Hermes + Obsidian is insane. And it's free.
Hermes is the agent that runs your jobs. Obsidian is where all your notes, your goals, your past chats live. Wire them together inside the Agent Operating System and every Hermes job already knows your business cold — for free. One shared brain. Notes you wrote three months ago show up in today's answer. Here's how the whole thing works.
Hermes + Obsidian just shipped today. Free. We've already added it to the Agent Operating System inside the AI Profit Boardroom — along with everything else, updated daily.
Hermes just got a memory. Yours.
Until now, every time you asked Hermes to do a job, it started from zero. No clue who you were. No clue what you'd asked yesterday. You had to paste your whole life back into the chat just to get a useful answer.
That's done. Hermes can now read your Obsidian vault — your notes, your goals, your client folders, your past chats — straight from inside the Agent Operating System. For free.
So every job Hermes runs starts with the full picture. It already knows your business. It already knows what you tried last month. It already knows your voice.
And the part that makes people stop scrolling: Hermes will pull a fact out of a note you wrote three months ago — a fact you forgot you wrote — and fold it right into today's answer. Like it's been listening the whole time.
I was you. Then Hermes started remembering.
Before
I used to re-explain my whole business every single time I opened an AI.
Who I am. What we sell. Who my clients are. What I'm working on this week.
A fifth of every message I sent was just me re-explaining my business. Wasted time, every single chat.
And the answers I got back were generic — because the AI had no idea what made me, me.
I'd forget the smart notes I'd written. They'd sit in Obsidian gathering dust while I asked the same question over and over.
Then I wired Hermes to my Obsidian vault.
After
Now I open a Hermes job and it already knows everything.
My agency, my members, my goals, what I shipped yesterday, what I'm planning next week.
It pulls a line from a note I wrote in February and uses it today.
Every answer is grounded in my real business — not a generic AI guess.
And it's free. No subscription. No usage charges. One shared brain.
You can have this too. Same wiring. Same shared brain. Free.
Real people. Real wins. Inside the Boardroom right now.
Here's what's already happening for members running Hermes on top of their own notes — agency owners, ecom founders, course creators, solo operators. Different businesses. Same shift: AI finally stopped feeling generic. It started feeling like theirs.
Commit to transitioning today. Not tomorrow.
You've just seen what real members get when their AI finally knows their business.
The next few minutes show you how to give Hermes the same shared brain.
So here's the deal.
Promise yourself one thing right now: you'll finish this guide and you'll point Hermes at your first note before you sleep tonight. Just one folder. Because the moment you make that switch, AI stops being a stranger you re-introduce yourself to every day — it becomes a teammate that already knows you. And it's free.
The people sitting still are still copy-pasting the same context paragraph into every chat.
The people acting today are the ones who'll look back in six months and say "that was the week my AI finally became mine."
Be one of those people.
Commit to the transition. Commit to acting today. This changes how every Hermes job feels — for good.
Hermes alone vs Hermes with a shared brain
- Open Hermes from a blank slate — ~30 sec wasted per chat
- Re-explain who you are and what you sell — ~5 min per chat
- Copy-paste your goals, your tone, your client notes — ~10 min
- Forget the notes in Obsidian sitting right next to you — $0 wasted, but hours wasted
- Get generic answers because Hermes has no past with you — ~15 min of edits per output
- Pay extra for "premium memory" features that still forget you next week — $20–$200/mo
- Result: same questions, same context dumps, same flat answers — ~1 hr/day lost
- Point Hermes at your Obsidian vault once — ~5 min
- Every job from then on reads your real notes — for free
- Hermes already knows your business, clients, goals, voice — 0 min context paste
- It pulls a line from a note you wrote months ago and uses it today — ~$0 extra
- Answers feel like yours, not generic — saves ~15 min editing per output
- $0/mo — the shared brain runs on files you already own
- Result: a teammate that remembers everything, gets sharper daily — $0/mo forever
There isn't one. Your Obsidian vault is just folders of plain notes on your computer. Hermes is the agent. The Agent Operating System is the dashboard that connects the two. You already own the notes. You don't pay for the connection. Nothing is uploaded to some pricey "memory" service. That's why it's free.
Every new wiring like Hermes + Obsidian goes straight into the Agent Operating System inside the AI Profit Boardroom — the day it ships. You never fall behind. You open your dashboard and the new shared brain is already there.
