When one assistant handles bookings, marketing and support, all three share one memory and one set of instructions. Your marketing voice leaks into support replies, and notes about one job crowd out another. Splitting the work into separate bots, each with its own role and memory, keeps them apart, and they can still pass work to each other.
You can now build that kind of team on a hosted Hermes Agent by simply asking your bot for one. Here is how it works, what a good team looks like, and what it costs.
What a "team of bots" actually is
Each teammate is a separate Hermes profile with its own memory, its own chat history and its own personality file (SOUL.md), where its role is written down. They start with your main bot's model and skills, and they all run inside the one container you already have. You do not need a second subscription.
Your main bot stays the front door. It keeps your Telegram, WhatsApp or Discord connection, and it can hand work to a teammate and bring the answer back. The teammates do not get messaging accounts of their own. That is deliberate: two bots holding the same Telegram token would knock each other offline.
How to create one: just ask
On a new Hermes bot, tell it what you need in plain words:
I run a small tour company. Set up a team: one bot for booking requests, one for writing itineraries, one for marketing posts.
The bot suggests roles that fit, checks them with you, and creates each teammate with a specific job description. That description matters more than the name. "Handles tour booking requests: checks dates, group size and price, and drafts the confirmation" works much better than "booking bot", because it is also how work gets routed to the right teammate later.
On any bot, Hermes or OpenClaw, you can also add a teammate by hand: click the + above the bot list in your dashboard's web chat and choose Create new Bot.
Talking to your team
- One at a time. Every teammate appears as its own bot in the web chat on your dashboard, so you can talk to the itinerary writer directly. The first time, it can take up to a minute to show up.
- All together. Click the same +, choose Create group chat, and pick the bots. The first bot you pick answers first and can pass work to the others, so a single message like "a family of four wants three days in Lisbon in May" can come back with a price check and a draft itinerary.
- Through your main bot. On Telegram or WhatsApp you keep talking to the main bot, and it delegates behind the scenes.
- For longer projects. Hermes has a kanban board that assigns tasks to teammates by their role description, so a multi-step job can be split up and tracked.
Teams that work well
Two to five bots, one clear responsibility each, is the sweet spot. Some that make sense:
| Who you are | Team |
|---|---|
| Small service business | Enquiries and bookings, quotes and invoices, social posts |
| Solo founder | Research, customer support drafts, weekly metrics summary |
| Content creator | Idea scout, script writer, editor who checks tone and facts |
| Freelancer | Client intake, proposal writer, deadline tracker |
| Household | Meal planner, family calendar, homework helper |
The editor pattern is worth copying anywhere: one teammate whose only job is to check the others' work catches a surprising number of mistakes.
What it costs
Teammates share your bot's container and your bot's model credits or API key. There is no per-teammate fee, but a group chat turn can call several bots, so a team spends model credit faster than one bot does.
- Lite ($3 first month for new customers, then $6/mo) runs a small team on 2 GB of memory with $1 of included credit. Fine for trying the idea out, and best paired with your own API key or a ChatGPT subscription if the team gets busy.
- Pro ($20/mo) has 4 GB of memory, $10 of model credit a month and room for three separate bots, each of which can have its own team.
A cheap trick: give routine teammates (the one sorting enquiries, the one reformatting posts) a cheaper model, and keep the premium model for the one that does the thinking.
A few rules I would follow
- Write specific roles. Vague roles make teammates step on each other.
- Keep the team small. Five focused bots beat ten overlapping ones.
- Removing a teammate deletes its memory. Confirm before you let the bot delete one.
- Keep one bot on your messaging apps. Let the main bot delegate rather than trying to give every teammate its own Telegram.
Try it
If you already run a bot on OpenClaw Launch, use + then Create new Bot in the web chat. Newly deployed Hermes bots can also build the team for you when you ask. If not, deploy one in under 30 seconds, or start with the 30-minute free trial and keep the team to two bots while you test.
Related reading: running multiple bots covers separate bots with separate channels, and the Hermes profiles guide explains what a profile is under the hood.