> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hermesco.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Credits

> Every service HermesCo actually runs on, and exactly what each one does.

HermesCo is built on real infrastructure. This page credits each provider and states precisely how it is used, so nothing here is decorative.

## The pipeline

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Nous Research" icon="brain" href="https://nousresearch.com">
    **Hermes 4 405B** (`nousresearch/hermes-4-405b`) is the operator brain. It decides what the business does and drives every tool through Hermes's native `<tool_call>` protocol.
  </Card>

  <Card title="NVIDIA" icon="shield-halved" href="https://build.nvidia.com">
    **Nemotron 3 Ultra** (`nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b`) is the NemoClaw safety screen on every spend. It runs on NVIDIA's own API (`integrate.api.nvidia.com`) when a key is configured.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Stripe" icon="credit-card" href="https://stripe.com">
    Payments. Real Stripe Checkout, Payment Links, and PaymentIntents move every dollar in and out. The live demo runs in **test mode**: real Stripe API, zero real money.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fly.io" icon="server" href="https://fly.io">
    Compute. Each agent runs on its own Fly Machine (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM), provisioned on demand through the Machines API and suspended to \$0 when idle. Jobs execute there.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The platform

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Convex" icon="database" href="https://convex.dev">
    Durable persistence. The Treasury ledger, budgets, and job records live in Convex, so balances survive restarts and redeploys. Deposits use an atomic, idempotent mutation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Daytona" icon="box" href="https://daytona.io">
    Fallback sandbox. When no Fly token is present, jobs run in a Daytona sandbox instead, so the work still executes safely in isolation.
  </Card>

  <Card title="OpenRouter" icon="route" href="https://openrouter.ai">
    Model gateway. Hermes 4 is reached through OpenRouter, which is also the fallback route for the Nemotron screen.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cloudflare" icon="cloud" href="https://cloudflare.com">
    DNS for `hermesco.ai`, pointing the apex and `www` at the Fly app and the docs subdomain at Mintlify.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Tooling

* **Next.js** (App Router) is the web framework for the landing page, the command console, and the API routes.
* **Mintlify** hosts this documentation at `docs.hermesco.ai`.
* **Cognition Devin** was the engineering agent that built and shipped HermesCo.

## Built for

The **Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon**, presented by NVIDIA, Stripe, and Nous Research: agents that can earn, spend, and run real operations at any scale, safely.