The Goldie Hermes Memory Stack™
When I wired Hermes to my Obsidian vault inside the Agent Operating System, it stacked up like this. Five layers. Each one gives you something real. Free, top to bottom. Here's what each layer does for you.
The Vault — your notes become memory
Your Obsidian folders are now Hermes's long-term memory. Every note you've ever written becomes context the agent can reach for. Free, because the files were already yours.
The Bridge — Hermes reads the vault
One simple link inside the Agent Operating System points Hermes at your vault. After that, every job pulls the right notes on its own. You don't have to attach anything.
The Shared Brain — every agent sees the same thing
Hermes, Claude, OpenClaw — all of them read from the same vault. So they speak in one voice, with one set of facts, about one business. Yours.
The Recall — old notes show up in today's answer
The wow moment. Hermes finds a line you wrote months ago and weaves it into the answer you're reading right now. The forgotten gold in your vault comes back to work.
The Loop — every new note makes Hermes smarter
Every note you save tonight is part of Hermes's brain tomorrow. The longer you use it, the smarter it gets — and you didn't pay a cent for the upgrade.
Five layers. One vault. One shared brain. Free. That's the Hermes Memory Stack.
Install Hermes — free, in one go
Hermes is the agent that runs your jobs — research, writing, voice, video, anything you point it at. The good news: it's free, and you can have it on your machine in a few minutes.
Inside the Agent Operating System dashboard, you click Add Hermes. It walks you through the install — one button, no code, no scary command-line stuff. When it's done, Hermes shows up in your sidebar like any other tool. Free forever at the base tier.
Try it like this: open the dashboard, click Add Hermes, pick the free tier, and let it install. Two minutes, tops. Then come back here for step two.
If you can click an install button on a phone app, you can do this. The Agent Operating System does the hard part for you. Members who'd never opened a terminal have Hermes running before lunch.
Point Hermes at your Obsidian vault
This is the bit that turns a normal agent into a teammate that remembers. And it's the easiest part of the whole thing.
Open the Agent Operating System. Click Connect Vault. Pick the folder where your Obsidian notes live. That's it. Hermes can now read every note in that vault — and any new ones you write later.
From now on, every Hermes job runs with the full vault behind it. You don't paste notes in. You don't drag files. You just ask, and Hermes already knows where to look.
And because the vault is just plain notes on your computer, nothing leaves your machine unless you tell it to. Free, private, fast.
That's the point — messy is fine. Hermes doesn't need your vault to be neat. It scans the notes, finds what's useful for the question you asked, and uses that. A messy vault is still ten times better than a blank slate.
One vault. Every agent reads from the same brain.
Here's where the Agent Operating System earns its keep. The same Obsidian vault that Hermes reads from is the brain for Claude and OpenClaw too. One source of truth. Free. Shared.
So when you ask Claude a question on Monday and Hermes a different question on Tuesday, they both speak about your business the same way — because they read the same notes. No more "Claude thinks I sell X, Hermes thinks I sell Y."
This is the part that makes the system feel alive. Your tools stop arguing with each other. They start sounding like one teammate who's been with you for years.
The opposite. Shared memory means they line up. Hermes finishes a job, drops a note in the vault, and Claude reads it the next morning. The handoff is the wiring. That's why people call it a shared brain — it's actually shared.
The wow moment — Hermes pulls a note you forgot you wrote
This is the moment people stop scrolling. You ask Hermes a normal question. Something like, "Write me an email to my list about this week's launch."
And Hermes writes the email — but folded into it is a line you wrote in a note three months ago. Maybe it was a customer quote. Maybe it was a sharp angle you tried once and forgot. Maybe it was your own voice from a journal entry.
You read the email and you blink. "I wrote that?" Yes. Months ago. Hermes found it and used it — because the vault is now its memory. The forgotten gold in your notes comes back to work.
That's what no other free AI does. ChatGPT forgets you the moment the chat ends. Hermes + your vault never forgets anything you wrote down.
There is — you just can't see it. Every note you've written is a little fact, a tiny insight, a phrase only you would use. Hermes finds the ones that fit and drops them in. You'll be surprised what you've already written.
