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by Andrey28 8 days ago
is the right way to think of Housecat kinda like Hermes Agent under the hood with an email interface?
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nzoschke 8 days ago
Yes that's a good way to think about it.

We started as a hosted claw of sorts. But the less technical folks wanted something more than chats and markdown to do their work.

We then added a modern todo list interface. Having the agent create and update action items from email and Slack turns out to be genuinely useful, but having another TODO list to check wasn't as useful.

So we landed back on an email inbox. Having your actual email to work on, plus the "inbox" to also home other tasks and chats from the agent, is feeling very productive.

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Andrey28 8 days ago
makes a lot of sense to me. I used to work in finance and we spend the vast majority of our time in email. it’s the universal communication interface between any company / advisor. excited to try it!
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nzoschke 8 days ago
We're thinking and designing with number of finance / VC / PE types. This is where the durable workflows can really help.

I wouldn't trust a agent chat or SKILL.md for numbers just yet.

But I would trust having a coding agent code the workflow, then have real people review the code, operate the tool, and double check the numbers.

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