Hermes Agent comes to your phone: what the new beta app does and how it connects. Nous Research, the company behind Hermes Agent, opened a beta of a Hermes mobile app for iPhone and Android around its NousCon 2026 conference. The conference took place in New York City on the 30th of October, according to the Nous Research account on X. A beta is an early test version shared with a limited group before a public release. The company publishes a page called "Hermes Mobile Beta" on its own Hermes Agent site. The page invites the reader into the beta and asks them to pick a platform to reserve a spot. How people got in. The page links to Apple TestFlight for iPhone and to Firebase App Distribution for Android, according to the same Hermes Agent page. Both are services that hand out test versions of an app before it reaches the app stores. A user in the Hermes Agent community on Reddit wrote on the 31st of October that guests at NousCon received early access to the private beta. The same day, the tech news account TestingCatalog wrote on X that the app was available for beta testing on both iOS and Android. That post drew 67,600 views. On the 1st of November, TestingCatalog added an update saying both beta apps were full. When OneClickClaw opened the iPhone invite link on the 1st of November, it showed a "Not Found" page. What the app does. A community account called Hermes Release Watch listed the features on X on the 31st of October. It is an unofficial fan account that tracks Hermes releases. Its post drew 108,300 views. According to that list, the app lets you: * Chat with the agent and watch it use its tools as it works. * Use Live Mode: talk out loud, and a short pause sends the message. * Set routines on a schedule that deliver their results to Telegram, Discord, Slack or Teams. * Install skills with one tap. * Connect services such as Shopify, Stripe, Notion, Linear and Slack. * Work with plugins, projects and a Kanban board, which is a task board with columns for each stage of the work. * Track usage and spending. * Open a terminal, which is a text window for typing commands, plus the agent's files and settings. * Switch between light and dark themes. The Hermes Mobile Beta page showed no app store listing and no launch date on the 1st of November. Connecting the app to your own Hermes. The app offers two ways to connect, according to a setup guide posted on X on the 31st of October by a user named Cruz. His guide drew 22,000 views. The first way is the Nous Portal, the hosted service Nous Research runs itself. The second is called self-hosted, and it links the phone to a Hermes Agent you run on your own machine. For self-hosted, Cruz described four steps in his guide: * Start the Hermes dashboard on the machine that runs Hermes. The dashboard is the control page of the agent. * In the app, enter the address of that machine. * Enter the dashboard username and password. * Tap connect. He wrote that the app also connects to his Hermes desktop sessions. His guide closes with safety advice. Reach the dashboard over your home network, or over a private network such as Tailscale, a service that links your own devices to each other privately across the internet. He advised never to open that dashboard to the public internet with only a password in front of it. The open questions. Two questions from testers sat in the Hermes Agent community on Reddit. One user asked on the 31st of October whether the iPhone app works only with cloud agents. Another asked on the 1st of November why the iPhone beta shows no push notifications, the alerts that appear on the lock screen. Nous Research had published no answer to either question by the 1st of November. Why the phone needs an agent that stays awake. The self-hosted mode in Cruz's guide has one condition built into it. When the phone calls, the Hermes Agent at the other end has to be switched on and reachable. A laptop that goes to sleep cannot answer. The same holds for routines: a job set to deliver to Telegram at seven in the morning runs only on a machine that is awake at seven in the morning. OneClickClaw runs Hermes Agent on its own always-on server, one per customer, kept running around the clock. The 7-day free trial needs no credit card, and the Starter plan for a Hermes Agent server costs EUR 14.99 per month after that. Helpful documentation. Want your own Hermes agent running without the setup? OneClickClaw host it on a dedicated EU server. Free for 7 days, no credit card. Get notified when OneClickClaw publish new articles. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.

Heartcore Capital leads $17m raise for AI agent startup Nous. Heartcore Capital has led a $17m funding round for Nous, an AI agent startup, according to an exclusive report from Sifted. The round points to continued investor interest in AI systems that complete tasks, not only generate answers. What happened. Heartcore Capital has led a $17m funding round for Nous, an AI agent startup, according to an exclusive report from Sifted. AI agents are software systems built to complete tasks on a user's behalf, rather than only generating answers in response to prompts. The Sifted report is the only source available for this item, so details such as the company's product, its customers and the exact timing of the round should be checked against the original reporting before they are relied on. Why it matters. A funding round led by a specialist investor for an agent-focused company points to continued investor interest in AI that acts, not just AI that advises. For leaders in service design and digital transformation, the question is less about whether a model can produce a response and more about whether it can reliably move a process forward, such as resolving a request, updating a record or handling a booking, with appropriate oversight. That shift changes how organisations need to design service journeys. Each handover between an automated agent and a human colleague becomes a moment the customer will judge, so the quality of those transitions is likely to matter as much as the capability of the agent itself. The renascence take. Funding headlines tend to focus on the amount raised and the investor's name, but those figures say little about whether an agent will improve the experience it touches. The more useful test is what the customer sees when the agent cannot finish the task. Most readers will treat an agent raise as a technology story, yet the behavioural principle underneath is about trust and recovery: people forgive a machine that fails openly far more readily than one that appears to succeed while quietly getting it wrong. A customer-obsessed operator evaluating any agent platform should therefore test the escalation path first, measuring how cleanly context passes to a human and how often customers have to repeat themselves, before measuring how much work the agent takes off the queue. This briefing was written by its Newsdesk, synthesising reporting from the outlets below. Follow the links for the original coverage. Questions Renascence get on this topic. Heartcore Capital led the $17m funding round for Nous, an AI agent startup, according to an exclusive report from Sifted. More in AI Stay ahead of CX Get the signal, not the noise. The stories shaping customer experience - plus the Journal and Experience Loom - in your inbox.

TIME names Nous Research's Hermes Agent to its 2026 Best Inventions list. The listing highlights Hermes' customizable, open-source design as Nous pushes the agent from individual developers into enterprise deployments. Listen to article. 3 min 53 sec Nous Research says TIME named Hermes Agent to its Best Inventions of 2026 list. The company posted a screenshot of TIME's listing on October 16th with a brief thank-you; the listing shown in the image is dated October 15th and calls Hermes "an infinitely modifiable agent that grows with you."... RuntimeWire, Inc. get virtually zero search traffic. Please consider sharing this story. Signal check Noise Signal Where does this story land? Drag the dial. The startup RuntimeWire, Inc. train world-class open source language models and build infrastructure to coordinate distributed, unbiased training. Nous Research is a leader in the American open source AI movement focused on training open source language models and building infrastructure for distributed, unbiased training. Its stated mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and proliferating open source language models, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. The group highlights applied AI research across model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, and links to resources such as Simulators and a Hugging Face organization. On GitHub, the Nous Research organization lists 88 public repositories and 7106 followers. Notable projects by stars include hermes-agent (214252 stars, Python), hermes-agent-self-evolution (4657, Python), hermes-paperclip-adapter (1714, TypeScript), Hermes-Function-Calling (1420, Jupyter Notebook), atropos (1333, Python), autonovel (1291, Python), DisTrO (1044, distributed training over the internet), and autoreason (590, TeX). They also maintain a presence on Hugging Face under NousResearch. Stay on the wire. Breaking startup & AI news, funding scoops, and launches as they happen. Follow @runtimewire on Threads and LinkedIn.