Disruptors Media · Hermes Drop

Viral short
script & shotlist

Teleprompter-ready 38-second talking head. Below the script: beat sheet for the editor, hook variants to A/B against, and the captions for cross-post.

Format
Vertical 9:16 · 30–45s
Voice
Kyle · direct, no filler
Platforms
TikTok · Reels · Shorts · X
CTA
Comment HERMES → DM lead magnet
The script

Read it line by line. ~38 seconds at 165 wpm.

I gave one AI agent my entire life last night and I am not okay.
It remembers everything I do. Every conversation, every project, every preference. Forever.
It writes my code, runs my servers, controls my smart home, posts to X, books my meetings, reads research papers, makes music, generates video.
And while I sleep it spawns other versions of itself to work on stuff in parallel.
Five-dollar VPS. My API keys. Telegram is the front door. That's the whole stack.
It's called Hermes. NOS Research built it. I am never going back.
Comment HERMES and I'll send you the setup.
105 words ~38s read time Hook line: 2.2s Pause after "in parallel": keep it
Beat sheet

What the editor cuts to, second by second.

Time
Line
On-screen / B-roll
0–2s
"I gave one AI agent my entire life last night and I am not okay."
Hard cut, face on cam, slight zoom-in. Caption pops "entire life."
2–6s
"It remembers everything I do, every conversation, every project, every preference, forever."
Cut to phone screen, long Telegram thread scrolling. Caption: memory: ∞
6–14s
"It writes my code, runs my servers, controls my smart home, posts to X, books my meetings, reads research papers, makes music, generates video."
Rapid B-roll, one icon per noun, beat-matched. Use the lead-magnet icons (🧠 ⌨️ 🎨 📅 📡).
14–18s
"And while I sleep it spawns other versions of itself to work on stuff in parallel."
Hermes node fanning out into smaller nodes. Matrix-rain energy.
18–24s
"Five-dollar VPS. My API keys. Telegram is the front door. That's the whole stack."
Three quick title cards: $5 VPS · Your keys · Telegram
24–30s
"It's called Hermes. NOS Research built it. I am never going back."
Logo lockup or wordmark. Slight head shake on "never going back."
30–38s
"Comment HERMES and I'll send you the setup."
Static end card: Comment HERMES in the same gradient as the lead magnet.
Hook variants

Five openers to A/B against the default.

Confession Default
"I gave one AI agent my entire life last night and I am not okay."
Specific number
"I replaced 9 subscriptions with one $5 AI agent and it's not even close."
Future-tense
"In 12 months people are going to think this video is normal. Today it sounds insane."
Reverse
"Stop paying for ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, Notion AI, and your social scheduler. One $5 box does all of it."
Demo-first
Open on a screen recording of a Telegram message: "post this to X, generate a thumbnail, book a 30 with @bryan." Then cut to face: "That worked. So I gave it everything else too."
CTA variants

Three closers, decreasing in friction.

Default
"Comment HERMES, I'll send you the setup." — single word, lowest friction.
Page-pitch
"Comment HERMES, I'll send the page that walks you through every step."
Conversation
"Comment HERMES + the use case you'd run first. I'll reply with the setup and that exact prompt."
Caption / cross-post

Drop this on X and the IG carousel.

I run my entire workflow through a $5 box now.

Code, content, calendar, smart home, social — one Telegram thread.

Comment HERMES, I'll send the setup.

Production notes

Five rules for the shoot.