Andrew Erickson · Market Masters · Austin, TX · August 23, 2026
Build Your Own AI “Hermes” Agent.
Hire a staff of AI agents that runs your store while you sleep.
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© 2026 Andrew Erickson · InventoryHero. All rights reserved.
Not financial or legal advice · No reproduction without written consent.
Not financial or legal advice · No reproduction without written consent.
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About me
Andrew Erickson.
- 2015Started selling on Etsy and Amazon.
- 3xFounder of three 7-figure Amazon brands.
- 2021First 7-figure exit.
- 2026AI Grand Prize · Kevin King's Billion Dollar Seller Summit.
- 100+Custom products launched, runs his brands on AI agents.
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Big news
I just had my… second successful exit.
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What I'm building now
InventoryHero.ai + the community around it.
Now shipping
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Your supply chain in plain English. AI watches your inventory and tells you what to reorder.
Free community
AI for Ecom
A WhatsApp group of sellers building with agents day to day.
SCAN TO JOIN
Hosting
AI Agent Hackathon
A free live session to share what is working in AI for ecommerce.
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The thesis
You are the bottleneck.
You are the CEO and the whole staff.
Anyone can prompt great creative now.
Leverage is the only edge left.
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Every company will deploy thousands of agents alongside their employees.
Marc Benioff
CEO, Salesforce · paraphrased, Dreamforce 2024
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Agenda
What you'll learn.
- 01Why 2026 is the year agents got real.
- 02Meet Hermes, and your new team.
- 03The jobs they do for your store.
- 04Make your first hire this week.
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Quick start
Follow along with your own store.
Grab a free InventoryHero account now, so the demo uses your real numbers, not mine.
SCAN TO START
prod.inventoryhero.ai/signup
01 · Right now
Sign up in the background.
02 · During the demo
Follow along with your data.
03 · By the end
Your first agent, working.
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Why now
If you can't out-prompt them, you have to out-build them.
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Meet Hermes
Not a chatbot. An employee that never goes home.
Always on. Texts back. Gets things done.
A free, open AI agent that lives on your computer and runs your business. You just text it.
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The mental model
You don't use Hermes. You staff it.
Profiles
Your employees
One agent per job: a PPC agent, a sourcing agent, a support agent.
Subagents
Temp workers
Big job? It hires helpers on the spot to work in parallel.
Skills + memory
Training that sticks
Teach it once. It remembers your business and saves what works.
Cron
The night shift
Scheduled jobs run while you sleep and text you the results.
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Under the hood, briefly
Open source. Runs cheap. Your data stays yours.
Any top AI model · the brain
↓ you pick the brain
Hermes · the body and hands
Memory: plain files you own
Skills: saves what works
↓ runs on your hardware, you hold the keys
Your laptop, or a $10 server
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But isn't this just Claude Code?
A contractor you call in, vs staff who never leave.
| Claude Code | Hermes | |
|---|---|---|
| When it works | When you sit down with it | Always on, in the background |
| How you reach it | At your computer | By text, from anywhere |
| Best at | A focused build session | Running the day to day |
| Feels like | A brilliant contractor | Staff that never leaves |
Not rivals. Hermes can call in Claude Code for the heavy builds, then keep them running.
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The payload
Six hires, one afternoon
Meet your team.
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Your team · the night shift
Work that runs itself.
Operations Manager
The morning brief
Sales, ad spend, and what is in transit, arriving, or running low, before you wake.
PPC Manager
Daily ad triage
Pause this, scale that, here is the wasted spend. Money back every day.
Bookkeeper
Found money
Ask your real margins in plain English. It also files your lost-inventory refunds.
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Your team · the builders
From sourcing to software.
Sourcing Agent
Supplier wrangler
Drafts POs, chases suppliers, turns five messy quotes into one clear table.
Creative + Engineer
Builds you tools
Writes listings, makes images, and builds working apps you can actually ship.
Chief of Staff
Scales with you
Cheap models do the grind. A new VA is productive on day one.
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Remember Brand Apps?
Your agent builds the Brand App. And keeps it alive.
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Plug it into your stack
It works with what you already run.
Connected through the open MCP standard. No custom code.
Amazon
Listings, inventory, and ad campaigns. Free skill packs included.
Google Workspace
Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets. Turn this on first.
Stripe
"How many trials converted last week," with no dashboard.
Inventory Hero
True inventory, real margins, a 12-month restock forecast.
Research
Keepa, Firecrawl, and raw Reddit demand.
Team + comms
Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and notes from Fireflies.
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Live demo
Your morning brief. In four moves.
- 01At 6am, it checks your whole store.
- 02Sales, ad spend, low stock, new reviews.
- 03It texts you the brief, and what to reorder.
- 04You reply "yes." Nothing happens until you do.
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Start this week
Make your first hire. Just one.
Step 1
Pick one job
The morning brief. Prove it works, then add a teammate.
Step 2
Quick Setup
One simple login. No keys, no code, no technical setup.
Step 3
Safe and cheap
Cheap model for the grind. Spend limits on anything touching money.
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The two questions everyone asks
Is it safe? And what does it cost?
It asks first
You stay in control
It never spends a dollar or changes a listing without your okay. Turn it off anytime.
It can't go rogue
Your account is safe
It works through Amazon's official connection, with spend limits you set.
The cost
From about $20 a month
A whole team of agents for the price of one tool, not one salary.
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Which brain to give it
Don't overthink it. One login picks for you.
Start with the bundled brain. When you want to tune it, the rule is simple.
| The job | The brain | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Thinking and deciding | A top model, Claude or ChatGPT | Smartest, best judgment |
| Watching, routine work | A cheap or local model | Pennies, runs all day |
Smart brain for thinking. Cheap brain for the grind. You can even blend them.
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Audience reveal
If you signed up earlier, you're already live.
- ·Signing up now? Ready in a few minutes.
- ·Signing up at Q&A? Ready by the time you stand.
- ·Point it at your store and give it one job.
SCAN TO START
prod.inventoryhero.ai/signup
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Take this with you
Your agent team starts with one hire.
- ·Set up the morning brief this week.
- ·Smart brain for thinking, cheap brain for watching.
- ·Join the free community and the hackathon.
SCAN OR VISIT
inventoryhero.ai/marketmasters
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Continue the conversation · 100% free
Join the next AI Agent Hackathon.
Free live session on Zoom. Scan for the next date.
- ·Open floor. No slides, no pitches.
- ·Setting up agents and morning briefs.
- ·The model stack and winning use cases.
SCAN TO REGISTER
inventoryhero.ai/hackathon
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Over to you
Q & A.
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© 2026 Andrew Erickson · InventoryHero. All rights reserved. No reproduction or redistribution without written consent.
Educational content only, not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners.
Educational content only, not financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners.
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