Competitor Analysis Swarm: Ported From Codex to Hermes

The Swarm That Finds Market Gaps

Building a swarm that analyzes businesses, their competitors, and produces practical strategy recommendations is no small feat. @zedosplasticos did it on Codex, then ported the entire thing to Hermes, finding the transition smoother than expected.

“I was building a swarm (that actually works) on codex to analyse business and their competitors. To find gaps and build a strategy to outrank them. After a couple a hours, pushing the swarm to hermes and convert it to hermes env. It made a really good job.”

— @zedosplasticos008 on Discord

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What the Swarm Does

1. Analyze a target business — products, pricing, positioning, SEO
2. Identify top 3-5 competitors
3. Find gaps in competitor strategies
4. Build an actionable outrank/outposition strategy

Why Hermes Was the Right Home

Factor	Codex	Hermes
Persistent memory	Sessions are isolated	Cross-session context
Tool ecosystem	Limited	40+ built-in tools
Cron/scheduling	Manual runs	Automated recurring jobs
Skill persistence	Not native	SKILL.md self-improvement

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Setup

1. Define the analysis scope — What industries, what data sources
2. Build the research subagents — One per competitor, run in parallel
3. Create the gap analysis skill — Compare positioning, SEO, messaging
4. Add strategy generation — Hermes drafts the outrank plan
5. Schedule recurring runs — Weekly or monthly competitor monitoring