Exa Web Research Monitor with Hermes

Two things cost money on every run, the agent turn and the Exa content calls behind the shortlist, and only the second scales with how loose your brief is. Hermes runs on open Hermes models, so the per turn side is yours to size and a nightly sweep need not use the priciest engine you own. A monitor returning forty items a night is a different bill from one returning five.
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Free to start · guided setup · switch agents any time.

Live demo

Watch it work before it's live

Run a staged conversation — no account needed. The agent handles it for real while a simulated world answers its tool calls; nothing touches real accounts, and nothing is actually sent.

Managed vector search: funding, launches, benchmarks

Exa monitorcompanies shipping managed vector search, Series A and later

The 06:00 run returns 14 new results. Among them a Seoul startup announcing a 22 million dollar Series A with three named customers, an independent benchmark putting four providers side by side on recall and cost per million queries, two syndicated rewrites of a launch this monitor already carried on Tuesday, and an arXiv paper on quantisation that several of the other results cite.

What you'll need

Set up in minutes

Using this template drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:

  1. Connect Exa

    One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.

  2. Connect Slack

    One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.

  3. Watch brief

    The subjects these monitors cover and what makes a result worth your time: the companies, technologies and rules you follow, the angle you read them from, and what you already consider noise. This is the only test a result is put through.

  4. Runs on Hermes

    Preselected for this page — connect your Hermes account during setup, or switch to NoClick's built-in models with one click.

  5. Watch it handle a test run

    A staged conversation against a simulated world — then it’s live.

A considered pairing

Why Hermes for this agent

The shortlist sets the bill

Contents are pulled only for results that already passed your brief. Narrow the query in Exa and the metered half of the run shrinks with it.

Open foundation, sized by you

Changing engine costs a moment and disturbs nothing around it, so start cheaply and move up only when the judgment disappoints.

Good to know

Before you fork

Does a smaller model change what gets dropped?

Yes, and mostly in one direction: weaker models keep more, because ruling an interesting page off brief takes more confidence than waving it through. If the digest starts carrying adjacent material, name that material as noise in the brief before reaching for a bigger engine, since the wording usually fixes it more cheaply.

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Make it yours

Put Exa Web Research Monitor to work on Hermes.

Free to start. Guided setup, a staged test run, and a workflow you can change at every step.