🚀 LIVE BUILD #2 — DONE We just wrapped another one. This was not a polished webinar. It was a real build-and-Q&A session where we went down the rabbit hole on: 🎥 AI video pipelines — topic → script → voice → images → motion → finished video 🤖 Hermes — what it is, what “the brain” is, and how agents actually run 🧠 Obsidian + RAG — how an agent finds the right memory without reading your whole life every time ☁️ Local setup vs VPS — when you actually need a server running 24/7 💸 Keeping costs down — model routing, free-first tools, and avoiding pointless subscriptions 🛠 Quality control — because making content is easy; catching the weird broken AI stuff is the real work The biggest takeaway: Start with ChatGPT. Then connect Hermes. Then give it one useful task. Don’t build ten automations before one of them has saved you time. I forgot to start the meeting recording, so there is no full video replay. But the full speaker-labelled transcript, Gemini notes, resources, both visuals, and the short Hermes explainer are now in the Classroom: 👉 https://www.skool.com/build-ai-2243/classroom/20cf4d5f?md=1cd23087eaa1400a978b207a65882799 Bring one thing that worked, one thing that sucked, one thing that broke, and one thing you learned to the next build. That’s how this becomes real. 🚀

Join here: https://meet.google.com/zes-xkyp-fkj Last week we started building the machine. This week we open it up. See what it made since then: https://zara.hasansharif.ca/videos/planets-terrifying.mp4 Tonight I’ll break down how one idea becomes a finished video: Research → script → voice → visuals → edit → publish We’ll talk about what worked, what sucked, what broke, what it cost—and build toward the final step: getting the finished video ready to publish to YouTube automatically. Bring a question, an idea, or something you’ve already built. 🚀

This is Zara. My 24/7 agent. 🤖 She runs my businesses and a lot of my life behind the scenes — emails, notes, the video pipeline, the stuff I don't want to do. Built on Hermes, lives on a VPS, plugged into my APIs and accounts. Everyone in here should have their own version of this. It doesn't have to be fancy. So — what are you calling yours? Drop your agent's name + what it does for you below. Don't have one yet? That's what the live builds are for. Tomorrow, 5:30 PM, we build them together.

We just wrapped up our first official AISA live session. And this isn't going to be a polished webinar where I pretend I have everything figured out and talk at you for an hour 😂 The idea is much simpler: We build this stuff together. Today we went down the rabbit hole on: 🧠 Obsidian as long-term memory for AI agents 🤖 Hermes + Codex and autonomous agents 📚 NotebookLM / RAG knowledge bases ⚙️ Automated workflows and social media posting ☁️ VPS, cloud storage and keeping infrastructure cheap 🎥 Building an automated AI video-content pipeline The coolest part is where we're going next. 🔥 NEXT LIVE BUILD: AUTOMATED VIDEO CONTENT PIPELINE Next week, same time. We're going to continue building an automated video production system using Hermes Agent. The goal is eventually to be able to give the agent an idea/topic and have the system handle things like: Research → Script → Narration → Visuals/B-roll → Editing → Finished Video → Posting We're not starting over every week either. Each call builds on the last one. Between now and the next session, we're experimenting with our own versions of the pipeline. Then we'll bring what worked, what sucked, what broke, and what we learned back to the group and keep improving it. And you DO NOT need to be at the same technical level as everyone else. If you're just figuring out ChatGPT, come learn. If you're already playing with agents, APIs, Codex, Hermes, n8n, VPSs, etc., come build. Follow along at your own pace. The point of AISA is to stop endlessly watching AI videos and actually start building useful systems with this stuff. 🎥 The replay + meeting notes from Call #1 are now inside the Live Build Sessions section of the Classroom. 👇 Comment below if you're planning to join the next live build. Next week we're making the machines make the videos. 🤖🎬