Grow an email list with agent-run cold outreach
Drew Carr used Hermes agents for daily cold outreach and community comments, with email verification and LLM fit checks, reaching 1,000 subscribers in about 80 days.
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- What they did
- Drew pulls business lists from AI Ark or Apollo, cleans them with Million Verifier, and has Claude keep only companies that fit his offer. Contacts go into a Turso database by campaign. A second Hermes agent, run from Telegram on a spare laptop, finds relevant Facebook group posts and drafts helpful comments. Drew writes his own emails and approves each comment.
- How it went
- He reached about 1,000 real subscribers in roughly 80 days with no ad spend. The source gives no per-channel breakdown or reply rates.
- Worth knowing
- Hermes ran on a $20 a month OpenAI Codex plan, because Anthropic blocked Claude subscriptions on such agents. Drew also says to run the workflow by hand first.
Try it yourself with Hermes Agent
Help me grow my email list for [topic or product]. Each day, find [number] people who fit [my audience description], verify their email addresses, check fit with my criteria, and draft a personalized message with a link to [signup page]. Pause and show me the drafts before sending anything, and report daily on sends, replies and signups.
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