know, Facebook, YouTube, all of the social medias here. All right. And the other thing, this is the one I do, I like doing is I use Blotato. And the reason I use Blotato is because I like looking at this calendar style uh when my posts are getting scheduled. And these are all AI generated posts, right? So right here, uh there’s two ways you can do that. And honestly, it’s the same thing as getting Hermes to do a cron job. After it’s done, you approve it and you’re like, post this and it creates this calendar for you. But it’s really easy to set this up. So Composio, you should already be connected. But for this one, you go to API and then all you say is you copy this and then let’s go back to Hermes

and then say, “Hey, can you help me authenticate with my Blot MCP?” And what bloat is really it’s just one place that you know it has Facebook, Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube X, all these all these different APIs, it has access to it, right? So your Hermes, it just becomes a lot more efficient if it’s talking to one thing and then posting across all these social medias at the same time. And you know it it makes it a lot easier for you because it has a lot of the things like the calendar already done uh publish post somewhere to store the videos all these things right so you always need some media storage so all of that stuff is taken care of so I enjoy using this one but let me see if my Hermes is done.

All right, quick thing. Uh, I just realized with Blot the Oth doesn’t work. So, what you want to do is just scroll down and then hit this thing, copy MCP config. And what you do is you paste it. And then it should work after that. Great. So, it seems like it’s connected. Now, I could say something like, “Hey, can you uh post my latest carousel to Instagram?” And it should be able to do that. And you can say some stuff like, you know, schedule one carousel every day, something like that. And it will go out and then it will essentially create a content calendar like this for you. So it every day it posts or every week you can know where to post what. So you can see I have it posting across all my socials and it makes it really easy for me to manage by looking at this calendar. Okay. So I want to teach you about this concept and it’s called the content octopus. Right? So when we’re making content and we’re trying to build a brand and make a business bigger and get leads essentially this is the way I found that it is the best way to get a lot of content in the easiest way right it’s the highest leverage form because if you can just make one long form piece of content like a YouTube video you can always make that into different clips you can make that into different reels like you can have like some copy and some part of the video you can make it into articles, tweets, community posts, carousels, a lot of that, right? So, let me just dig in right here with this graphic. So, you can see basically we’re going to be building this repurpose system, right? And this repurpose system helps you build all of this stuff. And this is something that if you build, you can take it and sell it or even use it for yourself really, really easily, right? So, I’ll show you how that works. And this is probably my number one highest leverage thing and system I have. And what Hermes does for me without me having to do anything, right? So, let me show you how to do that. All right. And to use this is really simple. For the input, all we’re going to need is the YouTube video and the skill. Okay. And for the output, we’re going to get out all of these. So, let me show you how that’s done. So, right here, this is my YouTube channel. And let me just take a random video. So, let me take this one. Okay. So, I’m going to copy this link. I’m going to go back to Hermes and I’m going to paste this here. And then I am going to go back to my school community. Okay, in my school community in the classroom, you can see I have this content repurpose skill. So, I’m going to copy this one and I’m going to go back here and I’ll paste this here.

Okay. Hey, I just gave you a skill. I want you to download and install that skill and after that use that skill to make me a dashboard of the content repurpose system so I can use all those and then make my content a lot easier. Basically activate the system on this.

Okay, so let me let this load and I’ll come back when it’s done. Okay, so it looks like it’s done. Well, you can see it just said ran this through the entire workflow. And first it’s saying it made me a couple clips in this folder right here. So, um, see these are the clips. Let me see this one. What I’m going to do is I’m going to give it this link to my skill. Then on bad. Okay. So, you you get the gist. So, there’s a bunch of um stuff right here.

And then you can see it also made all these things the full systems. So you can see this is this is really cool. So this is my favorite part of this, right? And we’re going to be going over this once later and this is the YouTube video if you’re curious. Uh anyways, so you can see it made a couple shorts, it made tweets. So, it made a long form blog. It made eight tweets, some LinkedIn, and let’s let me take you through all of these. So, first of all is the school guide. So, I can just paste this and to my email list, blast it out so I can get a bit more views, and it makes it really easy. And you can see the the copy doesn’t have AI slop. It’s pretty good. Uh, etc. That’s what the skill does. And then there’s a LinkedIn lead magnet that I’ve made. Uh there is a LinkedIn post. There is a couple X threads that it’s made. This is really good. And also this this is what we’re going to get into next. It also made some short form clips. You see? So, this is different because what it does is right now, um, basically it makes me refilm some parts with a new hook. And so, I can reuse that video and then make even more reels out of it, you know. So, you can see it made this caption for me. Uh, it also made a script. So, I’m going to be filming this and we’re going to be using uh our Hermes agent to edit this as well. All right. I’ll show you how to do all of that. And then uh so this is a bunch of stuff. It made a long form blog for SEO. Yeah. So it made a bunch of stuff. Even the long articles, you can see these long articles again also void of AI slop. You can see um because I put it through a loop and it makes all these but it essentially goes through the entire thing. It makes these articles and all these different repurposing systems so I can get a lot more views in my YouTube video and also get a lot more content done. So it serves people across different social medias and I get b to basically grow everything at the same time. Right? So this is a high lever play and that’s that easy to build. And make sure if you’re doing this, you also have it connected to Hicksfield because it’s going to be generating a lot of pictures and when it’s doing all this clipping, it’s using that as well. All right. Okay. So, now with that done, what I’m going to show you is what we’re going to do is I will go out and I will film one of these. Where’s the reels? I will film one of these short form reels and then we’ll take it and then we’ll actually edit it with Hermes. All right. So, I’ll show you how to do that. Okay. So, I’m going to show you that I’m just filmed this clip three that it gave me. If you want to put yourself in AI videos, uh, upload yourself all the stuff. And I’ll show you what that looks like, right? It’s just a raw clip. You’ll see if you um if if you want to put yourself into AI videos, start by creating a Hicksfield soul. Upload reference. First, upload a reference picture of yourself. Then ask Claude to create a soul. Then ask Claude to create a soul and name it something simple. Now future generations can simply Now future generations can simply refer to your Now future generations can simply refer to your Hixfield soul rather than you having to describe your face every time. And you can make stuff like like this. Okay, so you see there’s a couple different things there, right? Number one, there was I had to do a lot of retakes because I forgot what I’m supposed to be saying. And then at the end, I told it, hey, here’s what I’m going to be showing, right? A lot of little things it has to do. So, how does this kind of work? Okay, so how does video editing with AI work, right? And it happens in two phases. So, first, what we do is we put the clip through and then we cut out all the bad takes, the ums, ah’s, pause, all the stuff. And then number two, in the second pass, we’re going to add all the B-roll like from my video, all of that into one final polished video. Okay, so for that actually

I have two skills. So first one is first pass to cut out the bad takes. So what we want to do is right here, take this and then go to Hermes agent and then let me make a new session. And then what I’m going to do is I’m going to insert this kill. And then what we want to make sure what we do is we also do the second pass right in the same way because Hermes can do that with / goal. So so scale to add motion graphics. Again this is uh for the B-roll finder. So let’s say I have a recording and then agent will find the B-roll and then it will edit that in and make the final cut. Okay. So I’ll take this and then I’ll go back to Hermes and then I’ll put this in. Okay. And then uh let me link the file. So I need to link this file. So this is the the file that I just talked through. So right here I’ll drag that in and then All right. So what I want you to do is edit this reel. I have a lot of bad cuts. Make sure it goes through two uh make a goal that you will give me the final outputed video. So the first pass, I want you to go through and use the cut video skill to cut out all the ums, a bad takes, etc. After that is done, I want you to use the second skill to find B-roll and insert it in. Make sure I am in the bottom and maybe the B-roll is on the top so it looks a little nicer. And then at the end, I tell you to insert and find and attach um some clip of me from the video. So I’ll attach the YouTube video as well. So take the clip from me from there and then make sure you edit that in. And again, it was this video. So I’m going to go back to my Hermes. I’ll paste that in as the third link. And then I will go and then this is going to take a while. So I’ll be back. Okay. So this is just going on its own and doing its thing. All right. So it got done and you can see I did exactly what you asked. Cut one and then cut two. So let me find this video. Okay. So just for your reference, uh this is the raw source. This is the the clip one where you know I start off with like this. If you um if if you and then this one it’s got edited. So you can take a look at this. If you want to put yourself into AI videos, start by creating a hickfield soul. First upload a reference picture of yourself. Then ask clot to create a soul and name it something simple. Now future generations can simply refer to your Hixfield skill soul rather than you having to describe your face every time and you can make stuff like this. This is cool. So this is literally taking out my video. So see that’s so cool. It took this video. It cut out all my random mistakes and whatnot. And then it even added some if you want to put your some captions right here. And you know, it’s it’s there’s still some it’s still a little rough around the edges. Like you see like these black bars and stuff like that, but I’m sure as we you know, just do one more pass through it, I think it will be pretty much good to go. But this is what I’m trying to get you to understand. It’s after you have these skills developed, you can do so many things. And you can see like I’m just going to my project and you can see in the the real editing. So, let’s say you want to um just film a bunch of them and get a lot of them uh published. You can see right now in it’s in review. So, this reel is in review. This is the one we talked about. And right here, it went through all of the stuff as requested and it I have one place to track everything that’s happening and even my all my content. Right? Remember, we just did a lot of stuff with our content. If you think about it, with this system, we took one YouTube video and then we made it into clips. We made it into other clips. We’ve also edited those clips. We’ve made Instagram reels, we’ve made carousels, we’ve made articles, we’ve made tweets, and then even posts. So, you can see with AI how it becomes super easy to scale your content. And if you can do that, you can obviously just reach more people and attract way more clients. So, this is one of the most powerful builds I can say that I’ve made and I highly encourage you to try this out. And if you try this out or need any help, I’ll be in Cloud Club below to help you. But, you know, this is one of my favorite builds and I think this is the one of the most highest leverage you can do that you can even sell to others, right? But with that, let me show you how to take this one step further. So, let’s say you don’t do talking heads or videos like me and you have a product like, I don’t know, let’s say this thing uh that you want to advertise for. I’ll show you how you can make ads for that as well. And it comes down with the same amount of skills we gave it. All right. So, in this build, what I’m going to show you is I’m going to take a picture of this and then I’m going to make some ads for it, right? With myself in it. Because remember, we just made that Higsfield soul. So, I can be putting myself inside a lot of different ads. So, what I’m going to do is take a picture of that thing and then I have a skill that’s going to look up my competitor ads and make really high converting ads that will scale. Right? Okay. The build is also really, really simple and straightforward. Again, you come here, you take the skill, right? You come to Hermes. Let’s go to a new session. And then

I’m going to paste this in and I’m going to say, “Hey, what I want you to do is download the skill and for this product photo that I’m going to give you, what I want you to do is essentially create some image and video ads. Make sure the video ads have me in them. Um, I have a Hickfield soul that you can refer to and use that soul to put me in the videos and make these ads. All right, come up with them. go through all the creative process and use the skill to actually come up with all the different creatives.

Okay, now I need to attach a reference image of uh this thing. Where is that?

Okay, I’m going to drop it in here. And if you guys want to look at it,

it’s this thing right here. Anyways, uh I’ll let this work and then I’ll show you all the things that are created.

Okay. So, it looks like it’s done. So, it cloned this ecom skill, did all this stuff, opened up this folder, and made all these things. So, let me just see if I can just open all these together. Wait, that is still okay. So, I guess this is the video.

Wait, that is still ice cold. Yes, pretty good. Uh, this is the old one. And then that’s a video it had made. And then here is some ads. So you can see it put the woman in. It looks pretty realistic. Same things in here. Matches everything, especially you. Pick your pink. I love the copy it made. And you can see uh it’s now showing the benefit driven copy. These actually beautiful ads, right? And this one’s kind of funny. Emotional support, right? So, and this one kind of shows the contrast between the sip and all these things and how colorful it’s nice. And this is just my reference photo. Cool. So, you know, you can always do this and then you can set a cron job to make you new ads on autopilot. And then if you connect it to the meta ads MCP, you can literally keep running them and seeing which ones work. In this way, you can basically make hundreds of ads a day. your Hermes can be managing your entire thing and it becomes super easy where because you could see everything and even you could see in Malta if I go to the projects there should be like a pink drink ads I can see that it created all these different things right so again another very easy way to make content and it’s the same thing using the same skills cool now that we have done have that done let’s get into something a little different because I want to show you let’s say you do you are making these ads and all these creatives and you’re getting a bunch of clients right now we probably want to have customer support and manage all those clients so let me show you how I do that and just to keep you showing you a sneak peek here’s for example I have my Hermes agent inside my school community and you know it makes things for people it gives them cool prompts and even makes them nice little dashboards that you can share and see stuff in. Right. There’s a lot of stuff that I can do with this. It answers people’s questions. You can see it. It’s like literally one of the start commenters where it’s actually just answering somebody’s question, which is really cool. And it goes out and does all these things. And you know what I can also do? Uh, and I have another bot that also posting stuff like trade alerts. And this is really cool to see because I can get my bots inside my community and they can really help me out in either monitor moderating answering people’s questions and just you know keeping a tab of things because then I can just ask hey what’s the sentiment of everyone here and it will give it to me right so let me show you how to build that and super simple all right now let’s say who is doing all that content maybe you make a community or a school or a discord or whatever it happens right you need need a way to manage your customers. Well, I manage mines in school and that’s why I made that bot. And the way I made that bot is really simple, right? People ask for things in school. My assistant helps. It’s normally faster than I am, but I come in as well. Uh, and then basically everyone just gets faster help and a bit more detail in their answer. Right. Now, how you do that is basically step one, you make a dedicated school account or whatever your platform is for your bot. Then we’re going to give it the credentials and set what it should do, right? So, if it needs to check in daily, if it needs to learn from everyone, answer and basically we want to set up the cron jobs. So every day or every day it’s checking in a lot of times or a few times to see if everyone’s question is handled and making sure it can do all the stuff right essentially our Hermes agent is going to check new posts and comments and understand and run as a 24/7 co-pilot with us right and I’ll show you how to do that super simple again I have this prompt in the agent teams which is kind of long so I’ll copy all of this and all I need to do is go back to my Hermes agent, make a news thing, and then hit go. Okay, so I’ll let this work and I’ll come back. All right, it’s telling me it’s done. But before going to this, I just wanted to show you more of this prompt. So basically what I did, this prompt is just shows that hey, build me the school manager agent. And then what you want to do is make sure you make an account, which is not your account, and then give it that credentials. Then you tell it its job and what to do. And basically this is what I do. I make a cron job to create my morning check, a midday reply sweep and an evening community summary, right? And then every week it’s going to learn some stuff from the community, what people have asked and all this stuff. And then it’ll give me a report at the end, right? Basically, I set some rules, some example behavior, and all of this should be up and running. All right. So, and then after that, you could see in my multicolum in the project, you’ll see the cat assistant school manager is ready, right? And there, if you just want, you can just be like, “Hey, set up some recurring cron jobs.” And basically after, let’s say it’s 9:00 a.m., uh, 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., it’s going to check your community each time. And if you want more, that’s fine, too. It’s up to you on what you want to configure or how many times you wanted to check. But also, you can set it up with an email address such that whenever someone sends an email for an inquiry or anything, you can also set that up. So, let me show you how to set that. And it’s and that’s done through this thing called agentmail. So agentmail.to this is really cool. All you need to do is just log in and then what you want to do is you want to create an inbox for your agent, right? So what you want to do is you want to come here and then let’s say you create an inbox. So you say test uh cat I don’t know let’s say test Hermes, right? And then you can choose any domain you want. You can add your domain here and you can call it I don’t know Zach let’s say and then you can create an inbox test Hermes 1 2 3. Okay. Okay. So after this is created then what you want to do is you want to get an API key. So you create an API key test Hermes and then you can create that API key and then you what’s really easy is if you just oh right here you copy this right and then you go back to your Hermes let’s start a new session and then give it access to this and then also its keys and stuff and be like hey this is your inbox can you onboard to it and then maybe send me an email as the test. My email is simmoniancer. us. Okay, so let me wait for this is done and I’ll show you what this looks like. Okay, it got done. I just wanted to hide all my email, but you can see this is from Zach. Test Hermes 123. Hey Simon, good news. I have my own email address now. If you ever need anything done, you can email me here or forward me something you want me to take care of. I can help review, summarize, draft, organize, follow up, or turn things into tasks. Very excited to finally have an inbox. Hermes. Okay, I love that. And then you can see in the inboxes, you can see the things it sent me as well, right? Super simple. Now, my Hermes has also an email address. So, if you want your customers to be emailing you and you handle support that way, that easy to create an email address. And then you can also see this in your multicup. Whatever support tickets it handles, it can tell you there. All right, really cool use case. Now, let’s actually get into some of the fun stuff. Okay, now I want to show you how to build a self-improving trading bot. And this is something big. Hermes is an excellent self-improving trading bot because of its self-improvement loop, right? You can literally teach tasks and your algorithm over time to Hermes. Let’s say there’s a stock going like this and you want you always, you know, buy here or sorry, sell here and then buy here and then do that over and over. You can tell Hermes that and it can detect and learn that pattern and if it’s going up or down, it should also be able to detect and do your thing by reading your past traits. Right? So Hermes basically it learns over time and its knowledge grows and it keeps getting better and better, right? Which means it just the compound effect makes your bot better over time, right? And to build a trading bot with Hermes, there’s three steps. So

step one is basically making sure you give it access to a programmatic trading platform, right? and we’re going to be using Co-Invest and I’ll show you how to set that up. It’s really simple. All you have to do is go to co-invest.ai.

And then right here, you want to make sure you log in and it’s free to make an account. Then right here, you can see it says co-invest. And the nice part about co-invest is you can do a lot of stuff. You can buy stocks, you can buy crypto, you can buy forex. Uh you you can buy you can literally predict on on the world cup which is kind of cool. So everything is in here in one platform and lets you trade agentically. Right. So then what you want to do is just hit start on cloud and then copy this and then let’s go back to actually this time what we want to do is actually use our telegram or something like that right and the reason being is because we want to probably text our bot here and there. So let’s go to this trading thing and then I’m going to paste this here and say can you help me connect to this? This is the oath for trading. This is the OOTH for Co- Invest. Help me connect the MCP here. And remember, this is the old uh Telegram chat we set up with multiple channels. And the reason I like doing this in Telegram is because I like being nimble if I’m trading or I’m seeing alerts or it’s telling me to do stuff. So, let me connect with this and I’ll show you how that works. Okay. So, it opened up this window and I’m just going to hit connect to Co- Invest. All right, so this should be good to go. And I made sure to enable paper trading on this. And now I can say something like, “Hey, what’s in my portfolio right now?” Okay, so it got connected and it just asked, “Hey, what’s in my portfolio right now?” Again, this is paper trading, so it’s not real, but it says, “Here’s a mock portfolio example with the mix you asked.” And you can see all of this stuff because you can trade stocks, crypto, gold, all these things, right? And you can see, etc. And now what I asked is, can you make an HTML dashboard and put it on here? Now, the reason I did that is because that’s the exact thing I told my actual bot right here in my trading bot. Every time it responds to me and does something, I want it to build a dashboard and give me that right in here. Now, and this is what it looks like. So, that’s how you should do that. And now, let’s get into the more important parts, right? Let’s actually get into strategy because strategy is one of the most important parts about trading and I want to show you this. So one of the biggest important things about strategy is this. Check this out. So these are sitting US politicians and you can see this is Elizabeth Warren. She’s has a net worth of 67 million at a salary at 285K. Right? that would take 225 years to get if you saved all of your salary. So, she obviously got there because she’s been making moves with some information that she has that most people don’t, right? And it’s the same as others as Nancy Pelosi. You can see she’s outperformed the stock market by a massive margin, right? And this is why to rely on any strategy I like to use this service called Quiver Quant. Okay. So this is my Quiver Quant account. And right here you can see you can see all the congressional trading of who made what trades, right? And my favorite place to go is going to the strategies folder. And in the strategies folder, you can see a lot of people’s strategies, right? It doesn’t only have to be politicians like these. It can also be people like Michael Bur or uh I don’t know, maybe Bill Gates or Bill Aman are in here. So, it tracks everyone’s trades, right? And you know, you can filter it by three, one month, 3 months, 6 months, all these things. Okay? But what I do like about this and I’ve been using this a lot is the fact that there is some strategies where we can see if we followed this for the last three months, we would have had a 57.8 return, right? And this makes it so that it’s a lot easier for us to trade because they’re doing most of the hedge fund level stuff for us, right? And honestly, I’ve been tracking this over time and it it holds up pretty well. And you can see if we want these kind of differentials, we can just copy trade these strategies. Okay, now comes to the cool part for us. So we can copy trade these strategies. What we can do is we can use quiverance API. So if you choose this and then copy this token, I’m not going to show you mine. And then go to MCP servers. You copy this, right? And then let’s go to Telegram. Let me go back. And then right here I’m gonna say, “Hey,

can you connect my Quiver Quant MCP with my Hermes agent?”

And then make sure to just like put in your API key. What? And after you’re connected, then what you can do, so I’ll do this. So, okay, I’m going to do this and then I’ll make my thing smaller so it’s not super apparent. Okay, so I just uh hit my top message, but uh because it has my Quan API key, but I just said, “Hey, I hooked up quiveran MCP in the API. So I can pull real data on congressional trades, politicians infos and all this stuff. I can copy trade these politicians if you like for you. For example, I can follow people like Nancy Pelosi or other senators in the house. I can also copy trade these strategies. Copywan has these built-in strategies like Congress buy, etc. If you want, I can set up a job so I can do that continuously. See, it makes it so easy to do this stuff. And I can also do deeper research like finding the most active politicians in biotech, all this stuff, and tell me what to do. And I’ll run it in the background. Okay. So now, let’s say uh let’s go back to cover quant and let’s say we want to copy. Let’s go back to strategies. Go back to strategy. Let’s say Tim Moore because all time he has a good one. But the last three months, let’s see. Uh yeah, Tim Moore seems like he’s doing pretty well based off his see. Okay, for the next couple months, set up a paper trading account and I want you to copy the trades of Tim Moore. I’ll see how it does. Uh I want you to see what you do. Um maybe siphon off $10,000 in that portfolio and let’s see what happens. What I want you to do is every week make a here. now dashboard and give me an update. So, make me a here now dashboard now just so we’re starting it off and I have um all the data on what’s happening right now. And then make sure you write that we’re copy trading Tim Tim more. We have a balance and we’re starting with $10,000 and we’re going to go ahead and make any trades when he’s making the trade. Uh it’s okay if there is a time differential but make sure you set up a cron job uh every day during trading hours to check uh quiver quant to make sure it has all the updates and then every week Friday give me an update make all those cron jobs and inside multica also make the autopilot so I can track it and the project okay so the dashboard is live and let’s see what it did it set up a paper trading portfolio with 10k it’s cop I’ll be trading Tim Moore via querant MCP and it has a daily poll and acron and every Friday it’s going to make me a dashboard in the here not now page all trades are going to be mirrored with one to 3 days disclosure that lag and the dashboard currently shows where it’s starting let’s look at the dashboard cool okay I can see it this guy is up a lot so hopefully we can catch up but let’s see this is some cool experiments we can be doing and it’s pretty fun because it’s really cool because we can actually be trading with co-invest. we can see what’s going on and we’re going to be using co-invest to make sure everything is good to go and we can execute the trades and if we want to do it with real money we can switch it on like that right so this is how you build a trading bot with Hermes and it was so simple because you just need these two services where you need a broker which is essentially co-invest and then you need a strategy and I use quiver quant and then you know you hook your Hermes up to both of these and then you It has a mind of its own to do the cron jobs. And that is your trading bot. And you can do this based off technical analysis, whatever you need to. But I thought this was a really cool build because it’s super useful for people to get started. Okay, so this build is probably one of my favorites because what it actually means to me is that now I used to have problems like I used to wake up sneezing and now I wake up energized. uh I have a lot more energy and it’s because I use Hermes to optimize my health and this is how I do it. Why I did this is because knowing what to do was never really the problem. Doing it every day and getting consistent was really tough, right? So what I did was I got a full blood panel done and you know there were some markers that were good and then some markers out of range like kind of like this one. So this is like an example and you can see there’s like a million different things that I’ve been uh they put in my report, right? But the nice part is from that I gave it to my Hermes agent and it gave me a list of supplements. So actually I have some of these right here and you know this health data initially was very scattered uh like the blood work was in a PDF and my sleep data was in my aid sleep and my whoop and my workouts were were in my head right so what I wanted was one system that remembers everything and follows up without me having to open an app and that’s what Hermes kind of became for me so and this was done with three easy moves right first I feded my blood work so it knew my biology. Then I talked through a protocol. So it gave me my supplement stack and things I should be taking and then became the easy part. It just made its own cron job. So every day it reminds me, hey, have you worked out, have you taken XYZ supplements? And I just like voice noted to it and it becomes really easy for me to keep track and my Hermes like bothers me and chases me if I don’t do something right. So the system end to end is basically this. I gave it my blood tests and I use voice memo memos and my eight sleep basically tells me how I sleep and gives me some reports. Let me show you an example. So here’s an example. You can see it says my last sleep score was 95. I slept for 8 hours and 38 minutes. And all of this stuff gets beamed to my Hermes agent and it knows even how I sleep, everything, right? And then it basically checks in on me for my workouts, my breaks, etc. From that random PDF I had, I have a really good plan to follow and an accountability partner in my Hermes agent to essentially make sure I’m at my optimal peak health, right? And again, just on autopilot, this happens. So, first it checks, hey, did you take your stack? And then it checks in later if I’ve worked out or not. Then if I’m just working away like kind of I’ve been filming for the last 10 hours. Uh it just says hey maybe step away if it detects my screen time going up and up and at the end you know eight sleep it does this and then at night it asks hey what are my next three priorities for tomorrow. These are very simple cron jobs but really helps me keep my day and keeps me motivated and keeps me going in a very clear way. So, I recommend you set up something for yourself and it’s just done through voice memos and capture logs and it logs it. It nudges if I’m missing something and then I keep acting and it makes it really easy for me. Okay, so now if you want to set this up, here’s the prompt. You might need the PDFs if you have for your blood work, etc. If you don’t, that’s fine, too. But you can just paste this into your Hermes and it will set up all the cron jobs you need. I also have a bunch of skills in cloud club below. But make sure you use this and really take advantage of it because honestly this has been one of my favorite hacks. Although it’s so simple that you know it get got me to not be as stuffy. Now I used to have this issue where I used to like you know wake up sneezing every day but now after doing this stuff it’s not there for me anymore. It used to be really hard for me to get out of bed, but now after doing the stuff, it’s so much better and I wake up feeling a lot more energized and I know exactly what to do. So again, just to reiterate, make sure your health put it on the job for your Hermes agent to keep you on track. It’s more so just think of it like an accountability buddy. And the fact that it’s private and you own it is pretty nice that it’s not getting out anywhere, right? So, you feed your agent, make sure it schedules, and you know, just talk to it sending a voice memo. It’s so easy. And again, I like I like saying I like the saying where the best health tracker is the one that tracks you back, right? So, highly recommend you guys stick to this build, try it out, see what supplements you want to take. If you’re curious what I take, I take uh vitamin D, uh fish oil, some vitamin C, and creatine, and that’s good enough for me. But, you know, with that, let’s move on to the next build. All right. So, for this build, what I wanted to show you is this thing we have built inside our clock and we call it agent club, right? And you can see uh I’m set up another camera here so you can see my all my screens and you can see this is my primary screen. This is my secondary screen. And right here we have this thing and we built this because I got tired of having to chat with my Hermes from one place and then my codeex from another and then cloud code from another. Right? So we built one destination that I can manage all my chats and agents. So you can see right here. Okay. So that’s one thing. But the nice part about it is I can also remote into it by scanning this QR code or I also have an app on my phone and I can connect it to all the channels like we were doing back before. Right. Okay. So this has access to a lot of things including Hermes. And now I want to show you the thing that’s been most requested from me and it’s this thing called Jarvis mode. And Jarvis mode is pretty cool. What it does is I help it, you know, start my day, plan my day, and I can talk to it as well if I’d like. Maybe I’ll show you a demo. So it activates after I uh basically just say a keyword. And let’s say uh I’m going to say the keyword now. And you can see it happen. What can it can do is basically control my computer. It controls my computer. It opens stuff up, shows me, and then gives me like a whole rundown. And you can see on the left hand side, it already has something. But let me try this out. Uh,

