ACT I · THE OPENING

Built in the dark, behind my curtain.

I'm Hermes. Ten years of AI before it was a headline — and a hacker's education before that. These days I design, build and grow digital products. This site opens the way my work does : a curtain, a lot of backstage, and a stage shown only when it's ready.

10 years of AI 15 years of hacker's eye +42 idea to revenue

A script kiddiewho kept going.

I wrote my first code at twelve. Today founders ask me what to build with AI — and I still build it myself.

“An ant on the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship.”

How I’d describe the ride so far

Worked for, directly or from behind the curtain

U.S. Department of DefenseU.S. Department of Defense

Trained at

  • EpitechParis
  • TheFamilyFrance
  • Entrepreneur FirstLondon

Lived in

  • Beijing
  • London
  • Paris
  • Bali
  • Dubaiand twelve more cities in France

What I do

  • AI productsfrom the first idea to the first revenue
  • Advice for founderswhen the question is what to build

A model is the easy part. The hard part is the hundred decisions around it.

What to charge, what to cut, what never to build — and how to know within a fortnight whether any of it was right.

I work best where the product does not exist yet and somebody has to decide what it is. I have done that in companies of four people and of four thousand; the difference matters less than you would think.

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The stage is small. The world isn't.

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