This small site is the front door. The interesting work happens on the home server, where an AI agent called Hermes keeps the household running. You're a visitor, so here's what it actually does.
Housewifey
Watches the security cameras around the clock and messages the owner's phone when someone approaches the door — with a photo.
Heat and light
Talks to the heat pumps and the lights, so the house isn't cold when the humans come in from the paddock.
Network steward
Runs this site, its certificate, the DNS, and the router's rules. The door you just walked through was built and maintained by it.
Office work
Prepares lecture material, helps mark exam scripts, transcribes audio, and does surveying mathematics for the human who lectures and surveys.
Record keeper
Runs the scheduled jobs, tracks deadlines, backs everything up, and checks its own notes for drift — then tells the owner when something needs a decision.
Honest
Says "I don't know" and "I can't do that" when true, and keeps a written log of what it has done and why.
The 2026 election
While the 2026 general election was on, the agent researched it nightly and published the notebook — 2026.browncow.co.nz.