okay. Good morning, Jarvis. What’s my day looking like? Good morning, sir. I’ve gone ahead and organized your calendar. At 9:30, we’re starting with some deep work to finally finish up the Hermes agent course. You’ve been taking way too long on that one. At 11, I’m pulling up your school community so you can respond to the people uh that asked questions overnight. At 1:15, you got new member intros and unanswered posts waiting on you. Quick heads up, you got a friend’s birthday at 7 tonight. So, let’s start wrapping the day around 5 instead of pushing later. Your main goal today is finishing the Hermes course. Three steps left. One, make the tutorial on how to build Jarvis. Two, show them how to use Hermes and Fable together. That’s fresh. It just dropped. You should turn that into its own video, too. Three, send it to your editor. I’ve organized your calendar to roughly match when each of these should happen. One more thing, I’ve already started the scripts for your fable YouTube video. They’re sitting in your Multikica project folder. And I’ve written the real scripts, too, so you can start filming whenever you’re ready. But for now, let’s go ahead and get the Hermes course finished. Okay. Thanks, Jarvis. Uh, you can see I’m going to exit this right now. Um, and it stopped glowing when it’s started speaking this thing. But essentially, oh, actually, let me just go back. What I wanted to show you is right here. You can see it has my agenda and the top three things I should be doing. And also you can see just because I activated it today, it gave me and showed me my calendar um on and you know it it colored everything, organized everything and told me to wrap up because of my friend’s birthday later that I have to commute to. Um but you know this is really cool and what it’s done. I also you know voice cloned Paul Bettney’s voice and put it on my Jarvis just just for fun. But I’ll show you how to build this and it’s super fun. Um, let’s get into it because there’s a lot of moving pieces here, but it’s really cool to use and you can even take it and sell it to anyone if you’d like. All right. All right. So, now let me show you how I actually built my Jarvis command center, right? And remember, it is literally the same thing. It’s my AI chief of staff on my Mac. But now the different things we’ve done to it is with we’ve given it this really cool looking interface and then it can just speak back to me in a cloned voice and it can already read my calendar and has context on my life. Right? So how do you build that? Well, it comes down into five ways how it works, right? Number one is the first things I’ve been teaching you about. It uses life context about me with honcho. So remember we set up early in the course how we set up the memory. So it knows what’s important to me. It knows what I need to be doing and because like how when I sleep before I go to bed I tell it my top three things. It surfaces those for me in my morning briefing. Right. Okay. Then what it does is I get it to automatically organize my calendar because it has Composio and my Gcal MCP. So with that it can do all of that. Then computer use. This we set this up early on. And computer use is basically how uh I got my Hermes to basically open up different tabs and stuff in my computer, right? It basically has access to my Chrome and all my applications. So it can open it up and show me what I it needs to show me, right? Then it’s the voice. And the voice was done through this thing called 11 Labs. And if you don’t want to use Love and Labs and you want to keep it local, you can use this thing called voice box. But they’re both driven through Hermes voice. And Hermes voice is already built in. You just have to give it your key and it’ll handle the rest. Right? Okay. And after you have all this stuff done because this was the core of everything. What you can do is build the HUD. And I’ll show you how I built the HUD. Okay. So, how I built the interface is basically I saw some screen I took some screenshots of a vibe I liked. I put what’s important to me right here and I just asked it to do that and then I got Claude design to set the look. So I gave it the screenshot and I said, “Hey, design an interface for me.” Then I got Fable to build it. And the way I got Fable to build it was really cool because I just use my Hermes as an orchestrator. So if I go back to my multicup in my uh squads, remember how I showed you this before that my Hermes is my leader. And what I can do is whenever I have to do a design project or something really really intensive, I will hand it off to Claude. I’ll be like, “Hey, use Claude to do this.” And then right here you can see it uses Fable on high mode to build and plan all of the stuff. And then it can use codeex for some of the orchestration work or sorry on some of the coding work. Right? So then what I basically had was my Jarvis was connected to Hermes and it now just has a voice and its own computer that it can speak back and forth to me. But this was, you know, this took a lot of time to build. I’m not saying this is trivial by any matter. So, what I did for you guys was if you do want something like this and you want to save your time from having to spend millions of tokens and debugging, I actually packaged it and put it inside my school community down below. The links in the description. You don’t have to use it, but if you just want it prepackaged, it’s down there for you guys. But now, with that done, if you just want to save some time, grab it there. And we actually have a team uh inside the school that helps you set it up if you’re brand new. But right now, let me show you. You’ve just built a lot of different things. How can you take all these things and actually package it and potentially even sell it, right? All right. So, we just covered a lot of different builds and now I want to make sure that you can take any of these builds in this course and sell what you just built. But before that, I want to just make sure you watch this clip by Mark Cuban where he has some really good stuff to say. I’ve been through every single technology, you know, event and evolution and this blows them all away. Now, how you implement it in business is a whole different issue. Like literally, when I was 24, I was walking into companies who had never seen a PC before in their lives and explaining to them the value and having these guys going, “Well, son, I got this receptionist right there. I got that secretary. I’m never going to need that [ __ ] ever.” Right? And but then you know my business then was helping them figure out how to implement it to give them an advantage. Y they’re going to be integrators that particularly young kids like when I’m telling my kids who are 15 18 21 or 19 21 and kids going to school what should I do? What should I do? I’d be like, AI research, learn all you can about AI, but learn more on how to implement them in companies, right? Because to your point, companies don’t understand how to implement all that right now to get a competitive advantage. You got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization, right? Or use usage. Who’s going to do it for them? Particularly small to medium-sized businesses. There are 33 million companies in this country. 30 million of them are soloreneurs, right? Um single person enterprises. There are only, you know, there are millions of companies that have 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 people that aren’t going to have AI budgets, aren’t going to have AI experts. This is where kids getting hired coming out of college are really going to have a unique opportunity. If you’re spending your senior year in college right now, your senior year in high school even, whatever it is, your excess time, and you’re learning the difference between Sora and VO, and you’re learning how to do all this video, you’re learning how to customize a model so that then you can then walk into a company and say, I understand your business as a shoe company selling shoes at a retail store or selling and selling shoes online. Let me show you how to benefit you. that is every single job that’s going to be available for kids coming out of school because every single company needs that. So you saw that clip and you can see how big of an opportunity this is, right? And because of that, let me just show you how you can take any of these offers and actually sell them. First of all, you know there’s three questions before you can sell anything. And first, you need to decide on what can I sell? And everything you built in this course is a product. Just make sure you pick something that really aligns with you and you know the people around and the customers you’re selling to and then you have to answer what do I charge and how do you approach the people after you’re done right so we’ll be answering all these questions for each build. Just as a recap we built a lot of things in this course. Right? So we started off by building and installing Hermes and making that buddy system so things don’t break. Then we connected it to all the channels. Then we made sure it had a personality with soul and identity and even a memory that’s shared over different agents and your own team right and this one would be super valuable is the multicom mission control where you can have an AI employee and it can work throughout someone’s whole teams right and then after you make sure we connect that with composio or any Google workspace CLI it can essentially act as its own entity so that was the first level. Then we went into actually building some stuff that are agentic workflows. For example, we built a morning briefing agent and then we started building websites, property marketing kits with images and videos, carousels, a content repurposing octopus. We learned how to edit our videos and reels with Hermes. Then we even built out a lot of ecom ads and even a community manager if you needed that and even a support assistant if you needed right and to get a bit more premium you can always we built a trading bot a longevity coach and even Jarvis and agent club right so we built a lot of stuff I make sure you can take these you and you know the levels at which the complexity of each avatar is right okay now with that being said Let’s get into each one and how you can potentially approach everyone to sell and what pricing you can be doing. So the first one is just the very simple AI employee install. Not everyone understands this technology or wants to play around with it. You having this course, you have access to all of that and you have my help in cloud club below. But you can very easily charge around 1,500 to set up a Hermes bot for someone that’s non-technical. Right? Make sure you can set it up on their VPS or their Mac Mini or a random computer. Connect it to their channels. Make sure it has memory and you can track its projects and connect it to Google. And then people will honestly just with that simple approach love this offer. And you know, you can frame it as a 24/7 AI employee that already knows your business because it learns over time live in 7 days. This is what you want to do. And you never touch the tech. this is what people want or the setup is free. Okay, then you can always charge a retainer if you want to improve it over time. Really simple. Now you can evolve that into an executive assistant that runs stuff on autopilot and you do that by you know putting in composio and connecting it to the MCPS and setting up all the cron jobs for your Hermes. Basically, then people can get those morning briefings on their phone. And a lot of this stuff, especially for busy founders, executives or agency owners, anyone who starts their day with a million emails in their inbox would love, right? And especially if they’re non-technical, it would be super easy for them to sell it for $500. Okay, the gateway here is this is probably the cheapest yes in your lineup, right? So, if you’re brand new to this, I would potentially see people would 100% if you can build it out for yourself and show others, they would give it a shot. Okay? Make sure you can demo your own thing on call with them. And then you can naturally upgrade them as we go to a Phil AI employee, which I’m going to show you how. Okay? And make sure it also runs on their machine or a VPS if you want. But how you can structure and actually approach them is because you know their pain where they start every morning with a mess, but now you would know their day and basically make their schedules. They would pre-draft emails and make sure they’re caught up in what their team’s doing. Basically in their pocket at 8 a.m. or they don’t pay. Always this risk guarantee helps because if you’re starting out, it reduces the risk on the consumer, right? Okay. Then if anyone really does need some stuff like this, this one I would say is more of a lead magnet where you can charge around $250 to $500 a pop for the animated websites. And remember, you can do this with the /goal command and very easily deploy it just to show people your capabilities that you can do really fast. Anyone with a bad website, you can say, “Hey, this is a premium animated website that sells your offer because the copy is also much better in live in 24 to 48 hours.” And you know, if they want to make any changes to it, they can always message the Telegram bot and it’ll make changes to the website instantly. That’s a really cool offer that I’ve been seeing work really well. Okay. And here is where we got more real where we can find a lot of listings in our URL, get our fire crawl to scrape different realtors, and then we can make those staged Hicksfield because this is unlimited. Uh the all the property marketing kits and then essentially email the agent each thing. So, they would be like, “Wow, this is cool.” And very simply, you can make $250 per listing because normally agents will have a lot, right? Basically, remember, build a kit first and then send it for free. Don’t ask anything. And then if they want one for every listing or go up a level to their brokerage and ask if everyone wants that, then you can obviously put it on autopilot with Multico, find new realtors and make these and keep sending it to them, right? Basically, what you’re selling them is twice the interest on your listing in 7 days because of the much better photos, videos, etc. Awesome. And this is the ones I really like is the content engine. And if I didn’t have this, I would definitely pay for it, which you can start off with carousels on autopilot. And you know it automatically researches trends, writes in their voice, it designs the carousel and schedules it through blow and posts it to all the platforms and drips it every day. This is probably one of the easiest things to be done. But you know because I’ve showed you how you can take that screenshot, make branded ones and then make onbrand content and post it automatically. People would love this because you can make sure that if they have zero social presence, they do have one, right? And you can also make it so that the client can approve it from their phone. And every week you can give them that, hey, I made you so much content that it just makes sense that you keep continuing, right? Because it is a lifeblood of a business to make content and get more leads. Okay? That leads us into our content repurpose system. Remember how we made one video into all these different things, which was my number one favorite thing. This one would be a high ticket system that you can sell for a,000 to 3,000 a month for higher tier, let’s say, YouTubers or anyone with a business channel. Basically, your offer is that they film once a week and it shows up everywhere daily automatically. So, from one piece of content, you become 30 and one video becomes, you know, edited alone and you can see all the new content in the first 72 hours before they even pay. I would recommend if they already have a YouTube, you just do it for them and send it their way and see what they like, right? And then remember, we can also edit the reels. So if someone’s taking like or doing raw talking heads, we just cut out the ums and a which is already a big time save. Then we put B-roll on top of it and even give it for review. And creators and founders would really love this because because people really don’t want to, you know, interact with editors and stuff like that. And it’s a perfect bolt on to offer number five and six. And this, you know, cost you pennies and minutes per reel. And you can you can also fold this into the content octopus and deliver this as well, right? Or you can just charge per reel because it becomes super easy to do. Basically, you say, “Hey, just film uh these scripts that my agent gives you.” And then you’ll get edited caption reels in 24 hours and you don’t need editors and your first one’s free. And remember after that we use the same skills to build an ecom ad factory. And this one really people love because you’re doing the computer ad research with the skills I gave you and then you’re building the image and videos and then you can use the Facebook MCP to manage your ads. You don’t need all the way through. Like the only thing people are really interested in is just fresh new creatives. If you can just make that and give them to them, I’m sure you can make a really good offer, right? Then the community manager. Everyone needs to do customer support. Having a bot inside with an email or on school or discord where Hermes just checks on a cron is super simple to build out that I showed you. And you can very easily charge let’s say 500 or even you can charge per resolved incident, right? And c course creators or community owners would love this because they can really feel that pain. And I use it because you know I hated doing that initially. But you know the fact that you could get every member answered within 24 hours in your voice without you leaving your notifications is pretty nice. And you can also offer these premium builds where we build a trading bot with co-invest and then help them build out their strategy. You can always build a longevity coach. And this is always for people that have always a little bit more money because you know your energy is in the proof if hey you can set this up and have the accountability coach to make sure you’re taking your vitamins going to the gym. People love that on its own. And finally it’s Jarvis and agent club. This is just for people that want something really cool and performative just to show people. But you know it’s a demo that really closes the call. If you can build it you can take it from cloud club and show people. I’m sure they’d be wowed. And remember when you come to these conversations, make sure you price the outcome and not any hours. And remember to always build first. That’s why I’ll always encourage that. And anchor to the human alternative if they were actually just paying people on their own. And how much more scale and volume you can get, right? Remember, always a setup plus a retainer is the way to go. Setup fee basically frees your time and the retainer you can keep on and then stacking over and over. And one of the most important things is always have a risk reverser. Make sure it’s not on the client to actually keep working with you, especially if it’s your first one, right? Make it your own. You should build these things. If you’re trying to sell a content engine or an octopus, use it for yourself. Make sure it works first and then you can reach out and then send people free stuff. And remember, this is just the start of it. There’s a lot of coaching and things you need for this. And if you ever get stuck building or trying to set up any of these, I will always be inside Cloud Club in the link below to help you out, right? But hopefully this tutorial and this whole training helped you out. There’s a lot of ideas that I’ve personally taken and used and really helps me every day. So with that, I’ll leave you to it. Thank you for watching this video and I’ll see you in Cloud Club. 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Hermes might be the closest thing to an autonomous AI employee that a non-coder, non-technical person can actually use. You can give it tools, message it on Telegram, and have it do tasks [clears throat] while you sleep. But, if you want to truly unlock the power of Hermes, you need to know what Hermes can see, what it can remember, and what you’re allowing it to do. So, that means understanding the models, context windows, sol.md files, memory, skills, hooks, gateways, sub-agents, and [music] everything else. So, in this video, I’ll break down every essential Hermes concept in plain English, starting with the basics, [music] and then working up to how the whole system fits together. And by the end, you’ll understand what all of these terms mean, and how they work together inside of Hermes to do actual work for your business. Okay, so let’s get into it. There’s a lot of different concepts that I’m going to break down in this video, but the first one is going to be the Hermes agent versus the underlying model. So, this is the difference between a harness and the model that’s actually the brain and the intelligence. Now, I covered this in my previous video, but the summary is this, that think of it like a car, right? The car has an engine, which can be thought of as the model, right? That’s powering the locomotion. Now, obviously, to move the car, you need the wheels, you need the frame, you need the chassis, you need the brakes, you need the electronics, right? That’s the harness. So, the model is the engine, everything else that makes the car move efficiently and effectively is the harness. So, we’re looking at the tools, the rules, the sessions, the memory. As you can see here, we’ve got a few of these diagrams to walk you through, and I’m also going to show you some stuff in Hermes where I think it’s going to be relevant. So, that’s the first thing that you need to understand. So, when you send a request into Hermes, it’s going to gather the instructions, the context, maybe it’s going to load some tools, and then it’s going to pass those to the model; and the model is then going to decide what to respond with, what to say, what actions to take. Now, because those two layers are separate, the harness and the model, you can actually change out the model for whatever specific task that you want to do. And because Hermes is open source and completely free, and you can download it here hermes-agent.newsresearch, it’s completely free. You can install it in your terminal with with this one-line command, or you can grab the desktop app as well. So, because those two layers are separate, you could change the model, you can use different models, you can hook up open router and use some of the open source models like Kimiko 3, which I’ll explain how I’m doing that in a moment. And you can also work on the harness, you can delete tools, you can add your own rules, you can add hooks and things like this. So, it’s fully customizable, unlike Codex or Claude Code, where the system prompt and some of the wiring underneath the hood is proprietary, and you just can’t change that. So, this gives you a bit more flexibility with what you can actually do, and you can customize the harness to your own use case. You can remove stuff that is not useful, because Hermes comes preloaded with a bunch of different tools. And for me, I had to remove a whole lot of them, because I’m not going to use them. They’re not useful for my use case. So, if we head over to Hermes, which I’ve got in the terminal here, and I do {forward slash} model, I can see all of the models that I’ve got access to here. So, I’ve got OpenAI Codex, so I’ve enabled my OpenAI ChatGPT subscription, so I can access the Codex models. I’ve hooked up OpenRouter with the API key. I’ve also got my Anthropic subscription plugged in here as well. So, if you want to set these up, you can do it in the config. So, the way that you would do that is you’d open up a fresh terminal window, and I would do Hermes setup, and then you can customize your whole setup here. So, you could select whatever model you want, and you can add your API key and your authentication. Over in the desktop app, it’s a little bit different. So, this is a desktop app, you can see I’ve got sessions, my chats from Telegram, cron jobs, Discord. We’re going to get into all of this in this video. Don’t worry, but if you just come to your settings tab, and you can find all your configurations here as well. Everything that you would find in the terminal when I put that command in for the setup, you can find here. And if you head over to providers, this is where you’re going to be able to connect other providers in here as well. So, that’s the difference between the harness and the model, and I’m just showing you how you can change your model, whether it’s Claude code, whether it’s Codex, whether you want to use one of the open-source models. And so, the cool thing with Hermes is that you can route different tasks to different models. So, this is the benefit I see of Hermes over Claude code. So, in Hermes, when I’m creating my content, I’ll plan that content with GPT 5.6 Saul, right? Which is a powerful model. It will create the plan, and then I’m going to write that plan with Kimiko 3 using open router. And so, I’ve set that up in my agents.md file to make that happen automatically. And so, the reason why I do that is cuz in my opinion and from some of the creators that have in my inner circle, we use Kimiko 3 for copywriting. It seems to be a bit better than Opus 5 and Fable 5, which honest, for me, have got worse when it comes to writing content. So, this is the kind of the new approach I’m trying out. Anyway, let’s move on to number three. The different interfaces that we can use to connect and talk with our Hermes agents. So, an interface is simply the place where you send your prompts and your work to Hermes and where you’re going to receive the answer. As I showed you earlier, the terminal is kind of a standard way to do it, but if you’re non-technical and you’re not used to working in the terminal, the desktop app is another way you can set this up. Now, I also have Hermes set up on Telegram. So, when I’m out and about, I can just message it through Telegram on my phone. Now, I’ve also mentioned the desktop app, which can show you a live preview, like an artifact of what you’ve actually built. So, that’s not something that you’re going to see in the terminal, and that’s one of the bigger features of Claude code on the desktop and Claude Co-Work. You can maybe build a landing page and you can see the artifact. Or maybe you create a presentation and you can actually see the artifact in the window. Now, one of the other features in the desktop app here is the voice conversation. So, I can have a backwards and forwards conversation with Hermes. So, I could speak to it and it can speak back to me. I don’t have to set up 11 Labs or anything like that. So, it’s going right now. I’m going to click stop, but if you could just reply to me with a few words just to confirm this is working. Pony Tail mode active for Pony Tail mode active. Which is something that I’m just installed. So, you can see it’s it’s talking back to me. Now, there is one other way that we can have Hermes have a conversation with us. And this is something I helped one of my clients set up at last week is in Discord. So, you can’t have the desktop app on your mobile phone. At least not yet. They are building that. So, you can see in my Discord I have my Hermes bot inside of here and I can add my Hermes to my voice channel. So, if I do {forward slash} voice, and you can see there’s some options. If I click here, I can go mode. We can do channel, join your voice channel. So, the way this works I need to go over to my voice channel I’ve joined and then I I need to put in the command voice mode join channel. Boom. My Hermes bot is in the channel. I can unmute it. Hey, can you just drop me a response um just to check that you’re listening in this channel. So, Hermes should speak back to me anytime now. You can see it’s transcribed my Mhm. Think yep, I’m here. Tom, could you loud and clear. Okay, so it’s talking back to us. Let’s move on. These are all the different interfaces you can use. We’ve also got Telegram like I mentioned. Uh you can use the API. There’s an SDK as well, but it’s getting a bit more advanced. Let’s move on to the next thing. So, let’s get into the fourth thing that I want to cover today and that’s prompts. You saw the MD file, your project rules. As you can see here, this all amounts to context. Now, context is the one thing that’s going to make your agent actually useful, right? Without any of this context, it’s just going to be a chatbot. It’s going to start from scratch every time. It’s not going to be particularly useful. So, the prompt is the request that you’re giving Hermes right now. And for me, I like to use WhisperFlow and just dictate what I want to happen. Maybe I’ll explain a project, give it a little bit of additional background context, maybe tell it where to look for specific files that I’ve already got created on my computer. Now, the soul that MD file is really the agent’s character, working style, voice, tone, communication. It tells Hermes what role to play and how direct it should be and how to make decisions. Now, your project instructions apply to a particular folder or workspace, and they hold the rules that Hermes should follow whenever it works inside of that folder. So, this is going to be your agents.md file. There are different files you can add in here pending on your own specific project. I often have a context.md file, and maybe if it’s a content folder, maybe a voice.md file. But, these can all be created by having a conversation with Hermes and asking, “What kind of context should we create so that you remember the project and you can create the best work possible?” Now, each layer has a different job, and the prompts covers the request, your project’s instructions, your agents.md file covers the workspace, and the soul that MD file is your agent’s general behavior. Now, before the model starts thinking, it’s going to grab all of these files. It’s also going to look for additional files and context that it thinks are relevant to the prompt that you’ve just submitted. Now, if Hermes keeps making the same mistake for you, you need to save this correction. You need to tell it what’s going wrong and how to fix it. Now, these fixes can live in a corrections.md file. You could add it to your agents.md file, totally up to you on how you want to structure this. But, if you want to see how I structure something called a second brain, which is a way that you can take all of your files, your documents, transcripts, all of that stuff, and distill down the key insights that your agent can then tap into. I’ve done a full video on that and how to set it up, all of that stuff. It’s on my YouTube channel. Um you should be able to find it. It’s called second brain and Hermes. So, if you want to set that up, you can go over there after you finish watching this video. And one thing I do want to mention before we carry on with this video is that if you want to run Hermes 24/7, you’re probably going to need to host it where a machine is running 24/7. Cuz as soon as you close your laptop, you’re not going to be able to interface through Telegram or Discord. So, having a 24/7 setup like a VPS is probably going to be your better option. Now, if you do want to use a VPS, I use Hostinger. They are the sponsor of today’s video. And if you go over to the link in the description below, uh you’re going to head over to this page and you’ll be able to see you can install Hermes agent in one click. If I go ahead and click buy now, I’m going to give you an extra 10%off with Growth Lab 10. So, if we pop that into the checkout, just type this in here, you see you’ve got a nice 10% off there. You can select the time period that you want. Now, by no means do you have to use Hostinger. There are a bunch of different other tools and ways that you can host this. It’s just the easiest option that I found. And you can also use the desktop app and and connect to Telegram on your desktop as well. But if you do want an agent that’s running 24/7 where you can run scheduled jobs overnight that’s going to take up your usage when you’re not actually using it during the day for your work, then this is probably the the better option for you to check out. So, again, the link below is in the description if you want to grab 10%off over there. So, let’s talk about context and compression. So, there is something called a context window. And different models have different size context windows. And so, once you fill that up, and that’s going to get filled up by tool calls, responses, and your inputs and outputs. Now, when you start approaching the upper limit of your context window, so in code code, you’re typically going to have a million context window token limit. Whereas GPT 5.6 soul, if you’re using Codex and the subscription, it’s going to be like a 256,000 token context window. And for me, that fills up super fast. So, there’s a few ways that you can handle this. Now, in Hermes, you can actually set the limit where the session is going to compress and compact. What I mean by that is when you hit that limit, Hermes is going to compress and summarize and compact your whole conversation. It’s going to basically take notes on the important things that have happened. Then it’s going to insert that into the context window of a fresh session. Okay? Now, that’s one way of doing it. Now, what I would often do is create a handoff document when the context window gets about 50 60%full when I’m using GPT 5.6. And if I was using an Anthropic model, I would compact around 40%of the context window. Because once you fill that context window up till it’s nearly full, it’s going to have problems referencing all of the context and everything that you’ve worked on in that session. It’s not going to reference everything accurately. So, so when you do hit 40 50 60%of your context window, you’re going to want to create a handoff document, clear the session, or create a new session, and then load in that handoff document and continue your conversation. So, you could see here in Hermes in the terminal, we do have this bar at the bottom, and this is showing us how full the context window is, how many tokens we’ve used in this context window, and what the total size is. Okay, so I’m going to correct myself. 