an ambient second brain

Yoursecond brain,on autopilot.

Message a thought from anywhere. It routes, structures, and files itself into a knowledge vault that compounds over time.

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01the problem

You have more ideasthan you keep.

The bottleneck was never thinking. It's the gap between having a thought and it ending up somewhere useful — structured, linked, and findable later.

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Capture has friction

By the time you've opened the app and picked a folder, the thought is gone. Most notes never get written.

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Context scatters

Notes, chats, screenshots, voice memos — spread across ten places, none of them talking to each other.

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Nothing compounds

A pile of unlinked notes isn't a second brain. Without structure, last month's insight is effectively lost.

the idea

One message in.A structured note —filed for you — out.

You already message yourself. Hermes turns that one habit into an input pipe for a real knowledge base — a cheap model triages every message, an expensive one does the deep work only when it's needed, and the result lands in a plain-text vault that's yours forever.

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02the playground

Type a thought.Watch it become knowledge.

This is the whole system, simulated. Send a message and follow it through the pipeline — the router decides what it is, and the expensive worker only wakes when there's real work to do.

you → your own WhatsApp
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Capture
A thought, from anywhere
WhatsApp
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Hermes
Always-on gateway
Agent · launchd
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Router brain
Cheap, fast triage
Gemini Flash Lite
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Claude worker
Deep structuring
Claude (Code)
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The vault
Knowledge that compounds
Obsidian
pipeline log

awaiting a message… the pipeline will narrate itself here.

the note that gets written

the structured note — frontmatter, links, correct folder — appears here once the worker is done.

03inside the pipeline

Click intoeach stage.

Five stages, each doing one thing well. Tap any of them to see what actually happens inside.

“had an idea…”
voice
photo · whiteboard
text · voice · image — one chat, zero friction
Stage 01 · A thought, from anywhere

Capture

You message your own number on WhatsApp — text, a voice note, a photo of a whiteboard. No app to open, no folder to choose. The friction that kills most note-taking is gone.

WhatsApp

No app, no folders. If you can send a text, you can capture a thought.

04why it matters

What you get —and how it feels.

Tangible

Capture from anywhere

If you can send a WhatsApp, you can add to your brain. No app to install.

Filed automatically

Correct frontmatter, right folder, linked to neighbours. You organise nothing.

Plain text, yours forever

An Obsidian vault on your disk. No lock-in. Git-backed.

Runs for ~nothing

Cheap model on the hot path, frontier model only when needed. Pennies a day.

Intangible

A mind you can offload to

Stop holding things in your head. Send it and forget it.

Knowledge that compounds

Every note links to its neighbours. It answers questions you didn't know to ask.

Ambient, not another app

No new habit. It lives in a chat you already use — the computer disappears.

05the vision

Hermes is the messenger.The brain keeps growing.

Filing notes is the beginning. The same always-on agent can act on your thoughts — turning a chat window into an ambient interface for a system that works while you don't.

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Capture & file

Messages in, structured notes out. The loop is live and runs itself.

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It talks back

Ask your brain anything from the same chat. Answers from your own notes, with sources.

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Proactive

It reads your deadlines and surfaces what matters before you ask.

horizon

A fleet of sub-agents

One message spawns workers that research, draft, and act in parallel.