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.
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
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.
Set up in minutes
Using this template drops you into a guided setup. It asks exactly this, nothing else:
Connect Exa
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
Connect Slack
One sign-in. The agent acts through your account, scoped to what this template uses.
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.
Runs on Hermes
Preselected for this page — connect your Hermes account during setup, or switch to NoClick's built-in models with one click.
Watch it handle a test run
A staged conversation against a simulated world — then it’s live.
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.
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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Put Exa Web Research Monitor to work on Hermes
Free to start. Guided setup, a test run against staged conversations, and it's live.