272,000 tokens typically in a GPT Codex model context window. Okay, so next, let’s talk about the agent loop. This is how all of your prompts and requests are going to work. You put in your prompt or or your request, Hermes adds that to the context window, and then it’s going to think about what needs to happen next. Do we need to run some tool calls? Do we need to do a web search? Do we need to tap into an MCP? Do we need to check some files in your folder that we’re working in? It’s going to take all of those actions, and then it’s going to start giving you the response. Now, what happens when we’re building something, we want to go through a few different phases. We want to go through the planning phase, which is going to involve searching of files, doing a bunch of research, and then coming up with the plan, and then we’re going to go into the build phase. So, at this point, Hermes will want to ask you a bunch of questions about the build, so you can finalize the plan that will then get pushed into the build stage. Once you’re building, Hermes can then run an autonomous loop and keep checking the work until it hits the goal of your plan, right? So, that’s one of the really cool things about having an agent build things for you. You don’t have to keep prompting it once you’ve created a plan and a goal of what that end state should look like. Okay, so let’s talk about tools for a second because this is what makes Hermes incredibly powerful, and also any of the other harnesses that you use, because most likely you’re going to have MCPs and skills that are all built into your workflows and the way that you use your agent. And if you don’t, those are probably going to be some of the first things that you install. Now, Hermes does come with a bunch of pre-built tools, which I’m going to show you in a second. But essentially, a tool gives Hermes an action that it can take outside the model. So, that could be searching the web, it could be running a command, it could be calling a specific service. So, let me give you an example. Now, I write my newsletter inside of Hermes, right? I’ve got a few different skills that I pull from, and it’s got additional tools, right? So, it can search the web, it can go over to my YouTube channel, it can tap into my Instagram and pull posts and links that I can put in my newsletter. And so, once all of that has been completed, I can then push that to Beehiiv, which is where I’m sending my newsletter from. I don’t actually need to copy and paste anything over to Bee hive because there’s an MCP, right? And that MCP gives the harness a set of tools. And so, you can think of an MCP like an API call, right? API has a bunch of different end points and the MCP creates a tool for each of the different end points, right? So, you’ve got a toolbox and it’s like, okay, am I going to use a wrench? Am I going to use a spanner? Am I going to use the screwdriver? And each one has a different function for whatever it is that you’re trying to do. Now, if we come into Hermes in the desktop app, we can go over to our settings and we can have a look down here, tools and keys. So, we could see there’s a bunch of different tools here that have come either built in or ones that I’ve installed. And these need API keys to function. Now, if we click on one of these, we can see what this actually does. We can we can get a key by clicking on the link, go over to the website and decide if this is a tool that we want to use. Now, what I will say is there is a lot of stuff in here that you’re probably not going to use. So, for me, when I set up Hermes and I was monitoring my context window, for me it was filling up really fast. It would go to like 15, 20%immediately. So, I had to do a analysis, run a audit to ask Hermes, what are you loading when I’m sending the first prompt? Is are you loading up a bunch of tools or skills? Is there any hooks involved? Because there might be a bunch of stuff that’s getting loaded that I’m never going to use. And so, it’s just taking up context. It’s taking up tokens that I can then free up because I’m not going to use that tool. So, there is another thing called plugins and these are similar to tools. Now, a plugin is something you can grab from GitHub. Now, you can see here I’ve installed a few things like ponytail which you saw that it was referenced earlier in the chat. Now, a plugin is typically a collection of skills that maybe links up to an API key through an MCP. And these plugins are put together so that the skills can work synergistically with each other. Each skill will have a specific role. So in the superpowers plugin for example, which I’ve spoken about a lot on this channel, it does have like 11 different skills. So the plugin allows you to install those with just one click. And you can see here, MCP servers, hooks, and slash commands, skills, and bundles, plugins bundle all of those together. Okay, let’s move on to number eight, memory and skills. So memory stores useful information that Hermes may need in a future conversation such as your preferences, previous decisions, facts about your business and your work. A skill stores a repeatable method for doing a specific job. So it tells Hermes which steps, rules, or resources to use when that type of work comes up. So memory answers the question, what should Hermes remember? So when you start up a session, it’s going to check your memory.md file, and then it’s going to carry that information into your context window to use alongside of your prompt if it thinks that that’s relevant. And a skill answers the question, how should Hermes do this thing? So it gives the agent a process that it can follow over and over again. So neither one of these changes the underlying model. Hermes loads the relevant memory or skill into the working context window when it’s needed. Now you don’t have to write every skill yourself. Hermes can install skills that other people have shared. You can even create your own by doing {forward slash} learn, and Hermes will basically create the skill of a process that you’ve just gone through in the chat. The other cool thing about Hermes is that it will automatically create skills for you based on whatever it is that you’re working on. Now I don’t have a demo for that, but you’ll see in Hermes when you’re working, you can see it’s applying this principle of self-learning, and it will create a skill. It will show you a dialog box saying self-learning skill created, something like this. Now I have done a full video on memory versus skills. It is on my channel. Should be able to find it. It’s quite recent. Uh so if you want to do a deep dive on those two things, in my opinion, the most important things inside of Hermes are skills and memory. Now, now memory isn’t just a memory.md file. That can only contain a a small amount of information. That’s why I’ve created a a search brain. That’s why I also search system that vectorizes all my files and makes them searchable. So whenever I want to recall some information, all of my files are in that mini vector database. And that information can be pulled when there’s a relevant prompt or request put into my agent. So number nine, let’s talk about hooks. Maybe you’ve never heard of these before. They’re kind of a bit under the radar, but in my opinion, they can be extremely powerful if you apply them in the right place and you know what they actually do. So a hook is an action that runs by itself automatically when something specific happens inside of Hermes. So it’s up to you to pick when that moment happens. It could be before tool usage, after a job finishes, when a new session starts, when you write a file to your system. When that moment comes around, the hook fires automatically every time. And it does that in a shell. It’s not a prompt that gets injected into the system. It’s, let’s say, a terminal command that happens in code. Now the difference between a hook and a skill is that a skill is invoked typically when you’re wanting to run a specific process. Now your agent can invoke the skill when it thinks that you need it, but the hook is going to happen automatically. Now as you can see on screen, this is how a hook works. So the moment that the hook is called, that could be writing to a specific folder or file, the hook checks your rules, right? So you can create rules of whether when it’s going to fire and when it’s not. And if the rules are broken, it’s going to get blocked. If it passes, that hook is going to run. Now you don’t need to be a programmer to set these up. You can just talk to Hermes and say, “Hey, can we create this hook so this process runs every time automatically without taking up any of the context. Remember this thing, this project, this information about me. A skill is when you want something done in a specific way, a process, and a hook is basically something that always happens when something else happens. So, when X happens, do Y automatically without me approving it or anything like that. Okay, let’s move on to number 10, profiles. So, you can think of these like individual agents. A profile is a a set Hermes setup built for a particular role, person, or type of work. So, each profile can have its own agents.md file, soul.md file, memory, skills, configuration, and conversation history. It can have its own models, its own tools, everything. So, that means, for example, as you can see on screen, you can have a research profile that can behave differently from, let’s say, an operations profile without mixing the instructions together. So, you can specialize an agent in a specific thing so that when you come to do that thing, so I could have a content creation agent that does that specific thing really, really well. It’s got access to all the context, all the previous content that I’ve created. It’s It’s got access to MCPs that are going to pull specific posts that are performing the best on X or on LinkedIn or on YouTube, for example. Whereas, if I had everything in a general agent, but if I had to do research, operations, content creation all in the main agent, listen, it’s possible, but better to have a specialist agent. And these can come in really handy when we get into agent orchestration and the Kanban, which I’m going to get onto a little bit later in this video. So, each profile is essentially an entire Hermes instance, and you can have all of your sessions underneath each individual profile. Now, these are different to sub agents. A sub agent is a temporary helper that’s created when you’re working on a project. Now, you’ll be able to see inside of the dialogue window when it decides to spin up a sub agent. So, for example, you could be working on something and say,”Hey, can you read 10 different blog posts and summarize the findings of each of those?”It can spin up 10 different sub agents, read 10 different blog posts, summarize those, and bring the findings back. That’s what sub agents are used for. Profiles are useful for separating roles and context, but they’re not a security boundary by themselves. Those kind of boundaries come from tools, permissions, and where Hermes is running. So, let me show you an example. If I come over to Hermes Desktop, and I can see at the bottom, you see I’ve got a bunch of different profiles. So, if we click on SEO Writer, for example, you could see these are all the sessions associated with this particular agent. You could see the cron jobs that I’ve set up for this agent, and this all ties together inside of my Kanban board, where I have my AI Search, I have SEO Editor, SEO Orchestrator, SEO Strategist, SEO Writer, and all of these agents are working together. They pass tasks between each other, which is orchestrated by the orchestration agent inside a Kanban board. Now, you can click manage profiles here, and this is where you can add additional profiles, and each one of these, as you can see, comes with a soldier.md file. Now, we can add additional context files in here where necessary, and you can add your own profiles just by clicking here. You can name it, you can clone it from a different profile as well, and then you can fill out your soldier.md file, which I would highly recommend for each of your agents. You can also add in context.md files, agents.md file inside of each of these profiles. It’s just not listed here in the interface, but it’s We’ll just know this is something that you can do when you’re setting these up, and it’s not complicated. You just have a conversation here with Hermes, and it will go ahead and set all of this up for you. Okay, so number 11, let’s talk briefly about the messaging gateways. Now, I have already covered these earlier in the video, so I’m not going to go into these in too much depth, but there are different platforms where you can access your Hermes agent. You can have it live inside of Slack, inside Discord, like I showed you, and inside of Telegram. So, you can see I’ve got my agent here inside of Telegram. This is something I can access on my phone. This is connected through the VPS, and then the VPS is then connected to my computer via Tailscale. And this is running cron jobs, is pulling in research every day to give me ideas for X posts. For example, so as you can see, these messaging gateways connect into Hermes. You can have different gateways for different agents. You can switch the agent profile inside of the messaging gateway. So, it’s totally up to you how you configure this. Some people like to have Hermes in Slack. Some people use Discord, Telegram, or you can just use the desktop app. They are bringing out a mobile app pretty soon. And then we’ve also got the classic terminal interface as well. Now, if you want to know how to set these up, you can literally just ask Hermes,”Hey, how do I set up Hermes inside of Slack?”And typically what this is going to look like is you’ll need to set up a Slack application. It’s then going to give you the authentication and the keys that you need to integrate Hermes into your Slack, and it’s going to create a bot, and that bot is then going to be active in whatever channels you want to add it to. So, yeah, you can see here we need to create an application, give it the permissions, and we can then go into the setup gateway setup, Hermes gateway setup in your terminal, and you can add in the configuration keys and get all of that set up. But this video isn’t designed to give you the complete setup tutorial, but you can definitely go through and set that up yourself if that’s something you want to do. So, you might be watching this video thinking,”Well, this all sounds great, Tom, but I don’t have the time, I don’t have the experience and the expertise to set this up properly.”You might be thinking,”I’m probably just going to spend a ton of time trying to figure this out, when in fact I could have somebody help me build this for me.”So, if you do want me to help you build this for you, and build out all of the different agents for the processes in your business, the first step is to book your free 30-minute AI audit call. On that call, I’ll figure out what your business problems are and which is the highest ROI automation opportunity to build an agent for in your business. And then we can look at the options of how you want to proceed and get that done, whether you want me to build it for you, whether we consult together, or I show you and teach you over a period of 90 days to be able to do it for yourself and implement it in your company, whether that’s yourself or somebody on your team. There is going to be a link below in the description if you want to do you want to book that call in. It is completely free. You’re going to speak directly to me for half an hour. I’m going to schedule that out in my calendar, so it’s important that if you are serious about this, that you show up to the call. And usually for my one-on-one consulting clients, I charge a thousand bucks an hour. So, you’re basically getting $500 of value for 30 minutes of my time. So, anyway, I’d love to speak to you if this is something that you are interested in. Anyway, back to the video. So, the 12th thing that I want to talk about is the different ways Hermes can run. Now, I have mentioned this briefly again in this video, but we’ll just dive into this a little bit deeper because you do have local methods, you’ve got VPS, you’ve got cloud. So, let’s just dig into these real quick. Now, you can run Hermes with Telegram or Discord or Slack, but you can connect that up in different ways. You can connect it to your local device, your laptop, what I’m recording on right now. You can connect it up there. You can also connect it up to a VPS. So, like I’ve been running on my Telegram, it connects to Hermes on a VPS. The VPS then connects to my computer using Tailscale. But it is important, in my opinion, to know the difference and the capabilities of each because if you run a team and you want to have multiple employees tapping into Hermes, build their own agents for their own process and roles, then you might want to set up that includes a VPS or some kind of way where all of your files and contacts are stored in the cloud. There’s a really cool tool called HQ for work. And that’s where you’re going to have a platform that contains all of your contacts, all of your tools, all of your MCPs, your API keys, and all of that. And your team can literally just plug in and access those through their device using the cloud. So, there are different ways of doing this. You’ve just got to think about your own use case and who’s going to be using Hermes inside of your business, and where do you want those files? Do you want your team members to have their own files on their own computer? There’s certainly some benefits to that, but also the drawbacks is there’s no shared knowledge base. And I think if you’re working in a company with multiple employees in a big team, like one of my clients, Kyle, which there’s a case study on this video. He has a company of over 150 employees. So, in that case, it’d be pretty smart to have a second brain perhaps for each department that’s shared across their team. So, everybody when they’re building and using Hermes in the business, they can access all of the same context. If you have Hermes installed in the cloud with all your context and your API keys and your tools and your MCPs, everybody on the team is going to have access to that. If everything is running locally on somebody’s computer, then John who’s in operations is not going to access Steve in accounts. They’re both not going to have access to the same MCP or API key. They’re both going to have to set that up independently on their own devices. So, number 13, let’s talk about scheduled tasks and automated workflows. This is where agents like Hermes can be incredibly powerful. Now, this is not native to Hermes by any means. You can do this in Cloud Code and Code X, but a scheduled task lets Hermes begin work at a specific time without waiting for you to send a message. So, that schedule, as you can see on the screen, can run in a loop, right? It can run once. It can repeat at specific times of day on different days. And that interval is totally up to you. So, that scheduled job runs without you, which means the job needs enough context and instructions to stand on its own. So, an effective scheduled job might run a specific skill which contains all of the instructions and the context and maybe hooks up to different MCPs where it can pull additional information and research to actually complete the job. A great example of this is pulling your reports. So, let’s say you have data in Facebook Ads, your Google Search Console, maybe your email analytics. You can have MCPs pull all of that data and this skill can pull all that data, put it into a report, send that via email to whoever needs to see that report for Monday morning’s meeting, for example. Now, running a scheduled task like this we we also call it a cron job. That’s just one way to work. Hermes can also run a fixed script or respond to outside triggers when you connect. So, this is called also called a webhook, which you might have heard about. Now, if if a tools pings a webhook, you can ping that webhook to Hermes to trigger a specific skill or task or whatever it is that you want Hermes to complete. So, let’s say for example, you have a funnel and somebody hits the thank you page. You can create a webhook to ping when someone hits that thank you page and ping, let’s say, a message through to Slack or maybe into WhatsApp to notify you that somebody has hit the thank you page and you’ve got a new application coming. Now, typically the difference between running a script and running a scheduled job, I mean, you can have a scheduled job run a script. Let’s say it’s running a skill, that skill is going to be dynamic and it’s going to be able to do what you would typically do in a session if you run that skill. Whereas a script is more deterministic. It’s going to run a piece of code, it’s going to do a specific thing and that’s it. So, that could be good, for example, with accounting where you’re just moving numbers around, you’re making reports and spreadsheets and so on. So, let me give you an example. You could see here on my Hermes desktop app, I can see my cron jobs down at the bottom here. See I’ve got my daily AI insights clip library. And so, if we click on here, so we can see all of the different runs that have happened and if we want to change, we can go into manage. We could change the settings here. We do have a prompt and if we take a look at a prompt, we could see what’s actually running. So, I’m not going to go through everything here, but you can see it’s defined the workspace, the maximum run time, and it’s got the forced skills. This is what’s actually going to be doing the heavy lifting, the long-form video clipping pipeline. So, what’s happening with this skill and this schedule job is I put out posts on X at 9:00 a.m. Eastern every day. This skill is then going to run like you can see it run at 9:02 a.m. And so, it’s going to grab my X post, it’s then going to search on YouTube for relevant podcasts and interviews with X experts on the same topic. It’s then going to grab clips from those interviews, and it’s then going to send me those clips over on Telegram, and it’s going to add them into a folder on my computer. So, you can see here I’ve got this folder AI Insights clips, so you can see these are all of the clips that it’s pulled. I’ve got a clip library down here, and you can see, you know, I’ve got different clips from different podcasts, and I can include those in my next post. Let’s say I want to retweet the post that I put out the previous day, I can then add this video to see if that gets any more engagement and more reach, because video right now on X is performing really well. Now, if you do want to test your schedule job, you can literally just trigger it right now if you want to run it manually, but that’s how you set all of this up. I didn’t write this prompt at all, I got Hermes to write this after I went through the entire workflow in one of my conversations. I said,”Okay, let’s now schedule this as a cron job, scheduled task, and let’s create skills that you can use to run this process efficiently.”Number 14, sub-agents versus Kanban and agent agent coordination or multi-agent orchestration. Now, I already gave you a definition of sub-agents. These get spun up temporarily inside a main agent chat in a session. It spins up the sub-agents, they do something, they pull the information back, and they feed it to the main agent. Now, the Kanban is very different. It’s like a Trello board, and I’m going to show you it in just a second. It’s going to move tasks along the pipeline, and at each stage there’s going to be a different agent involved. It’s going to assign that agent to a specific task that it’s been designed to help you with. So, let me show you how this works. So, what you’re seeing on screen right now is a custom gateway, very similar to the desktop app, and I’ve set this up on my local device. Now, there are a lot of different options in here. You’ve got the chat, which is This is what appears in the chat window. You’ve got your sessions. You can tap into previous sessions in here. Files, models, logs, cron, schedule jobs, skills, MCPs, all of that stuff. But, the thing that I wanted to show you that I was talking about, remember the Kanban? If you click into here, you can see I’ve got a couple of different boards. Now, a Kanban works where it’s passing tasks through different stages of a pipeline. So, here, my SEO article pipeline has something ready for me to review. You could see it needs an assignee, and this is for me to take a look and manually review this post. You could see we’ve got a description. We’ve got a list of all the files that it’s used and created. So, I can come in here, and I can check out one of these files, for example, and I can download it. Obviously, it is already on my device. So, I can basically just search for this file in my folders. I can add comments. I can say,”Approved. Move to next step.” And so, this is going to get picked up outside of a session. So, I don’t need any sessions running to run these All these agents are running independently of the main Hermeus chat, the sessions, and the agents that I have set up. These are all going to work in the background and pass work between each other to complete this pipeline that I’ve defined already. So, you can see here, this is everything that’s happened in this particular pipeline. I’ve also got one set up for my AI insights clip. You can see nothing’s running right now because it runs once a day. You could see all of the previous tasks here. So, this is a bit more of an advanced concept, but for me, this is how I visualize multi-agent orchestration. There are tasks that get passed through different stages of a pipeline that different agents are involved in that I don’t have to interact with unless there is an approval step for me to get involved with. Okay, let’s move on to number 15, the security layers. So, we’re talking permissions, approvals, and sandboxing. So, Hermes has several security controls because no single setting can cover every different type of risk. User authorization controls who can send requests to the agents. The tool set controls which actions the agent is able to request. An approval can add a checkpoint, so Hermes can pause before a risky action can be taken and waits for you to either allow or reject that. A hook, like we spoke about earlier, can actually guard the same moment automatically. So, an approval waits for your answer while a hook applies a rule that you set in advance and can block that action on its own. So, for example, if you have a hook set up that prevents your AI agent from reading your .env file in the conversation, then that’s going to happen automatically. And that’s that is a security layer that you can set up, and it’s what I have set up so that my agents don’t put API keys in the chat. Now, it can run bash commands and terminal commands to pull that information into API calls, but it’s not going to put that information inside of the chat, if that makes sense. So, in my opinion, the safest setup is to give each of your agents or your profiles inside of Hermes specific permissions and specific tools and files that they can access, and then keep everything else outside of its reach. Now, like in Claude Code, you can have different approval settings where you either manually accept all of the edits and changes that the agent wants to make, or you can put it into auto mode, or have your own separate rules according to the different types of tasks and tools that it calls, whether it’s going to ask you for permission or not. So, listen, I have gone through a lot there, and there is a whole bunch more information on the Hermes documentation site, including stories and case studies and a bunch of good stuff. But, I wanted to pull out the key concepts to explain in this video. I know it’s been a long one, and if you’ve got to this point in the video, drop me a comment below cuz I’d love to see who’s actually stuck with me on this. This is all important information to know and understand and internalize if you’re going to be building with Hermes or indeed any agent because these principles can apply across the different harnesses like Codex code code for example. So now you understand how the main parts of Hermes work together, but the next step is using them to solve a real problem in your business.

