I’ve been using Hermes Agent for a few months. It’s a free open source AI assistant that handles your tools. The key to really improving it was using Printing Press. Printing Press creates a clean command-line interface (CLI) for nearly anything from a simple prompt. Instead of loading heavy systems that slow down your agent, your agent uses fast CLIs. The best part is that it works even with tools that have no API. You can point it at a website or an internal tool, and it figures out the CLI for you. Where it gets interesting: LinkedIn restricts its API, but Printing Press created a CLI for it. My agent can now find prospects, send connection requests, and follow up all by itself. You can replace slow, resource-heavy systems with quick CLIs, keeping your agent fast and inexpensive. There is a library of ready-made CLIs that you can install with one command. You can find options for CRM, marketing, travel, development tools, and more. You can even combine multiple CLIs in one request instead of manually connecting APIs. I want to reassure you that for anything involving messages or real conversations, like direct messages or comments, it always checks with me first. It waits for my approval before sending anything. I stay in control of that part. The setup can be a bit frustrating, which is why I’m sharing this. I’ve done it enough times that I’m happy to set yours up for you. If you’re stuck with a tool that has no API and it keeps taking up your time, this is the solution you need. Tool: printingpress.dev

I'm using a couple of tools to make organising cashflow and especially cost control easier in the business. It still feels more clumsy/ awkward than I hoped for with a mix of traditional apps, AI tools and virtual assistant support. Appreciate it's not a big picture AI question, but is anyone using one specific tool that would offer input in different file format - we get pictures and posts from the team for expense/ cost claims ( subsistence, materials, consumables) and need to add this to a excel tracker against allows cost in project. Not a difficult thing, but consumes more time than I want to invest or have my accounts team spend on feeding individually into a tool to then feed the output into another tool. Appreciate any hands on suggestions from fellow AI users. We're using office 365, sage, excel trackers and the team send WhatsApp images of receipts as well as emails with pdfs (changing the team workflow is worked on, but they are used to send pics so they will carry on doing that unfortunately. Or they won't send it at all. Hard truth, but that's what I'm faced with) Thanks in advance for any tips or suggestions from you all :) 💕