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Recipe: Hermes reads a contract for you

Upload a contract, a price list or any PDF to your Hermes agent and ask for a plain summary: what it says, the dates you must not miss, what it costs, and what could go wrong for you.
Time needed 5 minutes
You need A Hermes agent connected to an AI model and a PDF file
Result A short summary with key dates, costs and risks

Not legal advice

Hermes helps you read faster and spot things to ask about. For important contracts, check with a lawyer or accountant.

1. Upload the file

  1. In the client area, open your Hermes agent and click Open dashboard.
  2. In the dashboard menu, click FILES and open the workspace folder (1): this is the agent's working folder.
  3. Click UPLOAD (2) and choose your file, or drag it onto DROP FILES HERE.

Upload into the workspace folder

2. Ask for the summary

Open CHAT and write what you want to know. Be specific. For example:

Read workspace/supplier-agreement.pdf and give me, in English: a 3-line summary, the key dates and deadlines, the costs, and anything risky for me as the customer.

Hermes reads the PDF and answers. In our test, with a 1-page flour supply agreement, the answer took about a minute:

Hermes summarises the contract

It listed the dates (including the last day to cancel before the contract renews by itself), worked out the cost of a minimum order (20 bags × 18.40 EUR = 368 EUR) and the price after the allowed 6% increase, and pointed out risks such as the automatic renewal and the 80% exclusivity clause.

Check that it worked

Compare a few facts in the answer with the document: a date, a price, a deadline. In our test every number in the answer matched the contract.

Make it yours

  • "Compare supplier-a.pdf and supplier-b.pdf and tell me which one is cheaper for 40 bags a month."
  • "Write me a polite email asking the supplier to change clause 5 to 30 days' notice."
  • "Set a reminder to cancel this contract 70 days before it renews." (see Schedule a recurring task)
  • "Answer in Portuguese."

Common problems

Hermes says it cannot find the file

Check the name and the folder in FILES. Write the path the way it appears there, starting with workspace/.

The answer looks wrong or incomplete

Tell Hermes what is missing ("you did not mention the payment terms") and ask again. We tested this recipe with a PDF that contains real text (not a scan).

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