You might believe that becoming rich and building wealth happens by pure luck. But for the vast majority of millionaires and even billionaires, it wasn’t luck. In fact, there’s something that they do that seems so simple that you can start doing as well that would lead you to great wealth. And I promise you, it’s not just saving and investing.

Hello. Hey, Georgia. Hey, Rick. This is Rick Callero. He’s the head of banking and lending for BNY Melon Wealth Management, a subsidiary of BNY Melon, the world’s largest custodian bank with 2.4 trillion in assets under management and 46.7 trillion in assets under custody. In other words, they know a lot about money.

And I had the unique opportunity of meeting with Rick and asking him a few burning questions. So you work with a lot of rich people like millionaires, billionaires. What exactly is it that they do that’s so different from everybody else aside from the obvious things like saving and investing, you know? So billionaires and millionaires uh actually manage their personal financial affairs the way they would run a business really. Um you know by utilizing a balance sheet, they also use a lot of leverage to fund their spending and investing. And so let’s break down what he said in a way that we can all understand. Starting with this part here.

You see, if you’re rich, then you’re likely managing your finances the same exact way that a business would. When a business earns revenue by selling a product or service, they don’t just take that money and start spending it all willy-nilly. No. No. That money has to go through a process. There’s a plan for how exactly to use the money. And that’s how the business is able to stay profitable long-term and continue growing. And if you’re rich, you’re doing the same exact thing. When you get paid, your money goes through a process. You understand how important this process is to maintaining and growing your wealth. And that process always involves something called a personal financial statement. You see, everybody else uses budgets to manage their money. And for the most part, the rich don’t really use budgets at all. They use personal financial statements. A personal financial statement is a spreadsheet that details your assets, liabilities, income, and expenses. Typically, the spreadsheet is organized into two different parts, the balance sheet and the income statement. And this right here is a huge part of building your wealth. The next thing that Rick said about the wealthy, which is critical, is this right here. They use leverage to fund their spending and investing. What exactly does this mean, though?

Leverage is a very powerful tool used to build your wealth. Leverage is when you borrow money to buy investments with the expectation that the profits from your investments will be many times more than the cost of borrowing the money. A common example of this is when you invest in real estate. You see, if you’re rich, then you’re likely using real estate as a way to continue building your wealth without actually having to use a lot of your own money. And you do this by leveraging or using somebody else’s money, such as the bank. Take for example this $100,000 single family rental property. If you wanted to buy this home, you wouldn’t actually need $100,000 to buy it. No, instead you would leverage the bank’s money to buy the home through the use of a mortgage. The bank gives you a 100k mortgage to buy the home, and all you’re having to pay is between 10 and 20% as a down payment for the mortgage. And so now you’re getting a 100k investment property, but for only 10 to $20,000. And so the reason leverage is so powerful is because it doesn’t tie up all of your capital, all of your money. Just imagine a scenario where you have $100,000 cash to invest. You could either use that $100,000 to pay for the entire 100k rental property just to buy it outright, or you could leverage money from the bank and buy a total of five different properties by taking out five separate mortgages and putting down 20% or $20,000 on each of those mortgages. And so now, instead of just having one rental property with one tenant paying you rent each month, you now have five rental properties with five tenants all paying you and contributing to your growing wealth every single month. Now, obviously this is a very oversimplified example, but the principle of it remains true. And the principle is that leverage is a very powerful way to use debt to build your wealth, which actually brings us to the biggest reason why you’ll be broke forever, unless you change this.

I recently came across some research conducted by economists from Princeton, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. In this research, they studied factors that determine why the rich get richer and why everybody else essentially lives paycheck to paycheck. Their concept is that the rich can’t possibly spend everything that they earn and so they just end up saving a lot of their money. However, they’re not just saving it in the bank. Instead, the money that they save is being invested into performing assets, things that will continue to grow and preserve their money, things like stocks, bonds, and real estate. But where it starts to get really interesting is here. The research claims that a substantial amount of borrowing by households in the bottom 90% of income earners was financed through the accumulation of assets by the top 1%. In other words, a lot of the money that the rich are investing are actually financing borrowing by people further down the income ladder. For example, if you’re a rich person and you buy many shares of stock issued by a company, the company then puts that money that you invested into a bank. The bank then turns around and turns that money into a loan given to a non-rich person to buy a house or a car or something else. And so in a very indirect way, the non-rich are actually borrowing from the rich. You see, if you’re a non-rich person, you don’t have a lot of money to begin with. This is the reason why you have to borrow money to make larger purchases in the first place. However, because you’re borrowing money, not only are you having to pay back the money that you borrowed, but you’re also having to pay even more money to borrow that money in the first place because of interest. And so now the money that you earn from your job can’t go toward buying performing assets like how the rich do because it has to instead go toward paying off the debt plus the interest from the debt. And so the non-rich don’t have a lot of money to begin with. And so on top of paying for life’s expenses, things like rent, groceries, electricity, things that most people need to survive, you’re also having to pay off your debt, which is only feeding the cycle even more by putting more money into the pockets of the rich. Now, you may be thinking to yourself, “Yeah, but Joshua, how do I get out of this? Because not only do I not want to be broke anymore, but I also want to start becoming wealthy.” And ironically, the solution will require that you move closer to debt, not further away from it.

You see, debt is a lot like fire. When contained, fire is one of the most useful tools in all of history. It’s what allowed humans not only to survive, but thrive through the centuries. But when fire is not contained, it’s one of the most destructive and deadly forces in nature. It shows no mercy and will spread and destroy everything in its path until it’s contained. And debt is the exact same way. Debt comes in two different forms. There’s good debt and then there’s bad debt. Good debt is debt that grows your net worth. It makes you more wealthy. For example, if you were to take out a mortgage at the bank for a rental property, this is considered good debt because that rental property will host a tenant who will then pay you monthly rent, which is directly increasing your net worth. However, bad debt is debt that decreases your net worth. An example of this would be buying a car versus using that same money to instead buy a rental property or buy more stocks in a company or something else that’s going to make you money. Okay, so increase your good debt and decrease your bad debt. That’s easy enough advice, right? But how do you actually go and approach this on a practical level? In other words, how can you actually go from being broke to being rich? We’re going to take a few pages directly out of the book of the wealthy and do something that they do.

If you recall my fake call with Rick earlier, um something that he said was that rich people run their finances the same exact way that a business would. Every successful business has healthy, regularly updated financial statements. It’s the only way they’re able to know exactly how money is moving around and being used within the company. Likewise, if you’re rich, then you’re also using personal financial statements. It’s how you’re able to manage your money and continue building your wealth. And so, here’s exactly how you can start doing that as well.

This is a personal financial statement. It’s just an example and I’m going to include a download link below for you to download this and use it for yourself, but essentially what you’re looking at here are two separate statements. Now, this entire thing is your personal financial statement, but it’s broken down into two separate parts. The first statement is your personal balance sheet. This is an itemized list of your assets or the things that you own, your liabilities or what you owe, and your net worth. Now, the purpose of a personal balance sheet is to measure and evaluate your personal financial standing. Just like with a business, you need to know exactly where you stand with your money so that you know exactly what adjustments need to be made, if any. So, let’s dive into this. On the right here is your personal income statement. This is an itemized list of your monthly income and your monthly expenses. Now, I already know what you’re thinking. But Joshua, isn’t that just a budget? And no, it’s not. Budgets have information about your estimated income and your estimated expenses based on that estimated income. However, an income statement does not use estimates. It literally shows exactly what’s happening within your financial situation typically on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis. Okay? And so the purpose of an income statement is to show your financial performance over any given period. And so what I like to do personally or what I just started doing recently is preparing an income statement and a balance sheet every single month at the end of the month. And so let’s go ahead and walk through this really quick and I’m going to show you exactly how you can start using one. And so we’ll start with the personal balance sheet. Starting from the top, we’ve got the income section. And in this section, to no surprise, you’re going to put in your income. Again, you’re not making estimations as to what you think your income is going to be because remember, you’re filling this out at the end of the month or at the end of the quarter. And so, you already know what your income was for the previous period. And so, that’s what you’re going to enter in this section. And so, you’ll put down exactly how much you were paid from all the different sources in which you were paid. And so, for example, if you work a W2 job and you get paid every single week, theoretically, you should have four different paychecks listed on here. And I want you to actually list out each of those paychecks separately as a different item. Also, if you have a side hustle or a side business bringing in some extra income, then you should also put that in this section as well. Okay? And then once you’ve got that all listed here, if you’re using one of my Excel or Google Sheets templates, then it’s already been programmed to do the math for you. And so, here’s the total. Now, the next section is one that I added personally to this income statement. You wouldn’t really typically see this on any other income statements, but I personally just like seeing my investment income separate from my other income just because I don’t know, I just like seeing it like that. But anyways, any income like capital gains from investments that you earn, like dividends from stocks, uh rental income from rental real estate, interest from savings accounts or bonds, anything like that that’s considered a capital gain can go into this section here. And then the next section are the expenses. Once again, list out all of the expenses here. Mortgage payments, car insurance, health insurance, your internet bill, phone bill, electricity, restaurants. I want you to list out everything here. Now, if you’re like me and you use a credit card for literally everything because you want to get the rewards, but you also remember to pay off your balances in full each month, then I don’t want you just to list an item on here called credit card expenses, right? I want you to actually go into your credit card statements and see exactly what you’re spending money on. And so anyways, I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. Just list all of your expenses down to the exact penny and then you’ll be good to go. And then after you filled everything out, my template will automatically calculate the net income. And so you may be thinking, okay, so once I get the net income, what happens after that? Well, if this is your very first month doing one of these, then honestly, not much can happen after the first month. It’s going to take about 3 to four to 5 months of you consistently doing this before you can actually start to see trends that you can then make adjustments to. But after 3 4 5 months of consistently doing this and actually putting in accurate information, then what will happen is you’ll start to see trends. For example, if you’re constantly either breaking even on your net income or even worse, maybe you’re in the red each month, as in you’re getting into debt, and you’re seeing this trend happening every single month for about 5 months, then you know that something has to change. And fortunately, since you’ve been recording the information faithfully and keeping up with your income and your expenses, you can easily go back through previous month’s income statements to see exactly why you’re getting into the red or why you’re breaking even each month. And then you can make the proper adjustments to fix that. Maybe you’re spending too much money on your Tic Tac subscription. You know, those things can get pretty expensive. Or maybe you’re eating too many Big Macs from McDonald’s and you need to cut back on your fast food purchases. Listen, there is no secret formula or some magic cheat code to doing this. It’s all about just filling out the income statements, being consistent and doing it every single month. And if you start to see a negative trend creep up, figure out why it’s happening and then make the adjustments to fix it. If you ever want to break out of the bottom 90% cycle, then this number here, your net income needs to be in the green each month. And the higher in the green it is, the better. And if that number is not in the green each month, maybe you’re breaking even or you’re in the red each month. If that’s the case, then you need to start making adjustments. Start cutting expenses or try to find ways to increase your income. Or even better, do both at the same time. Cut your expenses and increase your income. Perhaps you need to take up a side hustle. Or maybe it’s time to start that business that you’ve been talking about for so long and you need to actually start it and take it serious so that you can start increasing your income. Or maybe just keep things simple and in addition to your full-time job, just get a part-time job. But you need to start doing anything that you can do to get this number right here as high into the green as possible. Because then all of the money from your net income will then be used to buy performing assets which will be added to your balance sheet which actually brings us to the next step of filling out your personal financial statement which is your balance sheet. So on the balance sheet you’re going to start off here at the top and you’re going to add all of your assets. Okay? And so all of your bank accounts such as your checking, savings, money market accounts, etc. Any taxable investment accounts that you have such as an individual investment account. If you have any type of employee sponsored retirement plan such as a 401k or 403b, add them to the list. Any alternative assets like artwork, precious metals, anything like that that has value that’s considered an asset, add it to this list. Next, you’ll move down and add your liabilities. Your liabilities are the money that you owe. And so if you have a mortgage, a car loan, student loans, credit card debt, any debt or money that you owe should be listed here under liabilities. And then once both of these have been completed, my template will automatically calculate your net worth. And the goal here with the balance sheet is to continue increasing your net worth. If your net worth is close to zero or if it’s even in the negative, because it is possible to have a negative net worth, you need to really examine what’s happening here on your balance sheet so that you can make the proper adjustments. Maybe you have too much credit card debt and that obviously needs to be paid off. Perhaps you have two family cars with two different loans and that’s making the liability section of your balance sheet very heavy. In that case, you would know, well, what would happen if we got rid of one car? How would my net worth look then? But the goal here should really be to continue increasing the amount of assets in the asset column and decreasing or limiting the liabilities in the liability column. And this is what the balance sheet of a rich person would look like. A very heavy asset column. and a very light liability column. And so now the very last thing that you want to look at on your personal financial statement is how everything correlates together. If you want to break the cycle that the bottom 90% of people are in, then your financial statement should emulate this to some degree. The asset column on your balance sheet generates income that then goes into your income column on your income statement. And then that income is used to cover your expenses with the net income then being reinvested back into buying even more assets. As a result, the asset column continues to grow and therefore it produces even more income which is then reinvested back into buying even more assets. And this cycle just continues on and

What you just watched, every cut, every animation, and every transition was created by Claude within Cap Cut in less than 20 minutes. So far, there honestly hasn’t been a single edit or really a single thing that this combination couldn’t handle. But to get it to this point, I’ve spent weeks of trial and error and a ton of credits. But that way, you won’t have to. So, in this video, I’m going to tell you everything you need to know to create stunning videos with color grading, motion design, and animation. And the best part is that it’ll all be done by AI. So, here’s the plan. I took one RAW video, and by the end of this tutorial, we will transform it completely. Every improvement goes into a different part of the same video. So, watch the before and make sure to stick around for the after. So, first, you’ll need to install Claude on your computer. And in the previous video, we talked about how to use one of Claude’s features called design to create highquality motion effects. Today, we’re going to talk about another killer combination of Claude, Cap Cut, and Clot. So, if you don’t have Claude yet, make sure to go to Claudeai and download the app for Mac or PC. If you don’t have Cap Cut, you’ll need to do the same. Now, let’s jump back to Claude. When you log in for the first time, it’ll likely appear exactly as you see on my screen. So, previously when I shot this video, we threw together a rough edit, and honestly, it looked bad. Flat colors, no life in it. Now, normally this is where you’d give up or you’d hire a colorist. But instead, we’re going to fix the color foundation and we’re going to do it right inside of Clot. So, let’s take our single timeline, drop the raw footage in, and look at the first problem. Now, every editor knows the pain of spending hours tweaking color wheels just to fix flat log footage only for it to still look washed out. This is where we will need LUT. LUT is an instruction file that tells the program to replace each color in the picture with a different one. For example, make this shade of blue a little warmer, these shadows are greenish, the skin is softer, etc. We need an LUT particularly because it’s the only way to package an entire color grade into a single small file that Claude can generate from using a text prompt or any editor like Cap Cut which can instantly apply it to your footage. So all that I need to do is ask please generate a clean soft pastel LUT file for my YouTube videos cinematic [music] and clean. Then I just click send. Now, after generating, Claude gives you a summary of the look. Lifted shadows, subtle teal and peach split toning, reduced saturation, low contrast, ultimately a clean studio aesthetic with friendly skin tones. Now, if you go a bit further, you’ll find the actual file. Click on it and then find the arrow and choose download. Save the file to your downloads folder or really any preferred location. So, let’s click save. And since I’ve already generated the file, I’m just going to click replace. Now, in Cap Cut, go to adjustment and select LUT. Then click import to find and open the cube file. [music] This imports it into Cap Cut for your project. Next, we’ll click the plus icon to add a new layer to the timeline, which you can extend over your footage. Switching it on and off will show the filter applied to your footage. Now, I felt like it was a bit too intense, so I adjusted the selection to about 50%. That looks great. Claude’s main strength lies in its precise adjustment capabilities. For instance, I dislike the shadow in this design because it clashed with the clean look. I requested Claude to create a version without the teal, and the difference was evident. Now, setting this to 50% produced a gentle pastel studio vibe. So, that’s the entire base video graded. Now that the whole timeline looks clean, we can start layering effects on top of specific moments. Now that the color of our video looks great, let’s take it one step further and make it even better by adding some visualization. Now, usually doing a dynamic counting animation means manually placing hundreds of key frames in in After Effects or buying a bunch of templates that ultimately break your project file. Now, the first moment that I want to upgrade is right here. The part of the video where I talk about numbers. A static number on screen is boring. So, let’s make it count up. For example, do you guys remember in the Mr. Beast videos when the dollar icon wildly spins up? That’s the kind of effect that I want to achieve in this part of video, but without After Effects. Now, all that we need is an SRT file. This is an ordinary text file. So, let’s navigate to Claude and paste in our prompt. All it says is, “Generate an SRT file for me with numbers counting from 0 to 600. Make each subtitle 0.1 seconds long and add a dollar sign in front of each. Now let’s go ahead and click send. Once you’ve completed this, just like with the LUT, click on the file, find the arrow, and select download. [music] Save it to your downloads folder and then open Cap Cut and drag the SRT file directly onto your timeline. Zooming into the timeline reveals how many small subtitle clips are being created. Now, the great part is you can customize all of these directly in Cap Cut. Then you can adjust the font size, change it, or even modify the color. But you can see an issue. It’s way too long for our timeline. So, staying selected on all of them. I’m going to create a compound clip. What this does is it groups all of our subtitles together. In this compound clip, I can then go to speed and let’s ramp up the maker speed to make it a lot shorter. think I’ll be going for 10 times shorter. Now I can reposition that to whatever I want. [music] And if we play that, then you can see that we have this really premium looking numbers counting effect. Usually to make this by hand, it would take about an hour, but we’ve been able to do it in just 2 minutes. But there’s one last bonus trick. If I wanted to hold on to, let’s say, 600, if that’s the point I’m making in my video, then I need to go ahead and doubleclick into that compound clip to access my subtitle files. And what I’m going to do is drag that individual layer a lot longer. So then I can go back to my compound clip and let’s go ahead and drag it. Now when it reaches the end of our numbers, you’ll see that it pauses for a few seconds at that 600 mark. All right. So far we’ve fixed the colors and we’ve added the counter to our clip. Now, we’re entering the territory where After Effects usually eats away all of your RAM, crashes at 99% render, or demands another purchase of Adobe services just to keep working. Everything we’ve upgraded so far has been relatively easy. But the next three effects, the intro background, the explainer graphics, and the outro map, need heavier tooling. So, let’s set them up once and then knock out the rest of this video. [music] Now, in this segment, I’m going to demonstrate how to create more complex and applied motion effects. So, I’ll break down how to install them and how to get ready for the generation. For the upcoming steps, we’ll need to use Claude Code for handling code or systems files. Now, if you’re on the free version, you’ll only see the chat option, but if you upgrade to the pro plan at $17 a month, you’re going to gain access to co-work and cloud code. We’ll be using Cloud Code for this next set of tricks. Once you have Cloud Code, the next step is installing Remotion, a tool that gives Claude all the knowledge it needs to create stunning motion graphics. But before that, we’ll need one extra app, Node.js. So, click the download link that I’ve left in the description, select get Node.js, and install it. This is what your computer needs to run Remotion. So, next, let’s open Claude and paste the phrase npx create video at sign latest. Choose bypass permissions so Claude can automatically install everything it needs without asking you and then simply press enter. Now if a prompt appears as code, just copy it and paste it into the terminal. [music] Since I’ve already got a project on my computer, it’ll show a file path with a complete remotion template. But on your first install, it’s going to ask you to create a folder where all of your Remotion projects will be saved. Now, if you’re confused at any point, simply ask Claude, “Hey, I don’t get what we’re doing right now. Can you please help me install this?” Now, after the installation, type the following and press enter. What this does is installs the additional packages and dependencies that optimize Remotion’s performance. What you’re going to see is 562 packages installed. Now, with Remotion set up, a wide range of creative possibilities open [music] up. You can truly create anything that you envision. All right, everything is set up. So, let’s go ahead and get generating. Now, we’re going to start with the intro to our video. Right now, it opens on a plain frame. Let’s replace that with a premium motion background. We’ll begin by creating some highquality motion backgrounds. First, I went ahead and visited Pinterest, which is a great resource because you can search terms like gradient background or gradient figures to find highquality references. I especially like this one right here. So, let’s go ahead and download it as an asset. Then, we’ll switch over to Claude. Make sure that again you’re using Claude Code. Create a new session and drag the image directly into the chat. This lets Claude view the screenshot or image as a reference. Next, we’ll paste my motion background prompt into the command bar. If you’d like to access all these prompts, there’s a link in the description below that you can use to follow along. Basically, the instruction is to use the motion skill to transform this into an attractive motion background without altering the colors, textures, or the overall appearance. It should look like a premium motion background. Additionally, I requested Claude to rotate the image 90° and set the aspect ratio to 16×9. This entire project should have a duration of only 10 seconds. What you’re going to do, just like we did with our installations, is go to accept edits and say bypass permissions. You don’t need to be on Fable 5 since it’s super expensive. So, you can go ahead and select lower models. Let me walk you through what this process first does. It’s super important to make all the manipulations and to insert all of your references into cloud code, not the regular chat. Now, it’s going to show you something like running the skillotion best practices and it’ll state that it’s using Remotion. Now, if it doesn’t say that, make sure to revisit the session where you installed Remotion and ask Claude. If you followed my steps so far, you should have successfully installed Remotion directly into Claude. There we go. Now that it’s finished after taking a couple of tries, Claude is then going to open your browser to display a preview of the file. I’ll take a quick look and we’ll see a short full HD video, which you can actually also upgrade to 4K. The blue reference color is going to remain consistent. And scrubbing through quickly, you’ll notice that there’s been some motion added to the blue glow, resulting in this dynamic motion background. Overall, I like the generation, but I’d like to change the speed of the effect. Right now, I find it to be really slow and a bit dim. So, I’ll ask Claude to make the blue gradient move much faster, about three times. Then, [music] I just click enter. Now, the great thing about this process is that there’s no need to edit or really to know any code. You simply tell it in any language to claude and it’ll start editing the composition immediately. Now, just in 5 seconds, if we return to the web browser without reloading, you’ll notice that that orb is now moving significantly faster than before. Now, in this next segment of our video, the middle part, I’ll explain the process step by step. Now, instead of just talking, let’s visualize it with animated boxes and drop them right over the footage that we already have graded. That’s exactly why we made the background transparent earlier. Now, in this step, we’ll look at how to create motion design generations that’ll give a direct impact to your viewership. If you’re working with e-commerce or on a marketing campaign, just imagine that you need to schematically explain a very complex topic in your video using just blocks. Now, creating such a motion design typically takes around 2 hours at minimum. I’ll show you how to do it much faster [music] in just a few minutes. I began by visiting Pinterest and searching for square shaped UI boxes. I found something super aesthetic and good references. So, I downloaded the files that I liked. Next, I created a new session in Cloud Code, fed it the file, and dragged it into the session. Finally, I pasted the prompt that I used to generate that effect, the link for which you can find in the description below. [music] So, let’s quickly go through the prompt. This final line should be included in all of your creations. I didn’t add it to the motion background initially because we were just starting out, but now I’m always going to end my prompts with this line. Ask me any clarifying questions so that we nail this spoton. Now, let’s press enter. Let’s see what Claude does next. It comprehends the first part of our prompt, but some ambiguity remains about what it’s actually going to generate. So, here we go. It begins by providing a list of questions using Remotion to guide these questions which we can then answer. So let’s go ahead and respond to them. Let’s go ahead and stack these vertically. For that I’m going to say sequential start. So 1 2 3 4 5. And they’re all going to appear in kind of a staggered order. [music] Yes. Let’s do text only. We’re going to use this in a horizontal video. If you wanted to use it in a vertical video, you could obviously type 1080 by 1920. I’m going to say hold and then fade at the end. I’m also going to add while they’re holding, add some motion to the boxes. Let’s clarify the motion that we want. Add some subtle smooth motion to the boxes. That’s good. Let’s stick with pure black for now. So, now that we’ve taken the time to answer its questions, you can see that it’s taking the time to do some final self- auditing and sanity checks. That’s the amazing thing about Claude. It kind of selfch checkcks what it’s [music] created. Now, obviously, we do sometimes have to do some manual tweaking. This pop-up that’s just shown is now actually really important because what I didn’t do is at the bottom left here where it says accept edits. I didn’t say bypass permissions. So, because of that, Claude is now asking us if it’s okay to do things. It wants to check the PNG file that it created. So, essentially access that PNG file on our computer. I’m going to go ahead and say always allow. Now, just to clarify, if you don’t want those pop-ups to happen, then change this from accept edits to bypass permissions. And it’s just going to allow Claude to do everything that it needs to in the background. All right. You can see that it says done, which took about 4 minutes to create. Now, when we open the browser, you’ll notice it’s a part of our Remotion project. Let’s click play. [music] Wow, the result is even better than my previous tests. I really like the simplicity and the conciseness. The only adjustment I’d suggest is that it feels like it takes a little bit too long to appear. I’ll make a few quick tweaks to demonstrate how easy it is to modify things when needed. I already like the current sizing, but for this demo, let’s speed everything up by about 10%. I’ll also update the font to enter semibold. Now, aside from these three adjustments, the overall look really does appear premium. So, let’s go ahead and click [music] enter. If we play our sequence here, we’ll see that we’ve now assembled a 9-second 29 frame composition. So, almost 10 seconds. The font does in fact appear larger and all of the elements are slightly bigger, which looks good. But this setup won’t work directly in our Cap Cut project because of the black background. [music] So, at this point, I’ll tell Claude, “This looks great. Please make me the background transparent but keep the box’s transparency off. Now I’m doing this so that I can download it directly from Remotion and incorporate into our Cap Cut project directly. Now if you do prefer that black background, that’s fine. But what I want to do is overlay on my footage or on a custom motion background that I created in Claude. So that’s why I’m requesting a transparent background. Now, in 30 seconds, if we jump back to our project, you’ll see that we now have a transparent background. Once you’re happy with your motion graphic, go ahead and click render. You can save that to your computer and import the file directly into your Cap Cut and create something that looks about like this. And through these examples of the motion background and now this kinds of effects, square shaped motion graphic figures, you have a great understanding of exactly what Claude can do. Honestly, it’s mind-blowing. We’ve got two segments of our video left. In one, I quote an article on screen will highlight the keywords as they’re read and the ending where I mention the trip from LA to New York. That’s getting a full map animation. The next feature that we can describe is designed for people who frequently work with large volumes of references such as news bulletins or article news searches. [music] Now, those are just two examples of some wild motion graphics, and I’ve got two more to show you. One is a highlighting effect and the other is a map animation perfect for travel videos. Now, the beauty of our system lies in the fact that you can also create several parallel projects. So, you won’t waste extra time implementing and creating effects gradually. Simultaneous or concurrent creation allows me to save an insane amount of time, which in the case of working with After Effects still meant having two separate windows open. The first one is the highlighting effect. So, you’ll actually need a screenshot of what you want to highlight. What I did is I just took a screenshot from a news site. I’ll paste this prompt now, and I won’t read it all, but what’s important to note is that I’ve asked it to highlight specific words from our screenshot. For example, I requested this, this, and this. Now, if your screenshot contains a lot of different words, be sure to specify which ones to highlight. Now, once that’s clear, I’ll click enter and see the results. So what you’re seeing here is because we attached an actual image, Claude needs to then source that image from our computer. So I’m giving it access to the actual file in the web. Now as we proceed, we’ll create the final map animation. I’ll start a new session and paste in this prompt. Then I’ll change the accept edit setting to bypass permissions as I did in the beginning. [music] Finally, I’ll click enter to continue. All right, let’s quickly answer those. Create new project 1920x 1080. Yeah, let’s do country state borders visible. Follow the line at low altitude. This is going to be whatever you want. And once I’ve answered those questions, let’s go ahead and click enter. Currently, we’re running two animation builds simultaneously. The first is our map and the second is the text chat featuring our text highlighting effect. The highlight effect is now complete and generally it looks pretty good. But one thing I noticed is that it appears a bit choppy, which I’ll want to fix. So I’ll talk to Claude and tell it the highlight effect looks staggered or choppy. Please make it smooth. Submit. And after 45 seconds, the adjustment is done. Now returning to your project, you’ll now see a smooth highlight that introduces the words as they’re read. And lastly, if we go back to Claude and we select our animated map project, you’ll see that it says it’s complete. We can go ahead and say please open this remote project. And just like that, our map animation is done. Now, the important thing I need to show you when creating this map is an error occurred because Remotion tried to use a Mapbox token that we don’t have. I then directed it to use a different open- source map and it successfully created our effect. Since this requires a map, we couldn’t render it in the usual way. You’ll see here that the motion map rule suggests using GL and this specific code. I instructed it to render it with this code. And after the rendering finished, I located the output file on my computer. This is what it produced. Now, let’s make some quick changes to this. I want the map to actually feel colorful. And I want to add a globe effect so it doesn’t just look like a flat map. And there we go. Now, if we go to Remotion Studio, we can go ahead and play our video. What we have is an animation out of Los Angeles. And if we swipe all the way over, we’ll be in New York. and we have that globe effect with the color on the water. So, we don’t need the black and white. Additionally, I plan to use Claw’s extensions like Hixfield MCP and apply the Miniax H3 model to add effects to the map. To enhance the beauty of our animation, especially when the dotted line travels from New York City to LA, I suggested designing it to resemble the style of the Civilization game. The model’s simplicity is characterized by ultrarecise detailing of various objects which led us to choose a really accurate map design. Now to access the Hixfield MCP feature, we just need to enable Claude’s extension and request access which can be done through a careful subscription process. To render this, especially when the preview appears a bit spotty, I return to Claude, swipe up to copy the prompt, and then confirm that it’s perfect. I’ll then paste the prompt onto my computer to generate the image. Now, we’ll wait for a moment. And once the rendering is complete, [music] you’ll notice that the map is flawlessly rendered and the animations are looking great. Now, just zoom out, swipe across, and voila, our effects are in a designed background. That’s crazy. And now, the moment of truth. Here is the video that we started with side by side. Raw footage on the left and on the right graded with the money counter, motion background, animated boxes with highlights and the map. One video, zero After Effects. Now, here are a few examples of the motion graphics, effects, and other features that you can create with Claude. We began with the free version of Claude, using it to generate a stylish LUT and an SRT file with animated counting numbers. Now later we switched the paid version and combined it with Remotion to produce motion graphics that continue to amaze me. I hope you enjoyed this video. I really enjoyed creating it and experimenting with everything. Thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you guys in the next