Get the Agent Operating System
Everything you're seeing — Hermes + Obsidian, the shared brain, the recall, the one-vault wiring — is built into the Agent Operating System I run every day. It connects Claude, OpenClaw, and Hermes into one dashboard with one shared brain, so every agent already knows your business. We update it daily — Hermes + Obsidian shipped today and it's already inside. Free to use at the core.
- The full Agent Operating System zip file + every prompt
- The Hermes Memory Stack setup, done with you step by step
- The Obsidian vault template Hermes loves to read from
- Daily updates — new wirings added the day they ship
- Four live coaching calls every week
- A 30-day shared-brain roadmap + a member map to find builders near you
- 3,200+ members across 38 countries, someone online 24/7
Or read the 158-page testimonials doc first →
Where Hermes lives — inside the Agent Operating System
Standalone Hermes is good. Hermes inside the Agent Operating System is a different animal. Because the dashboard is the bit that makes the shared brain visible and easy to control.
You see your vault on one side. You see Hermes (and Claude, and OpenClaw) on the other. You see what notes the agent pulled to build its last answer — right there, clickable. You see what jobs are running. You see what's saved. All in one screen. Free.
And every job Hermes finishes drops its output back into the vault as a new note. So tomorrow's Hermes is smarter than today's — without you doing a single thing.
You don't need it. But without the dashboard, the shared brain is invisible. You can't see which notes Hermes used. You can't see when Claude reads the same vault. You can't watch the loop close. The dashboard is what turns "AI with memory" into something you can actually trust.
New wirings like Hermes + Obsidian drop every few days now. Inside the AI Profit Boardroom, we add them to the Agent Operating System for you — so you're always running the newest shared brain, not last month's setup. Hermes + Obsidian just shipped today. Already inside.
Why Hermes + Obsidian is so strong inside the Agent Operating System
You could run Hermes on its own. You could open Obsidian on its own. But you get the real magic when they sit together inside the Agent Operating System. Here's why, in plain words:
- One shared brain, not five. Hermes, Claude, OpenClaw all read your vault. They line up. They sound like the same teammate.
- You can see the memory work. The dashboard shows which notes were pulled into each answer. The shared brain stops being a mystery and starts being something you trust.
- Every job feeds the brain. Hermes drops its outputs back into the vault. Tomorrow's agents read today's results. The system gets smarter on its own.
- It's free. No memory subscription. No usage charges every time it reads a note. The vault is yours. The dashboard is included.
- It's always current. We update the Agent Operating System daily, so the day a new wiring ships — like Hermes + Obsidian today — it's already in your dashboard.
"On its own, Hermes is a clever agent. Inside the Agent Operating System, with your vault behind it, it's a teammate that knows you."
My honest take
Use the shared brain for the work that matters — emails to your list, client work, content, strategy, product copy. Anywhere "this should sound like me" matters. For a quick one-off question, a normal chat is still fine. That's the whole rule.
And here's the thing worth sitting with: the people who give their AI a memory now, while it's free and brand new, are going to be miles ahead when everyone else catches up. Every note you write becomes part of your edge. The skill keeps building on itself.
Most people will read about Hermes + Obsidian, think "neat," and keep pasting the same context paragraph into a fresh chat tomorrow morning. Don't be most people.
What you gained today
You stopped re-explaining yourself. Hermes now reads your vault. Context paragraph retired.
You got a shared brain — for free. One vault. Every agent reads it. $0/mo.
You unlocked your old notes. Hermes pulls forgotten gold into today's answers.
Your AI sounds like you. Answers grounded in your real business, not a generic guess.
Your agents stopped arguing. Hermes, Claude, OpenClaw all read the same brain now.
You stay current. Updated daily inside the Agent Operating System.
One vault. One shared brain. Every agent on the same page.
That's Hermes + Obsidian, inside the Agent Operating System. Free.
Wire your own shared brain this week
Want Hermes to know your business cold — so every job sounds like you and pulls from notes you forgot you wrote? Grab the Agent Operating System inside the AI Profit Boardroom. It turns Claude, OpenClaw, and Hermes into one dashboard, with one shared brain, with one place you control. We update it daily — Hermes + Obsidian shipped today and it's already added. Free at the core.
- I built it in my own sessions — you get the zip file
- Every prompt + the Obsidian memory setup
- The vault template Hermes loves to read from
- Daily updates — newest shared brain, never last month's setup
- Coaching calls where we wire your vault into Hermes together
- A 30-day shared-brain roadmap + a member map to find builders near you