The MyAgnts journal
Practical explanations for choosing, shaping, and trusting an agent—written for people who care about the work, not the infrastructure.
Latest
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A founder-run Hermes walkthrough using real deployment emails: bounded retrieval, live status checks, careful redaction, and a brief that stops before sending.
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Comparisons
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Compare Lindy, Relevance AI, and a managed AI agent by workflow fit, setup ownership, recurring work, controls, pricing, and maintenance.
Ecosystem
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A practical Hermes Agent hosting guide covering deployment choices, prerequisites, runtime availability, access, and upkeep.
Guides
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Evaluate a managed AI agent with 12 practical questions about finished work, approvals, data access, maintenance, costs, support, and offboarding.
Pricing
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Decide whether a $500 managed AI agent is worth it using one workflow, your real operating cost, and a clear fit test—not speculative ROI claims.
Guides
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Write a cold email that is relevant, truthful, easy to evaluate, and easy to decline—with a send-or-stop checklist, template, and follow-up rules.
Guides
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Write a clear business proposal with a practical brief, explicit scope, assumptions, responsibilities, pricing, and one unambiguous next step.
Automation
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A practical way to automate repetitive data entry: map one workflow, define validation rules, route exceptions to a person, and test the result.
Field Guides
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Evaluate one recurring workflow for an AI agent using concrete evidence about access, exceptions, approvals, reversibility, and ownership.
Field Guides
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A week-by-week operating method for scoping, testing, supervising, and reviewing one managed AI agent workflow without rushing autonomy.
Field Guides
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Design a follow-up workflow with explicit lead states, approval boundaries, duplicate and retry rules, opt-out handling, human handoff, and an audit trail.
Guides
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Automate client onboarding with a practical four-stage workflow, trigger map, checklist, and clear handoffs for work that still needs a person.
Guides
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Reduce appointment no-shows with a practical reminder cadence, ready-to-use text templates, easy rescheduling, waitlists, and simple measurement.
Productivity
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Plan your week with a 30-minute review that reconciles open commitments, checks upcoming deadlines, and makes trade-offs before Monday.
Productivity
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Reduce context switching at work with a practical system for triaging interruptions, batching shallow work, and returning to focus faster.
Guides
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Learn how to write a useful standard operating procedure, with a copyable SOP template, a completed example, testing steps, and maintenance advice.
Comparisons
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Compare self-hosted Hermes Agent with a managed operator across cost, setup, access, review, control, and ongoing responsibility.
Automation
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A practical U.S. small-business workflow for capturing receipts, reviewing categories, reconciling accounts, and keeping useful expense records.
Productivity
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Chronoworking matches tasks to the times you tend to work best. Use this two-week experiment to test your schedule without extending your workday.
Guides
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Learn how to get more Google reviews with a repeatable, policy-safe process, including timing guidance, request templates, tracking, and automation.
Guides
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Build a useful competitor price monitoring system: choose what to track, set meaningful alerts, protect your margins, and respond without panic.
Guides
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Automate invoice creation, delivery, reminders, and reconciliation with a practical setup that protects cash flow and client relationships.
Productivity
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Build a time-blocking system that protects focused work, contains admin, and still leaves room for the surprises that come with running a business.
Guides
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Find forgotten subscriptions, calculate their annual cost, decide what to keep or cancel, and verify that recurring charges actually stop.
Guides
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Can't find qualified employees? Redesign the role, widen the pool, train, contract, automate, or hire using this practical capacity framework.
Marketing
10 min read
Learn how to calculate customer acquisition cost correctly, diagnose what is driving it up, and reduce CAC without blindly cutting growth.
Productivity
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A practical guide to founder burnout: recognize sustained overload, reduce the work that is driving it, and build a safer weekly operating rhythm.
Productivity
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A practical five-step plan to reduce meeting overload, replace status calls with useful updates, and protect time for focused work.
Security
8 min read
AI agents can use business tools safely only with scoped identities, least privilege, approvals, logs, revocation, and defenses against untrusted content.
Pricing
7 min read
Compare AI agent options with a transparent total-cost worksheet covering service price, usage, hosting, setup, maintenance, recovery, review, and opportunity cost.
Sales
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Build an AI lead-follow-up workflow that captures, qualifies, drafts, records, reminds, and hands off—without ignoring consent or approval boundaries.
Comparisons
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ChatGPT now includes agentic features, but an AI agent is a broader operating system. Compare setup, tools, schedules, controls, and business fit.
Productivity
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Build a practical daily rhythm across inbox, calendar, meetings, and tasks—with clear read, draft, send, and reschedule permissions.
Guides
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A practical guide to choosing, testing, and measuring small-business AI automation without handing over more access or judgment than the job requires.
Automation
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Ten complete AI automation recipes with triggers, inputs, actions, approvals, failure paths, and an honest method for measuring time saved.
Comparisons
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Compare an AI virtual assistant with a human virtual assistant by task fit, cost, judgment, review, and responsibility.
Comparisons
10 min read
Compare AI agent platforms for small business by workflow fit, setup ownership, connections, review, control, and total cost.
Guides
5 min read
Learn how to build a website with AI, from writing a useful prompt to reviewing the copy, testing the site, and publishing it.
Productivity
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Learn how to delegate tasks as a solo founder: what to hand off first, how to write a clear brief, and how to stay in control.
How-to
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Set up a useful AI assistant without code by defining one job, minimum access, approval rules, historical tests, and a controlled draft-mode launch.
Automation
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Fifteen realistic small-business AI tasks, with the access each needs, the part a person should keep, and a simple way to choose where to start.
Fundamentals
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An AI agent can pursue a goal across several steps and business tools. Learn how agents work, where they help, and when simpler automation is better.
Control
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Use an act, ask, or never framework to set AI agent approval boundaries for messages, purchases, publishing, records, and sensitive access.
Fundamentals
3 min read
Chatbots answer questions. AI agents can use tools, preserve context, and carry work through multiple steps. Here is how to choose the right one.
Guides
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An AI booking agent can search, compare, fill forms, and reserve appointments. Learn what to automate, what to approve, and how to start safely.
Guides
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An AI email assistant can sort your inbox, summarize long threads, and draft routine replies. Here is where it helps—and where you should stay in control.
Ecosystem
3 min read
Hermes Agent and OpenClaw are capable open agent systems with different emphases. Compare their tools, memory, extensions, and operating fit.
Fundamentals
6 min read
A managed AI agent combines agent software with a maintained environment, bounded permissions, monitoring, and a human owner for one defined workflow.