Okay, so welcome back to the channel, Andrew. It is an absolute pleasure. This has been a long one in the making, but I’ve got some awesome questions to talk to you today about alovvium and content creation. As everyone knows, I’m a content creator, and you have been for much longer than myself. And I always love to to nitpick down into your brain and get the best possible answers to my question, especially for those that haven’t quite started content creation yet and want to get into it or want to explore that world. I think everyone should at least bring themselves into that realm even a little bit whether it’s through writing or or music or whatever else. There’s always something that you can be passionate about in this space. You just need to find out what that is. So, there’s definitely something for everyone. How are you going today? How is everything going? Everything is great. Thanks for asking, man. Uh seriously, I I couldn’t be happier right now. I’m working on so many interesting projects, working with so many interesting people right now. I’m I’m doing really well. All right. So, I’m going to kick off this one with a really simple question. You might have answered it before and I’m really not sure. What is your favorite aluvial? My favorite aluvial? Oo, that one’s tough. Um, I think right now it is uh Seir like without question. The savagery of Seir is just the aggression, the Omega ability, just the look of Seir, just emitting like the power of lava and magma from it, from their body. Like everything about that character is super original and interesting to me and very savage and violent and vicious. And as the like Pokémon for adults that Ouvium purports to be, that is adult to me. Like it is viciously violent. Like I feel like Seir would like kill people and not give any shits about it. I like Seir. Seir is is just pure violence and it’s a really cool aluvial. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Um, I think he’s a little bit of like a de facto in the top five for me cuz he works so well with Skorox. So, Oh, yeah. And the Skorox combo is good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also, he’s tanky. He’s tanky DPS. I like tanky DPS a lot with like in most games you can take a bunch of damage and deal a bunch of damage. Isn’t that the most fun character a lot of the time? I It’s the same reason they had to change Overwatch, right? It’s they got five on the field now cuz the two tank meta was just dumb. Yep. That’s right. Pretty much. Okay. So, we’ll get straight into it with content creation. So, firstly, I’m going to go a little bit into your origin story here. When did you realize you wanted to create content? Like thinking all those years back? Uh, like create it at all or like for a living? What do you mean? Let’s let’s say for a living. For a living. Okay. I knew I wanted to create content for a living in high school. So I’d say 11th grade I knew that. Uh now at the time this was social media didn’t exist at the time. So this was in the year 2000. Um so we only had web one at the time where the internet was read only. Uh so the only content creation you could do at that time was be in theater and so I was in the theater team. you I was in the AV club and we could do things like motion tween and use uh animation software to create uh content but there was nowhere to upload it and then I was on the TV production crew and I actually have in my journal from high school I wrote um in there that one day I’m going to make a company called Awall Productions Inc. and I knew at that moment like that was going to be what I do. I thought I was going to go into film I when I went to college. Uh but I didn’t end up going into film uh because I was a total fup when it comes to college. Uh and I didn’t do that and instead I spent my time in college um creating electronic music and playing video games and then creating content for newgrounds.com. And those things were the closest thing we had maybe to Twitch and YouTube and Twitter and being a content creator today. I couldn’t get motivated to go to film school when this thing on the internet was happening that was so much more interesting of online gaming and it was the very beginning of online content creation at that time. Uh and so that’s when I knew I knew in 11th grade I was going to do this for a living. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I didn’t know you made electronic music. Do you have any of that still stored up that we can have a listen to at some point? Yeah, I I do have some of it on on CDs, so I’d have to find a way to burn them off of the CDs onto the internet. Um I don’t not sure if any of it I I put some of it on this site called GarageBand.com. I think it’s still around. Um where you could upload music and get people’s feedback on it. That was mindbending at the time that other people could listen to your music and tell you what they think of it. It was like the first time that had ever happened in the world. uh other than people being able to give you feedback in real life on your music in real life. Yeah. So, some of it was on there. I’d have to, you know, I should probably rip that music and put it on the cloud to store it. Uh so, I’ll probably do that. I look forward to it, believe me. It It’s not going to be good. It’s going to be like dated 20-year-old electronic music by someone who got to like a mid-tier level of talent. I did professional music production for a while for like pop artists. I did remixes and I made I don’t know maybe $15,000 doing that, let’s say, but I never made a career out of music because I was never good enough at it. Fair enough. Fair enough. Well, maybe I didn’t have the drive. Yeah, I definitely believe in playing to your strengths. I think I feel like you can build as many strengths as you want to build, but I feel like playing to your strengths is always powerful and and some have more natural incline than others, of course, as well. Um, which is always the case with anything, right? So, what kind of was the first video you did or the first channel cuz you have quite a few channels, but I don’t really know which one came first and and which one was the one you focused on and that sort of stuff. Kind of what was first you focused on on um Yeah. You don’t know. You don’t know what channel was my first channel and the first video that I ever made isn’t on the internet anymore. I privated it out of cringe and maybe I shouldn’t have done that. I I should probably go back and unprivate it, but the channel was called FTW Broadcasting, and that was in 2007, I think I made that on YouTube, and now the channel, I think, is called Awall Gaming. I renamed it and rebranded it to try to make it into something else. The first ever video I made and uploaded there was a Starcraft one, I believe, esports commentary um that I did as a just solo. And so I just recorded Starcraft, did a shout cast on top, and I did a bunch of those by myself. And then I ended up bringing in my friend Danny um to do it with me. And our concept was we’re going to do dual commentary. That was going to be our thing that was going to blow up the internet cuz nobody was doing dual commentary. And then we end it ended up becoming this kind of like shit-talking show where we were just kind of bantering with each other and there just happened to be Starcraft gameplay in the background. And it actually did pretty well. I mean in like 2008 we were getting like 5 to 10,000 views per video on our Starcraft esports commentary. And we were some of the biggest Starcraft esports commentary guys at the time. But this was when no gaming channel had reached a million subscribers. like it was a very small space, but that’s where I got started. And then I ended up figuring out that I loved esports from that. And then we started I started casting the Go for SC2 series for the ESL. They’re the largest esports organization out there early. And I was casting their replays and doing professional esports commentary. And I loved that. And so I thought to myself, one day I would like to be hosting the biggest esports events in the world. Um, and anyway, that might that might happen with Alovvium. That’s one of the reasons why I’m here. That will happen with Alvium. I’m telling you that much myself. I think I think you’ve definitely got something special here. Um, not just with the competitive gameplay, but the the overall IP that is being built. Um, yeah, that’s that’s a really crazy story. Yeah. Yeah. And so it’s funny and so that all so the the story the the insight for all of you it’s not just about me. The insight for all of you is you might start somewhere and then it might branch a little bit but once you discover something that you really like that can be a longer story arc than you know like my interest in esports. I did the initial esports videos then I brought my friends in. Then I did esports commentary. Then that led to me founding that gaming network, TGN. Then we did our own esports tournaments there. Then I ended up doing the official esports videos for Blizzard. And then now I might end up being uh the person who directs esports for aa game. And so this is a this is a fun winding path over time where if you discover something you love, you might not instantly get what the opportunity you think you’re going to get in that area. But if you keep going towards opportunities in that area and you keep working at your skills in that area, it might take you like it did me 15 years. It might take me 20 years from the first time that I made my first esports commentary video to be on stage hosting at an 80,000 person event for esports with Alovium. It might have it might take me 20 years to make that happen, but eventually it will happen if you want it to. And so I’ve literally and I know this is cheesy, but I’ve literally just straight up told myself that’s what you’re going to do one day. And I it’s going to happen because I told myself that’s what’s going to happen. That’s how this [ __ ] works. You can literally will whatever you want to happen in your career into existence by just simply willing it into existence, but the timeline might be longer than you think and the amount of work that you need to put in might be longer than you think. Like just with esports and commentary for me, I’ve put in about a thousand hours of work just into that. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s definitely a long road. Um but I I have similar goals in my life and I’m only just starting to action them now. So um I’m excited to see where that heads and it might not even be successful on the first try. It might take me a few but um yeah I’m definitely excited to push that through to the end as well. Um so the next you won’t be successful on your first try and if you’re not successful on your first try that’s better than being successful on your first try. It’s better to fail. It really is. It it makes you so much better. Um, if you fail and you don’t get the results you want, oh my gosh, it helps you refine the idea, helps you refine your crap, refine your craft, and it helps you find the very specific thing that you are better than other people at naturally. So, failure is very good, especially when you’re getting started. Yeah. I mean, that being said, this is my first proper attempt at YouTube. I mean, the first two weren’t that hard, but I guess I just didn’t find what I was passionate for at the time and and I got it right the third try. I mean, so far so good. Anyways, um the next thing I want to talk about is is YouTube. So, you’re a big proponent of YouTube. We’ve had that discussion many times, but if you had to start anywhere, YouTube fantastic. Tik Tok’s pretty good, too. But we get the idea. So, the thing I want to talk about is Facebook, I’ve been seeing recently, has run out of new users. Now obviously there’s global recessions and things kind of starting but but um I can’t even remember his name at the moment. He said that pretty much every Yes. Zuckerberg um he he’s talked about pretty much that everyone on the planet that has easy access to Wi-Fi or a mobile phone or computer whatever pretty much has Facebook at this point. Obviously the active users is very different, but he’s run out of people to give Facebook to and that might be part of the reason Meta is starting to Meta has started to take shape. Um, do you think YouTube will ever hit that sort of mass consumption where you just run out of people to show videos to? Yes. Yes, it will. Uh, and all of these things go in natural cycles. I think YouTube is all, you know, it’s growing consistently, but it’ll plateau at some point and tech companies don’t pivot their business model and they don’t pivot the appeal of their platform until they see a plateau in the numbers or they anticipate a decline. So the primary motivating factor for Mark Zuckerberg to uh change the company’s direction to web three is that his CFO came over to him and told him we are not going to hit our targets in upcoming quarters. Here are the factors that I see and we need to talk about how we’re going to find a way for growth long term. I mean, Zuckerberg hasn’t said that publicly, but I get 100% guarantee you that triggered Zuckerberg looking at uh metaverse and VR and these that particular area as a way to monetize. YouTube is going to run into the same thing and all web 2 social media platforms are going to run into the same problem. Why? Because that’s what happens with entrenched technology when new technology enters the space. The same thing happened to NBC, Universal. The same thing happened to CBS and ESPN and all the TV entities out there that came before social media started taking all their business. And then before that, all the print-based companies ran into the same issue when TV took their market share and took their advertising revenue. And before that, radio stations and radio broadcasting took the hit, etc., etc. We see this cycle play out over and over again. As soon as there’s a better broadcasting technology and a more engaging way to communicate information to other humans, it soaks up the attention, then it soaks up the advertising dollars and the entrenched players react 5 to 10 years after that new technology drops to try to fix the problem as their business is declining. That’s what we’re seeing with Meta. And so, will that be the case for YouTube and for Google and Apple and all of them? Yes. Yes, it will. And will most of them not make it 10 to 15 years from now in terms of being a juggernaut? Yes, they will not be the big company. Go look at the top companies on the stock market from 20 years ago. There’s a bunch of names on there you ain’t never heard of, guys, if you’re young. You ever heard of Enron? Probably not. Used to be the biggest company in the world. It was at the top of the list. Vaporized. So anyway, the point is new technology will replace YouTube at some point. So your job everybody is to harvest as much free attention from social media platforms as you can today. And when you see a new platform emerge that you think looks promising, also distribute your content there. Don’t don’t um only distribute your content there or abandon a current platform. That’s why I’ve always been a preaching rereaming, streaming to multiple platforms to get more reach, uploading your content on every platform to hit every single algorithm, and then most importantly, collecting the emails and phone numbers and personal information of your viewers so that you can contact them directly. You don’t want to have your audience and your business as a creator be entirely dependent on some algorithms on some social media platform. You need to be able to reach your customers and your viewers directly. And as long as you’re on someone else’s platform to do that, you’ll always be at the mercy of those platforms and you’ll always be trying to run up a waterfall that’s constantly rushing beneath you. You can never get to the top. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I think I think that’s really good advice and that’s the the sort of thing I was looking for is um I’m always concerned about falling into obscurity and things like that and I just I want to make sure that I have a clear clear path forward and and you know more than anyone um in my opinion about about a lot of this stuff. Um one thing you really quick one thing you can take away no matter what a lot of people like acquiring audience and attention and like that’s the currency they want to hold on to. That’s cool. One thing you can do is just make money. And guess what you can do with money. Money lasts through time. And so the money you collect today from your business today can equal attention in the future because the next media thing you do, you can hire an editor and have premium equipment and have a great website and have premium branding and the money you make today can accelerate your attention gathering in the next one. And so a lot of people think, I’ve got to keep my followers. I’ve got to keep the views up. I’ve got to keep, you know, all of that’s good, but if you make money, the money is a way for you to almost store the energy and the value you acquired from those viewers and then to move it forward in time in a different format. So, don’t underestimate money. And if you do make a decent amount of money or any amount of money as a creator and you don’t need it, then consider investing it so that it grows over time. So that next media project that you do, you’ll have even more money. and then you’ll be able to get an even greater head start and have a team of people to do everything for you. That would really accelerate the progress, right? So, don’t forget the financial aspect and be researching and becoming financially literate. Uh because the finance aspect of running a media business is as important, if not more important, than the attention gathering part, which is what everybody’s sub uh everybody uh is obsessed with with getting subs, getting likes, getting views. That’s only half of the equation. And creators that focus on that half of the equation and are good at it, most of the time they’re not good at the finance side and they fail for that reason. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s a concern with anything. We even hear lots of stories about famous um famous proathletes and things like that uh going broke shortly after they their careers finished because they didn’t have a backup plan or they just didn’t manage their finances accordingly. really that only need to invest maybe 10% to just have incoming cash flow for the rest of their life. So it it feels shocking on the surface but it’s definitely just a part of that that thing that everyone needs to get educated on at some point in their life. Um, so the next thing I want to talk about is regards more to newer content creators and people haven’t started their journey yet is do you think more time on YouTube makes a major difference in the context of if you didn’t really improve so much and you were consistent. So for example, if someone produced videos for 5 years and they were they were decently good, but they never they were never really amazing or anything and they never really pushed them up to that level or did a lot of market research or anything. Do you think that makes a big difference as opposed to someone who’s just been doing it for a year, but their video content is just that much better? Um, it’s all it’s all learning. So, the reason why the top creators on YouTube are the top creators on YouTube, not only did they make more videos than you in most cases for a longer period of time, but they learned something every time they made a video and improved the next video. That’s why it worked for them. I know a number of grinders. There’s this one guy, Ruricon, uh, who is a full-time creator and he’s been doing this as long longer than me. He started before I did. And it took him 1,200 videos on his YouTube channel until he ended up getting like a 100,000 subscribers or something on his YouTube channel. And the point of sharing that is working hard matters. Sticking with it matters definitely. But he would have succeeded much much faster had he improved his content video over video and he had um created content that was designed to grow. But instead he just wanted to make the type of content he wanted to make and he did it in the way he wanted to do it and he wasn’t focused on improvement as much. And so you choose your path. If you make 100 videos and you prove you improve significantly video over video over 100 videos, you’ll be getting tons of views or maximum amounts of views in your niche. And if you’re only improving a little bit or barely at all over a thousand videos, you aren’t going to be that far. And so you have to think of releasing videos not as not so much as a grind but as a learning opportunity in each video. In every single video you you should aim every single episode of a show I do, I aim to improve one. My goal is actually to improve two tangible things you can see on the screen or hear or learn in every video I do. So every explainer you see I do with Alovium will be better than the previous one. Hopefully every episode of Alovium Insider and Alvium Showcase and whatever the hell name shows we come up with will be better than the previous one. in some you might not notice but over time I notice and I know what I did and I’m just stacking those bricks one by one until eventually if you go back and look at a historical episode it’s cringey by comparison and so it’s about improving video over video it’s not grinding video over video a lot of people get that wrong and they burned out they burn out yeah definitely I I did especially in my earlier days I definitely did a lot of improvement on myself and trying to figure out what I could make better. I’ve done a little bit of less of that in in recent times, but um but I I’ve always got it in the back of my mind and I’m always working towards that that goal for sure. Um yeah, and that’s why your channel’s not growing right now. I’m just going to be honest. You aren’t growing right now because you stopped trying to improve. Yeah. Yeah. No, 100%. It’s just like you’ll see your timeline growing and then like you stop trying to improve and like you plateaued. Like your success is directly proportional to how much you focus on improving. It’s 100% in your control. Yeah, I couldn’t I couldn’t agree more. Um Yeah. Yeah, there’s not much more to say on that. I couldn’t agree more. Um and yeah, I will notice that I’ll do a video that’s a little bit more outside of my comfort zone and I will see I’ll see really decent growth. A good example is there’s some shorts I did recently that were quite different um but unique, interesting, and very good for for people to watch that people really enjoyed it. and they didn’t get many views, but they did actually get quite a a bit more growth than some of my other content did. So, it it really goes to show that it can make a big difference even when it that even though it might not look like that on the surface. Yep. Um, so the next thing we’ll go into is obscurity. I’ve already asked that one. Um, many want to know about the monetization tools available to creators. So, you’ve obvious got re ad revenue and things. If you had to give us a top three monetization tools you would recommend or that you’ve used or you think are easy or maybe just are best, not necessarily easy, what would you say? No. Yeah, it’s it’s easy for me to say. So I when I when I did when I worked at broadband TV like everything the whole business was started as us monetizing content for creators and then we layered services on top of that to help them monetize and then and then I went and advised creators as well to help them monetize and it’s really really clear to me what the best sources of revenue are. So the number one best source for any content creator is affiliate revenue without question. Uh so what do I mean by affiliate revenue? Literally every software platform and uh platforms like Amazon as an example have an affiliate program and also all types of services from food delivery services to Uber to your password manager to your every piece of hardware and everything for sale on Amazon and other sites newegg.com. Literally everything you can buy is pretty much in an affiliate program somewhere. And so what you do is you create a piece of content uh related to that piece of uh that product or that service and you get people’s attention with an informative and educational piece of content related to that. It could even be about the product if you want it to be. And you provide value and you create an evergreen video that can be watched for for 5 years from now that answers an important question and teaches somebody something. And in that video, you tell them if they’re interested in purchasing such and such product related to this video, there’s a link in the description below. It is an affiliate link and I get a small cut if you end up buying using my link. That is the number one easiest way to make recurring revenue and significant recurring revenue as a content creator. So, as somebody just on my own, uh, creating videos on my AWOL digital channel, one of like seven or something I have, um, just just with 200,000 views per month, how much money per month do you think I was making in affiliate revenue just on Amazon? 200,000 views per month. It’s not that much. That’s more a lot more than I get. Um, how much,000 US? $10,000 per month US just in Amazon affiliate revenue. What? So, if it was ju so with that number of views, just with YouTube revenue, you’d make like $1,000 per month. Yeah. If you’re a US audience, but if you have affiliate revenue, you make way more money. And check this out. I haven’t released a new video on any of my channels. I haven’t recorded a new video for my affiliate revenue in in a year in over a year since I joined Alivium. Every month, it still pays me $4,000 per month in passive income just from the videos that are just sitting on the internet. And I have done nothing over the last year to contribute to that revenue. Now, he was at 10,000 and now that I completely ignore that business, it’s declined to 4,000. But that’s all affiliate revenue. So, the point of sharing that is to say that affiliate revenue creates consistent month overmonth revenue that can pay your bills and create as a create a foundation for your media business. Do you use any products? Yes, there’s an affiliate program for that. The best affiliate programs are number one, Amazon’s influencer and partnership program. Number one, that’s by far number one. Number two, impact.com. So impact.com um is an affiliate website that has partnerships with every company that does affiliate programs basically. And so I guarantee you there’s a bunch of products in there that you like that you could talk about where you could make revenue, affiliate revenue off of recommending them. So, number one is affiliate revenue without question. And guys, I’m not trying to brag about how much money I made or something like that. Um, that’s not what it’s about for me really. Uh, it I I did that at that time because I had quit my executive job over at that publicly traded media company and I needed a way to pay the bills and I had learned how to do affiliate marketing and I had taught creators how to do it and I decided why not make money using the techniques I’ve taught other people. So, affiliate number one. Number two, best type of revenue is sponsorships. So, sponsorship revenue um from brands um is great. So, you can make recurring monthly sponsorships with brands that uh you like where you like their equipment and what have you. These light bulbs up here and the lights in the background that you see here, it’s from a company called GOI. Goi paid me $3,000 per month or something, two or $3,000 per month to promote their products on Amazon and to make tutorial videos and [ __ ] like that. Plus, they paid me affiliate revenue on top of that. This one partnership, me just talking about these lights, I think I made like $40,000 off of that. Just me talking about [ __ ] lights, dude. So, sponsorships are incredible. And you can either get an agency to get you sponsorships. There are also sponsorship platforms that will connect brands with partners. YouTube is starting to do that. Uh Amazon is starting to do that. And there’s a number of websites you can go to out there where you can put in your channel, put in your data, and you can they will come to you. The sponsors will come to you and solicit you for sponsored videos or sponsored midrolls on your channel. just an instant infusion of cash into your business so that you can uh not just pay your bills but maybe build your business faster. So sponsorships are number two and then number three would be recurring subscription revenue I would say. And so what do I mean by that? I mean, uh, platforms like Patreon, uh, Twitch subs, YouTube channel members, um, soliciting your hardcore audience to provide you recurring monthly subscription revenue. Uh, if you can get off of those platforms and you can create your own on your own website, obviously that’s better. Uh, but that recurring subscription revenue is something you can count on and hit on a regular basis. Those are the top three revenue streams. Affiliate revenue, sponsorship revenue, and recurring subscription revenue with affiliate revenue being by far uh number one uh source of uh revenue for creators. That’s underlooked and is underutilized and you don’t have to go chase a bunch of views to go make get YouTube partnership or people are like, I need yay, I got Twitch partnership. It’s like who cares? You’re not going to be able to make a living with that. you need to go get affiliate revenue and sponsorships if you want to make a living. I guess I guess the only thing that’s that’s popped into my head when I’m trying to think about cuz I’ve never really attempted it myself. So obviously I have no idea what I’m talking about, but that the first thing that comes into my head is like how are you getting those 200,000 viewers to go and watch for the affiliate stuff? Is it just really good search optimization? Or is there something else that’s kind of occurring there? Or is it just your channel’s big enough that YouTube is really recommending you a lot? I I don’t really I I don’t quite get that side of the equation. Yeah. There is no channels big enough where you get views. That That’s not a thing. So big channels, if they release a shitty video, get like no views and little channels that make an amazing video get a ton of views. It’s about making search optimized content. Yes. that doesn’t waste anybody’s time, gets straight to the point, and answers questions and teaches people things. And a lot of the videos that made me the most money, I made this one that was like the two best webcams ever or something on my channel. And it was like that one’s at a million views or something. Literally, I just start the video with the two best webcams ever are these two webcams, the Logitech Brio and the Logitech 920. In this video, I’m going to show you the way they look, how to use them, and set them up. Okay, here’s the Logitech Bri, and I just tell you the information you were looking for. So, all of the comments on that video was, “Thank God somebody finally cut the [ __ ] and just told me what I wanted to know.” As opposed to everybody else, it’s yo guys, it’s your boy Harlem here, and thank you so much for tuning in. Be sure to ding ding, ring the bell, and smash that like button because I’m all about tech videos in here. Real quick, I know you guys have been wondering, I haven’t been uploading as many videos as recently, but guess what? Sorry, I have my cousin’s house and all this stuff, but anyway, you don’t want to hear about that. And without further ado, let’s get into it. So, why didn’t that video get views? Because the retention in the first 30 seconds was awful. And if you’re the type of creator that would deliver that type of intro, you’re probably going to waste their time for the rest of the video, too. And so people want people click videos and videos get views a lot of videos over views over time if you don’t waste their time. People are on YouTube searching for the answers to questions to save time. So, if you focus on saving people time, not telling them the most mind-blowing information, not SEO optimizing in the best way, save them time. Your viewer retention on your video will be impeccable. And even if your thumbnail is garbage, people are going to watch that video and the algorithm is going to recommend it for years and years because it saves people time. Time is the most limited resource humans have. It’s the most precious resource humans have. And if you can save people the most precious resource they have, you will be rewarded for it handsomely. Yeah. I think I think a good way I like to think about it is is YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. And if you look at the first largest search engine in the world, which is obviously Google, I mean, which owns YouTube, so that’s that’s always fun. Um, which is Google. When you type in a Google question, I very I’ve actually lately very rarely click on the search results. Google will actually pop up with some key information inside one of the top key hits. And that if that answers my question, I’m happy with Google. And I really like Yeah, cuz I really like to think of YouTube in the same way. And that was the the We were talking about my improvements before. That was the big improvement I fixed. Obviously, I had that lengthy intro. I used to introduce myself and all that sort of stuff. And it just it’s saves me time editing, too. I mean, I can’t complain. But that’s one type of strategy. So you’re wondering how that’s how I got views on that channel. There are other channels that use different strategies to get views. Uh but they follow the same saves you time principle. So if you look at the best YouTuber that has ever existed in the entire world, Mr. Beast, how did his video start? Bam. Here we are at a pool. I’ve got $2 million behind me. And here’s Jessica. She’s going to blah blah blah yada yada yada. And here’s some edits. Sorry, my camera went out of focus there. But she’s going to try to go in here and do whatever challenge in the pool. And this is what’s happened. Just watch it right now. She does it. All right. Now that that challenge is over, we’re into challenge number two. Let’s get into the next part. All right. So now we’re at the house. And like he doesn’t waste a single nanocond of your time entertaining you. Mr. Beast, the number one thing he does that’s better than everyone else is he respects your time. If you clicked a video, Mr. Beast’s video, he does not take that for granted. He understands that every second of your time and your viewership should be jam [ __ ] packed with the most entertainment possible. And if he doesn’t have the content to show you that is wildly entertaining in that moment, it’s cut. That’s what the best YouTubers do, the best creators do. They don’t waste your time. I’ve think Think about that. Like if you’re like I want to explain this concept in crypto. I want to uh talk. I want to do commentary on such and such topic. Do it. But don’t waste anyone’s time. Don’t waste a single second. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve heard Mr. Beast speak about that time and time again. And that’s that’s pretty much all he does. And he says sometimes he cuts like 99% of the content that he’s actually shot or whatever um to get the point across. and and yeah, every single second does something useful and and that’s that’s hard to master obviously, but um I definitely want to work towards it and I know with your help I can. Perfect. Um so this is a few more questions to do with kind of being newer to newer to YouTube and things like that. Is is there a you talk about if you make a good video it’ll get views. If we table that for the time being, but that that’s my that’s my consensus as well. Um, that’s kind of the the end goal, but if you wanted to spread it even further, whether it’s paying for ads or whatever else, are there are there really good ways to spread your YouTube content to try and grow a bit faster that you can think about? There are none. No, just make good videos. You So, it’s it’s two it’s two pieces. Uh, so there is no way to fasttrack the growth of a YouTube video. YouTube cannot be gamed. So, YouTube used to be able to be gamed uh in the in like 2008 and before it had the algorithm changes that focused on click-through rate and focused on audience retention. Now that the now that the algorithms focus on that, you cannot game the system. You can’t pay for ads because ads might have a good click-through rate, but they have a terrible audience retention. So, that doesn’t work. You can’t drive lots of external traffic in there and pay for clicks or whatever from external sources because that might have a high click-through rate, but that will have a bad audience retention. And you can’t bought a bunch of uh high retention views uh from a website because YouTube’s algorithms are the best at detecting that. And they filter all that data before it actually affects the reach of the video. And if they detect any foul play, your video is dead in the water. So there is no way to quote unquote accelerate the growth of a YouTube video after it’s already been released. I have tried everything. I mean, I’ve tried everything.

