Hermes Plumeria

A private, single-user personal assistant. Not a product, not a service, not for sign-up.

Hermes Plumeria is a personal automation assistant that runs on a home server in Australia, for exactly one person: its owner. It has no customers, no users other than the account holder, and no public interface — you cannot sign up for it, and there is nothing to download.

What it does

With the owner's authorisation through Google Sign-In, the assistant connects to the owner's own Google account to read and organise information the owner already has, so that routine work does not have to be done by hand:

• Gmail — triage incoming mail, summarise long threads, and draft replies for the owner to review and send.
• Google Calendar — read and create events, and prepare briefings for the day ahead.
• Google Drive, Docs and Sheets — read and update documents and spreadsheets the owner works with, including sales and inventory records.
• Google Tasks — keep a single to-do list in step with commitments made by email.
• Contacts (read-only) — match senders to the right person or company.

Every action is taken on the owner's own account, at the owner's request, and the owner remains the only person who sees the result. Nothing is published, resold, or shared with advertisers.

How it is built

The assistant is a self-hosted application. Its data store is a database on the owner's own server; credentials are held there and never transmitted to a third party for storage. There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no cookies on this page.

Your data

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly the owner. What the assistant may do with Google account data, and what it will never do with it, is set out in the Privacy Policy. The terms of use are here.