Era or Hermes Agent?

Short answerBuilding your own agent and picking its model: Hermes Agent. Ready teammates working on business records behind approval gates: Era.

Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source agent; it runs on your computer or in the cloud and improves itself by building skills and memory. Era’s agents work inside a ready business system, on business records, behind approval gates.

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Side by side

The things a small business uses every day. Every row about Hermes Agent was read on Hermes Agent’s own site on 18 October 2026; rows we could not check are left out.

Era

Hermes Agent

Customer records and sales pipeline

Yes

Online booking and staff calendars

Yes

Online store, stock and orders

Yes

Quotes and invoices

Yes

WhatsApp, Instagram and email in one inboxHermes: Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, email gateways

Yes

Partly

Memory across conversations

Yes

Workflows on business eventsHermes: recurring jobs

Yes

Partly

Permissioned AI teammates with approvals

Yes

General purpose, you set it up

Pricing

Prices soon; AI runs on your own subscription or API key

Free, MIT licensed; model costs are yours

Hermes Agent is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Era. Products change quickly — if a row is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

What it looks like in Era

This job has its own screen in Era, in the same workspace as customer cards, the calendar, the inbox and the AI. The screen below is Era itself, with sample data.

AI/Era

Era

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How were sales this week? Remind the late payers too.

Era

Finance: read overdue instalments
Drafted 4 reminders
Waiting for your approval

₺48,200 in sales this week, 12% up on last week. 4 instalments are late; I drafted the reminders and I’m waiting for your approval before sending.

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Era’s screen

app.getera.io/finance/installments

Filtered overdue

Messages ready

Era is using this · 14:02

Sample screen · illustrative data

Switching from Hermes Agent to Era

An afternoon’s work. If you like, spend the first week using both; nothing switches off at once.

1Open Era and connect your AI subscription.
2Pick your trade; ready teammates and their permissions arrive.
3Connect your channels; messages land in Era’s inbox.

Example run · sample data

When Hermes Agent is the better pick

If you are a technical team that wants to build the agent stack yourself, choose the model and control everything, Hermes Agent is a strong base.

When Era is the better pick

In Era there is no model tuning or tool wiring: pick “barber” and ready teammates for bookings and reminders arrive.

Era and Hermes Agent — questions

If you are a technical team that wants to build the agent stack yourself, choose the model and control everything, Hermes Agent is a strong base. In Era there is no model tuning or tool wiring: pick “barber” and ready teammates for bookings and reminders arrive.

Yes. Era works with your supported Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Grok sources or your own API key. It orchestrates work rather than providing a model service.

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One workspace for your business.

Open Era with your own AI subscription or API key. Turn on what you need and add the rest later — the same workspace on Windows and the web.

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