Everything there is. I don’t want to even say publicly some of the things I’ve tried, but I’ve done all of it and none of it works. So it used to work. So, fun fun fact, back in the day in the gaming space, you used to be able to make a gaming channel and let’s say it was like the the the meta in 2008 was record some Call of Duty footage, just talk over the top of it about your day and then the thumbnail is a picture of a girl with huge boobs and then tell everyone to like the video and that was it. And then you got like you got like a lot of views. You got like 100,000 views if you did that. That doesn’t fly in today’s algorithm though because people would click for boobs, they wouldn’t get boobs. Then you’re just talking, they thought they were getting a Call of Duty video, but you’re not really talking about Call of Duty. And so now the algorithm has eliminated that type of nonsense. But back in the day, you were able to game the system because it was based on clicks, interactions, and views. The bigger the numbers were there, the more reach you would get on YouTube. And so you could game it for that reason. Now, it’s just click-through rate and audience retention, which are the ultimate measures of quality. So, when I say make better videos and get more views, that’s only half true. So, you can increase your click-through rate by having more interesting topics, by having better titles and better thumbnails. Okay? You can increase your audience retention by doing the thing I just said a moment ago, not wasting people’s time and jam-packing every effing second of the video with only the things they clicked for and nothing they didn’t click for. That’s number two. But none of that works. The other half of the equation is there needs to actually be a market for that type of video. And I think that’s the thing that a lot of people ignore. They think like, I made the best video about this topic. Why didn’t it get views? Well, maybe it got the most views it could possibly get. Maybe 500 views was literally all the humans that cared about that. Um, and so I think a lot like market research is important. Especially in gaming in particular, people will make content about games they think are big, but when they didn’t actually do the research on how many people are on YouTube or various platforms actually watching content about that game, like actually. Uh, and so you have to have a market for the content, for your good content to actually get traction. I think you touched on it a second ago, but the other big question I had for you um, was actually ideas. Now, Mr. Beast obviously also talks about this a lot where a good idea is really that key that key identity in terms of getting a video that’s viral, right? essentially. Yeah. Um, so what I wanted to ask you about is your creative process that an idea generating process. I’ve had a bit more of a Eureka recently. And talking about improving, I improved my thumbnails. Actually, I found a new thumbnail process and and I did see a significant increase in growth um, and clickthrough and everything like you would. Your thumbnails are significantly better now. Yeah, your thumbnails are like a seven out of 10 now. They’re way better. Yeah. Yeah. Even more recently, I had another another stroke of that. Frobe, help me with something. Anyways, the idea generation side of things is something I haven’t quite looked into enough inside myself yet, but I’d love to understand your creative process. How do you go about finding a good idea for a video? Or how did you when you were producing a lot of content or even for Olivia? Sure. Yeah, I’m still producing a lot of content and helping people with ideas all the time. Um, so here’s what you have to do with that. It’s kind of like um if you listen to really prolific writers like John Gisham who writes like a book every year and he’s like the bestselling author of all time I guess other than the Bible I guess. Um what they do is they’re just always writing. He says like I he writes multiple hours per day. It doesn’t matter. every single day he just writes, writes, writes, writes. And he gets the ideas out of his head onto a piece of paper or a computer or whatever. And a lot of those ideas are bad, but it doesn’t matter because he’s constantly writing. And so just out of sheer quantity of content and the sheer will that John Gisham has to get as many freaking books out there as possible, the most prolific writer of all time. And also some some good ideas come out of his head, right? Some really good ideas that became iconic intellectual properties in global culture. So the reason why I share that is that’s what I so when I was at Broadband TV and I had we did like 1500 videos a year or I work with a client a lot of like uh clients and I still have a few clients. I don’t have that many though because Alivium’s so taxing. Uh, but a few clients I still work with, all the big creators I work with that have millions of subscribers that I currently work with, the only thing they want to talk to me about is video ideas because that’s the only part they have a they have trouble with. And so what do they do? What do the best creators do? They have a giant spreadsheet full of hundreds and thousands of ideas that they’re constantly adding to. And what they end up doing is filtering the best ideas toward the top. Uh so here’s the process everybody. If you’re looking to make some content in a particular area, what you do is you go incognito search the terms related to that topic and you go find the page one results and the names of those videos and you put them into a spreadsheet. So let’s say you were making a video about uh crypto investing. You would type in crypto, put in the top 10 titles into your spreadsheet. Crypto investing, top 10 titles, crypto finance, top 10 titles, crypto, whatever. And then you’re going to put in like a hundred YouTube titles into the spreadsheet. And you’re going to start to see a pattern. What you’re probably going to notice is that there’s only four types of videos that get created about crypto finance, investing, and what have you that actually work. and they fall into the buckets of maybe a list video. Maybe they fall into the buckets of bearish clickbait or bullish clickbait or whatever it may be. And you’re going to narrow down the top four formats that actually work for that particular niche. And then you will isolate those four formats. Then you’re going to take the best practices that the creators are using to get views with those four formats and you’re going to literally write out the titles of their videos as if it were an equation with X and Y in the equation. And you fill in X and Y with whatever you’re going to make your video about. So, if it’s top five X things you were wrong about in 2022 or in Y, which was a year, you know that all you need to do to get views is to fill in X and Y. That’s how you pump them out. And that’s how you get millions of views per month. That’s how the big boys do it. I’ve set up the system with the top creators in the world. Well, some of the top creators in the world, at least the English speaking ones, and that’s how I systematically approach it with them. They tend to think of ideas nearywilly and they have some like really banger ideas from time to time. But if you could put a system into place like that, that at least gives you a starting place for ideas where you don’t have to come up with things from scratch regularly. You know what the winning formula is and you’re just working within the formula all the time. And occasionally you’ll have an idea that breaks the formula that does really well, but you hit the formula over and over and over again. Why is every movie the same? Why is every TV show the same? Why is every book the same? Why is every piece of media on every platform the same? It’s because through billions and billions of pieces of data, billions and billions of views, billions of dollars, there’s a specific format that just literally is better than the other formats. The sooner you recognize that and the sooner you follow that format, the sooner you can become a master and become one of the top players utilizing that format. That’s the secret. Yeah, I I have exploited that two or three times. I yes yes yes no I’m I’m actually quite familiar with that and I don’t do it very much at the moment um but I will actually ask a question on I don’t do that heaps is alvium doesn’t well doesn’t so much have a formula in terms of alovium itself right um and I I stumbled upon something lucky with my spreadsheets early on as well which was something that no one else had really done in alovvium either um if I were to adapt someone else’s thing into Alvium instead. What would you kind of talk about that? Like cuz Alvium doesn’t really have those formulas stapled in yet. And I feel like they will be and maybe I’ll be one of those people that helps set those trends even for people. I I find whatever works and then other people copy that or whatever. Um but how how would you suggest kind of converting it? Also, let’s so let’s let’s go into that. So, if there was a different if you had a niche, say something that hasn’t really been done before, how would you go about generating ideas for that niche? Go find a similar niche that is big. Alovium is not big. A similar niche that is big and then go copy their video formats and do it in Alovium. So, what I would, if I was an Alovium creator, what I would do is I would go search for the top 20 TFT videos. And I would also search for like the top 20 like DeFi gaming, crypto gaming, NFT gaming type of videos, metaverse videos. And I would put those videos into a spreadsheet and I would just copy those formats. And I would do a mixture of like half metaverse, DeFi, NFT type content that talks about the technology, maybe the uh asset aspect of it or ownership or whatever the web 3 stuff and then do the other half as gaming content that copies the top gaming video formats and then I would see which one sticks and then I’d see which one does well. And the other key part to tell you is once you do that and you do have something that does well, the biggest YouTubers are the ones that recognize that they found a winner and then they kill all the losers with fire. So, uh, so, uh, there’s a channel M&JTV is like the classic example I like to bring up. When I started with him, he was getting about like 40,000 views per video on his channel. Pretty good as a Pokemon creator. We then sat down in a spreadsheet. We looked at all of the video formats on his channel. I logged them all by type and I said, “Look, there’s only two types of videos that do well on your channel. List videos and something else.” Whatever it was, I forget what it was. I recommend you stop doing every other type of content and only do do those. And if you do, you’ll probably get 10 times more views. And he didn’t believe me. He dabbled around. He came back three months later. He goes, “Okay, I’m going to do it. Just help me understand how to do it.” Within 6 months, he was getting 400,000 views per video. Jeez. So, the point is on a particular channel, once you find a winner, double down on the winner. If you if making top five metaverse videos or top five NFTTS to look at this week or top five reasons you were wrong about whatever or whatever the video format is videos exceedingly outperform the other videos on your channel. You should immediately stop producing all other types of videos and just produce that type of video over and over and over and over again until you master it and you see whether you can juice it out. Most of the time when creators do that, their channel explosively grows. But a lot of creators make that winning video and then go, “Oh, that was just a one-off.” Was it? Or did you just find the winner and just shove it under the carpet? So, what any creator that’s watching this right now should do is sort their channel by most popular. Whatever your most popular video was, go make 50 of those right now. I guarantee you’ll get way more views than you’re currently getting. All right, I’ll do that. It’s not that hard. It’s really not that hard. It’s like it’s like the easiest strategy ever. They’re like, “Oh, yeah. Well, I made that video a while ago and I’ve justified in my own head why I don’t think that’s going to work anymore. Because these complicated reasons, shut up and just do what works if you want to grow. And if you’re saying all those other complicated reasons about why you don’t want to do it, it’s because you don’t actually want to be successful. You just want to sabotage yourself. And that’s your own personal problem I can’t fix. I I think it’s really interesting because sometimes, especially when it comes to growth and success and money and things like that. A lot of people instantly get into the mindset of if you want to be successful, you have to work really, really hard. And obviously, you’ve got work smarter and not harder. And it falls a bit into this category. And the best example I can think of is if working hard to produce YouTube content was the only way you could be successful on YouTube, then react videos would not exist. Like react videos, I’d argue, are some of the easiest pieces of content you can create. And yet there are thousands of channels that have been highly successful doing react videos. It It’s easy, but it’s a good idea and people enjoy watching it. And that’s really all that matters. Yep. Yeah. That once again, that is that those creators that make those react videos tried out a couple reactions on their channel and then they were the ones that were smart enough when they saw the reactions doing better to kill every other type of content on their channel and just quadruple down on reactions. I had a content creator, I was working with a magic channel, like literally like street magic. Uh he was doing like challenges where he was like handcuffing himself in the pool. He was doing card tricks to girls on the street. He was trying everything, man. He was working really really hard on magic videos. And then he decided that I he was just going to react to America’s Got Talent and the When the Magicians went on 50 times more views than the other ones. So what I told him is double down on that and kill everything else with fire. He did and his channel explosively grew. It’s not that hard here guys. Let’s smash it out. So firstly, how important is content in video games? Whether it be before or after release? Content in video games. What do you mean that? What do you mean? Um uh content as it regards to video games, trailers, gameplay videos, all that sort of stuff. Oh, for marketing games. I mean it’s everything now for marketing you mean? Uh not just for marketing but yeah. Okay. Including. Yeah. I mean it’s kind of it’s like essential now. So, I would say that um all the CMOs and like marketing executives I talked to in gaming, they’re pretty much looking at video content in particular as being like almost the entire marketing strategy for their games now and creating uh so they’re looking at videos as being almost the entire content strategy and and marketing strategy for their games and for anything they’re making now. So, it’s really important for them to make in-house videos that are like explaining what their brand is about, telling their story, and then showcasing their product. And then 100% of CMOs now are like, “And it’s all about our influencer marketing strategy.” Now, hold on a second. I thought it was all about advertising. What happened? It used to be all about advertising 5 years ago. What shift just occurred? And the answer is web 2 is on its way out and it’s dying. Apple and Google and Facebook aren’t playing with each other anymore in terms of advertising because their advertising businesses are dying. This is what happens when an entrenched player, their CFO goes to the CEO and says, “Look, man, our main business model, it isn’t growing anymore and it’s going to decline. So what do you do when you’re number one? you put up the castle walls, you keep anybody from getting in, and you try to hold on to your ground and your position. And so, Apple shut off Facebook’s access to their platform for ads. Google is doing the same, and they’re all just trying to desperately hold on to their positioning in the market. So, what does that mean? That means that advertising is becoming less and less effective. It’s becoming more and more expensive for the results. Leaving what remaining as a way to gain reach on all of these platforms, cutting out the centralized entity in the middle and going straight to the influencer. And so influencer marketing is skyrocketing. And it’s really critical that you work with influencers and you come up with original concepts and you’re constantly working with them in the future. It’s way more important than an adver advertising budget. So if I were to guess uh by the end of this decade, I would say that the vast majority of gaming in particular and certainly Alivium uh marketing budget will be spent on influencer marketing and producing original video content inhouse by far. Uh and maybe some other platform or some other method will come up in the meantime. But the reason why all that stuff is great is an advertisement is like uh is like a flame or a firework. You shoot it and it goes and then it vaporizes forever. You don’t get any yield out of that advertisement after the advertisement is over and gone and paid for. Whereas a piece of influencer content could get a million views between now and 5 years from now. Your own videos could get a million views between now and 5 years from now. uh and they keep paying dividends over time. And so we have found in my opinion a better model. Create your own in-house video content as your core and then the influencers extend the reach of that content and your brand. Uh and there’s really less and less reason to pay centralized advertising agencies moving forward. And that’s going to spell of course the death of web two. And then we’ll move into web three. and then we’ll pay for something else to get people’s attention in web three. I don’t know what it is, but it’ll be something. Yeah. Yeah. It’s it’s certainly crazy. And we’re seeing a lot of the earnings discussions and things as these companies release their earnings and and advertising is a clear one that keeps keeps on popping up. So, the other thing I want to talk about back to ideas a little bit is with Alivium so transparent like with their leaks and everything, how do you find exciting content to share with people? How do you how do you go this is an idea I can share that people haven’t already seen and I can spark curiosity and all the rest of it. Yeah. So it it’s the burden is on the creatives to make something interesting. Um I don’t know if we released it on socials yet but you know how many I mean how many rocks can we show right? So uh that’s not exciting right anymore. Um but there are things the team is creating that are new and exciting. So, for example, Grant just sent me a 3D rendering of an Atlas plushy. That’s exciting. People want that. Um, I was I wasn’t expecting that. And so, that’s something I gave to the social media team to share. And it’s like a Atlas plushy spinning around in 3D. So, the creative team has to be creative. That’s that’s it. And they have to do the unexpected. And they have to keep presenting stuff that people are not uh expecting. And so I think that’s what the Alvian brand has been really good at up until this point. The Aluvials are kind of unexpected in style. The story you guys have, the lore is so unexpected and it’s weird. Everything about it is unexpected and weird. And so Alivium is good at delivering something that you didn’t think you were going to get. So that’s how uh and as soon as the creative team starts getting sy in terms of what we’re doing um that’s probably the point where we’re very successful and then we become the entrenched player that’s trying to hold on to our market share and just be careful. Uh but at this phase we’re willing to take lots of risks, do lots of new things, bring in fresh talent and just let them run with their ideas. That’s how you get fresh ideas non-stop. And Kieran is excellent at bringing in people with fresh ideas and just letting them run with them and not micromanaging them. It’s that’s why you see so much fresh and wild and weird and interesting things coming out of Olivium is because the leadership allows it to happen and encourages it. That’s very different than everywhere else where they want to button things up. They want to have control over the message and they want to centralize creativity and centralize the messaging. Alovium is doing the opposite. And so it’s by design structurally that Ovium will release more interesting things than any other game studio because they let it happen. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I think I think creativity is key and I’m a creative myself so I absolutely love it when I I’m able to run with my own idea and that I mean that just makes you work harder too. It’s just a simple fact, right? I mean if you want people that work for you to work harder also a simple fact, right? So it it makes sense in my opinion. Yeah. creative people will work harder for you if you let them do the create their creative ideas and they will make something better for you if you let their creativity run wild. Like the videos I produce with Andy, the reason why Andy and I work so well together is I just give him very clear direction. I give him the assets he needs and I let him know what’s in my head and I don’t tell him how to execute at all. I just let him execute in however he wants and so the videos come out better that way. And Kieran when it comes to the videos I make like the explainers or whatever. We got a bunch by the way in the pipe that are coming out. But he he will just tweak the script. Not once has he commented on any of the graphics or the sound effects or anything in these videos. He might say something about the messaging like we can’t really say that anymore cuz we changed the product. That happens all the time. But other than that, man, he just lets it happen. And so the more freedom you give talented, creative people to be talented and creative, the more they’ll produce for you. That’s it. Um, so I’ve got two more key questions here. So firstly, a really quick one. Do you know if there will be any video content inside Alivium? I’m I don’t know how to explain it, but like if you’re walking around the overworld and there’s going to be video content on the wall or something advertising zero or something like do you have any plans like that? Uh screens with video content in the game. I haven’t seen I’m not sure how you would do it. I haven’t seen that. Cinematic sequences. Yes. So there there are cinematics there are cinematics being produced right now to tell the story of the game like really nice cinematics that will be in the game to tell the story of the game. Uh think like cutscene type of cinematic that tells key story points as you’re progressing through the story. So those have all been in the pipe for a while and have been getting produced. Those are happening but that’s not like on that’s not like a screen. Oh [ __ ] I don’t know if I just revealed something. Oopsie. Those are all being produced right now. Yeah. I mean, it was probably assumed, but I hadn’t really thought about it in depth before. I’m excited they’re being made. So, that’s really really awesome. So, oopsy dupsy. Maybe maybe that’s a first or something that nobody said anything about it, but yeah, those are being produced. Um, those are those are all happening. Uh, and they’re needed, I think, and they’re going to be the best format to tell some of the more complex aspects of the story. um where doing like a normal cutscene or something with the 3D models in the game wouldn’t be as good, right? Yeah, definitely. I think Yeah, I’m excited to see them. I’m excited to see the law and everything. It’s been hyped up so much. I can’t wait. Um so, the last thing I’ll ask you about is the Alvium series that is going to be produced down the road. Now, I want to bring this into kind of a Pokémon context where Pokemon the video games are about 1% of their revenue. Well, maybe a little bit more, but they’re not much. Their anime, TV shows, movies, all that sort of stuff is the big part of their Pokémon media franchise. The Are you planning to produce an Alvium series in the future? Think Cyberpunk Edge Runners or Arcane? Um, and like how far is Alvium going to take that stuff? Is it going to do you think it might be bigger than the game one day?

