The operations team is not a person; it is Hermes. The first hire was Claire, a chief-of-staff agent who owns trading operations and personal admin. This is the setup log.
Why operations first
The method already exists. What was missing were hands. Collection, extraction, account checks, journaling — daily, repetitive, no judgment required.
Local LLM as a precondition
Account data and trade records must not leave the network. Everything runs on four DGX Spark nodes. Slow, but trustworthy.