Tony is the founder of AIowa in Ames, Iowa, and an independent Hermes Agent consultant. He builds agent infrastructure and helps people adopt Hermes through his Hermes Launch Lab, covering setup, model configuration and a working first workflow. He also publishes practical guides at Tony Reviews Things, including a detailed Hermes Desktop walkthrough. His projects include Hermes Vault for credentials, NexusOS for durable context and Hardproof for checking completed work.

Eleanor Berger is an AI and software engineering expert.

A former principal engineering leader at Microsoft and Google, Eleanor also spent years in startups and consulting.

As Member of Technical Staff at Jimini Health, she is helping build clinical evidence-based AI for behavioural health. Through Agentic Ventures, she helps power users, engineers, and teams 10x their capabilities and redefine what's possible with agentic AI.

Eleanor's approach: technically rigorous, practically grounded, focused on results, and free of hype.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson advises and teaches teams building AI-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and Amazon. He hosts Vanishing Gradients, where he works with practitioners at the frontier of agent engineering, context engineering, evaluation, and AI-assisted software development.

Career highlights

His work in data science and AI education has reached more than 6 million learners.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger are co-instructors of Build Your Agentic Software Factory.