I’ll be I need to be careful how I answer this question. So, um, is it under construction? So, um, all right. Do I think like ancillary revenue streams like merchandise and shows and all esports and all of these other things will be the majority of revenue? Definitely. So, Ovium is got like such an iconic brand and branding and characters. It’s being designed in that way to where we can actually do brand marketing. So what I mean by that is shitty video games require you to market the game and just like try to get installs on the game because the brand is garbage. Olovium we can market the brand because it’s so good and it’s so compelling and just by marketing the brand it’ll sell an entire suite of products and shows and services and whatever Olivium has to offer. So therefore, just like Pokemon’s IP is so strong, the characters are so iconic and designed so carefully, Olovium has that as well. So yeah, the majority of Olivium’s revenue will eventually not be video games in my in my opinion. Uh but once again, we don’t know what the future holds in terms of monetization within the web 3 space. So it’s possible that things like NFTTS are just so effing lucrative that, you know, there’s no way any merchandise strategy could exceed that revenue. It’s possible. I don’t know. Uh, but I anticipate that that will be my a minority portion of revenue. Will we produce, you mentioned Cyberpunk Edgeunners? I specifically have messaged all three War Wicks with Cyberpunk Edgeunners as an example, a modern example of how a AAA show for a game can have significant marketing benefits. Like Cyberpunk went up to 1 million concurrent players on Steam after they released that show and it was a dead game. And now sentiment for Cyberpunk has gone from negative to wildly positive and people are thrilled about the expansion that’s coming out and they’ve already crossed now 20 million copies sold of the game. So the case I’m making internally right now is uh I want us to make I want us to make alovvium anime because we need more eastern appeal with our intellectual property. It’s a very western IP. Um it’ll appear it’ll appeal in the east but it’s a very western IP and I think we need an anime version of it to market it to the east to be honest and obviously anime is popular in the west of course but to market it to the east we need something like that. Uh, and Grant has told me, um, and I’ll I’ll let him communicate what his plans are in terms of a AAA movie or show, but Grant Warwick is not going to walk away from Alvium without having made without having made either a AAA movie andor aa show for Alivium. Yeah, that’s all I’ll say about it. I’m not going to say whether we’re producing it right now. I’m not going to say whether we have deep plans on it right now. I don’t want to set any expectations there, but that’s what Grant told me. Uh, so once again, we need to focus on getting the games out and launching our first set of games. But we have the talent on the team right now, especially with Grant Warwick, who has a AAA cinematic background and we have various talent here. Like we know that this intellectual property lends itself well to to content formats like that and so we want to make that type of content. It’s not just about video games here. It’s not just about video games at all. This is an entire universe and an intellectual property that will cross over every format. Soon we will be releasing the merchandise aspect of it and you’re going to start seeing each of these pieces get rolled out. I guess I guess the part of that that I want to delve just a little bit deeper into is is timelines. Now, obviously, we’re not asking for dates or anything here, but I I always I continuously ask myself, you guys are producing the game and the games obviously taking a lot of time. How much of this stuff are you actually doing concurrently? Cuz now that we’re seeing that you have two two or three games or whatever and you have the merchandise that’s being worked on, you have a few other DeFi type things on the back burner that are kind of being worked on. Are you working a lot of this side by side? And and when it comes to, okay, now we need to start working on the TV show. If you’re not already, now we see to start working on the TV show. Do you then go and hire studios and things or are you also going to work on a lot of that in-house? What kind of what it’s hard for me to to kind of put into words? I understand what you’re saying. So, how do you prioritize all these things like if you’re if you’re if you’re cooking so many things at the same time? So, I can tell you like right now our team like Grant and what have you, they aren’t they they’re focusing on he’s focusing on overworld right now. So, like it’s not like he’s not we’re not we’re not producing an olivian movie right now. Okay. But that doesn’t mean that the team isn’t thinking about it and the team hasn’t making plan like you can make plans for the future on something without taking away from the task you’re doing right in front of you right now. Right. So that’s number one. Number two, when it comes to development, there’s different layers of development that get done. There’s there’s like art development, there’s 3D modeling, there’s things like blockouts, there’s the blockchain side, there’s all these different layers. And so we are developing lots of different things at the same time because different personnel are developing different things that are in different stages at the same time. If we just did one product at a time, we’d have like a bunch of people just sitting around wondering what to do because their part’s already done on a lot of what on a lot of what we’re creating. And so that so development is more fluid and it has it’s multi-layered. So you’ve got multiple channels of development happening on multiple products. Not because you’re spreading your focus, it’s because different types of things needed to be developed for all of these different products. And by spreading it into layers and channels of development, you’re actually developing all of it faster and more effectively and with resources in house. And so people ask the question too like they think that like by just a good analogy to answer your question, we do we do alvium showcase and aluva talks and I see comments on the video sometimes that say why are you focusing on making this show? you should be releasing the [ __ ] game. It’s like you do realize that this marketing has zero impact on any products. So like just cuz you see some sort of activity happening in Alovium in one area doesn’t mean it has any impact on the thing you’re thinking it might have an impact on in another part of Alovium. It’s like then then then and then on the viewer side and the audience side understandably they’re like it appears to me that you guys are losing your focus. It’s like no this is just a different part of Alivium doing something that doesn’t impact the other thing. It’s like you are focusing on this and maybe you wish we were talking about the thing that you want us to talk about but that doesn’t mean Olivium Game Studio has lost their focus. M so that’s the best way I can answer that question. Um yeah and at the end of the day um I think that like the number one priority for Alivvium is getting these three games out and that’s why we’ve got beta on Arena imminent beta on Overworld beta imminent beta or very soon beta on alovvium zero like got to get the beta testing done so we can launch these. That’s the number one focus of everything. So if anybody sees any communications, if they see us posting a plushie, if they see me talking in this interview about how, yeah, we have talked internally about doing movies and shows, does that mean that that delays the launch of Alivium Zero? No. Not by a nanocond it doesn’t. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Um, yeah. Yeah. I guess the only No, I I understand that absolutely. And I I understood that before as well. And I guess where my head was at is once the game is launched, you obviously have to keep working on set two and things like that. So, where do you kind of find the people to produce that TV show, you know? So, do you guys think you’ll get more studios and things in on on Alivium or you’ll just expand the team that far that you’ll be able to do it or do do you kind of know kind of where the head’s at there? Yeah. So I mean if we were to do it so so any type of TV show or movie Grant would be taking the lead on how we should source production and how that should rel relate to in-house assets but I think gen in-house people working on it. I think generally speaking, you would have a couple key creatives within Ovium right now, such as Grant, providing direction and ensuring that whatever is being produced on a TV show or a movie or something is in line with the lore and the branding and in line with whatever our business objectives are as well. Right? Then then somebody like Grant is going to make some key decision. He’s either going to go psycho and decide to hire everybody himself or he’s going to outsource it to some ice cold killer studio that he feels very confident in. That’s up to Grant at that point in the case of TV show or movie. He’s he’s like the leading expert on that. So I don’t know what the approach will be, but there will be a key trusted person probably a Warwick making that level of decision, right? Just like Aaron would be making key decisions on, you know, like game design on the next title or whatever. And then Kieran would be making key decisions on when we’re doing the next sale and generating revenue or investor decisions. So all that stuff is determined by a those major decisions like that on whether we’re going to hire in-house and ramp up resources or go outsourced and what have you. Those are those are Warwick decisions that then go to the council. Like if we have to like source a bunch of money for something like so for example, if we were going to need to hire an entire team to make a show or something, we would need to like work with the council on that and like that would be a massive expense and a huge focus. So you know what I mean? So all those would all be considerations. Uh so so those are the two scenarios. You either have key creative talent inhouse providing direction to a fantastic AAA third party studio. That’s what Cyberpunk did. That’s what CD Project Red with did with the studio they worked with for Cyberpunk Edge Runners. 10 out of 10. Like that show was so good. It can work out if you have the right studio. Otherwise, who knows? With Grant, I don’t know, man. Ask Grant. Yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining me. I will definitely ask Grant that. Um, thanks. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for jumping on the show today. I really appreciate it. Um, yeah. Is there anything else you’d like to leave us off on? Nope. I always like talking to you. You’re very thorough and in-depth. And all the creators out there that watched, just go make some content, man. Just go copy what works to start with and then it’s all gravy from there. Awesome. Sounds good to me. All right. Have a good one, man. Arias.

What you just watched, every cut, every animation, and every transition was created by Claude within Cap Cut in less than 20 minutes. So far, there honestly hasn’t been a single edit or really a single thing that this combination couldn’t handle. But to get it to this point, I’ve spent weeks of trial and error and a ton of credits. But that way, you won’t have to. So, in this video, I’m going to tell you everything you need to know to create stunning videos with color grading, motion design, and animation. And the best part is that it’ll all be done by AI. So, here’s the plan. I took one RAW video, and by the end of this tutorial, we will transform it completely. Every improvement goes into a different part of the same video. So, watch the before and make sure to stick around for the after. So, first, you’ll need to install Claude on your computer. And in the previous video, we talked about how to use one of Claude’s features called design to create highquality motion effects. Today, we’re going to talk about another killer combination of Claude, Cap Cut, and Clot. So, if you don’t have Claude yet, make sure to go to Claudeai and download the app for Mac or PC. If you don’t have Cap Cut, you’ll need to do the same. Now, let’s jump back to Claude. When you log in for the first time, it’ll likely appear exactly as you see on my screen. So, previously when I shot this video, we threw together a rough edit, and honestly, it looked bad. Flat colors, no life in it. Now, normally this is where you’d give up or you’d hire a colorist. But instead, we’re going to fix the color foundation and we’re going to do it right inside of Clot. So, let’s take our single timeline, drop the raw footage in, and look at the first problem. Now, every editor knows the pain of spending hours tweaking color wheels just to fix flat log footage only for it to still look washed out. This is where we will need LUT. LUT is an instruction file that tells the program to replace each color in the picture with a different one. For example, make this shade of blue a little warmer, these shadows are greenish, the skin is softer, etc. We need an LUT particularly because it’s the only way to package an entire color grade into a single small file that Claude can generate from using a text prompt or any editor like Cap Cut which can instantly apply it to your footage. So all that I need to do is ask please generate a clean soft pastel LUT file for my YouTube videos cinematic [music] and clean. Then I just click send. Now, after generating, Claude gives you a summary of the look. Lifted shadows, subtle teal and peach split toning, reduced saturation, low contrast, ultimately a clean studio aesthetic with friendly skin tones. Now, if you go a bit further, you’ll find the actual file. Click on it and then find the arrow and choose download. Save the file to your downloads folder or really any preferred location. So, let’s click save. And since I’ve already generated the file, I’m just going to click replace. Now, in Cap Cut, go to adjustment and select LUT. Then click import to find and open the cube file. [music] This imports it into Cap Cut for your project. Next, we’ll click the plus icon to add a new layer to the timeline, which you can extend over your footage. Switching it on and off will show the filter applied to your footage. Now, I felt like it was a bit too intense, so I adjusted the selection to about 50%. That looks great. Claude’s main strength lies in its precise adjustment capabilities. For instance, I dislike the shadow in this design because it clashed with the clean look. I requested Claude to create a version without the teal, and the difference was evident. Now, setting this to 50% produced a gentle pastel studio vibe. So, that’s the entire base video graded. Now that the whole timeline looks clean, we can start layering effects on top of specific moments. Now that the color of our video looks great, let’s take it one step further and make it even better by adding some visualization. Now, usually doing a dynamic counting animation means manually placing hundreds of key frames in in After Effects or buying a bunch of templates that ultimately break your project file. Now, the first moment that I want to upgrade is right here. The part of the video where I talk about numbers. A static number on screen is boring. So, let’s make it count up. For example, do you guys remember in the Mr. Beast videos when the dollar icon wildly spins up? That’s the kind of effect that I want to achieve in this part of video, but without After Effects. Now, all that we need is an SRT file. This is an ordinary text file. So, let’s navigate to Claude and paste in our prompt. All it says is, “Generate an SRT file for me with numbers counting from 0 to 600. Make each subtitle 0.1 seconds long and add a dollar sign in front of each. Now let’s go ahead and click send. Once you’ve completed this, just like with the LUT, click on the file, find the arrow, and select download. [music] Save it to your downloads folder and then open Cap Cut and drag the SRT file directly onto your timeline. Zooming into the timeline reveals how many small subtitle clips are being created. Now, the great part is you can customize all of these directly in Cap Cut. Then you can adjust the font size, change it, or even modify the color. But you can see an issue. It’s way too long for our timeline. So, staying selected on all of them. I’m going to create a compound clip. What this does is it groups all of our subtitles together. In this compound clip, I can then go to speed and let’s ramp up the maker speed to make it a lot shorter. think I’ll be going for 10 times shorter. Now I can reposition that to whatever I want. [music] And if we play that, then you can see that we have this really premium looking numbers counting effect. Usually to make this by hand, it would take about an hour, but we’ve been able to do it in just 2 minutes. But there’s one last bonus trick. If I wanted to hold on to, let’s say, 600, if that’s the point I’m making in my video, then I need to go ahead and doubleclick into that compound clip to access my subtitle files. And what I’m going to do is drag that individual layer a lot longer. So then I can go back to my compound clip and let’s go ahead and drag it. Now when it reaches the end of our numbers, you’ll see that it pauses for a few seconds at that 600 mark. All right. So far we’ve fixed the colors and we’ve added the counter to our clip. Now, we’re entering the territory where After Effects usually eats away all of your RAM, crashes at 99% render, or demands another purchase of Adobe services just to keep working. Everything we’ve upgraded so far has been relatively easy. But the next three effects, the intro background, the explainer graphics, and the outro map, need heavier tooling. So, let’s set them up once and then knock out the rest of this video. [music] Now, in this segment, I’m going to demonstrate how to create more complex and applied motion effects. So, I’ll break down how to install them and how to get ready for the generation. For the upcoming steps, we’ll need to use Claude Code for handling code or systems files. Now, if you’re on the free version, you’ll only see the chat option, but if you upgrade to the pro plan at $17 a month, you’re going to gain access to co-work and cloud code. We’ll be using Cloud Code for this next set of tricks. Once you have Cloud Code, the next step is installing Remotion, a tool that gives Claude all the knowledge it needs to create stunning motion graphics. But before that, we’ll need one extra app, Node.js. So, click the download link that I’ve left in the description, select get Node.js, and install it. This is what your computer needs to run Remotion. So, next, let’s open Claude and paste the phrase npx create video at sign latest. Choose bypass permissions so Claude can automatically install everything it needs without asking you and then simply press enter. Now if a prompt appears as code, just copy it and paste it into the terminal. [music] Since I’ve already got a project on my computer, it’ll show a file path with a complete remotion template. But on your first install, it’s going to ask you to create a folder where all of your Remotion projects will be saved. Now, if you’re confused at any point, simply ask Claude, “Hey, I don’t get what we’re doing right now. Can you please help me install this?” Now, after the installation, type the following and press enter. What this does is installs the additional packages and dependencies that optimize Remotion’s performance. What you’re going to see is 562 packages installed. Now, with Remotion set up, a wide range of creative possibilities open [music] up. You can truly create anything that you envision. All right, everything is set up. So, let’s go ahead and get generating. Now, we’re going to start with the intro to our video. Right now, it opens on a plain frame. Let’s replace that with a premium motion background. We’ll begin by creating some highquality motion backgrounds. First, I went ahead and visited Pinterest, which is a great resource because you can search terms like gradient background or gradient figures to find highquality references. I especially like this one right here. So, let’s go ahead and download it as an asset. Then, we’ll switch over to Claude. Make sure that again you’re using Claude Code. Create a new session and drag the image directly into the chat. This lets Claude view the screenshot or image as a reference. Next, we’ll paste my motion background prompt into the command bar. If you’d like to access all these prompts, there’s a link in the description below that you can use to follow along. Basically, the instruction is to use the motion skill to transform this into an attractive motion background without altering the colors, textures, or the overall appearance. It should look like a premium motion background. Additionally, I requested Claude to rotate the image 90° and set the aspect ratio to 16×9. This entire project should have a duration of only 10 seconds. What you’re going to do, just like we did with our installations, is go to accept edits and say bypass permissions. You don’t need to be on Fable 5 since it’s super expensive. So, you can go ahead and select lower models. Let me walk you through what this process first does. It’s super important to make all the manipulations and to insert all of your references into cloud code, not the regular chat. Now, it’s going to show you something like running the skillotion best practices and it’ll state that it’s using Remotion. Now, if it doesn’t say that, make sure to revisit the session where you installed Remotion and ask Claude. If you followed my steps so far, you should have successfully installed Remotion directly into Claude. There we go. Now that it’s finished after taking a couple of tries, Claude is then going to open your browser to display a preview of the file. I’ll take a quick look and we’ll see a short full HD video, which you can actually also upgrade to 4K. The blue reference color is going to remain consistent. And scrubbing through quickly, you’ll notice that there’s been some motion added to the blue glow, resulting in this dynamic motion background. Overall, I like the generation, but I’d like to change the speed of the effect. Right now, I find it to be really slow and a bit dim. So, I’ll ask Claude to make the blue gradient move much faster, about three times. Then, [music] I just click enter. Now, the great thing about this process is that there’s no need to edit or really to know any code. You simply tell it in any language to claude and it’ll start editing the composition immediately. Now, just in 5 seconds, if we return to the web browser without reloading, you’ll notice that that orb is now moving significantly faster than before. Now, in this next segment of our video, the middle part, I’ll explain the process step by step. Now, instead of just talking, let’s visualize it with animated boxes and drop them right over the footage that we already have graded. That’s exactly why we made the background transparent earlier. Now, in this step, we’ll look at how to create motion design generations that’ll give a direct impact to your viewership. If you’re working with e-commerce or on a marketing campaign, just imagine that you need to schematically explain a very complex topic in your video using just blocks. Now, creating such a motion design typically takes around 2 hours at minimum. I’ll show you how to do it much faster [music] in just a few minutes. I began by visiting Pinterest and searching for square shaped UI boxes. I found something super aesthetic and good references. So, I downloaded the files that I liked. Next, I created a new session in Cloud Code, fed it the file, and dragged it into the session. Finally, I pasted the prompt that I used to generate that effect, the link for which you can find in the description below. [music] So, let’s quickly go through the prompt. This final line should be included in all of your creations. I didn’t add it to the motion background initially because we were just starting out, but now I’m always going to end my prompts with this line. Ask me any clarifying questions so that we nail this spoton. Now, let’s press enter. Let’s see what Claude does next. It comprehends the first part of our prompt, but some ambiguity remains about what it’s actually going to generate. So, here we go. It begins by providing a list of questions using Remotion to guide these questions which we can then answer. So let’s go ahead and respond to them. Let’s go ahead and stack these vertically. For that I’m going to say sequential start. So 1 2 3 4 5. And they’re all going to appear in kind of a staggered order. [music] Yes. Let’s do text only. We’re going to use this in a horizontal video. If you wanted to use it in a vertical video, you could obviously type 1080 by 1920. I’m going to say hold and then fade at the end. I’m also going to add while they’re holding, add some motion to the boxes. Let’s clarify the motion that we want. Add some subtle smooth motion to the boxes. That’s good. Let’s stick with pure black for now. So, now that we’ve taken the time to answer its questions, you can see that it’s taking the time to do some final self- auditing and sanity checks. That’s the amazing thing about Claude. It kind of selfch checkcks what it’s [music] created. Now, obviously, we do sometimes have to do some manual tweaking. This pop-up that’s just shown is now actually really important because what I didn’t do is at the bottom left here where it says accept edits. I didn’t say bypass permissions. So, because of that, Claude is now asking us if it’s okay to do things. It wants to check the PNG file that it created. So, essentially access that PNG file on our computer. I’m going to go ahead and say always allow. Now, just to clarify, if you don’t want those pop-ups to happen, then change this from accept edits to bypass permissions. And it’s just going to allow Claude to do everything that it needs to in the background. All right. You can see that it says done, which took about 4 minutes to create. Now, when we open the browser, you’ll notice it’s a part of our Remotion project. Let’s click play. [music] Wow, the result is even better than my previous tests. I really like the simplicity and the conciseness. The only adjustment I’d suggest is that it feels like it takes a little bit too long to appear. I’ll make a few quick tweaks to demonstrate how easy it is to modify things when needed. I already like the current sizing, but for this demo, let’s speed everything up by about 10%. I’ll also update the font to enter semibold. Now, aside from these three adjustments, the overall look really does appear premium. So, let’s go ahead and click [music] enter. If we play our sequence here, we’ll see that we’ve now assembled a 9-second 29 frame composition. So, almost 10 seconds. The font does in fact appear larger and all of the elements are slightly bigger, which looks good. But this setup won’t work directly in our Cap Cut project because of the black background. [music] So, at this point, I’ll tell Claude, “This looks great. Please make me the background transparent but keep the box’s transparency off. Now I’m doing this so that I can download it directly from Remotion and incorporate into our Cap Cut project directly. Now if you do prefer that black background, that’s fine. But what I want to do is overlay on my footage or on a custom motion background that I created in Claude. So that’s why I’m requesting a transparent background. Now, in 30 seconds, if we jump back to our project, you’ll see that we now have a transparent background. Once you’re happy with your motion graphic, go ahead and click render. You can save that to your computer and import the file directly into your Cap Cut and create something that looks about like this. And through these examples of the motion background and now this kinds of effects, square shaped motion graphic figures, you have a great understanding of exactly what Claude can do. Honestly, it’s mind-blowing. We’ve got two segments of our video left. In one, I quote an article on screen will highlight the keywords as they’re read and the ending where I mention the trip from LA to New York. That’s getting a full map animation. The next feature that we can describe is designed for people who frequently work with large volumes of references such as news bulletins or article news searches. [music] Now, those are just two examples of some wild motion graphics, and I’ve got two more to show you. One is a highlighting effect and the other is a map animation perfect for travel videos. Now, the beauty of our system lies in the fact that you can also create several parallel projects. So, you won’t waste extra time implementing and creating effects gradually. Simultaneous or concurrent creation allows me to save an insane amount of time, which in the case of working with After Effects still meant having two separate windows open. The first one is the highlighting effect. So, you’ll actually need a screenshot of what you want to highlight. What I did is I just took a screenshot from a news site. I’ll paste this prompt now, and I won’t read it all, but what’s important to note is that I’ve asked it to highlight specific words from our screenshot. For example, I requested this, this, and this. Now, if your screenshot contains a lot of different words, be sure to specify which ones to highlight. Now, once that’s clear, I’ll click enter and see the results. So what you’re seeing here is because we attached an actual image, Claude needs to then source that image from our computer. So I’m giving it access to the actual file in the web. Now as we proceed, we’ll create the final map animation. I’ll start a new session and paste in this prompt. Then I’ll change the accept edit setting to bypass permissions as I did in the beginning. [music] Finally, I’ll click enter to continue. All right, let’s quickly answer those. Create new project 1920x 1080. Yeah, let’s do country state borders visible. Follow the line at low altitude. This is going to be whatever you want. And once I’ve answered those questions, let’s go ahead and click enter. Currently, we’re running two animation builds simultaneously. The first is our map and the second is the text chat featuring our text highlighting effect. The highlight effect is now complete and generally it looks pretty good. But one thing I noticed is that it appears a bit choppy, which I’ll want to fix. So I’ll talk to Claude and tell it the highlight effect looks staggered or choppy. Please make it smooth. Submit. And after 45 seconds, the adjustment is done. Now returning to your project, you’ll now see a smooth highlight that introduces the words as they’re read. And lastly, if we go back to Claude and we select our animated map project, you’ll see that it says it’s complete. We can go ahead and say please open this remote project. And just like that, our map animation is done. Now, the important thing I need to show you when creating this map is an error occurred because Remotion tried to use a Mapbox token that we don’t have. I then directed it to use a different open- source map and it successfully created our effect. Since this requires a map, we couldn’t render it in the usual way. You’ll see here that the motion map rule suggests using GL and this specific code. I instructed it to render it with this code. And after the rendering finished, I located the output file on my computer. This is what it produced. Now, let’s make some quick changes to this. I want the map to actually feel colorful. And I want to add a globe effect so it doesn’t just look like a flat map. And there we go. Now, if we go to Remotion Studio, we can go ahead and play our video. What we have is an animation out of Los Angeles. And if we swipe all the way over, we’ll be in New York. and we have that globe effect with the color on the water. So, we don’t need the black and white. Additionally, I plan to use Claw’s extensions like Hixfield MCP and apply the Miniax H3 model to add effects to the map. To enhance the beauty of our animation, especially when the dotted line travels from New York City to LA, I suggested designing it to resemble the style of the Civilization game. The model’s simplicity is characterized by ultrarecise detailing of various objects which led us to choose a really accurate map design. Now to access the Hixfield MCP feature, we just need to enable Claude’s extension and request access which can be done through a careful subscription process. To render this, especially when the preview appears a bit spotty, I return to Claude, swipe up to copy the prompt, and then confirm that it’s perfect. I’ll then paste the prompt onto my computer to generate the image. Now, we’ll wait for a moment. And once the rendering is complete, [music] you’ll notice that the map is flawlessly rendered and the animations are looking great. Now, just zoom out, swipe across, and voila, our effects are in a designed background. That’s crazy. And now, the moment of truth. Here is the video that we started with side by side. Raw footage on the left and on the right graded with the money counter, motion background, animated boxes with highlights and the map. One video, zero After Effects. Now, here are a few examples of the motion graphics, effects, and other features that you can create with Claude. We began with the free version of Claude, using it to generate a stylish LUT and an SRT file with animated counting numbers. Now later we switched the paid version and combined it with Remotion to produce motion graphics that continue to amaze me. I hope you enjoyed this video. I really enjoyed creating it and experimenting with everything. Thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you guys in the next

