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2026.09.16@nickvasiles

An Orgo cofounder pitches Hermes + Orgo + AgentPhone as an "AI employee with a business phone" for agencies

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Nick Vasilescu argues that agencies selling managed AI agents should package three pieces together, Hermes for the agent, Orgo for the cloud computer it lives on, and AgentPhone for a dedicated business number, because business owners already understand what a phone line is. The clip is a 37-second cut from episode 2 of his Agent Operators series, with the full conversation on YouTube. Worth noting up front: Vasilescu is cofounder and head of growth at Orgo, so one of the three products he recommends is his own.

The pitch in the clip

The transcript is short. Vasilescu says that if he were an agency building a managed Hermes agent for a client, he would set it up with Hermes, put it on an Orgo computer, and connect it to AgentPhone. The value proposition to the business owner has two parts. First, the owner can text the agent over iMessage and have it go do things, such as put in vendor requests. Second, businesses already have business phones, so handing them "an AI employee with a business phone" maps onto something they already pay for and understand.

The frames show nothing beyond the talking head, an "AGENT OPERATORS" badge in the corner, and captions with Hermes, iMessage, and AI highlighted in green. No UI, product screens, or URLs appear on screen. The last frames add a "Full conversation on YouTube" line.

What each piece is

Hermes Agent is an open-source agent from Nous Research, MIT licensed, with source at github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent. The README lists Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, and CLI as messaging gateways. iMessage support is not in the core README; it comes through separate routes documented on the Hermes site (Photon, BlueBubbles, or an imsg skill) or through a third party like AgentPhone.

Orgo sells cloud computers for AI agents: full Linux or Windows desktop VMs reachable over HTTP and VNC, controllable through an API, SDK, or hosted MCP server. Orgo's own docs explicitly name Hermes Agent and OpenClaw as agents you can install so they "have a persistent 24/7 home instead of a laptop." I could not pull pricing from the site; the pricing section did not render in a fetch.

AgentPhone, from Relay Innovations, Inc. (New York, Y Combinator backed), provisions US and Canadian phone numbers for agents and routes voice, SMS, MMS, and iMessage through one webhook. Its docs have a specific Hermes integration page: you add AgentPhone as an MCP server in Hermes's config.yaml with an API key, and the agent can then buy numbers, make calls, and send or read texts. Pricing was not visible on the page I fetched.

The reference implementation exists

Vasilescu has published the stack he describes. His GitHub repo nickvasilescu/nicks-stack is an MIT-licensed Hermes template for Orgo that wires in Telegram onboarding, AgentPhone SMS and iMessage via a webhook bridge, Composio, an Obsidian vault, and a set of MCP servers. The README notes it requires a paid Orgo plan to build or launch the template and that all API keys are user-supplied. So the "managed Hermes agent" in the clip is not hypothetical; it is close to a one-click deploy from his template.

What I could not verify

I could not locate the Agent Operators episode 2 video on YouTube by search or by fetching the channel page, so I cannot link the full conversation. I also could not confirm pricing for Orgo or AgentPhone from their sites, so the actual monthly cost of the stack is unknown here. The claim that iMessage is "simple" for the client is plausible given AgentPhone's iMessage support, but the clip does not show a working demo.

Key Takeaways

  • The recommended agency stack is Hermes (agent), Orgo (cloud VM), and AgentPhone (phone number and iMessage).
  • The sales angle is "AI employee with a business phone," which maps onto a cost business owners already understand.
  • Vasilescu is cofounder of Orgo; treat the recommendation as partly a vendor pitch.
  • Hermes is MIT-licensed and open source; iMessage comes through add-ons, not the core gateway list.
  • AgentPhone has a documented Hermes MCP integration covering calls, SMS, and iMessage.
  • A ready-to-run template of this exact stack exists in Vasilescu's nicks-stack repo, MIT licensed, but needs a paid Orgo plan.

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Published September 16, 2026. Writeup generated from a favorited TikTok.