🎓 AI MASTERCLASS: From Chatbot to Agentic Workflows with Hermes Agent

WATCH US HERE: 🌐 https://aiic.club 🚨 EARLY BIRD: $95 until August 20. Tickets will rise to $125 on August 21. AI MASTERCLASS + PRACTICAL BUILDING 🛠️ Don't treat AI like a question box. Start developing an AI system that can remember, take action, work on a schedule, and turn your best ideas into repeatable workflows. What if your AI didn’t forget everything as soon as you opened a new chat? What if it could remember how you work, call on special capabilities, handle recurring tasks, coordinate with other agents, and help drive real work forward – even when you're not there prompting it? This is the shift from chatbot to agentic workflow. And in this masterclass, you won’t just hear about it. You’ll build it. Brad Freels will lead the central 90-minute guided lab within this three-hour masterclass, using Hermes Agent as a personal AI operating system. This is a working session for those who already understand the basics of LLMs and are ready to move beyond one-off prompts to reusable systems that can support their work every day. THE BUILD: CRAWLING → WALKING → RUNNING → SPRINTING 🏃‍♀️💨 🐛 CRAWL — Make Hermes immediately more useful with better context, setup, and simple workflows. 🚶 WALK — Add persistent memory and reusable capabilities so that your agent can remember what’s important and repeat functions. 🏃 RUN — Create scheduled tasks, recurring research, messaging workflows, and repeatable business processes. 🚀 SPRINT — Create specialized AI team members, a personal Board of Directors, and the beginnings of a truly agentic enterprise. IDEAS WE COULD BUILD • A personal Board of Directors that provides advice from multiple expert perspectives • Specialized AI team members for research, operations, marketing, or decision support • Scheduled research and recurring business workflows that operate without constant prompting • Reusable capabilities that capture and reapply your best processes • A practical framework for identifying where agentic AI can create leverage in your organization WHY HERMES – AND WHY NOW? 💡 Hermes Agent itself is free and open-source. You can connect it with cloud AI providers or combine it with a local model via tools like Ollama – potentially eliminating the per-token costs for APIs and giving you more control over privacy, cost, and flexibility. As the use of AI grows and cloud token costs rise, knowing how to build on a locally capable, provider-flexible system provides options. You are not tied to a single model, provider, or monthly bill. WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY ✅ Multiple practical workflows that you have built yourself ✅ A clearer understanding of memory, capabilities, scheduled tasks, messaging, and specialized agents ✅ A framework for transforming repetitive work into agentic systems ✅ Concrete ideas you can implement immediately in your organization ✅ The confidence to continue building after the session This is not a traditional presentation. Bring your laptop, roll up your sleeves, and come ready to build. 👨🏻‍💻🔥 WHOM YOU SHOULD INVITE • Founders, operators, consultants, and executives who already understand fundamental LLM inputs • Developers who want AI to do more than just answer isolated questions • Anyone exploring personal agents, AI team members, workflow automation, or an agentic enterprise • People who want a practical local model option alongside cloud AI tools PREREQUISITE – PLEASE READ ⚠️ You must have Hermes Agent installed, configured, and running successfully BEFORE the session begins (we will provide a simple step-by-step guide upon registration). The lab requires a working Hermes environment so we can spend our time building. Bring your laptop and charger. Lunch is covered. 🥪🥗☕️ THE FACTS 📅 Sunday, September 20, 2026 🕐 1:00–4:00 PM CDT 📍 Antler VC, Austin 🎟️ $95 until August 20 🎟️ $125 from August 21 🚨 Practical seats are limited ABOUT BRAD FREELS Brad Freels is an Azure Data and AI strategist at Microsoft, helping organizations understand and apply emerging AI technologies. He is actively experimenting with agentic AI systems – including Hermes Agent – to explore how AI can transition from individual prompts to repeatable workflows, specialized agents, and practical business solutions. Secure your spot early, get Hermes up and running before you arrive, and come to build the AI operating system you will actually use. 🙌 I’m Chrissy McDannell, founder of 🌸 The Magnolia Firm and host of the AI Implementation Club - the building session for founders and operators who are done consuming AI content and ready to actually use it. Subscribe to our newsletter for future events and the best practical AI hacks: https://the-ai-implementation-club.beehiiv.com/