Your system already exists.
Let's extend it, not rebuild it.
Someone who can drop into your Hermes agent already running on a Hetzner VPS, understand the Make.com automations and Airtable base underneath it, and start shipping instead of re-architecting from scratch.
Three failure modes most freelancers walk into.
Every marketing operation with a live agent stack built across four platforms hits the same three walls when a new developer joins. Different symptoms, same root cause: understanding an existing system takes a different skill than building a new one.
The system already exists, most freelancers start over
Jumping into a live Hermes agent, existing Make scenarios, and an Airtable base built by someone else takes a different skill than greenfield building, and most developers default to rebuilding instead of understanding first.
Automations are scattered across four platforms
Hermes, Make.com, Replit forms, and Airtable each hold a piece of the system, so a change in one place can quietly break something running in another.
Marketing context gets lost in translation
A build that doesn't understand ROAS, attribution, or how a marketing team actually thinks about spend ends up technically correct and practically useless.
Momentum on what already exists.
Someone who starts by reading the existing Hermes agent, the Make.com scenarios, the Replit forms, and the Airtable base before touching any of it, so changes extend the system instead of quietly breaking a piece running somewhere else. Make.com stays the home for deterministic automation since it is easy to check and not gated behind a GitHub repo, with small edits and Claude powered skill changes made directly inside existing scenarios rather than rebuilt from scratch. Replit forms stay wired into the rest of the system so a form submission flows cleanly into Airtable and back out through the agent. HTTP and JSON get handled cleanly wherever the pieces need to talk to each other, and every recommendation gets framed in terms the marketing team already thinks in, ROAS, spend, and attribution, not just technical correctness. The goal is momentum on an existing system, not a rebuild disguised as an upgrade.
What you get. Phase by phase.
Every phase ships with concrete deliverables you sign off on before the next begins. No vague "ongoing collaboration" hours, no mystery scope.
- Full read through of the existing Hermes agent on the Hetzner VPS to understand its current state and logic
- Audit of active Make.com scenarios to map what automations exist and what each one depends on
- Review of Replit forms and how they feed into Airtable and the rest of the system
- Airtable base structure mapped end to end since it underpins everything else
- First round of small edits or Claude powered skill changes made directly inside existing Make scenarios
- Any immediate gaps or broken connections between Hermes, Make, Replit, and Airtable identified and patched
- Prompt engineering pass on the Hermes agent to sharpen its existing skill set
- Changes documented as they ship so the system stays understandable, not just functional
- New agent skills or automations built against real marketing priorities, framed around ROAS and spend efficiency
- HTTP and JSON integrations built or adjusted wherever platforms need to exchange data cleanly
- Replit forms extended or adjusted as new business system needs come up
- Ongoing check ins to confirm build priorities match what the marketing team actually needs next
- Every shipped change tested against real data and real scenarios, not just a sandbox run
- Edge cases and failure points identified across the Hermes, Make, Replit, and Airtable chain
- Monitoring or simple alerting added where a silent failure would otherwise go unnoticed
- Ad hoc call availability confirmed for UK and EST morning hours as issues come up
- Documentation covering what changed, why, and how to extend it further
- Clear handoff notes so anyone else touching the system later understands the current state
- Weekly rhythm established for 20 to 30 hours a week, scaling up as the work requires
- Ready to keep building on the same system long term, not a one time engagement
Four weeks. Orientation to ongoing rhythm.
Each week ships a working deliverable. Click any week to see exactly what lands by Friday.
Deliverables this week
- Full read through of the existing Hermes agent on the Hetzner VPS to understand its current state and logic
- Audit of active Make.com scenarios to map what automations exist and what each one depends on
- Review of Replit forms and how they feed into Airtable and the rest of the system
- Airtable base structure mapped end to end since it underpins everything else
Deliverables this week
- First round of small edits or Claude powered skill changes made directly inside existing Make scenarios
- Any immediate gaps or broken connections between Hermes, Make, Replit, and Airtable identified and patched
- Prompt engineering pass on the Hermes agent to sharpen its existing skill set
- Changes documented as they ship so the system stays understandable, not just functional
Deliverables this week
- New agent skills or automations built against real marketing priorities, framed around ROAS and spend efficiency
- HTTP and JSON integrations built or adjusted wherever platforms need to exchange data cleanly
- Replit forms extended or adjusted as new business system needs come up
- Ongoing check ins to confirm build priorities match what the marketing team actually needs next
Deliverables this week
- Every shipped change tested against real data and real scenarios, not just a sandbox run
- Monitoring or simple alerting added where a silent failure would otherwise go unnoticed
- Documentation covering what changed, why, and how to extend it further
- Weekly rhythm established for 20 to 30 hours a week, scaling up as the work requires
Let's keep building.
A short call where I share my screen, walk through how I'd approach the existing Hermes and Make.com setup, and confirm scope against what the marketing team needs next. Happy to walk through commercials on the call.