Hermes just shipped asynchronous subagents. The delegate tool that spawns workers to fan out and do your work no longer blocks your chat. So I turned it into a hive: one Queen agent dispatches a swarm of worker agents that forage in the background — all at once — and each flies back with finished work. I pointed it at my SEO funnel and got 5 full articles from one keyword, written at the same time, hands-free. Here's the whole thing, live.
This isn't my idea — it's a real Hermes Agent release from Nous Research. Here's the announcement, and where to get it:
ASYNC BACKGROUND DELEGATION — dispatch in ~2ms · subagent runs on a daemon thread · result re-enters chat as a new turn · 13 + 137 tests pass
To turn it on yourself: run hermes update in your terminal. That's it — the delegate tool is now non-blocking.
This is the part I had to show first. I gave the hive ONE keyword — "how to build an AI agent" — and one command. It fired five worker agents in parallel, each writing a complete, distinct SEO article for a different site in the funnel. I didn't touch a thing while they ran. Here are all five — real output, 4628 words total, click any to read:
▶ five real articles · one keyword · written at the same time by background workers
No mock-up. This is the real terminal — the Queen fires the workers, they forage at the same time (watch the timestamps overlap at 07:27:32, four foraging at once), each returns to the comb, then a deploy worker ships the whole site. Real output, real timestamps.
▶ real run · five 6-second jobs done in ~14s (one-at-a-time would be 30s+) · then a live deploy
The hive doesn't stop at words. A background deploy worker ran netlify deploy --prod and pushed the whole funnel live — I didn't touch the keyboard between the prompt and the URL:
A real Netlify deploy on my account — a fresh demo site, so a live funnel is never touched. One keyword in → five articles and a deployed website out, hands-free.
Before
My SEO funnel is five sites. Five articles per keyword.
I'd write one. Wait. Check it. Start the next. Wait again.
Every article blocked the one behind it.
A single keyword could eat half a day of babysitting.
Then the hive changed it.
After
Now I give one agent the keyword and walk away.
Five workers write five articles at the same time.
Nothing blocks me — I'm already onto the next keyword.
The whole funnel lands while I do something else.
You can have this too. Same tool. Same path.
I'm not the only one running agents like this — agency owners, ecom founders, course creators, solo operators. Different businesses, same result.
Real businesses, real wins, documented. Read the 158-page testimonials doc →
You just saw five articles written at once from one keyword.
The next few minutes show exactly how the hive works.
So here's the deal.
Promise yourself one thing right now. You'll finish this guide and run hermes update before you sleep tonight. Just that one command. Because the moment your agents stop blocking you, the way you work changes for good.
The people doing it one-at-a-time are getting passed. The people running hives are the ones who look back in six months and say "that was the moment."
Commit to the transition. Commit to taking action today. This changes how much you ship.
A hive runs on one simple idea: the Queen doesn't do the work — she sends out workers, and they all forage at once. Here's how the five parts give you a funnel that builds itself.
Your lead agent. You hand it one goal — "run the funnel for this keyword" — and it decides the fan-out. It never does the grunt work itself.
One background subagent per job, each dispatched in ~2ms with delegate_task(background=true). Each runs on its own daemon thread with its own goal and context.
They all work at the same time, off to the side of your chat. Dispatch returns instantly — you're never blocked. Keep planning, keep chatting, start the next keyword.
As each worker finishes, its result flies back and re-enters your chat as a new turn — self-contained, in order, no mid-loop mess. You collect finished work as it lands.
It all lives in your Agent OS — one memory, one dashboard. Every worker knows your business, so the whole hive compounds instead of starting cold.
I built you a ready-made hive. The seo-lead profile is the Queen (the delegate toolset, five concurrent workers, auto-approve so they write unattended), and the seo-funnel skill is the playbook. Turn it on and point it at a keyword:
Five workers fan out, five articles land. The same shape works for any fan-out — it doesn't have to be SEO.
You just watched one keyword become five articles, hands-free. Now imagine that running next to every other model and agent you use, on one screen, sharing one memory — and pointed at your whole business, not just SEO.
That's the Agent Operating System inside the AI Profit Boardroom. Hermes, Grok Build, Claude, GLM, Kimi — one dashboard, one memory, builds previewing live. The hive plugs straight in, with your business context baked in.
The hive is a pattern, not a one-trick tool. Anything you'd do one-at-a-time, you can now fire in parallel and walk away:
Fan out the same build to Grok, GLM, Kimi and Qwen as workers — compare the results as they land instead of running them one by one.
From a livestream: workers write the description, the Substack post, the Shorts scripts and the thumbnail brief — all at once.
Fire ten jobs at midnight; they forage on daemon threads and the finished work piles up as new turns by morning.
Send a worker to research in the background while the Queen keeps coding; the findings fly back when ready.
If I'm not watching each step, it'll go off the rails.
Each worker gets one tight goal and its own context, and every result flies back for you to check. You're the Queen — you set the jobs, you keep the honey.
Running agents in parallel sounds like chaos.
It rides the same rails as background terminal jobs — message order and prompt-cache stay intact. 13 targeted and 137 delegate tests pass. It's boring and safe by design.
This is only for coders.
It's one command and a plain-English goal. If you can type "run the funnel for this keyword," you can run a hive.
158 pages of members who already broke through these exact beliefs — real businesses, real wins.
Read the 158-page testimonials doc →You stopped waiting. Dispatch is ~2ms — the work runs while you keep going.
You stopped babysitting. One command fans out the whole funnel.
You ship in parallel. Five articles at once, not one after another.
You collect, you don't chase. Each finished job flies back to you.
It's not just SEO. Bake-offs, content, overnight batches — same hive.
It's one command. hermes update, then point a Queen at a goal.
If you want your agents to actually multiply your output — not just be one more tool you babysit — grab the Agent Operating System inside the AI Profit Boardroom.
It turns Hermes, Grok Build, Claude, GLM and Kimi into one system with shared memory and one dashboard. Every new feature — like async subagents — makes the whole hive more powerful, automatically.
Run hermes update first. Point a Queen at a keyword second. I'll see you in the next one.