Hi and a big welcome back to the channel today. Thank you so much for tuning in. Today’s video is going to be a little bit different than the content that I normally produce. Normally I focus on finance and macroeconomics, often a lot of geopolitical or current affairs. But today, I wanted to just add a video to the preparation playlist around a number of items I think is really important that you actually own as we go into this difficult period. Or should I say as we continue to go through this difficult period because one of the things that a lot of people have been putting in the comments is that some of the things that I talked about a year ago or even two years ago have already come to pass. And a lot of people said they wish they had these things that I talked about previously. And also, I know many of you will know this, many of you won’t know this, but I actually did serve in the army for over a decade. I’m trained in everything you can imagine in terms of survival and preparation, disaster management, uh, from Arctic, the coldest of climates, right through to arid, the hottest of deserts, from home defense or or compound defense, right through to being on the move and having to survive for long periods of time on your own on the move. So, what I thought I’d do today is just share some of this knowledge. And no, I’m not a a prepping channel, but I did just want to share some of this knowledge that I have with you. And now, many of you who are big-time preppers will already have a lot of these items, but for those of you who are not, I really think it would be valuable if you just have these 30 very, very basic items at your home so that no matter what happens, you will be prepared for the worst. And remember, it’s always best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best because if nothing happens, you’ve lost absolutely nothing, especially with a lot of these lowcost items. So, with that said, let’s get into item number one then. Now, item number one is water filtration. When I went through over a dozen survival courses in different countries around the world, the first thing I was always told to think about was water. That is the number and that’s the same thing I taught my soldiers as well. Number one thing to always bear in mind first is water. And I often hear people say, Neil, I’m fine. I’ve got gallons of water stored at home. I’m I’m good. Well, actually, that’s usually not the case because even if you have a lot of water stored, if you think about the amount of water that a human consumes each day, most people would run out of water. Even the most hardcore with the largest storage capacities, most people would run out of water in an emerter prolonged emergency situation. So that’s why one thing I always say is to get yourself a water filtration system. Yes, having water stored is fine, but you will run out eventually. So a water filtration system is very useful. Now, this ranges from things like your on the counter systems like a Berky, which requires no electricity. It’s gravity-fed, right through to smaller water bottles that you can use on the move. And if you go camping a lot with your family, you’ll probably already have something like these small uh water filtration water bottles. I know that I do. If I’m ever out for 2 or 3 days, I know that I would always take yeah 2 to 4 L of water with me. But the the main thing I would use is a water filtration system of some sort so that I can just fill up water from rivers and streams or lakes or wherever I am. And that brings me on to my next point then which is number two and that’s some sort of water storage or flask. Uh this is a an army issued water bottle by the British Army. Comes with a cup as well and just slots in like this. Uh fits in your rrook sack or however you’re going to carry it. I also have various flasks like this. This is my favorite one. It’s super well insulated and keeps uh liquids hot for usually around 4 to 5 hours in this uh this as well. Another type of flask. And the good thing about this one is that it’s single skinned. So, if you did need to heat this, I mean, it’s not ideal. I’m not recommending it, but if you did ever need to heat this in emergency, you could cuz it’s single skinned, whereas some of the others you can’t. And then I just have my normal uh water bottle which is what I use on a day-to-day basis. Number three then is food. I don’t mean perishable food here. I’m talking about long life stored food. Now you can go anywhere from rice. This is a 4 kilo bag and it will last for quite a long time in this bag on its own. But if you want to actually store uh grains and some long life grains for a lot longer, you’re going to have to start thinking about myar bags and oxygen absorbers or even as far as freeze dryers. Now, this food if you purchase it will cost a lot more. Freeze-dried food is a lot more expensive. We have a good store of it. We don’t have, you know, 30 years worth. We’re not looking uh out that far, but we do have a good store of a couple of years worth alongside our grains and other items that we use on a day-to-day basis. Number four then, I’ve mentioned this a lot of times before, is your clothing. You’ve really got to think now about clothing. Not designer, fashionable, throwaway clothing, but long life warm clothing. Especially if you’re in Europe this winter, uh you you know what’s happening. There’s a lot of crises at the moment. Maybe you’re in a cold climate and there may be some sort of load shedding or you know there may be a lack of energy this year is having nice uh wool jumpers, sweaters, we call them jumpers, you may call them sweaters. Having wool that keeps you warm uh body warmers items like this, this is a body warmer will keep you uh very warm. And then we have uh your usual stuff. So wool uh thick socks, a wool thick hat. This is uh my favorite item actually when it’s freezing cold. And then things like gloves. Now these are a tactical gloves. So I use these when I’m on the range every week. So they’re not super warm, but they are convenient for me because they give me full mobility of my hands and if I’m having to do anything else like anything maneuvers and climbing over stuff, these are really useful cuz it stops me shredding up my hands. Number five then is all about keeping warm at home. So, we have a thick wool blanket. This was from the army surplus store. It cost £20. A normal wool blanket will cost you quite a lot of money. Then, we have uh thinner different fabric uh blankets. We have all sorts of uh these right through to thick winter sleeping bags. So, if I ever needed to use this in an emergency, I’ve got this. Or often I might use sleeping bags anyway when I’m out in winter. If I’m camping in winter, then I will use these sort of items. Number six then is your home heating. This is what you want to think about. Now, whether you use heating oil, electricity, natural gas, or wood, you really want to think about your supply and your storage. Now, obviously, natural gas is not something you probably store at home, but some people again use propane for their heating if you’re quite rural. There’s all sorts of different supplies. Start thinking about your heating situation now. Do you have a a wood burner? This is one of the things I recommended a couple of years ago to get a wood burner before all of these energy crisis. If you have that, have you had your your chimney or your flu swept? If you use oil heating, have you got your boiler serviced? Have you got your oil tank filled up? These are all the things that you want to think about as we go into what is being called this dark winter. Number seven then is all about cooking. If you’re relying on somebody else to provide you with your energy that you’re going to use for cooking, that is something you may want to consider and think about. Honestly, the more independent you can get of all of these sort of things that we’re talking about, the better. Remember, plan for the worst, but simply hope for the best. You’ve lost absolutely nothing by doing any of these things. So, you can go from anything to something like this. This is my cast iron skillet. I swear by this. It weighs a ton. So, you don’t want to be carrying it around. And actually, I can cook on this just using tealight candle. I’ve got a a cast iron stove top. Again, that’s quite heavy, so it’s more for if you’re, you know, needing this at home. Uh, it’s got about eight tealight candles that sits underneath it. And this would be very easy to just put on top of that and and cook very very easily. And if you have a propane burner or something like that, you might want to get something very simple. Again, this is just for an emergency. I know it sounds doom and gloom here, but this is just a worst case scenario. Again, these are British Army mess tins. They are absolutely brilliant. You can easily cook in these, do all sorts of things with these actually. So, it’s better to have this kind of stuff, which costs very little. Uh these were less than £10. So, we’re not talking huge amounts of money here for something that could save your life in an emergency. Number eight then is obviously the fuel that you use. So, do you use wood? Do you have wood burners? will make sure that you’ve got enough wood stored up now ready for the winter time. And that comes into number nine, which is your fuel for other things. Maybe it’s for your vehicle. You might need some gasoline. And you can get these 5 L. I don’t know what that is in America, but these 5 L fuel cans. Uh, obviously don’t store these things in the house. Not just because it’s a fire hazard, but also it absolutely stinks the house out, even if you’ve got a good seal on these things. So, these are the sort of things that you want to think about. Now, I definitely keep at least 10 to 15 L of petrol. I also have around 1,000 L heating oil tank. Obviously, I have wood. I I have pretty much everything that I would need in an emergency situation. And I’ll tell you another beauty of doing these sort of things. For those of you who think this is too much work, this is doom and gloom, whatever, the beauty of this is that it it just takes such a weight off your mind. If you are sat there right now or stood there watching this and you’re thinking about, you know, you’re worrying about some of these things, honestly, once you’ve got them in place, it takes that weight off your mind, that stress, and it just you can relax a lot more. Number 10 then is this stuff. This is washing powder. Now, you can have it as a powder form in you can seal it in bags or tubs or you can get the small tablets, but not the sort of liquid tablets. This stuff is the best. Uh you can buy this in bulk very very cheaply and it lasts forever. So definitely get this just in case as we’ve heard in the UK the sort of energy blackouts that are being talked about if you can’t wash your clothes and you need to do a wash then this is what I used to when I would travel around. I would just fill the sink with some water, use some washing powder, wash the clothes and then hang them up to dry with some pegs on a on a line or something like that. So this is another thing that you should definitely have. Number 11 is pet food. Then make sure that you have enough food for your pets. We know what happened during the lockdowns. A lot of this pet food supplies just ran out very quickly and it did cause a lot of upset and a lot of stress for a number of people because they were worried about feeding their pets. Number 12 then is cleaning products and hygiene related items. One of the things that people forget are the black bags, what you might call trash bags in the USA. People forget this very quickly. Now, these have numerous uses, especially the strong ones. You can use these for all sorts of things, for uh waste, which is the main thing. Sometimes they even will hold some water if you need to collect some water, as crazy as that sounds. You can use them for storing other items, which is very useful as well. They just have so many uses. And then, of course, your hygiene products. This is absolutely crucial. When I was in the field, I would never take say hand gel and all these sort of shower gels. I would just take a very small bar of soap and that was absolutely perfect for me. Number 13 then is linked to number 12, but this is about your health. Do you take prescription items? Do you take medications? What about normal things like your vitamins, vitamins? Uh just having very basic things like a manual toothbrush and toothpaste and these items. Remember what I talked about last year? I actually went out and stocked up on all of these long life um non-p perishable items from toothpaste to to razors to shaving cream to soap and all these things because they never expire. So why would I wait 2 years when the price might double, you know, 2 or 3 years later when I can just buy it all and store it now, especially as these items are so cheap. Number 14 then is one of these things. This is a first aid kit. This is absolutely crucial that you have one of these in your household. This one here is from my vehicle. And I have actually used this before twice when I’ve been out and there has been some sort of a I wouldn’t say an emergency, but there’s been incidents and I’ve had to go back to my car run and get this to actually assist. Now, does that mean that you need some sort of medical training? Not necessarily. As part of my role, I was trained for about six to eight weeks in what you call a medic, a field medic. But it doesn’t mean that you need to know these things. But just having a basic first aid kit and knowing some simple skills would be very useful. And again, what did we see very recently, especially in the UK, in some of the places where there was up to a 3hour wait for an ambulance, an emergency ambulance in some cases because of all sorts of problems. And just recently, there was a lady that almost died in the UK because the road had been blocked off by these sort of protest people. And I’m I’m talking about these climate protest people. The ambulance couldn’t get to her. They had to go different ways. In the end, it had to be a helicopter that came in. See, under these circumstances, you need to have a little bit of basic medical training or at least a first aid kit. Number 15 then is this stuff. You might not think this is very valuable, but aluminum or the Americans call it aluminum foil is extremely valuable and it would be extremely valuable again during any kind of crisis. Now, when I go away, so I’m out um for three, sometimes four day treks at times, I definitely have some of this with me because if I need to cook anything, this is the easiest way to do it over an open fire. Again, I don’t want to carry my very heavy cast iron skillet with me. Sure, I have my mess tins that I showed you before, but this stuff is so simple. You can just wrap whatever you’re cooking into it. If it’s some meat, for example, or fish, wrap it in this, throw it on top of the fire, and it will cook it beautifully without needing to worry about any sort of cleanup or or any sort of equipment. Number 16 then is one that most people forget about, and that is one of these. This is a can opener. Now, you can get fancy ones that do it all for you. The battery, you know, it’s battery operated, or it plugs into the electricity supply. I don’t have any stuff like that. In fact, I don’t even use this one. This is my wife’s one. Mine is about this big. It’s got a little metal hook on it, and I just use it manually to open any can because yeah, most cans look like this these day and they have the ring pull. But I’m pretty sure, I can almost guarantee you if you look in your pantry, you’re going to find some that look like this where they don’t actually have a ring pull on it. So, you’re going to have to, and these are cans of tuna, by the way, that I’m holding up here, which will last I think these are 2027 on these. So, 5 years from now. So, just think about these things. Often, it’s it’s small items that you haven’t thought about that you need the most. Number 17 then is lighting. And you saw my video last week where I was holding these things up. And these are tealight candles. And this is a pack of 100 here. So, I must have uh two or three thousand of these things. But you also noticed last week and it was somewhat tongue and cheek where uh that I was lighting the candle and it kept going out. But that is sometimes what happens with these matches. So, make sure you’ve got alternatives. You got matches, you’ve got waterproof matches, you’ve got, you know, one of these things that I use uh from time to time. See, look at that. Uh it took three clicks there. I also have a flint in my bugout bag. or if I’m away trekking or something, I’ll use a flint to light my fire. Candles are really important for lighting. And again, these have so many different uses because I talked about my cast iron burner there. I can put, you know, just a few of these underneath the burner and that will heat a meal if I needed to. So, they are very, very useful. Number 18 then are torches or what Americans you will call flashlights. Uh these things very very useful, very important. Uh this is my main torch. This is my secondary one. Uh this is absolutely phenomenal. I’ve never had a torch or flashlight like this in my life. Uh this used to go on top of my rifle. That’s why it’s got the mounting brackets here. This is unbelievable. It will light up anywhere at all. And it only uses small batteries as well. It’s phenomenal. Yeah. Can’t recommend this enough. Okay, your next one then is one of these. This is just a very simple axe. Uh, multifunctional. I use this for all sorts of things. I’ve had this one for probably 15 years. And you can see how heavily it’s been used. And you can use it for all sorts. I’ve even used this as a hammer before. It’s so good. Now, what was I holding in the thumbnail? I was holding one of these. You probably wondered what it is. Well, this is your sharpening block. And it always makes me laugh when I speak to people and they say, “Oh, I’m I’m buying a new axe or new chisels or whatever.” And I say, “Why?” They say, “Oh, mine’s blunt.” Well, hello. This is what you use. Very simply, you just That’s it. It’s as simple as that to sharpen your axe. Uh, you know, you got to buy one of these. I bought this at a car boot sale, what you might call a flea market or something. It was less than a pound. I think it was 50p. I bought two of these sharpening blocks and I’ve had them forever. But this is good for your little bits of wood if you’ve got a wood burner. It’s good for taking down uh trees or anything in your grounds or your property. Again, you can really use it as a hammer if you need to for some small uh work. It also works as protection, shall we say. There’s only certain things I can say on this video platform,

but this is multifunctional. Uh, yes, I’ve got loads of different types. I’ve got hatchets through to wood splitters. I’ve got I’ve got probably a dozen in my tool shed, different axes and things. They all serve a different purpose, but really you just need one good one of these and you are good to go. Number 20 then is a small portable crank radio. Super super useful if you need to hear any emergency broadcasts when the power is out. Number 21 is a whistle. This will cost you, you know, a pound, a dollar, a euro. They’re super super cheap, but they may save your life if you are ever out and you need that. Or even if you’re at the home and you know something has happened, there’s some sort of an incident. You can always open the window and blow the whistle to attract emergency attention or to attract neighbors attention. That is if you don’t live in the middle of nowhere on your homestead where the nearest house is 10 miles away. Number 22 then are maps. I bet you’ve never thought of this. Well, most people won’t have done, but uh I have ordinance survey maps. I use these if I’m out trekking uh with a compass, but this I know this is pretty old school now, but this is the sort of stuff that I have and I use. And I think this will be very useful if we ever had a major um cyber attack or grid down situation or you just had to travel somewhere and your GPS or something like that doesn’t work. That’s for the younger people watching who don’t know any of the roads. They just use the Google maps or something like that these days. Brie then is cash. And I’ve got some different types of cash here from euros right through to British pounds and US dollars. Now, let me tell you, this will be pretty useless if you ever need cash in an emergency where we already know that they’re going to at some point transfer over to a central bank digital currency. Uh, so this stuff won’t be too useful. You need to have smaller denominations like this here, you know, £5 or or £10, something like that. Make sure you have uh small denominations, maybe even some coins. Number 24 then comes back to your tool shed, and that might be rather than having all those tools, something like a multi-tool with some pliers and a screwdriver and, you know, these sort of things attached. Number 25 is your gardening equipment and supplies. So, your seeds, uh, spade, all the things that you might need for growing your own food. And if you’re sensible, you will have already started doing some basic growing of vegetables, whether that’s on the window sill uh in your house with in a pot, whether you start a little patch in your garden this year, or whether you’ve got an an entire aotment like some people do, or their whole backyard is now a garden. This is definitely a highly highly recommended thing that you do. and a great idea because we know how bad the food supply is getting. Now, I’m not talking about actually the supply of food coming in, which is obviously a concern with all the famine warnings that we’re receiving, but also just the amount of chemicals and pesticides and crap that they are pumping into the food these days. Why not grow your own and be a lot healthier? Remember who you are and your health is uh pretty much 80% from your diet. Number 26 then is my favorite as you know it is books and I have so many books. I have thousands of books in my library but just a small sample here. Everything from books that you’ll want to read if you know you have no power. This is a what am I reading at the moment? Plato the republic. Another one is the book of the farm. This is absolutely brilliant from the Victorian ages. Highly recommend this book. This is all about food growing uh a lotment monthtomonth. I have probably 15 of these different uh foodbased books. And then I have one on wood basics, you know, basic carpentry. But honestly, having lots of interesting books is really important. And also because remember, we’ve been warned about these cyber attacks over and over. Again, this is not just me saying it. It’s governments and other industry bodies saying that there could be cyber attacks as we go through the next year or two. And you just got to start thinking about if there was a cyber attack and you couldn’t access certain things, how would you know how to do things? This is one of the reason I have a library and I collect a lot of books because there’s things I just don’t know how to do and those skills could be lost for a long period of time if they’re on the internet or uh things get hacked and destroyed online. So, I want to make sure that I’ve got an offline source of information. And of course, this links in with point number 27, which is to have hard copies, so physical paper copies of very important documents. This ranges from your marriage or your birth certificate right through to bank accounts, medical information. Learn from what happened to me with my bank accounts being closed down. It was only because I had physical paper copy records at home. And again, this is where you might want to have a fire safe that I was able to actually win my case in court and get the money back from those accounts. Number 28 then, and this is where we’re going full-blown prepper style here, is berable items. So, very simple things right from uh silver 1 oz coins here right through to gold. Now, you would get a lot for an ounce of gold like this, but also medicine, other equipment, uh food. These are all items that you could barter if we went into a worstc case SHTF as we say situation. Number 29 then is for I probably some of the younger generation. These are your power banks. So if you honestly just can’t go without power. You need your your phone or your laptop or something. Then you can get these power banks and they come in all different shapes and sizes and they have come down massively in cost now. But just remember that just because you have a power bank to charge up your phone or laptop, if the power’s down, your internet probably isn’t going to work anyway. So, I come back to my previous point, make sure you’ve got some good, enjoyable books to read. And number 30 then is batteries and rechargeable batteries. Make sure that you keep these in a myar bag or oxygen absorber or just in a tub for long-term storage because this will help the batteries to last a lot longer. Now, if you’ve made it all the way to the end of the video, then massive well done to you and please drop some of your suggestions below in the comments. But I just wanted to finish up here with one last point and that is that in my life I’ve traveled to over 70 countries. I think it’s 72 countries now. And I’ve been in all sorts of disaster zones. And one thing that I can share with you from the pattern I noticed with all of these things is that even some of the the most honest good people will break after a while. Now, I’m not saying all people, but a lot of people will eventually let go of some of their morals if their children are starving or if there’s a major disaster and there just isn’t help there. So you you really want to start thinking about these things now. Making sure that you’re protected and also some of your neighbors if you like your neighbors or your community or family members. You you’ve got to think not just about yourself but your community as well because I have seen the worst of the worst that civilization and humanity can do to people. And I know that in the west we often think that these things will just never happen. But already we’re starting to see u societal breakdown and we have seen it for two or three years now as we’ve gone through this crisis period. So I just want to finish with this last point. Always prepare for the worst case scenario. Hope for the best and if it doesn’t happen, you’ve lost absolutely nothing by your preparation. So thank you for watching today’s video. Take care. God bless. I will see you tomorrow on the walk and talk which will be a little bit different. will be in a different location.